Food and Restaurants

Sichuan Cuisine

Chongqing's food bases on Sichuan cuisine. Sichuan cuisine has all kinds of tastes. It takes the first place among all cuisines. Now, there are 24 kinds of tastes and they are divided into 3 categories.

The first category is the type of peppery taste. There are peppery taste, red oil taste, burnt hot taste, sour and spicy taste, peppery and numb taste, homely taste, hot and fragrant taste of lychee, fragrant taste of fish, tangerine peel taste, odd taste, etc. Among them, fragrant taste of fish, tangerine peel taste, and odd taste are unique tastes in Sichuan cuisine. It's difficult to cook because it combines salt, sweet, sour, spice, delicious, fragrant into one dish, and more than ten kinds of sauces is in harmonized rate. The names of dishes are odd-taste shredded chicken, odd-taste hare cubes, shredded pork with garlic sauce, peeled shrimp with garlic sauce, kidney with garlic sauce, fried chicken with garlic sauce, beef with tangerine peel, chicken with tangerine peel, Mapo bean curd, boiled beef, stir-fried chicken cubes, stir-fried fresh shellfish, stir-fried boiled pork slices in hot sauce, fried pork with salted pepper, boiled chicken sliced, etc.
The second category is the type of pungent taste. There are garlic sauce taste, ginger juice taste, mustard taste, sesame paste taste, fume taste, soy sauce taste, five-fragrance taste, wine fragrance taste, etc. Representative dishes are tea duck, sootiness spareribs, bamboo shoot with sesame paste, five-fragrance smoke fish, fried sliced mutton with soy sauce, fish slices with vermicelli, chicken with ginger juice, meat with wine fragrance, etc.

The third category is the type of tastes of salt, delicious, sour, and sweet. There are salt-delicious taste, bean-sauce taste, tomato-sauce taste, sweet taste, litchi taste, sweet-sour taste, etc. This type of taste is spread widely. Many dishes applied this taste. Representative dishes are Yi Pin Gong Yan, cooked fin, white-sauce abalone, water lily fish maw, water boiled cabbage, chicken slices, meat slices, shredded tripe, eight-treasure duck, salted duck's chest, steamed lotus root with honey sauce, mashed walnut, etc.

Featured Sichuan Cuisine Restaurants

Dingdang Rabbit

Here, you can taste many types of cooking rabbit, such as deep-frying, boiling with salt, baking, frying, etc. Each type has its own characteristic. People who like eating spicy taste and don't like eating spicy taste can all enjoy delicious food. The soup here is worth mentioning. It especially matches with the dishes made of hare. It will let you want to eat again when you finish eating.

Add: No. 133, the Zhigang Avenue, Yangjiaping

Grandmother Bridge

The well-known Grandmother Bridge is famous for the local style food. The branch shop in Yangjiaping inherits the tradition. The food combines modern style with traditional style, and city style with county style. The food which is specially worth recommending is Grandmother Gammon and Cooking Rabbit.

Add: No. 21, the Taodu City Hotel, the Xijiao Road, Yangjiaping

TangShifu Health Restaurant

As many as over 100 kinds of soup installed in earthen jars are cooked by charcoal for 7 hour with constant temperature. The soup is very fragrant, and tastes delicious. The porridge boiled tastes especially delicious. It is supplied according to different seasons. The most famous food are old duck soup boiled with insect and grass (used as medicine), old hen soup boiled with Baiguo(a medicine), asparagus porridge, rose porridge, etc.

Location: The Jiayu Square, the Zhigang Avenue, Yangjiaping

Snacks

In Chongqing's streets, all kinds of snack shops can be found here and there. Some are shops running some special snacks; some are shops running all kinds of snacks. Tourists can choose suitable places to taste Chongqing's delicious food according to their own likes.

Shanjiang Hechuan Peach Slices

With a history of more than 140 years, Hechuan Peach Slices is made from best-quality glutinous rice, Sichuan white sugar, gingili, lard, walnut kernel, rose, etc. It tastes soft, fragrant and sweet. It has the functions of nourishing Kidney, moistening lung and reducing cough.

Mayuan

Mayuan is a kind of food which is a small ball of glutinous rice balls, with sweet filling inside and some sesame outside. It's fried until its color changes into brown. It's characterized by crisp surface and soft inside, round shape with empty core, and sweet taste with fragrance.

Small Glutinous Rice Dumplings

Knead glutinous rice powder evenly into small balls, fill in sweet filling, and then cook them. It's characterized by white color like pearl, transparent surface, indistinct filling, and sweet taste with fragrance.

Jiangjin Rice Sugar

This traditional famous local product has already had a history of nearly one hundred years. Jiangjin Rice Sugar is synthesized by refined glutinous rice, white sugar, maltose, oil made out of animals and plants, shelled peanut, peach kernel, rose candy, sesame, etc. It has many characteristics. It's crisp, sweet and tasty with faint scent. It has the functions of nourishing kidney, stimulating appetite, and invigorating the spleen etc.

Lai Walnut Crisp Cake

Invented in the twenties, Lai Walnut Crisp Cake is a famous traditional dessert in Chongqing. It's famous for being fragrant, sweet, crisp and loose. The surface presents the pattern of the walnut shell, with the natural breaches. It is deep yellow, shiny and smooth. It tastes delicious.

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