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Remember when I brought some Sichuan peppercorns into the office to try out on the rest of the Observer staff? I’ve been looking for fiery Sichuan cooking on and off ever since. At the end of that ...

Pan-roasted fish restaurants have been popping up over the past year or so in the San Gabriel Valley, with five or six specifically focusing on the dish on their menus. While there’s nothing new about ...

Bubbling in the West side of Singapore is Ba Guo Grilled Fish‘s (巴国烤鱼) second outlet, which is situated at West Coast Plaza. The restaurant takes pride in the concoction of grilled fish, catering to ...

Not all of Plano’s Sichuan restaurants are alike. Some, like Little Sichuan, stash their traditional dishes in a binder of specialty items kept separate from the usual litany of wontons and stir-fries ...

When my friends Margy Rochlin and Anne Fishbein traveled to China with a delegation of women chefs a dozen years ago, they visited cooking school after cooking school to witness the progress that was ...

If you’re familiar with the Chinese food wonderment that is the San Gabriel Valley, you probably know what to expect from Sichuan food. It’s searing, brain-rattling Chinese food from a different ...

I’m a sucker for eggplant in any form, but really adore it in Chinese food, especially when it’s tossed in a spicy garlic sauce accentuated with the gentle heat of chili. So the second I saw the cover ...

People immediately think of Sichuan food as being hot, sour, sweet, and salty; using fish sauce; or having a strange taste. Actually, these flavors were introduced only in the last 100 years, and ...

All Indian Chinese restaurants claim to serve Sichuan food. But do they really? I went to Sichuan to find out Almost all of the Chinese food we eat in India is Sichuanese, claims-to-be-Sichuanese or ...

'The eggplants, deep-fried to a buttery tenderness, are delectable,' says Fuchsia Dunlop You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Reviews and ...