KIWA Corporation opens a malatang shop in Kyoto, adding a Chinese hot-pot format to Kansai's dining floors
Japanese restaurant-brand operator KIWA Corporation is opening Jiejie Malatang Kyoto (姉姉麻辣湯 京都), a 61-seat shop serving malatang -- a spicy, customisable Chinese hot-pot soup -- near Kawaramachi Station on November 11, a small but direct read on which casual Chinese-food formats are winning space on Kyoto's dining floors.
KIWA Corporation (際コーポレーション), a Japanese operator of restaurant brands, said it is opening Jiejie Malatang Kyoto (姉姉麻辣湯 京都) on November 11, a shop serving malatang -- a spicy, customisable Chinese hot-pot soup in which diners pick their own ingredients -- at 248 Ichinocho in Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward, near Kawaramachi Station on the Hankyu Kyoto Line.