Sichuan pepper is one of the most misunderstood ingredients in Chinese cooking, often reduced to its numbing sensation ...

From traditional communal setups to all-you-can-eat and even hybrid hot pot–Korean barbecue restaurants, here’s where to dip ...

Last week, I reviewed Cha Cha Tang, a new restaurant in the West Village that is part of a wave of Cantonese spots that’s been rising for the past two or three years, unseating Sichuan cooking from ...

In the Chinese zodiac, 2025 was the Year of the Snake, a time for shedding old skin and reinventing oneself, according to Garrett and Coco Morris, co-owners of Sichuan Kitchen SLO in San Luis Obispo.

This week, Jonathan Gold reviews Chengdu Taste, a new restaurant in Alhambra that specializes in the Sichuan cooking of Chengdu, a region defined by its unrestrained use of Sichuan peppercorns. He ...

Ping's Sichuan Kitchen has been open for about a month, and it already has regular customers who venture to the restaurant for its regional Chinese offerings. When MySA visited on Friday, June 6, ...

Sichuan peppercorns, the dried seed pods of the prickly ash, are actually not a kind of pepper, but a spice that delivers tongue-tingling heat with a citrus accent. They have become quite widely ...