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Food

Regional cuisines, street snacks, dining etiquette, and flavors worth planning around.

A simmering pot of red chili oil hot pot at a local Chengdu restaurant.
food / Chengdu

Sichuan Food Is Not Just Spicy

A short grammar of mala, fragrance, heat, smoke, and the kind of pleasure that makes you slow down between bites.

8 min readSeries 02
A sizzling metal wok flares with flame as a cook prepares stir-fried noodles in a narrow Chengdu alley.
food / Chengdu

The Grammar of Fly Restaurants: Navigating Chengdu's Back-Alley Food Scene

Why Chengdu's most legendary, sweat-inducing culinary masterpieces are served in tiny, low-ceilinged back-alley stalls nicknamed 'fly restaurants'.

6 min readSeries 06