Meat [cooking]
I'm no super hot head, but I do like it spicy!
(And it's been a while - so I'm very glad we had a pack in the pantry)
/Among the things I'm super grateful for is learning about good Sichuan, no Pixian, douban jian; snatched lunches exploring the menu at nearby Chicago Chinatown Lao Sze Chuan decades ago and chatting with the chef. And these days the quality and availability is sooo much better/
Are #Sichuan #Peppercorns a controlled substance? I've been to three Asian markets (two the size of dirigible hangars) and nobody has them ... :-( #花椒
https://www.europesays.com/uk/45998/ Explainer | How Chinese citizens can prepare for travel to the United States #ACLU #Beijing #Canada #CBP #ChineseMinistryOfCultureAndTourism #DavidHuang #DonaldTrump #Germany #Houston #SecondaryInspection #Sichuan #TravelWarnings #UnitedStates #us #USCustomsAndBorderProtection #USA #VisaOverstays
«New images have emerged of one of #China’s futuristic fighter jets, a three-engine, tailless flying wing #aircraft that Western analysts have dubbed the #J36.
It’s unclear when the images, which are taken from a video, were shot, but they appeared on #Chinese #SocialMedia sites on Monday and show the aircraft flying over a highway near the runway of #Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group, the factory in #Sichuan province where the new jet is believed to have been made»
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/asia/china-new-stealth-fighter-jet-pictures-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
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#China's internet #censors have deleted a video in which #children at a private #PerformingArts school in the southwestern province of #Sichuan dance to British rock band #PinkFloyd's 1979 hit "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" which featured a choir of #schoolchildren protesting overbearing authority & "thought control" in #education.
@FiveSeventeen. Funny you should use that word! My mouth experienced this thing called "paraesthesia," which I had never heard of, and is the result of the #sichuan peppers. It's a numbing of the mouth and a vibrating of the lips and tongue. And the taste of the water was transformed, I think because of the vinegar in the mapo tofu. What a wild, wonderful #food adventure!
A new study by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and #Sichuan University in #China, published Feb. 2 in Scientific Reports, traces the roots of the longstanding cultural interactions across the Tibetan Plateau to #prehistoric times, as early as the Bronze Age...
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-roots-longstanding-cultural-interactions-tibetan.html
"Aiming for a romantic display on a romantic day, a marriage registration office in the city of #Mianyang in #Sichuan Province decided to livestream the marriage registration ceremonies during this year’s festival which fell on August 22.
There was just one problem. Very few couples turned up to get married, according to those watching."
Young Chinese choose dating, staying single as marriage declines in #China | #PopulationCrash
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/9/22/marriage-declines-in-china-as-young-chinese-choose-dating-staying-single
This makes me crave spicy Chinese food #earthquake #sichuan
PS: I had smacked cucumber with it - a Fuchsia Dunlop recipe. It's the first recipe of the article: https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/04/20-best-summer-salads-part-1-crab-avocado-sichuan-cucumber
It's one of my favourite side dishes; simple and gorgeous tasting, and it was a perfect foil for the bread pizza.
A touch of mala for lunch...
Some kinda southwestern / sichuan mashup: heirloom beans, chinese cabbage, red peppers, noodles with a dandan-style sauce.
Good! Spicy! Numbing!
The winner of the Best #Restaurant of the Year for the #Chinese Restaurant #Awards has just been announced.
The Fish Man in #RichmondBC has taken home the prize with their signature #spicy #Sichuan, married with local #seafood.
#Chef Bo Li is the mastermind behind these #delicious creations, and he joined Gloria Macarenko in studio on #CBC Radio’s On The Coast. (Dec. 5, 2022)