Just throwing this one out: Is Sichuan food too oily? The reason I ask is that i just had 2 buddies from back home visit me, and they thought the food here was (in their words) “Disgusting! Like eating a large bucket of KFC!” I also remember some of my non-Sichuan students saying similar things(not the KFC thing, but overly-oily). Personally, i don’t really notice it anymore, but it makes me wonder…
Disclaimer: my buddies and i were eating at typical, relatively cheap places, not expensive ones….