Hello Peeps,

This officially marks my second post in Steemit. This is the first post in my 🍲 Discover Food series where I will share about food as I travel around the world.

Today, I would like to introduce the community one of the most popular food for locals in Chongqing - The legendary spicy mala hotpot!!! If you don't know, Chongqing is known to be one of the best heavens if you enjoy spicy food, and the local people are extremely good with spicy things. When you are in Chongqing, I can assure you that you can almost find spicy food everywhere. Chili is used commonly in any food...

Just take me as an example, I could remember when I am just a few years old, my dad started stuffing me with spicy food. :) He told me"You are not Chongqing people and my girl if you can't take spicy". Imagine that! Spicy food is our culture.

Mala means "Spicy" and refers to "麻辣" in Chinese.

As a Chongqing local, I am super elated when I heard news about Xiao Mu Deng opening their restaurant in Singapore. I have been living in Singapore since 9 years back and I have always been craving for authentic spicy mala hotpot from my hometown.. As you can forsee, I am one of their first customers when the restaurant officially opened! :)

I ordered the double hotpot which basically comes with two different soup base - The mala spicy & the wild mushroom soup base.

This is how it looks like when the mala hotpot started boiling... Does this look scary to you?

Xiao Mu Deng has one of the best hotpot design - Look at the dragon head.

There is also a sauce station by which you can choose to mix your own sauce. The right way to eat mala hotpot is that people will boil the ingredients in the mala hotpot and then dip the cooked food into the sauces before savoring it.

The ingredients dishes and the hotpot soup base are charged separately. I am super hungry, thus I ordered quite a lot of food!

Here are some sneak preview of the dishes you can order. The food are pretty fresh, not bad.

Getting to Xiao Mu Deng Restaurant

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If you are in Singapore no and would like to try this out, below is the address.

Xiao Mu Deng Address: 277&279 New Bridge Road #01-01. Singapore 088751/088752

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Disclaimer: I am based currently based in Singapore, I am dining in an Chongqing hotpot chain called Xiao Mu Deng which just recently opened its first restaurant in Singapore. It's pretty authentic, but if you want to experience the best real authentic Chongqing hotpot, make a trip to @Chongqing! Buzz me when you visit Chongqing. Happy to bring you around if I am back in city.

How do you like it? Let me know what you think about Chongqing Mala Spicy Hotpot. Or if you ever tried spicy mala hotpot?

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