Chongqing Food Blog

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Chongqing food blog.

Where to stay in chongqing. The food at the tao ran ju flavor restaurant reflects the spicy feature of chuan cuisine and caters for most cantonese. Important ingredients in sichuan cuisine are chilies sichuan pepper garlic ginger and fermented soybean. It lies at the junction of the yangtze and jialing rivers a sprawling mountain city connected by a congested network of bridges.

I used quotation marks above because chongqing deer designer hotel is simply the eighth floor of a soulless grey residential building whose great view belies its depressing location. Recommended snacks in chongqing. Its cuisine is also known as chuan cuisine owing its name to sichuan province where it formerly belonged today chongqing is a direct controlled municipality of china like shanghai beijing and tianjin. 12 foods to eat in chongqing.

Chongqing is one of the most notable city in china for spicy food. Chongqing is the best food city you don t know about. Chongqing sichuan food. The location of cygnet is on the 6th floor of new chongqing square yuzhong district.

Chongqing cq street food is the best in the world. I won t bore you with further details besides mentioning the blood on my clean sheets and the staff s apathy to it but i will give you a piece of advice i wish i d. Chongqing food is famous for its spicy with its unique cooking methods and full bodied local flavor combining the characteristics of southeast and northwest china adopting and aborting advantages of other cuisine. The specialties are medicine meal hot pot and red and white composite hot pot.

Apart from the hot pot you can try the authentic sichuan dishes. Luckily for us we had a few friends from guangzhou who also happened to be in town to include 5 12 and cheukyh as well as a photographer from nanjing jessica sly a local photographer and lifesaver lxin1983 and lastly the world famous canadian expat from shanghai jenniferbin i mention that lxin1983 was a lifesaver because she was key in keeping our current china trip financially. What is described here is not chuan chuan stick stick but shao kao in cq this means spicy chinese grilled goodness. Taylor is ceo importer cook and writer and fongchong is spice packager translator and chief taster.

Since chongqing was originally part of sichuan most of the cuisine is sichuan style and which is hot and spicy. There are many excellent sichuan dishes including duck smoked over a mixture of camphor and tea leaves then deep fried and bean curd scrambled with minced pork and spicy seasonings.