Malaxiangguo

No frills and cozy little spot for a quick lunch. This place offers hotpot as well. However, I would only come here for their noodle soup. It hits the spot every single time.It's mostly self service where you go up to the counter and place your order. You'll be given a buzzer and once it's ready, it will beep and then you go up to the counter to pick up your food.

Great spot for a quick and casual meal. Close to campus and I'd eat here all the time for lunch. Service is ok, but I did see the other review about the owner. I'm only giving it 5 stars because their food is good and there's nothing similar to it in town.There's other mala places but only this one has rice noodles as well. I have more of a Southern Chinese taste in food so I've been craving rice noodles for so long. Their [House Hot & Sour Beef Rice Noodle Soup] （酸辣牛肉粉）is amazing. 我真的天天跟舍友吃这个当午饭，一周好几次。本广西人本来是惊讶有桂林卤肉粉来吃的，但我觉得他们做的最好的还是酸辣粉。我把这当美国版三品王了。Their dry spicy mala is also pretty good, but I think it's kinda expensive especially since it's charged by weight and it's easy to get carried away. I've also seen the price increase so much over the last few years.

Delete my detailed review about this restaurant because it is a new business in town, though the owner texted me that "I'm stupid." My previous review meant no harm but indicated that customers are NOT STUPID and THEY CAN FIND OUT if this place may have the behaviors of cheating customers. Honesty is the key of a successful business. I may change my review score in the future if your food is served as I order, but in the meanwhile, please stop messaging me and showing a bitter & mean restaurant owner as Pittsburgh doesn't welcome.

This place is right next to Prince of India and with no store banner, it's easy to walk right past it. Walk right in and grab one of the large clear bowls and you can start filling it with ingredients from the shelf. Once you're done, the cashier will weigh it and ask you what broth you want. I got the mild one and it turned out to quite flavorful. They have pretty extensive options of noodles, vegetables, fish balls, seafood, tofu, and meat, as well as a small sauce bar. You'll probably spend around $12-18 for a generous portion of food. I can see this definitely becoming a place that will become popular with the students as it is reminiscent of hot pot with the flavored broths and customizeable food options.

Think Yogurtland or Razzy Fresh but for Chinese food. I believe this place is under the same ownership as Love Ramen, so similar layout with the board games and self-cleanup. It's $0.90 per oz, so I recommend keeping watch of what you're grabbing. Get the meat before you get vegetables, and opt for the dry spicy mala so you get rice with your meal instead of adding noodles to your bowl. If you do get noodles, pick a dry noodle. Generally pretty well kept and staffed. Although the place is self serve, staff is constantly replacing the items in the fridge to make sure it's fresh. Will be back again. Would not be surprised if this place becomes a hidden gem.

I have been craving for Mala tang for a while so I was so happy to see this restaurant open in Pittsburgh. There are a lot of options for noodles and meat ball, but I wish there are more vegetables and meats options. There were only frozen shrimp, tribe and beef as meat option. It is .90 per oz which is a bit high. You have to make sure what you pick is not too heavy otherwise you might need to spend a lot of money for one bowl. I would go back again next time I'm craving Malatang

It's good to see this authentic made-your-own style malatang in Pittsburgh! Hunan Bar has something in this nature, but the items in each serving are fixed so less flexibility.Nothing very glamorous about the veggie selections, but I have to give a shout out to the meat selections. All sorts of fish balls and meat balls. Meat, eggs, and FRESH SHRIMP!!! I mean I hate to say this but a lot of shrimps I ate in Pittsburgh had been frozen for a century and tasted like rubber rather than sea food. I took a star off because of the pricing. $0.9 per ounce doesn't sound like a lot but wait until you see your final price. Mine costs $18 and it didn't feel like a lot. Oops. But I guess it also depends on what you get. My friend spent $9 and she didn't leave hungry. Hmmm so maybe next time I'll need to order strategically.

It's nice to have a place for Malayan which you can pick your own ingredients. I think the food is pretty good. They have the yellow fishball which has filling in it! I highly recommend them! The fatty pork/ beef tastes good, too. You need to clean up your table when finished.

Good taste but i always get pissed off because it's so expensive and they keep raising the price. One big portion in a bowl is like $35 :(

Ordered weigh-ur-own Malatang here. First of all, they weighed the food and the bowl, and I'm paying for the bowl as well?!! I could get the same amount of food at other places that serve malatang with way less money. Their malatang soup base doesn't taste right either. If you've had real malatang and you have a crave for it, this is not the place to go. The flavor tastes like they just added hotpot base to pork/beef soup, and that's not how you make malatang :(