Anhui Cuisine: China’s Best Kept Culinary Secret

Anhui cuisine, known as Hui Cai (徽菜) in Mandarin, is perhaps China’s best kept culinary secret. The flavours are rich and subtle thanks to the careful use to hams and sugared candies to enrich and deepen flavours. Wild herbs – from both the land and the sea – are frequently used. It is similar in …

Sichuanese Cuisine Rivals Cantonese Cuisine as China’s Best Cooking Style

Sichuan Province is home to one of China’s most widely respected Eight Great cuisines. While not as popular outside the country as Cantonese cuisine, inside the country it is highly regarded. Some would argue that it rivals Cantonese cuisine as the the Middle Kingtom’s top cooking style. In sharp contrast to Cantonese cuisine, which features …