冒菜 (màocài) · mao cai, one-person hot pot

Measure Word

一份冒菜 fèn

Meanings

1 mao cai
2 one-person hot pot

Made with

干辣椒 gānlàjiāo 花椒 huājiāo 豆瓣酱 dòubànjiàng 牛油 niúyóu

About the dish

川菜 Sichuan · 热菜 Hot dish

Like a one-person hot pot: the vegetables, tofu, meat and noodles you choose are cooked in a spicy, numbing beef-tallow broth and served in it, often with rice. Shops offer milder and hotter levels.

Characters

Examples

HSK 3

冒菜可以自己选菜。

Màocài kěyǐ zìjǐ xuǎn cài.

With mao cai you can pick your own ingredients.

HSK 4

我中午吃了一份冒菜。

Wǒ zhōngwǔ chī le yí fèn màocài.

I had a bowl of mao cai for lunch.

HSK 7-9

这家店的冒菜很正宗。

Zhè jiā diàn de màocài hěn zhèngzōng.

This shop's mao cai is very authentic.

Tips

culture

冒菜 is often called 'one-person hot pot'. It originated in Chengdu: the vendor boils (冒) your chosen ingredients in a spicy broth, then serves them in a bowl with ladled soup. Compare 串串香 (on skewers) and 麻辣烫 (similar dish, more common outside Sichuan).