What starts as a simple street food tour quickly becomes a nonstop descent into the spicy, numbing, chili oil-covered world ...

What starts as a simple meal in Chengdu quickly becomes a full exploration of one of the city’s oldest and most beloved ...

Martin explains a Chengdu snack called xiao chi. Martin takes small bites but tells a big story. In Chengdu, a snack is called a small bite, or ‘xiao chi’. But a ‘xiao chi’ is really a lot more than ...

They're not much to look at, that's for sure. Two rabbit heads, skinned, their flesh dull brown, their tiny teeth sharp and white. I stare down at them. They stare unblinkingly back. I'm sitting in ...

The tiny fruit may look innocuous enough, but they pack a unique and serious punch. Thanks to a molecule called hydroxy-alpha sanshool, Sichuan peppercorns famously make the lips tingle, even to the ...

There’s much more to Sichuan (also spelled as Szechuan) food than mouth-burning spiciness. The cuisine balances salty, sweet, sour, spicy, and ma, the numbing sensation from Sichuan peppers. And while ...

Gothamist has dined in all kinds of joints in Flushing’s Chinatown – killer Cantonese, top-flight dim sum and lamb-laden Northern Chinese. The area we haven’t explored much is the food courts, mazes ...