Meanings
- uncountableA hot, spicy soup of meat and vegetables, commonly eaten as a street food in China.
[…] steamers, noisy kebab sellers and red-cheeked malatang (spicy soup with meat and vegetables) vendors.
2013, Lonely Planet Shanghai, →ISBN4 more examples
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.
2001, Tom Crawford, The Temple on Monday, →ISBN, page 78Boss 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.
2007, 汉语常用关联词语学习手册, page 5"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."
2013, Joe Remesz, From Canada to Philippines: Nonsense Novel, →ISBN, page 177Among faddish foodies, Yunnan cuisine from China's far south has recently become popular, as has malatang from Sichuan – a kind of dry hotpot.
2013, Simon Lewis, The Rough Guide to Beijing, →ISBN
Origin
From Mandarin 麻辣燙／麻辣烫 (málàtàng).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 麻辣燙 /麻辣烫
- 麻辣燙 /麻辣烫 (málàtàng)hot spicy soup of meat and vegetables
Finnish malatang
- malatanghot spicy soup of meat and vegetables
French malatang
- malatanghot spicy soup of meat and vegetables
Korean 마라탕
- 마라탕 (maratang)hot spicy soup of meat and vegetables
Russian малата́н
- малата́н (malatán)hot spicy soup of meat and vegetables
Vietnamese ma lạt thang
- ma lạt thanghot spicy soup of meat and vegetables
Cite this entry
malatang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/malatang
“malatang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/malatang. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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