A 全世界の dining 現象 from 中国 has 攻撃する，衝突する West London. TOM PARKER BOWLES gives it 3.5 星／主役にするs ? here's why
Yang Guo Fu Malatang is a chain of Chinese-hotpot restaurants with over 6,000 支店s across Asia, Australia and North America. But にもかかわらず its 巨大な size, YGF 保持するs something of a cultish 評判, each new 開始 迎える／歓迎するd with social-マスコミ hysteria, a thousand tremulous TikTok ビデオs and 列s that 流出／こぼす way out of the door.?
Which makes the arrival of its first UK 出口, in London ? without fuss, ファンファーレ／誇示 or a whisper of PR ? all the more intriguing.
Sure, its Hammersmith Broadway 場所 is hardly the most salubrious. But then YGF? predominantly a franchise 商売／仕事 ? is all about consistency and 速度(を上げる） of service meaning that, with a few 地元の idiosyncrasies, you’re slurping the same bowl of spicy soup from Bellevue to Brisbane, Hong Kong to Hangzhou.?
Who cares if the 見解（をとる） is a little 淡褐色, the room sparsely utilitarian, the music sickly-soppy Chinese pop, and the lighting more ふさわしい to a morgue? It makes me love it all the more.
At Yang Guo Fu Malatang, says Tom, ‘You take a bowl and 選ぶ your 成分s from its 見解／翻訳／版 of a Harvester salad 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業’
And while it has similarities to 伝統的な Sichuan hotpot (the spicy ‘ma la’, or ‘numbing and hot’ broth), you don’t gather around the communal マリファナ, dipping in さまざまな bits and 団体／死体 parts, rather take a bowl and 選ぶ your 成分s from its 見解／翻訳／版 of a Harvester salad 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業.
The choice is 広大な, as much about texture as it is flavour: slippery, 甘い potato vermicelli (there are ten different varieties of noodle) and kelp, soft tofu puffs, the cartilaginous crunch of 支持を得ようと努めるd ear mushroom and delicate fronds of tripe. Bouncy fishballs and meatballs come in every hue and size.
You then choose your broth (beef, from 穏やかな to extra-spicy; veggie tomato or 乾燥した，日照りの spice) and are 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d by the 負わせる of your 成分s. Five minutes later and your bowl, seething red and steaming hot, is placed before you. 追加する extra chilli, soy, vinegar or mashed garlic to taste.?
The beef broth is very good indeed, made from slow-simmered beef and pork bones, わずかに 甘い, with a creamy depth not dissimilar to a proper tonkotsu ramen broth.?
And while the extra-spicy packs?a decent punch, it doesn’t 完全に decimate the tastebuds ? a brow-beader rather than edible Armageddon. YGF may not be a place to ぐずぐず残る, but it’s a 罰金 place to eat. Get there before the TikTok hordes descend.?
About £18 per 長，率いる. Yang Guo Fu Malatang, 8 Hammersmith Broadway, London W6
