The origin of Mala Mixed is in Fushun City, Liaoning Province, in the mid-1990s, when the strong wind of state-owned enterprise system reform was blowing hard in Fushun, an old heavy industrial city. At that time, there were approximately 660,000 state-owned enterprise employees in Fushun City, accounting for 90.8% of the city's total labor force. Among these people, those who had been laid off before 1994 accounted for 38.07% of the total number of employees. However, in 1994, the wind had not yet finished blowing, so by the end of the last century, Fushun City's idle labor force had accumulated to nearly half. At that time, Fushun was a heavy industrial city with a very unreasonable economic structure. The laid-off workers were all from the coal mining, steel, textile, electric power and construction sectors. The laid-off workers had a single skill set and were older. In addition, private capital was extremely weak. It is difficult to achieve immediate reemployment. When the re-employment situation is very serious, the city government is trying every means and using all channels to solve the problem. One of them is to encourage laid-off workers to start their own businesses. But starting a business requires funds. Since the reform of state-owned enterprises was still in the transitional period at that time, the municipal finance could not afford this part of the funds, so these laid-off workers had to rely on themselves to fend for themselves. By the way, most of the outstanding private entrepreneurs in Fushun City today also started out at that time. Laid-off workers don't even have a regular source of income. It's easy to imagine how difficult it is to start a business, and it's also easy to imagine how to start a business. They can only do some small business, sell vegetables, set up stalls, and push carts to deliver goods. Most of them don't have shops. , you can close your eyes and imagine the "grey and prosperous" scene of Fushun city at that time.
At that time, Sichuan Malatang had already entered Fushun, and there were more than a dozen Sichuan Malatang restaurants in the city. Because its spicy taste suited the preferences of some people, and its low price, it quickly became popular All over the city. As soon as this thing became popular, the number of people working in it began to increase. Because this thing has low cost, high profit, and no complicated management procedures, it is just suitable for families where both husband and wife are laid off, so many mom-and-pop shops have opened up at one time. Sells spicy hotpot. But the laws of the market are like this. If there are too many people competing, it will become excessive competition. Once the competition becomes excessive, it will be difficult to make money. With so many places selling Malatang, how can they make money? So a smart couple appeared. They thought that after all, this spicy hotpot was spread from the southwest, and it should be more suitable for the taste of people there. We are in the northeast, and the places are different, so the taste should be different. If If we can change this Malatang to be more suitable for the dietary characteristics of Northeastern people, can we sell it better? What are the dietary characteristics of Northeastern people? In order to adapt to the cold climate conditions and increase their own temperature and resistance, they are accustomed to eating foods that are rich in oil, salt and irritation. But adding more oil and salt is a bit of a disadvantage, because Malatang has soup, which has a diluting effect, so in order to make the taste of Malatang stronger, I simply don’t add the soup. The ingredients are cooked and stirred directly, which also reduces the cost. A lot of soup costs! But without the soup, it won't be hot, so how can it be called spicy hotpot? So let’s change the name to “Spicy Mix”.
As soon as this spicy food appeared, it conquered people all over Fushun with its novel production method and more suitable taste, from Henan (south of Hun River) to Hebei, from Wanghua to Dongfang The word spread quickly in the streets and alleys of Zhouzhou, completely crowding out the original Malatang market. Today's spicy mix production method was formed after several adjustments and improvements, and in the process of the spread of spicy mix, many different production methods and flavors have also been derived. The more famous one is Hedong Thirteen Cubes Sichuan Spicy Mix (disclaimer: Spicy Mix is ??a specialty of Fushun. Although the store selling Spicy Mix is ??named after "Sichuan" and "Chongqing", it is actually to reflect the characteristics of its spicy taste. Spicy snacks like this have nothing to do with Sichuan and Chongqing), Lao Mrs. Yang's spicy snacks near South Railway Station, Wanghua's, Dongzhou's, Gebu's, Laohutai's, Jiangjun's... each has its own taste.
I believe that one day in the future, Fushun’s spicy food will be able to go out of Fushun, Liaoning, and Northeast China, to the whole country, and impact the world, so that everyone can taste our Fushun special delicacies and let you Experience the feeling of being in a fairyland.