Talk:malatang

RFV discussion: February 2014–February 2015

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malatang

"type of hot spicy soup commonly eaten as a street food in China."

According to Wikipedia malatang is:

1. skewers of various ingredients cooked in hot broth, a popular street food in Beijing
2. Sichuanese stew similar to hot pot

The questions are: 1) is it also a soup? 2) is Wikipedia correct? --Hekaheka (talk) 00:34, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

It has both meanings, see Nciku. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:16, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

According to your link malatang is cooked in soup (=broth, I would think) but that does not make it a soup. That would indicate that our current definition is wrong, and the two Wikipedia definitions are correct. --Hekaheka (talk) 17:31, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

RFV passed [1] --Hekaheka (talk) 23:11, 9 October 2014 (UTC).

• Unstruck. I don't see attesting quotations. As a minimum, the text of the quotations should be pasted to this RFV discussions, IMHO. As the very bare poor man's minimum, three links to quotations meeting WT:ATTEST should be provided. Since the nominated entry is an English one, that means "use in permanently recorded media, conveying meaning, in at least three independent instances spanning at least a year". --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:56, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

• I've managed to find a handful of citations, some of better quality than others. They don't make the fine-grain distinction our entry was trying to make between "hot spicy soup of meat and vegetables commonly eaten as a street food in China" and "skewered vegetables and meat cooked in a hot and spicy soup, a street food", so I combined those senses. - -sche (discuss) 01:36, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

  The combined sense passes, AFAICT. - -sche (discuss) 04:51, 11 February 2015 (UTC)