Chengdu is famous for its hot pots, skewers, and douhua, so don't miss them.
1, hot pot
When you go to Chengdu, hot pot is an essential experience. Chengdu hot pot focuses on spicy and fresh aroma, and most of them use lard or butter as the base, supplemented with a lot of mace and peppercorns for a spicy taste. Most of the ingredients are Sichuan's favorite yellow throat, tripe, goose intestines, shredded eel and so on. Like to eat hot pot Sichuan people have a "dry dish" eating method ("dish" that is seasoning).
Sichuan people often use a fragrant oil dish and a dry dish, according to their own tastes, some food dipped in fragrant oil dish (such as mutton, lotus root slices, fish, etc.), and some food dipped in dry dish (such as tripe, sliced cashews, duck intestines, yellow throat, etc.). The so-called "dry dish" is actually a small dish of dried chili powder, plus salt, monosodium glutamate, etc., extremely simple.
2, husband and wife lung slices
Chengdu region everyone knows a flavorful dish. Legend has it that in the 1930s, near Chengdu's Shao Cheng, a man named Guo Zhaohua, together with his wife, made and sold sliced beef lungs as a business, and the two of them operated in person, walking along the streets and alleys, carrying baskets to sell. As they operate the cold mixed lung slices of fine production, unique flavor, loved by the people. In order to distinguish the general lung slices stall store, people call them "husband and wife lung slices".
3, Dragon Dumplings
Long Dumplings skin thin filling tender, smooth and fragrant, soup thick color white, for the best snacks in Rongcheng. The name of Dragon Dumplings is not the same as Zhong Shui Dumplings, and it is not the owner's last name, but the three fellows in the "Thick Flower Tea Garden" who negotiated the opening of the store, and they took the name "Dragon", which is the harmonic sound of the word "Thick", and it also means "dragon", which is the meaning of "dragon and tiger leap". The name is also a symbol of "dragon and tiger leap" and "prosperous" business.
4. Soya Bean Flower
The white bean flower is sprinkled with chopped green onion, chopped peanuts, diced cabbage or dried radish, and crunchy fried soybeans, and soy sauce, vinegar, and chili oil are added according to taste. The beans are so tender and soft that they slip into your mouth, and yet so soft that you can pick them up with chopsticks and they won't crumble or crack.
In the old days, the street vendors did not have so many flowers, and now it is different, a variety of flavors, a variety of toppings to choose from, spicy, spicy, hot and sour, as well as beef bean curd, eel bean curd, fat intestines bean curd, and so on.