Sichuan Cuisine

Sichuan, "e;the land of abundance"e;, is blessed with beautiful landscape and bountiful resources, which are beneficial to the formation and development of Sichuan cuisine.Sichuan cuisine is characterized by rich ingredients, rigorous selection, exquisite knife work and sophisticated seasoning.In terms of cooking method, it excels at sizzling-frying, stir-frying, frying, boiling, simmering as well as dry-frying and dry-braising which are unique to this cuisine. This book selects some famous and representative dishes in Sichuan cuisine and explains their origin, ingredient selection and cooking tips, in order to showcase merits of the cuisine while making sure readers can actually cook these dishes at home.It discusses in detail the features of dishes in terms of flavor, history, origin, ingredient selection, cooking technique, cooking method and eating method, etc.There are also comments of celebrity chefs from Hong Kong to help readers appreciate famous delicacies in an informed way, and offer advice for cooking and making at home.