malatang
/ˈmɑ.ləˌtɑŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hot, spicy soup of meat and vegetables, commonly eaten as a street food in China.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Korean crab is small, that's all there is to it, but the red-pepper soup it's cooked in is like Chinese malatang. Meaning it burns you both ways and somehow you're thankful for the pain."
- "Boss Zhang went to the Sichuan restaurant for malatang (a Sichuan dish) again. After the malatang, he went for Karaoke. And then he continued to play mah-jong with friends."
- "[…] steamers, noisy kebab sellers and red-cheeked malatang (spicy soup with meat and vegetables) vendors."
- ""First on the menu the birds have prepared a delicious bird nest soup and then we can enjoy malatang, other stuff, and a dish of fish.""
- "Among faddish foodies, Yunnan cuisine from China's far south has recently become popular, as has malatang from Sichuan – a kind of dry hotpot."
Etymology
From Mandarin 麻辣燙／麻辣烫 (málàtàng).
Word Breakdown
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɑ.ləˌtɑŋ/