Sichuan Cuisine Restaurant Cheat Sheet

[Xiao Yang]

I adapted this from the online menu of a London restaurant (Snazz Sichuan) which had taken the trouble to add the standard PinYin names for the dishes, saving me a lot of trouble. It's a fairly compehensive list, and the translations are more intelligible than is common.

http://is.gd/aemm

[MsDiPesto]

Thank you, there are a couple of decent Sichuan places here in NoVA, and this might allow me to understand the specials!

[cant talk...eating]

This is excellent. Though, I wonder if a Chinese-English to English translation is needed, or maybe I should just order the "fire-exploded kidney flowers" and be happy?

[Das Ubergeek]

Depends. Fire-exploded ("baau" in Cantonese, don't know it in Mandarin) is a specific preparation where in things are dropped into ripping hot oil.

Edit: I actually looked at the site... huo bao, then. :)

[JungMann]

This is exactly what I have been looking for. If only they had included the tones, I could strike out and use this at the Sichuanese hole-in-the-wall I have taken to visiting.

[Das Ubergeek]

Well, not perhaps the most automated way to do this but if there are specific dishes you want to try, go look up the characters at http://us.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php -- you can copy paste, and you can choose to look at tones in the number method (ma4) or the diacritic method (mà).

[danhole]

Thanks! Now if I could find cheat sheets for other cuisines as well, then I wouldn't feel like such a stupid american when I go out!