A row of small food stalls and shops lines a busy pedestrian area in downtown Chengdu, China. Bright Chinese signs advertise inexpensive snacks and casual dishes, while pedestrians walk between the ...

What starts as a simple meal in Chengdu quickly becomes a full exploration of one of the city’s oldest and most beloved traditional Sichuan restaurants. Hidden inside a beautiful old-style Chinese ...

On my first ever visit to Chengdu, I found myself sitting on a tiny foldable camping chair by the side of the road with an oversized cup of bubble tea in hand. Around me, nobody seemed to be in a ...

I was walking down a narrow street in the suburbs of Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province, when I spotted what I'd been hoping to spot for days: a tricycle. No ordinary conveyance, this; ...

Travel in Chengdu is, quite literally, heating up as tourists seek an experience beyond the pandas. Most travelers to the city—the fourth-largest metropolitan area in China, with more than 21 million ...

The stereotype about Sichuan cuisine, says food writer and cookbook author Fuchsia Dunlop, is that it's all chile and lip-tingling Sichuan pepper. "But actually it's more complex than that. Real ...

(bright cheerful music) - [Kae Lani] Hi, I'm Kae Lani Palmisano. Each week three different guests recommend their favorite restaurants, then try each other's picks and come together to tell us what ...

They are as obsessed with food as you'd imagine for a people whose native poets immortalized the cuisine (11th-century bard Su Dongpo on fatty pork: "Simmer slowly/With a little water"). These poets ...