If we’re honest, Dallas isn’t the optimal food city when it comes to nuanced Chinese regional cuisines. The gentle umami of Fujian stews and the roasted meats of Xinjiang barbecue aren’t commonly ...

Finding credible Sichuanese food outside its home territory can be a challenge. So for any connoisseur of "ma la," the arrival of Szechuan Garden deep in suburban Beaverton is cause for elation. Ma la ...

Like many suburban Chinese restaurants, the dining room at Sichuanese Cuisine isn’t much to look at. The decorations are sparse and say nothing of Chinese culture, and the tables are clad in thin, ...

These days, discerning eaters in Seattle can find any Chinese cuisine anywhere outside of the Chinatown International District. They share the same blocks as your teriyaki joints and Starbucks. The ...

The fiery dishes spiked with Sichuan peppercorns began arriving on the table, but Tang Xiulan and her friends remained transfixed by a television screen above the restaurant’s front door showing ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. It was 11 years ago that I first visited Phayul, a Tibetan cafe hidden up a ...

There's the tongue-on-fire heat that comes from snacking on habaneros; the up-your-nose heat accompanying a glob of wasabi; and then there's the heat of the Sichuanese peppercorn, which acts like ...

America is a nation of laws, not men, which means David Chang’s current fixation on oxtails or Anthony Bourdain’s interest in crab fat may only have limited influence on how we eat. But so long as you ...

A new Beaverton Chinese restaurant opened late last month with many dishes either hard-to-find or previously unavailable in the Portland area. In addition to its namesake sichuanese dishes, , in the ...

One of writer Fuchsia Dunlop’s favorite stories about her adventures in Sichuanese cooking involves a group dinner she had in 2001 at a drab hotel in Chengdu, China. The meal stretched into 42 ...