Malatang fitout

Winter is here and it’s one of the chilliest ones Sydney has seen in quite a long time. The team at E Fitting has just wrapped up a fitout of Central Park Mall’s latest restaurant addition - Malatang, just in time for the frosty season.

Malatang (Chinese for “spicy numbing hot soup”), a combination of hot pot and soup buffet has become increasingly ubiquitous in Sydney in recent years. And why not? It’s fun, delicious, and a great way to dine out with mates or family, or solo on one of those nights when you just feel like an enormous bowl of soup packed with fresh vegetables, seafood, meat, and noodles. Malatang is everything everywhere all at once.

Is it really that spicy? Yes, and no. The name originates from Sichuan, China, home of numbing spice (“mala”), and the Chinese there mostly had it with that numbing spice soup base, but now that it’s popular in Sydney, most malatang shops will offer tomato, seafood, and even curry soup bases as well as the classic numbing spice base.

As usual, E Fitting has gone beyond its usual repertoire with this fitout, and painted a graffiti-style design of our client’s graphic artist’s Dope Cat to the back wall. Dividers with a timber finish, and neon graphics give this fitout a contemporary, grungy Chinese street-food joint feel.