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The Best Sichuan Food in China

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The best Sichuan food in China, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide, The 50, and the South China Morning Post have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Yu Zhi Lan comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Chengdu and Beijing.

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Song and Chaimen Hui hold the next two places. The Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.

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  1. Rank 1. Yu Zhi Lan

    Sichuan Noodle Shop

    A four-room garden villa on a quiet leafy street, with just 18 covers and no menu to choose from. This intimate fine dining restaurant serves set menus built around chef Lan Guijun's signature Sichuan cooking, where a dish like hand-pulled Golden Thread Noodles arrives as something closer to a statement than a snack. Anthony Bourdain made it one of his first stops in Chengdu, which tells you roughly what kind of place this is.


  2. Rank 2. Song

    Sichuan

    Thousands of glass feathers hang from a mirrored ceiling above stainless-steel pillars, which is not what most people picture when they think of a Sichuan restaurant. The chef has appeared on Chinese food television, and the menu runs from Sichuan street food classics to wood-roasted aged Peking duck, all inside a room that seems to be auditioning for a science-fiction film. GT Land Plaza, fourth floor, Zhujiang New Town.

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  7. Rank 3. Rong Pao

    Sichuan

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  10. Rank 3. Yong

    Sichuan

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  13. Pork sliced thin enough to hold up to the light is the calling card here, a modern Sichuan restaurant in Chaoyang where the chef, a native of Emei, treats the cuisine's famously layered heat as a palette rather than a blunt instrument. The room draws a crowd that takes its Sichuan seriously, and the kitchen obliges with food that is fiery and precise in equal measure. It holds a spot in the Michelin Guide.


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  15. Rank 14. Bao Yuan

    Sichuan

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  27. Rank 14. Panda's

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  30. Rank 14. Tan

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  37. Rank 14. Yibin

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  41. Rank 41. #8

    Sichuan Hot Pot

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  42. Rank 41. Art Yinba

    Sichuan

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  43. Rank 41. Aurore

    Sichuan

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  44. Rank 41. Brustin

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  47. Rank 41. Chanyue Vegetarian

    Vegetarian Sichuan

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  49. Rank 41. Chosop

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  54. Rank 41. Ji Chuan

    Sichuan

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  63. Rank 41. Song Chuan

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  65. Rank 41. The Bridge

    Modern Sichuan

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  67. Rank 41. Trine

    Sichuan

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  68. Rank 41. Wanyan

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