Yunnan province: over-the-bridge rice noodles
云南省:过桥米线
The cuisine: Yunnan cuisine is heavily influenced by Sichuan, meaning locals have a yen for spicy food.
烹饪风格:受到川菜的影响,当地人也非常喜爱吃辣味。
The dish: Allegedly invented by a virtuous wife who wanted to keep her soup noodles fresh and hot for her hard-studying husband, this Yunnan specialty is nutritious and often beautifully presented. The dish normally comes with a bowl of rice noodles, a bowl of stock and more than a dozen of small plates piled with toppings, such as beef, crab meat, salted goose, oyster mushrooms, wooden-ear mushrooms, assorted vegetables and fragrant herbs.
菜肴:据称,这道菜是由当地一位非常贤惠的妻子制成,由于她的丈夫在外努力工作,因此她用了特别的方式使面条长久保鲜保热。这道云南特色菜营养丰富,呈现方式也非常新颖。一般来说,这道菜配备有一碗米线,一碗高汤和几打装有各种配料的小盘子,例如牛肉,蟹肉,盐水鸭,牡蛎,木耳,然后辅以蔬菜和香草制成。
Chongqing: chili-fried chicken cubes
重庆:辣子鸡
The cuisine: Even compared with food from Sichuan, China's mecca of spicy dishes, Chongqing cuisine scores high in spiciness and numb-inducing ingredients.
烹饪风格:即使常常拿来和川菜作对比,重庆仍旧是当之无愧的中国辣菜圣城,在麻辣程度上重庆菜首屈一指。
The dish: La zi ji combines crispy chicken breast cubes with a fireplace of peppercorn, toasted sesame and dried bird's-eye chilis to create a plate of hot, red deliciousness.
菜肴:辣子鸡是将酥脆的鸡胸脯块与干胡椒、芝麻和干辣椒一同翻炒,从而做出一盘子火辣辣红彤彤的美味。