Sichuan Food Guide: Must Try Dishes at Sichuan Restaurants 

Thumbs up if you LOVE spicy food would want to go eat sichuan food with Mike and Dan. Don't forget to follow the guys on Instagram! @mikexingchen @gibbiedeano

"White Guy" here also, I had a chance to try some of these things on a business trip to Szechuan district of China. I stayed one week, and really really loved it. everything was spicy, even what they served for breakfast. My only problem was not really knowing what I was eating and what it was called. translator would say something like, "Its made with pork" or Beef, etc. and give me the Chinese name, which frankly went in one ear and out the other. But thanks to this video, I have a better Idea of some of what I may have had. and what they are called.

I tried most of the sichuan food...I love them. They are most popular type of food in china. For entree, i think the fish is better than beef. I eat it several times when i go back to china during summer

i like the editing of the video, the menu listing of the food and the pinyin and Chinese writting, I like how ye, Dan and mike and Ben explain about the food, What is good. Thumb up!!!

7:25 Wait. Did he just say mean bung instead of mung bean?

Thanks for the recommendation! I love sichuan food but have hard time when ordering as the menu is in chinese. This video helps a lot

Dear off the Great Wall Team, i appreciate your videos and that you keep doing them with such nice attitudes :D Don't ever stop please!!

i LOVE Sichuan food. but always regret eating it when i get home.

12:37 Yi's arm around Dan. Incoming OTGW / RU-vid rumor mill! :v

This episode was awesome. Please more food episodes like this. Can't say enough good things.

2AM here in SF and I just watched this video and the Shanghai food video on Double Chen channel. As a fellow foodie, I love how you guys passionately talk about your favorite foods from your different cultures. Your food vids are my favorite on all of youtube. Going to bed hungry now....

Mike seem to be someone it will be great to discover new restaurants with. Love your videos guys.

So happy to Yi! I love and miss her!

夫妻肺片 I love this! I’ve been eating this while I was in Beijing , and now back in America I’m searing for the best !

I'm normally so afraid to try these dishes, but this is exactly why I love this channel!! I feel like I have such good advice in my back pocket that I can take with me. I'm actually super eager to go back and really enjoy the point of having an authentic restaurant in my neighborhood. The tofu and the squirrel fish dishes were a complete surprise! I'm still a little nervous about the beef tongue, but I trust you Mike♥~ No more rangoons for me!

Thanks for writing out how you say the dishes! I can only speak English and Spanish so this is awesome!

You guys are awesome I love how your friends Mikey were so expressive about every dish you guys choice. Great video & you guys work great together.

YAY! YI IS BACK!!!!!! MISS HER SO MUCH!

What I learned when I was in China for a while was: Just eat what you are given and do never ever ask what you're eating. - If you're allergic just point that out in the beginning. There are just so many strange things (at least to the German me) that I wouldn't have eaten if I had known what it was when it was served. - Beef tongue was one of it. Tasted really good - but I never ate it again just because it is too strange to me (though; as long as I don't know it's tongue (or whatever) it's alright xD)

The dessert looked good to me, as well as everything else!

U should have more videos with Yi.... She is so fun to watch

One of the reasons it's called squirrel fish is that the frying process makes the fish curl up like a squirrel's tail. That's the other reason for all the knife cuts in the fish - those cuts make the fish curl when it's fried.

Cool, I'll have to try these dishes. Vancouver (Canada) is the most Asian city outside of Asia and there's a huge 'Sichuan' restaurant right across the street.

ABC here. Finally I can order these dishes in chinese lol! The sichuan place in my area will make me the white non spicy version if you don't order these dishes in mandarin.

Don’t diss American Chinese food. Chinese people who moved to the USA invented Crab Rangoon & so whenever I go to America I love getting it. Just as good. Everything mixes and adapts & we should appreciate that too.

I haven't had the Liang mian in so long. My grandma makes it whenever I visit her in LA. She's from kunming though.

