Sichuan cuisine or Sichuanese cuisine,alternatively romanized as Szechwan cuisine or Szechuan cuisine,is a style of Chinese cuisine originating from Sichuan province and the neighboring Chongqing municipality. Chongqing was formerly a part of Sichuan until 1997;thus,there is a great deal of cultural overlap between the two administrative divisions. There are many regional,local variations of Sichuanese cuisine within Sichuan and Chongqing.
Herbal teas,also known as herbal infusions and less commonly called tisanes,are beverages made from the infusion or decoction of herbs,spices,or other plant material in hot water. Oftentimes herb tea,or the plain term tea,is used as a reference to all sorts of herbal teas. Many herbs used in teas/tisanes are also used in herbal medicine. Some herbal blends contain actual tea.
The mandarin orange,also known as mandarin or mandarine,is a small,rounded citrus tree fruit. Treated as a distinct species of orange,it is usually eaten plain or in fruit salads. Tangerines are a group of orange-coloured citrus fruit consisting of hybrids of mandarin orange with some pomelo contribution.
A lime is a citrus fruit,which is typically round,green in color,3–6 centimetres (1.2–2.4 in) in diameter,and contains acidic juice vesicles.
Chinese herbology is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy,which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). A Nature editorial described TCM as "fraught with pseudoscience",and said that the most obvious reason why it has not delivered many cures is that the majority of its treatments have no logical mechanism of action.
Citrus unshiu is a semi-seedless and easy-peeling citrus species,also known as the satsuma mandarin or Japanese mandarin. During the Edo period of Japan,kishu mikans were more popular because there was a popular superstition that eating Citrus unshiu without seeds made people prone to infertility. Citrus unshiu became popular in Japan after modernization started in the Meiji period. It was introduced to the West from the Satsuma region of Japan in 1878.
Xinhui,alternately romanized as Sunwui and also known as Kuixiang,is an urban district of Jiangmen in Guangdong,China. It grew from a separate city founded at the confluence of the Tan and West Rivers. It has a population of about 735,500,98% of whom are Han Chinese but many of whom speak a dialect of Cantonese as their first language. Xinhui is best known in China for its chenpi,a kind of dried Mandarin orange peel.
Spice mixes are blended spices or herbs. When a certain combination of herbs or spices is called for in a recipe,it is convenient to blend these ingredients beforehand. Blends such as chili powder,curry powder,herbes de Provence,garlic salt,and other seasoned salts are traditionally sold pre-made by grocers,and sometimes baking blends such as pumpkin pie spice are also available. These spice mixes are also easily made by the home cook for later use.
Niji-iro Tōgarashi is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru Adachi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from January 1990 to April 1992,with its chapters collected in 11 tankōbon volumes. The story is set in a place very similar in appearance to Earth in the Edo period;however,Adachi regularly reminds the reader all throughout the series that the setting is another planet in the distant future which just happens to look like Earth.
Orange chicken is an American Chinese dish of fried chicken in a sweet orange-flavored chili sauce glaze.
Shichi-mi tōgarashi,also known as nana-iro tōgarashi or simply shichimi,is a common Japanese spice mixture containing seven ingredients. Tōgarashi is the Japanese name for Capsicum annuum peppers,and it is this ingredient that makes shichimi spicy.
Arctium lappa,commonly called greater burdock,gobō (牛蒡/ゴボウ),edible burdock,lappa,beggar's buttons,thorny burr,or happy major is a Eurasian species of plants in the family Asteraceae,cultivated in gardens for its root used as a vegetable. It has become an invasive weed of high-nitrogen soils in North America,Australia,and other regions.
Zest is a food ingredient that is prepared by scraping or cutting from the rind of unwaxed citrus fruits such as lemon,orange,citron,and lime. Zest is used to add flavor to foods.
Peel,also known as rind or skin,is the outer protective layer of a fruit or vegetable which can be peeled off. The rind is usually the botanical exocarp,but the term exocarp also includes the hard cases of nuts,which are not named peels since they are not peeled off by hand or peeler,but rather shells because of their hardness.
Dit da jow is a common Chinese liniment used as traditional medicine in the belief it can reduce the pain from external injuries.
Chinese patent medicine are herbal medicines in Traditional Chinese medicine,modernized into a ready-to-use form such as tablets,oral solutions or dry suspensions,as opposed to herbs that require cooking.
The Kojiki and Nihon Shoki,compiled in the 700s,were the first books in Japan to describe citrus fruits. The Nihon Shoki states that a man named Tajimamori brought back citrus fruits from the Tokoyo no kuni on the orders of Emperor Suinin,which is thought to refer to the tachibana orange that grows wild in Japan. The Man'yōshū,a collection of poems from the same period,contains many poems about tachibana orange,and because of its strong acidity at the time,it was dried and used for medicinal and ornamental purposes rather than for food. The Kokin Wakashū,compiled in the 900s,mentions that tachibana orange was burned and used as incense to give a nice fragrance to kimonos. In Japan,tachibana orange is a symbol of eternity and is the motif for the Order of Culture.
Succade is the candied peel of any of the citrus species,especially from the citron or Citrus medica which is distinct with its extra-thick peel;in addition,the taste of the inner rind of the citron is less bitter than those of the other citrus. However,the term is also occasionally applied to the peel,root,or even entire fruit or vegetable like parsley,fennel and cucurbita which have a bitter taste and are boiled with sugar to get a special "sweet and sour" outcome.
Incense in China is traditionally used in a wide range of Chinese cultural activities including religious ceremonies,ancestor veneration,traditional medicine,and in daily life. Known as xiang,incense was used by the Chinese cultures starting from Neolithic times with it coming to greater prominence starting from the Xia,Shang,and Zhou dynasties.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to herbs and spices:
