Chongqing Food Recipes
You may not have heard of chongqing a mountainous municipality pitched at the confluence of the yangtze and jialing rivers in south west china about the size of austria and with a population of around 30 million but if you re a person that s into your food you have almost certainly heard of sichuan cooking.
Chongqing food recipes. My hometown chongqing is one of the four direct controlled municipalities of china locates in southwest area. Though chongqing province and the city of chongqing itself are no longer part of sichuan province they split in the 90s they share a culinary and cultural backbone. There are many excellent sichuan dishes including duck smoked over a mixture of camphor and tea leaves then deep fried and bean curd scrambled with minced pork and spicy seasonings. Chongqing the sprawling city along the yangtze river until recently part of sichuan province is noted for its distinctive and assertive cooking it s relatively different to the cuisine of the sichuan capital chengdu spicier more pungent and more incendiary than anywhere else in china.
Sichuan dishes to eat in chongqing. Savory chongqing noodle is called xiaomian in chinese is a popular spicy and numbing noodle originated from chongqing and popular in the whole country. Chongqing chicken is one of my top 5 favorite dishes on earth i love the delicate crispiness of the chicken the intricate complexity of the flavors the blast of the red pepper mingled with the ginger and garlic and the peculiar numbing sensation that can only come from sichaun peppercorns.