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Good Food on the Road

Chengdu Taste Delivers Sichuan Peppercorns by the Boatload

Jonathan Gold reviews Chengdu Taste, a new restaurant in Alhambra specializing in the cooking of Chengdu, a region defined by its unrestrained use of Sichuan peppercorns.

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By Jonathan Gold (1960-2018) • Aug 9, 2013 • 3m Listen

This week, Jonathan Gold reviews Chengdu Taste, a new restaurant in Alhambra that specializes in the Sichuan cooking of Chengdu, a region defined by its unrestrained use of Sichuan peppercorns. He recommends the boiled fish with green pepper sauce, numb-taste wonton, cold diced rabbit with younger sister’s secret recipe, couple sliced beef in chili sauce, dan dan mian, tofu pudding, rice-flour steamed pork and the ice powder for dessert.

Chengdu Taste

828 W Valley Blvd

Alhambra, CA 91803

626-588-2284

All of Jonathan Gold's restaurant suggestions are on the Good Food restaurant map.

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    Jonathan Gold (1960-2018)

    Good Food on the Road

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    host 'Good Food'

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    Supervising Producer, Good Food

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