Among China's creative cities, Chengdu is the only city listed as a city of food.

This is a famous historical and cultural city with a long history, rich resources, great vitality and wide influence.

1. Inclusive urban culture creates food diversity. Chengdu has experienced six major ethnic migrations and large-scale immigration in history. The integration of various famous and popular cultures has brought a variety of ingredients and production methods, making Chengdu’s food

Culture is enriched and prospered through exchanges and innovation.

Excellent chefs from all over the country, the best restaurants and a large number of food critics gather here. The gathering of food and the collision of cultures have promoted the development of Chengdu's food culture.

In addition to the prosperous local Sichuan cuisine, exotic cuisines and even foreign dishes are also very colorful.

The local cuisine of Chengdu is Sichuan cuisine, with various cooking methods and changing tastes, but most of them are spicy. Among them, the most famous dishes are: fish-flavored shredded pork, strange-flavored chicken, Kung Pao chicken, Mapo tofu, Mao

Tripe hotpot, dry-fried shredded beef, couple's lung slices, Dengying beef, dandan noodles, glutinous rice balls, dragon noodles, etc.

Chengdu food is spread all over the streets and alleys. The famous food streets include: Jinli Snack Street, Caotang Dining and Entertainment Circle, Wuhou Temple Street, Shuangnan Food Area, Yulin-China Garden Food Area, Kehua Road-Consultation Road Food Street,

Renmin South Road South Extension Line casual dining street, Chunxi Road snack block, etc.

In addition to these must-visit snack streets for tourists, famous restaurants undoubtedly also play an important role in the memory and inheritance of Chengdu’s food culture.

There are many famous restaurants in Chengdu. "Ba Guo Buyi", "Imperial City Mom", "Ginkgo" and "Lion Tower" are nationally recognized well-known Chinese trademarks, while "Old House", "Daronghe", "Weiwei"

Famous stores such as "Jiang Hu" have long been famous.

Chengdu's food can be popular and grassroots, or it can be business-like and high-end. Restaurants and snacks can be found everywhere in the streets and alleys, showing the unique taste of Chengdu on the tip of the tongue.

2. Food culture nurtured by Eastern philosophy Chengdu has countless kinds of food. The biggest feature of Chengdu food is its rich taste. It uses 5 basic flavors of sweet, sour, bitter, pungent and salty to create 23 complex flavors.

This food concept and food culture originate from ancient Chinese philosophical thoughts. Ancient Chinese philosophers in the Early Autumn and Warring States Period proposed that the universe and life are one, and the five basic elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth constitute the

Everything in the universe.

Chengdu cuisine has inherited this concept, developed five flavors, absorbed the characteristics and essence of various dishes from all over the country, and eventually evolved into Chengdu's unique food culture, becoming the most flavorful school in Chinese cuisine and even in the world.

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3. Abundant products provide ingredients for delicious food. Chengdu is located in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It has abundant water, with 12 main streams and dozens of tributaries. The water quality is excellent and the pollution is minimal.

Large quantities of freshwater fish, shrimp, shellfish and aquatic plants are produced each year.

As a fertile basin terrain, Chengdu plain accounts for more than 50%, and the rest is low hills.

There are many minerals and the soil is fertile.

This makes it possible to produce a large amount of grain, oil, fruits, vegetables, fungi, bamboo shoots, tea, etc.

The Chengdu area has good vegetation and biological resources of various landforms.

The urban green coverage rate is high.

The species of flora and fauna are extremely rich.

Pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, rabbits and other livestock are also produced in large quantities.

The ancient Dujiangyan Irrigation System has allowed the Chengdu Plain to be intertwined with river networks and densely covered with irrigation canals, so there have never been floods or droughts.

Chengdu's unique geography has endowed Chengdu people with abundant food ingredients. The peppers produced in Shuangliu County are known as "the best peppers in the world"; the douban produced in Pixian County is known as "the soul of Sichuan cuisine".

The so-called "the taste is in Sichuan, but the soul is in Pixian County" refers to Pixian Douban. Since the birth of Pixian Douban in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Sichuan cuisine has been carried forward and has a good reputation around the world.

Today, Chengdu is working hard to strengthen international exchanges and cooperation and promote the construction of a "city of food".

Actively participate in Creative City Network activities, carry out international food exchange activities, and organize personnel to go to world-class food cities for exchanges of Chinese and Western food cultures.

Open important platforms such as the "Beijing Trade Fair" and "Catering Expo" to actively promote the "City of Gourmet".

Chengdu's international influence as a "city of food" is increasing day by day.