Sichuan local food
Local dishes, ingredients and the stories behind them.

Sugar-oil rice balls 糖油果子
The outside is crisp and sticky-sweet, while the inside is elastic and chewy; toasted sesame adds fragrance against the sugar coating.
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Three Cannon rice cakes 三大炮
The cakes are chewy and soft, with nutty soybean fragrance and deep sugar sweetness. Three pieces make a compact but substantial sweet.
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Lai tangyuan 赖汤圆
The wrapper is soft and elastic, surrounding a hot, fragrant center that can flow when bitten. Plain cooking liquid lets the filling remain the focus.
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Bingfen jelly with brown-sugar syrup 冰粉
Bingfen jelly with brown-sugar syrup (冰粉) is a cool, soft, springy jelly set from plant seeds and eaten mostly sweet.
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Brown-sugar glutinous-rice cakes 红糖糍粑
Brown-sugar glutinous-rice cakes (红糖糍粑) are hand-pounded glutinous-rice cakes, or ciba (糍粑), rolled in soybean flour and eaten with brown-sugar syrup.
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Naxi Puffed Sugar Candy 纳溪泡糖
Naxi Puffed Sugar Candy (纳溪泡糖) is a pulled sugar confection from Naxi (纳溪), today a district of Luzhou (泸州) in Sichuan.
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Suji Puffed Rice Candy 苏稽米花糖
Suji Puffed Rice Candy (苏稽米花糖) is a crisp confection from Suji town (苏稽镇) in Leshan (乐山), made with glutinous rice, peanuts, white sugar, sesame and pork fat.
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Dazhu Fermented Glutinous Rice 大竹醪糟
Dazhu Fermented Glutinous Rice (大竹醪糟) is the sweet fermented glutinous rice of Dazhu County (大竹县) in Dazhou (达州), Sichuan, best known as Dongliu laozao (东柳醪糟).
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Bingfen and lianggao 冰粉·凉糕
Bingfen is slippery and delicate; lianggao is smoother and more substantial, with brown-sugar syrup commonly providing the sweetness.
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Suji sesame-oil rice crisp 苏稽香油米花糖
The confection is light and crunchy but held together by a sweet, slightly sticky binder. It breaks into small crisp grains as you chew.
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