Sichuan China Houston London Brazil how did you select these locations do you have a list of places in mind and then
the Sichuan peppercorns.
in Sichuan about eight months before the earthquake and we were lucky enough to
I have a Sichuan chili sauce, a fish sauce caramel, an XO, and a mala chili oil, all which I had created on the show.
The trees for the Sichuan -- I don't know if you've ever seen them before, but the trunks have these crazy spikes on them.
This has got the Sichuan peppercorns.
provinces from Sichuan or Hub or wherever had been had worked in China a transformation that had not been seen
Your grandmother was Sichuanese.
I just made my own Sichuan style gizzards the other day because I had Sichuan style pork intestines at a Hunan restaurant up in Saginaw of all places.
He doesn't just stand-- This is Sichuan peppercorn.
So when you look for Sichuan peppercorns, you want to look-- it should look like an ear canal.
There was a chemical factory protest in Sichuan , and there was this iconic photo that was circulated across Weibo of a young lady protesting
China and he wanted to go he wanted to go to Sichuan Province and um he said well we're also going to go Hong Kong
inside the great firewall uh there is a horrific earthquake in Sichuan province in
bribed the local officials to use substandard concrete everyone knew Sichuan Province was an earthquake prone
So this is one of my favorite things about Sichuan cuisine.
So the citrus industry absolutely refused to let Sichuan peppercorns in.
accent and and sometimes the tones varied for example in Sichuan I've heard
macines Cuisine and um you know CU in the beginning we had some Sichuan dishes
But still these days, if I want to learn how to cook a specific Sichuan dish, I can go on YouTube
That's made me very happy, and I kind of got hooked onto Sichuan pepper, that feeling and that numbness in the mouth.
And it's kind of got a bitter, very distinctive flavor that is not entirely unlike Sichuan peppercorn,
when people started recogn recognizing us as a macanese restaurant I said okay get rid of the Sichuan dishes get rid of
Because you know, up until recently, Sichuan peppercorns in the US were banned.
when he was um before he came to Beijing in a senior role when he was a leader in the provinces in Sichuan Province and in guandong Province um just just trying
These days, it's like, if I want to learn how to cook a specific Sichuan dish, I can go on YouTube and find people making it at home, people making it
with English mustard, wasabi, mouth-numbing effect of clove, of Sichuan peppers, things like the bubbles in carbon dioxide,
Yeah, wants to say congrats, Mel, and what is the secret ingredient of your Sichuan
powder with, like, orange peels and I want to say Sichuan pepper or something.
It's peppery, but it doesn't have that numbing, that really numbing flavor that Sichuan peppercorns have.
So you know how to check-- I've found a very amazing way to search for good Sichuan peppercorns.
Well, we have the mission Chinese dog, which has a little bit of Sichuan pepper, so it's a little numbing, as long as that doesn't bother you.
And in keeping the news of, let's say, collapsing schools in Sichuan or collapsing governments in the Middle East out of the state media when millions of people can access
So we went to Sichuan Province, and we found