Delicious Food in Sichuan
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    Touring in Sichuan, eating is pleasant, enjoyable and full of characteristics.

    Sichuan has been a wonderful place since ancient times. The Land of Aboundance with fertile lands, adequate rivers, abundant

foods and products, has brought up so many outstanding people. Since the roads of Sichuan were hard and dangerous, it was less influenced by wars in historical times, so Sichuan natives could create and develop their eating culture with unique feature during the long history. And there is a saying goes "Best Eating in Sichuan" and "Wonderful Sapor in Sichuan".

    As one of the four cuisines of China, Sichuan Cuisine is particularly unique flavored and famous for rich and various tastes. It usually employs spicy seasonings but not only spicy-flavored, it forms a complex taste after mixture, based on the six basic tastes of Sichuan Cuisine. The characteristic of its flavor is to give prominence to the main flavor, and the method is concentrating on a certain flavor. Sichuan Cuisine usually concentrates one of salty-sweet, sour-spicy or spice flavor onto one dish, and then adds other ingredients to make the main flavor prominent, such as Tender Stewed Beef, Salty Fish, etc.

    The types of compound flavors in Sichuan Cuisine are as many as tens, mainly including the tastes of salt- freshness, family taste, spicy-flavored spice, sweet-sourness, lichi, mustard, fragrance, complex taste, etc. The various and abundant tastes form the unique style of both delicious and rich flavors of Sichuan Cuisine. Another thing needs to be point out is that different types of dishes in Sichuan Cuisine need to choose different seasonings, in short, flavors coexist with its unique seasonings. For example, dishes of spicy and family’s tastes must use the seasoning of County Pi in Sichuan, but fish-fragrance type must use that of Sichuan flavored spice.

    Sichuan Cuisine has gone through thousands of years, and it boasts more than 4,000 dishes, among which more than 1,000 are frequently used in banquets and restaurants, and 300 more are rare and precious dishes. Sichuan Cuisine has so many characteristics: rich ingredients, various seasonings, serious choice of materials; delicate shredding and arrangement, complicated cooking, unique flavor; uncountable types of dishes with varied tastes.

    Sichuan Cuisine is composed of five types: banquet dishes, public convenient dishes, family-flavored dishes, hot pot, and snacks.

Banquet dishes mostly choose delicacies of every kind and seasonal vegetables, focusing on the craftwork of dishes, without too mamy hot ones.

Public convenient dishes: among various dishes, mainly stir-fried one. And the flavor is mostly very strong like hot dishes.

Family-flavored dishes are public’s favorite, having strong local and family flavors. The materials are widely employed, with simple cooking methods and rich seasonings, so it is widely known.

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