{"id":50899,"date":"2016-08-25T13:14:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T05:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chengduliving.com\/?p=50899"},"modified":"2016-08-26T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T03:22:35","slug":"6-things-about-sichuan-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chengduliving.com\/6-things-about-sichuan-food\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Things You Should Know About Sichuan Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve always been fascinated with food as a vehicle for cultural understanding, and particularly in Chengdu I have found food to be one of the best ways to get to know the city. Sichuan food, in one interpretation or another, is famous around the world but needless to say it\u2019s best experienced here in Sichuan, where it is in its most authentic form.<\/p>\n
The initial differences between what I found here and what I had experienced outside China led me on a journey of eating and learning to try to understand more about this globally recognized cuisine, its origins and context in history (if you didn’t know, Chengdu was Asia’s first city of gastronomy<\/a> according to UNESCO).<\/p>\n