| | Chowhound's Los Angeles Area Message Board (28): Re(2): ISO Szechuan/Shanghai in San Gabriel Valley (not dim sum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Half of it is a taiwanese version of Sichuan style malahuoguo (hot pepper and szechwan peppercorn flavored highly-oily broth) and suanbaicai huoguo (version of sour cabbage hotpot, n.e. |
 | | So some items will go better with one, some are designed for the other (tong hao, chrysanthemum leaves with the lighter one, beef with the spicy one, lamb with either). |
 | | The Taiwan folk use tons of stuff in this modern post-1949 amalgam which is also influenced by local hotpots and the Korean sinsullo, so there's all kinds of seafood available like squid that you don't find in either trad version of these hotpots, all kinds of noodles, mushrooms some trad some not. |
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