with chinese stem lettuce. anthony: and you suggest starting with the eric: lily buds? fuchsia: yeah. i would start with the lily buds because they re nice and wild, yeah. eric: it s a nice texture. fuchsia: yeah. try one of these. anthony: that s those mushrooms are amazing. fuchsia: yeah. i love these cashews. anthony: also prawns served cold with handmade noodles dressed with natural vegetable extracts. fuchsia: so you ve probably been having all kinds of amazing sichuanese flavors, because sichuan, it s not just about chili and sichuan pepper. it s about complex, layered flavors like french sauces. eric: yes. fuchsia: and there s one of them called strange flavor. eric: strange flavor. anthony: yeah. because it s a mixture of sweet, sour, salty, spicy, numbing, and nutty all together. and this is strange flavor noodles. so, it s just like a real traditional sichuan dish but done in a very refined way. then some soup. a rich, slow-simmered chicken a
time is an understatement. she s brought us to chef lan gue jun s restaurant. fuchsia: what he s trying to do is, sort of, raise the level of sichuanese food to, sort of, very refined banquet cookery. anthony: is what he s doing unusual for chengdu? for china? fuchsia: it is really unusual. so, i think, in the west we are, sort of, very used to the idea of the celebrity chef and the individual chef as artist. but in china people traditionally look down on chefs. so, this is quite a new thing. there are very few chefs who are really, like, the creative vision behind the food and doing the work in the kitchen. anthony: the meal begins. a large array of cold dishes are laid out. delicate flavors like lily buds scented with rose petals are presented alongside more assertive tastes like thinly sliced braised beef shank with chili oil, tea tree mushrooms blanched and lightly stir-fried
vision behind the food and doing the work in the kitchen. anthony: the meal begins. a large array of cold dishes are laid out. delicate flavors like lily buds scented with rose petals are presented alongside more assertive tastes like thinly sliced braised beef shank with chili oil, tea tree mushrooms blanched and lightly stir-fried with chinese stem lettuce. anthony: and you suggest starting with the eric: lily buds? fuchsia: yeah. i would start with the lily buds because they re nice and wild, yeah. eric: it s a nice texture. fuchsia: yeah. try one of these. anthony: that s those mushrooms are amazing. fuchsia: yeah. i love these cashews. anthony: also prawns served cold with handmade noodles dressed with natural vegetable extracts. fuchsia: so you ve probably been having all kinds of amazing sichuanese flavors, because sichuan, it s not just about chili and sichuan pepper. it s about complex, layered flavors like french sauces. eric: yes. fuchsia: and t
she s brought us to chef lan gue jun s restaurant. fuchsia: what he s trying to do is, sort of, raise the level of sichuanese food to, sort of, very refined banquet cookery. anthony: is what he s doing unusual for chengdu? for china? fuchsia: it is really unusual. so, i think, in the west we are, sort of, very used to the idea of the celebrity chef and the individual chef as artist. but in china people traditionally look down on chefs. so, this is quite a new thing. there are very few chefs who are really, like, the creative vision behind the food and doing the work in the kitchen. anthony: the meal begins. a large array of cold dishes are laid out. delicate flavors like lily buds scented with rose petals are presented alongside more assertive tastes like thinly sliced braised beef shank with chili oil, tea tree mushrooms blanched and lightly stir-fried with chinese stem lettuce.
anthony: and you suggest starting with the eric: lily buds? fuchsia: yeah. i would start with the lily buds because they re nice and wild, yeah. eric: it s a nice texture. fuchsia: yeah. try one of these. anthony: that s those mushrooms are amazing. fuchsia: yeah. i love these cashews. anthony: also prawns served cold with handmade noodles dressed with natural vegetable extracts. fuchsia: so you ve probably been having all kinds of amazing sichuanese flavors, because sichuan, it s not just about chili and sichuan pepper. it s about complex, layered flavors like french sauces. eric: yes. fuchsia: and there s one of them called strange flavor. eric: strange flavor. anthony: yeah. because it s a mixture of sweet, sour, salty, spicy, numbing, and nutty all together. and this is strange flavor noodles. so, it s just like a real traditional sichuan dish but done in a very refined way. then some soup. a rich, slow-simmered chicken and pork stock, a raft of ch