Spicy Temptation is a well-known chain restaurant in the industry, which originally focused on classic Sichuan dishes such as boiled fish and Mao Xuewang. After the company bet on crayfish and supported the stores with the "Ma Xiao" sign, some old stores have also been upgraded, and its online "Ma Xiao" takeaway has been praised by the market. There are not many spicy temptation restaurants in Xi'an, but the scene of the market every day still shows its good strength.
As a large-scale enterprise, Mala Temptation has a mature supply chain management model. In order to ensure the quality of crayfish, there are special breeding bases in Hainan, Yunnan and other places. Not only that, in 2017, Ma Xiao set up a fishing base in Lake Naivasha in Kenya, Africa. Due to Kenya's location in the tropics, the environment around Naiva Lake is in good condition, and the supply of crayfish here is stable, and the finished products are large and of high quality. The restaurant even launched a campaign to compensate diners who eat black cheek shrimp, which shows its confidence in its own crayfish.
Xi'an Spicy Temptation claims that all the crayfish are flown in from Kenya, but the quality of the crayfish it provides in winter is not good, and it does not show Kenya's geographical advantages. The crayfish that arrive at the store only go through the manual brushing process, and there is no operation of cutting the head, opening the back, and removing the shrimp line, and there is no careful operation in Beijing and Shanghai.
店内的小龙虾按照虾身重量，分为吃货放纵虾（<40g）、标准（40~60g）、精品（60~80g）、超大（80~100g）、至尊（>100g）共5种规格。超大、至尊两种规格的小龙虾最值得推荐，可惜长期处于无货状态，好在精品级别在小龙虾旺季还比较常见。而淡季只有吃货放纵虾提供，勉强让食客过个嘴瘾。
"Thirteen incense", also known as Shiquan incense, refers to 13 kinds of spices with their own distinctive fragrances, including aster, sand kernel, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, Sichuan pepper, large ingredients, cumin, wood, angelica, sannai, ginger, dry ginger, etc. Today's Ma Xiao uses dozens of seasonings, and the taste of crayfish is very rich. Its biggest feature is that the numbness is not strong, so that many diners who pursue a fresh sense of food and do not like spicy can also feel the deliciousness of thirteen spices. Because it is cooked whole, the meat of the crayfish is elastic but the flavor is shallow, which is a little regrettable.
Naturally, spicy diners can't miss the signature spicy crayfish, which has won a lot of praise for its special spicy taste, but due to the taste improvement, the spicy taste is not strong enough. In order to meet the needs of more diners, Spicy Temptation also launched perilla Hunan flavored crayfish, which reveals a "taste shrimp" flavor in the spicy, which is suitable for new diners to enjoy, but the spicy taste is not enough and the charm is not enough.
Among the two branches in Xi'an, the Kaiyuan store maintains a spicy and tempting decoration style, and its red and black tones are very similar to those of common Sichuan restaurants, without the openness of the simple and simple style. Although the SEG store has been transformed into a small style, the light in the store is not enough, and the sense of openness is not obvious. The service staff is friendly and on par with the Beijing branch.
