Stuff
to do in Chengdu - Eat! Chengdu
has more restaurants and snack stalls than you can shake a cliche
at.
It is a wonderful city for gourmet and gourmand alike.
Click here for
a review of the classic
cookbook "Sichuan Cookery."
Noodles
in Chengdu - so many different
types of noodle. Cheap and tasty.
Hot
Pot - huo guo -
a must do, (must eat?) in Chengdu, unless
you don't want to.
Our featured fruit of the year is the - yangmei ( 杨梅; yángméi / yang2mei2), also known as the red bayberry, or 'yamamomo.'
Other Sichuan food - Click here for
a review of the classic cookbook "Sichuan Cookery."
Japanese
food - quite a few places serving Japanese
food, with varying degrees of authenticity
Street foodstalls - dumplings,
stinky tofu / doufu, fresh fruit...
'Muslim' food
Turkish food: The Sultan:
玉林南街都市金岸一号附14
号On-line menu
Yù lín nán jiē dū shì jīn
àn yī hào fù shí sì hào
(Yu4 lin2 nan2 jie1 du1 shi4 jin1 an4 yi1 hao4 fu4 shi2 si4
hao4)
电话/Tel：85554780: they deliver
Veggie restaurant recommended to us:枣子树铂金城店, 成都市青羊区青龙街27号2号楼4楼(铂金城内), 电话/Tel: 86282848
Posh Sichuan food: Gingko:银杏 (yín xìng/yin2 xing4) 电话/Tel: 86666688 - jǐn lǐ zhōng lù èr hào 锦里中路２号 - A couple of these around town. Top notch presentation and top notch food at top notch prices. Well worth it.
Different types of tea worth trying out in Chengdu and elsewhere
青山绿水
qing1 shan1 lu4 shui3 qīng shān lù shuǐ
碧潭飘雪
bi4 tan2 piao1 xue3 / bì tán piāo xuě
素毛峰
su4 mao2 feng1 / sù máo fēng
翠玉乌龙
cui4 yu4 wu1 long2 / cuì yù wū lóng
碧螺春
bì luó chūn / bi4 luo2 chun1
Some random dishes
蚂蚁上树
mǎ yǐ shàng shù
Ants climbing a tree (Thin rice noodles with spicy ground pork)
Sweet and sour pork (should be strips of lean pork)
罐汤包
guàn tāng bāo
Soup dumplings (bite into them and piping hot soup comes out). Nanjing speciality, apparently.
Other Western food
Jade Lakeside Cafe : Stylish cafe/bar/restaurant just off the 2nd Ring Road in the southwest. Set in a park, stylishly decorated. Very classy indeed, and coming from Random Stuff, that must mean a lot to the proprietors. Google Earth location of Cafe. Google Earth location of entrance to Jade Park.
2nd Ring Road East, Section 5. 电话/Tel.: (028) 85270706/ 85270305
ZiJing CanBa :紫荆餐吧
高新区紫竹14号 (
紫竹广场对面 ) 电话
66280375
Just behind the south Carrefour (the one on TongZiLinBeiLu), on the street with quite a few other restaurants.
Jack's team lays on a fine Sichuan banquet as well as tasty western dishes. Comfy warm surroundings, with rectangular tables and cosy booths. The owners spent over 10 years in the States before returning to the Du to set this place up. Good food, and recommended for a quiet retreat for a coffee, away from popularity of Grandma's, TexMex, and the miserably overpriced GreenBacks.