God. I wish I was back home in Sichuan! This video makes me feel like going to Chengdu right now..... but obviously I can't.... :'(

Mouth Watering!! You guys should do a dinner party feast!

hello mike sd, sichuan food is not a stranger for my home - my father is a head waiter in the new york late night restaurants which then most days were hunan cooking. the rise of the malay hot was from the nineties. we were more in ordering the appetizers from sichuan - think we were ordering chilled wine chicken i think is sichuan with scallion pancakes then, hot and sour soup (should try all restaurants) was not family style but what the kids ordered on their own, there is a chef special malay peppercorn pig ear, the hot oil wonton is always fun but not family table again, there is a pork rump dish that comes out not sliced that is important for my family table - not spicy too, the red carp with bean sauce think is a very hunan plate if like spice. but, the malay popular days is from the even younger than me kids - 80s / 90s born kids. if you feel like you taste hot and sour soup in your plate then it is szechuan. thanks mike strict :) elle for hot oil beef tendon (oy nom)

Aye, Yi is back lol. She looks pretty.

9:16 Dan's face is super close to Yi's 😆

Would love to have you guys take me to your favorite restaurants when I move back to NYC lol!!! As a whole I don't think I've had authentic Chinese food ever in my life. And watching all your videos makes me feel like I've been robbed of a lot of good food!

Thank youuu this seems SO delicious. I love how you say to us how to recognize if it's a good/typical restaurant, when you don't know all the non-visible code of the culture it's difficult to recognize proper restaurant. Also, what the dish is suppose to look like. Perfect idea and video! ** Ok, it's been 3 videos that I say to myself that I need to go out of your channels and RU-vid. I'm out. :P

I am in Chengdu right now, one of the dish I like the most with good rice is 回锅肉 Mmmm...

Never had the opportunity to try tongue... but i would💙

Must try these dishes someday! I looooove spicy food! Too bad you can't really find Sichuan restaurants here in boring Belgium. Thanks for the video!

:D Mai parents come from Chengdu, Sichuan so a lot of the stuff mentioned in this video my mom knows how to make! An spicy food is my life.

Man I live spicy food I live in Guangzhou (I'm from colombia) I've been to Sichuan restaurants and it's really good BTW ur channel is awesome

LMAO Yi! "I've been hanging out with cooler people." XD!!!!

My mouth is watering! 😋 everything looks delicious nom nom nom

this makes me miss chengdu, my hometown so much...

you guys always make me want to eat good Chinese food! I am going to dream about it for days now!

Watching the Double Chen show, Dan has been mentioning about his gf. Just by watching this video, through Dan and Yi's body language, i knew they were a coupleee! Awww~ :) How long have they been dating?

Woah, all that makes me so hungry and envious - I NEED To get To a Sichuan restaurant!

could you show us how to make a couple of those dishes since some of us will never make it to NY but still love to cook and eat. Huge huge thanks!!!

I'm gonna need some hot tea to help digest all that food lol

That 回锅肉 and 虎皮辣椒... so beautiful! :D

FOOD!!!!!!!Asain food is too die for!

I loved the style of this video! Great video OGTW!

There is a Sichuan specialty Chinese restaurant in my town in Michigan. They have pretty much everything that you guys covered in this video. Any Mabo Tofu in my town is vegetarian dish. I've always wanted to eat authentic Mabo tofu but I could never find one with meat... So I just make my own.

Sichuan food looks really good.

that looks so good!! I have zero people in my life who is willing to eat spicy food!!! :'(

This review made me really hungry >_< Nice that you had Yi back in a guest appearance!

That hot green pepper stir fry, are those jalapeno chilies? The tongue dish looked interesting. I've had Mexican tongue tacos and they were delicious. I would try all of these dishes.

you are making me hungry. I love 四川 food. Great vid.

The purple eight treasures dessert looks beautiful! (And appetizing; it does not look like the Blob at all; it looks amazing! :) )

Love spicy foods, still love broccoli and cauliflower, dip almost all Chinese food in Sriracha.

I really miss these videos.

did it not annoy anyone else that they didn't have kung pao chicken? I was waiting for it and they ignored it :'( haha, would be great to see you guys talk about this dish, it's one of my favorites.. but I want to know if it's authentic!!!

im hungry and laughting funny video and niice crew/guest you guys have as always

Interesting and lots of good info, cheers. Tried quite a few of those when I was in Chengdu, super nice food!

What's wrong with broccoli?, or crab Rangoon? Both are great! Even if it's not completely authentic it's still great!

