The history of spicy mixing

Ma Ma Spicy Mix originated in Fushun City, Liaoning Province in the mid-1990s, when the strong wind of state-owned enterprise system reform was blowing to Fushun, an old heavy industrial city. At that time, there were about 660 thousand employees in Fushun state-owned enterprises, accounting for 90.8% of the total labor force in the city. Of these people, 38.07% were laid off before 1994. However, in 1994, the gust had not passed, so by the end of last century, Fushun's idle labor force had accumulated to nearly half. Fushun was a heavy industrial city at that time, and its economic structure was very unreasonable. The laid-off workers all came from coal mines, steel, textiles, electricity and construction sectors. Laid-off workers have single skills and are older. In addition, private capital is extremely weak, and it is difficult to achieve re-employment immediately. Under the severe re-employment situation, the municipal government is trying its best to solve this problem. One of them is to encourage laid-off workers to start their own businesses. However, starting a business requires funds. At that time, the reform of state-owned enterprises was still in the transitional period, and the municipal finance could not afford this part of the funds, so it was up to these laid-off workers to make their own efforts. By the way, most of the private entrepreneurs who stand out in Fushun today started at that time. Laid-off workers don't even have a fixed source of income, so it's hard to imagine how to start a business, and then the way to start a business can be imagined. They can only do small businesses, sell vegetables, set up stalls and deliver goods. Most of them have no shops. You can close your eyes and imagine the scene of Fushun City at that time.

At that time, Sichuan Mala Tang had entered Fushun, and there were more than a dozen Sichuan Mala Tang restaurants in the city. Because its spicy taste adapted to some people's preferences and its price was low, it soon spread all over the city. As soon as this thing caught fire, the number of employees 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 couples' shops sell mala Tang at one time. But this is the law of the market. If there are many people competing, it will become excessive competition. Once there is excessive competition, it is difficult to make money. How do so many people who sell mala Tang make money? So a clever couple appeared. They thought, after all, this mala Tang was handed down from the southwest and should be more suitable for the tastes of people there. We are in the northeast, and our tastes should be different. If we can change this mala Tang to better adapt to the dietary characteristics in Northeast China, will it sell better? What are the dietary characteristics of people in Northeast China? They are used to eating greasy and salty food to adapt to the freezing weather conditions and increase their temperature and resistance. However, adding more oil and salt is also a bit of a loss, because Mala Tang has soup and has a diluting effect, so in order to make this Mala Tang taste heavier, we simply don't add soup, and the raw materials are cooked and mixed directly, which also reduces the cost of many soups! But without soup, it won't be hot. How can it be called mala Tang? So change the name, it's called "spicy mix".

As soon as this kind of mala Tang appeared, it conquered people all over Fushun with its novel production method and more suitable taste. From Henan (south of Hunhe River) to Hebei, from Wanghua to Dongzhou, it quickly spread in the streets and completely squeezed out the original mala Tang market. Nowadays, the method of making Mala Tang has been adjusted and improved several times, and many different methods and tastes have been derived during the spread of Mala Tang. Well-known ones are thirteen lines of Sichuan-style mala Tang in Hedong (statement: mala Tang is a specialty of Fushun, although all the shops selling mala Tang are named after "Sichuan" and "Chongqing", it is really to reflect the characteristics of its mala Tang taste, but this snack of mala Tang has nothing to do with Sichuan and Chongqing), Mrs. Lao Yang's mala Tang near the South Railway Station, and the mala Tang of Wang Hua, Dongzhou, Gebu, Hutai and Jiangjun.

At first, it was mainly spicy, and later, in order to meet the market demand, sweet and sour were added.

As early as six or seven years ago, a shopkeeper of General Fushun had opened a shop in Shenyang, which developed well.

Now Fushun mala Tang has spread all over the country. There are Fushun Mala Tang in Shenyang, Dalian, Anshan, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and other major cities, and various online stores are also making Fushun Mala Tang in full swing. I believe that one day in the future, Fushun Mala Tang will not only go out of Liaoning, Northeast China and the whole country, but also impact the world, so that everyone can taste our Fushun special cuisine.