In China's southwest basin, there lies one of the most leisurely and carefree cities -- Chengdu. The theme of Chengdu people's life is no other than having fun: playing mahjong, enjoying the spicy hot malatang, speculating in stocks, and gazing at beautiful ladies.

Mahjong zest

While not the first to play mahjong, Chengdu people are indisputably the most addicted. Mahjong is nicknamed "table shadowboxing," as it is seen as a sort of physical and brain exercise.

It was reported recently that a 71-year-old man from Chengdu had invented a kind of dual-function mahjong, in which players could learn English while killing time. That is typical Chengdu innovation.

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Spicy malatang savor

Malatang or chuanchuanxiang is a kind of spicy hot snack in China, somewhat like hot pot. Sliced raw meats, edible offals (entrails and internal organs), and vegetables are impaled on bamboo skewers, and dipped into a pan of boiling spicy soup mounted above a heating device.

Malatang was born in Chengdu in the mid-1980s. At that time, malatang operators only needed a small honeycomb briquette stove, an aluminum boiler filled with homemade bittern (a kind of liquid left after the distilling of salf from seawater), a small table, and a tray filled with food materials and condiments.

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