I love chinese food, im chinese duh, what else would i eat if i dislike chinese food? But i dont think sichuan style chinese food is "right" for me. I really dont like spicy and i dislike fish in general. I eat more cantonese style chinese food i guess... Can you make guides to other types of chinese food though since there are so many styles?

lol u guys are making me hungry now .. most of the food u guys order would be wat i would have order too ..theres all so good ... just few i might not order or ask for it to be less hot since i cant eat food that are tooo to spicy hehe

Chinese Broccali with little yellow flowers mmm

This channel is awesome! Please post videos more often! Can you please do a video about Cantonese food? Thanks :D

is/will there be an OTGW guide to guangdong/cantonese restaurants (can't seem to find any)? another awesome video again guys! so dam informative - i've always been so clueless ordering haha

My mouth is watering.

Thanks guys! 口水指南！Informative and enjoyable to watch.

HA LOL, dan said mean bung strips at 7:26 :)

Thanks for the suggestions ! Next time I go out I'll have to see if they have any of these meals, especially dan dan noodles! Now I'm craving some food. x]

Please do more videos like this!

Omg this vid makes me hungryyyy. You guys shd make more of these food tasting vid with other styles of chinese food :D Like for shanghainese or cantonese food :))

I love mapo tofu, kung pao chicken, and - tbh- beef tongue!

I really like this type of video! Even though I love to go out and eat Chinese food with my family and friends (like most Asians would), you guys give some awesome suggestions of dishes that I perhaps haven't tried before!

Omg omg I miss Chinese food sooooooooo much!!!

You guys ate so much.

Squirrel fish is so good! I had it a lot when I went back to China and Taiwan back in 08. Haven't seemed to find a restaurant that serves traditional Squirrel fish in Flushing.....any recommendations OTGW??

You guys are so cool, makes me hungry whenever you guys make these vids

I don't know why, but lots of restaurants in Hebei do 魚香肉絲 really well.

The most important key to Szechuan dining is ALWAYS drown your food in hot oil doesn't matter what food a cucumber, fruits, drinks EVERYTHING XD

"Garlic mud white meat" is another great starter dish...

OMG, I missed Yi!! :D

Dang my mouth is watering!

Great video again guys! I'm not a huge fan on spicy food, but I do like certain Szechuan dishes such as dan dan mian and hong you chao shou (I know, it's ironic). I always thought that dan dan mian was more of an entree (served hot) than an appetizer even though I've seen it as an appetizer in a couple of places. Is it usually served cold/as an appetizer in Szechuan? Will you guys be doing a video on Chinese desserts? You guys should also do a tutorial on how to hold and use chopsticks properly for those who don't know how to use them!

my German grandma got me to love tongue

Thanks for all the tips!

Just a tip... Yu Xiang Rou Si does not have FISH SAUCE in there... The "Yu Xiang - Fish Flavor" is a style of cooking, which refers to salty sweet flavor with light sour and chilly in Sichuan cooking, this flavor style was also been know as one of the eight major flavor style in Sichuan cooking.

Great Video!!! I love sichuan food!

I had the famous spicy rabbit head in chengdu

Could you guys do a vegetarian Chinese dinner options?

HAHAHA :D mikes shocked/devastated face " thats westernized :O Thats westernized!!" 3:32

鱼香肉丝是我的最爱

You better come back, Yi, I mean it. Somebody hunt down Mia too. Y'all are hilarious when it's all 4 of you.

Awesome vid guys. Wish I could have been there with yas. Great to see Yi again. beautiful as always. One question though I didn't see anybody eat the wonton in hot oil. How did it fair?

There's a supposedly amazing Sichuan place in Glasgow, please come and go with me

I live in Sichuan and I can't handle most of their food. I like spicy food, I enjoy Korean food and thai food but there is something in spicy Sichuanese food that make me literally ill. I don't like it. But great video as always!

Thank you so much for making this video. I'm from Sichuan and I can say most of the dishes are AUTHENTIC, except for the Wonton as well as Mapo Toufu. Question for you, did you four really eat up all the food? I highly doubt it, not because of its amount, but because they are all Spicy!!! Love your video:-)

They forgot 四季豆角 aka 干煸豆角 lots of delicious MSG

You should try the 五更肠旺-Wu Geng Chang Wang".