Chengdu Food and Restaurant Guides

Chuan Flavor Food

Chuan Flavor Food has a very long history. More than 1000 years ago, it was well known and the cooking skill was in very high level. Chuan Flavor Food has some distinguishing features. Choosing and cutting the raw materials very carefully, cooking particularly and having different flavors are the main characters of making Chuan Food. And the flavors are not only bland, but also greasy. Chuan Flavor Food gathers a lot of local flavor food together, and is famous for the peppery taste. There are many ways of cooking it. Usually, people braise it and stir-fry it. The main raw materials are fowls, fish and vegetables. The good Chuan Food is famous for its color, its smell, its taste and its appearance, especially the taste. So some food experts say that each of the Chuan Food has its own special flavor.

The Name of the Restaurant: Nuli Restaurant
Distinguishing Flavor: Famous for braised assortments, stri-fried chicken, stewed fish in white sauce and clear soup with meat.
Address: Citang Street.

The name of the Restaurant: Chengdu Restaurant
Distinguishing Flavor: braised shark's fin, meat in the jar, ducks cooked by camphor oil and so on.
Address: The Eastern Street.

The Name of the Restaurant: Daijiang
Distinguishing Flavor: braised fish with garlic, braised fish with soy sauce, braised eel with chili and the fish cooked with piccalilli, etc.
Address: West Sandong Bridge in the suburb of Chengdu.

The Name of the Restaurant: Peppery bean-curd Chen Restaurant
Distinguishing Flavor: Peppery bean curd
Address: West Yulong Street.

The Name of the Restaurant: Tongrentang Tonic Food Restaurant
Distinguishing Flavor: Stewed food with traditional Chinese medicine and some tonic food.
Address: West Yulong Street.

Chengdu Chafing Dishes
Chengdu Chafing Dishes were called "hot potted landscape" in the past. And now it Has been developed into some different kinds. Such as mutton chafing dish, beer duck, fish and chrysanthemum, etc. Now, the Chengdu Chafing Dishes can be found everywhere. The menus of Chafing Dishes restaurants are developed too. In the past, there were only some kinds, but now, there are hundreds of kinds. Nearly all the raw materials of Chuan Food can be used in Chafing Dishes. So people have different flavor can find their favorite food in the Chafing Dishes restaurants.

The well known snacks in Chengdu
Based on the local snacks, Chengdu snacks are developed. There are more than 200 kinds of Chengdu snacks, but the most famous ones are not in a large number.

Name: Lai Tang Yuan ---- dumplings made of glutinous of rice flour served in soup.
Character: The skin is very thin, fine and smooth. The stuffing has many kinds, such as black sesame, white sesame, peanuts, kernel, oranges and sweetened bean paste. all these are very delicious.

Name: Sichuan Rovioli
Character: thin skin, tender stuffing and delicious soup.
Address: The Southern part of Chunxi Road.

Name: Spicy Noodles
Character: The noodles are very slim and the taste is very delicious.
Address: Houmenzi.

Name: Fuqi Lung Pieces
Character: The meat is chosen very carefully, the perfume is made fine, it is neither too thin nor too thick and it tastes very delicious.
Address: No.53 on Zongfu Street.

Name: Zhong Dumplings
Character: thin skin, fine material, tender stuffing and good taste.
Address: Tidu Street.