Sichuan cuisine
Sichuan Cuisine, sometimes referred to as Chuan Cuisine, is one of the eight great cuisine schools of China. Sichuan Cuisine is often compared to Hunan Cuisine, since the dishes of both of these cuisine schools tend toward the spicy-hot, but where the spicy-hot dishes of Sichuan Cuisine are said to be dry hot, a term that is not easily grasped by outsiders or by those not keenly familiar with the cuisine traditions of these two provinces. We will attempt an explanation here based on a parall…