Dragon Hot Pot Vegan Broth

Supporting the movement towards 100% plant--‐based eating, leading Malatang masters Dragon Hot Pot have launched a Vegan Hot Pot on Friday the 26th of July at QV Melbourne, and will be available at all Melbourne stores by mid August.

The new Vegan Hot Pot is a pleasing vegetable broth that has been simmered with numbing Sichuan peppercorns, which impart a unique, mildly spicy flavour.

The new Vegan Hot Pot is the latest addition to the five existing base broths (not available at all stores), which include: Sichuan Hot and Sour, Pickled Mustard, Collagen Bone Broth and Ma La Spicy Stir--‐fry.

Upon entering Dragon Hot Pot, you are immediately presented with an edible wall of morsels and fridges of over 100 ingredients, so you can tailor your hot pot to your cravings and, perhaps, your sense of adventure.

To entice vegetarians there are 12 types of soy products, as well as a myriad of fresh, tasty vegetables including enoki mushrooms, bok choy, water spinach, broccoli, pumpkin, lotus root, bean shoots and seven variations of noodles.

Omnivores get to eat anything they fancy whether it is wagyu, lamb, shrimp fish balls, octopus balls, tofu fish cake, pig's kidney, duck blood, egg, crab stick – and even frog's legs. Customers then choose how much spice they can handle, ranging anywhere from Mild to Dragon Hot.

Aside from the satisfaction of a Malatang hot pot slurp, the other attraction of Dragon Hot Pot is the value proposition, as Dragon Hot Pot provides hot pots based on almost any budget and appetite. With the base provided at no cost, customers pay only $3.20 per 100g of additions, with a minimum spend of $12.80 (400g).

With its origins in the Sichuan region of China, the famous Malatang spicy soup is named after mala sauce, a key ingredient of the dish, which is heavy on Sichuan peppercorns and dried chillies and has a numbing, tingling sensation on the palette.

This spicy flavour is gathering momentum by passionate hot pot patrons all across the Eastern seaboard.

Launching their first store late 2017, Dragon Hot Pot has set the city ablaze with seven stores all opened in Melbourne its first year and two new stores recently opened in Sydney and Perth.

This unique concept was created by owner Louis Kuo, who says, "we are thrilled that all our Dragon Hot Pot stores have been so enthusiastically received in Melbourne and Sydney. We are now looking at opening stores in Adelaide and overseas by the end of the year, expect to make spread the Malatang way of dining across Australia!"

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