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 ...

Explore the accidental creation of my tastiest Sichuan fried fish sandwich. What started as a simple cooking experiment ...

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 ...

Experience the perfect blend of crispy fried fish and bold Sichuan flavours in this incredible sandwich recipe. In this video, I show you how a kitchen accident turned into my tastiest creation yet, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

WATER-COOKED FISH is a Sichuan preparation of poached white fish and wilted cabbage in a sweet-sour broth slicked with chili oil. It's a brazen, intensely flavorful dish that leaves one giddy with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Szechuan Fish is like every restaurateur’s dream, bulletproof from Yelpers and all criticism. Go ahead, complain that the namesake dish is a cheap Tilapia, that it’s frozen, not fresh from a tank like ...