The numbing sensation is due to a compound called hydroxy-alpha-sanshool that causes a biting astringency on your mouth's ...

While hunting for great Chinese food, we focus on Sichuan cuisine. Sichuan Gourmet may have five locations in Greater Boston, but the Burlington spot is where we chose to sample what our critic calls ...

Author and cooking teacher Fuschia Dunlop may be British by birth, but she found her soul on the other side of the world. In China’s Sichuan province, she developed a passion for the local cuisine, ...

The Sichuan food was so impressive at Xin Wei Kitchen that, even though I got off on the wrong foot at the restaurant, I left dancing (read: moving erratically). Inhabiting a narrow but tidy little ...

Chinese regional cooking can actually be classified to include 63 different types, although the "big eight" that receive the most attention are Anhui, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang, ...

Dashi’s food is so good, you could almost close your eyes and point randomly at the menu. Credit: Ron Bechtol At the end of our recent dinner at Dashi Sichuan Kitchen + Bar, the table was a train ...

The stereotype about Sichuan cuisine, says food writer and cookbook author Fuchsia Dunlop, is that it's all chile and lip-tingling Sichuan pepper. "But actually it's more complex than that. Real ...

Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. So of course, ...

Michael Jiang is bringing a taste from the streets of his native Chengdu to Connecticut. Jiang, 48, spent the first 40 years of his life in China and moved to Glastonbury eight years ago. He now owns ...

Beijing Hot Pot hides behind big-box stores but delivers big-city Sichuan cooking with bold, numbing and deeply satisfying ...

Hungry for a taste of China’s modern foodie scene, where bold flavours meet big energy? Tai Er Sichuan Cuisine serves it up ...

Dashi Sichuan Kitchen + Bar in San Antonio surprised loyal fans with its sudden closure. In a social media post, the restaurant said it made the “incredibly difficult decision” to cease operations ...