Sichuan Province
12/05/2010

Sichuan Province in southwest China is home to one of the world’s great cuisines. It most famous chracteristic is its fiery spiciness,which come from the liberal use of chillies and lip-tingling Sichuan pepper. But hot and spicy is only part of the story. Sichuanese chefs are legendary for their ability to combine many different tastes into exquisite complex flavours. Some of these are robustly spicy, while others are delicate and teasing. And the use of chillies is so inventive that their tastenever palls. In China, they say the variety of flavours used in Sichuanese cuisine is so dazzling that ‘each one of a hundred dishes will have its own, unique taste’.

At Barshu, we want to bring you the best of the authentic flavours of Sichuan. So look out, among others, for the seductive ‘fish-fragrant’ combination of pickled chillies, ginger, garlic, and spring onion, the addictive fieriness of ‘numbing-and-hot’ dishes, and the refreshing tones of a ‘ginger-juice’ sauce. We hope you enjoy your food.