Cassetta Rossa Restaurant, Lake Chelan - Primo Pasta, Simple style.

Cassetta Rossa Restaurant, Lake Chelan - Primo Pasta, Simple style.

Sometimes a restaurant serves up a side of emotion with their excellent food, and when it does it is never to be forgotten. Casetta Rossa in Lake Chelan WA is one of those unsuspecting places — a trattoria and pasta market that not only excites your tastebuds but also sauces your heart.

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Amarin Banh Mi – Chincoteague Island’s Happiest Food Truck

Amarin Banh Mi – Chincoteague Island’s Happiest Food Truck

A simple food truck in Chincoteague Island VA serves up some of the best Banh Mi sandwiches this side of Hanoi, along with a heaping helping of Happy in every order. Because at Amarin Banh Mi the philosophy is: Happy is what Happy eats.

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Project Sichuan #7 - Mapo Tofu: a tribute to Pock-Faced Grandma

Project Sichuan #7 - Mapo Tofu: a tribute to Pock-Faced Grandma

Mapo Tofu is one of those Sichuan Food masterpieces that Chinese restaurants the world over now serve. And for those who think they don’t like tofu, Mapo Doufu is the dish to try to gain tofu enlightenment and a smile from the pock-faced grandma who created it.

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Project Sichuan #6 - Water Boiled Fish - Silky fish meets Sichuan fire.

Project Sichuan #6 - Water Boiled Fish - Silky fish meets Sichuan fire.

Water Boiled Fish (Shui Zhu Yu) is one of of those special Sichuan dishes that causes a hush of voices at the table when first presented – sizzling oil bubbling atop a boiling caldron of blazing red chiles, Sichuan peppercorns and snow white tiles of silky fish unlike any you’ve ever had anywhere.



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Project Sichuan #5 - Dan Dan Noodles - Small eats with big taste

Project Sichuan #5 - Dan Dan Noodles - Small eats with big taste

With so many riffs on the recipe, it has been a search for great Dan Dan Mian and a lot of noodle eating to find the real-deal Dan Dan of my dreams. Wanna try them, too? Here is what you need to know.

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Project Sichuan #4 - Fish-Fragrant Eggplant, the sultry beauty of Sichuan simplicity

Project Sichuan #4 - Fish-Fragrant Eggplant, the sultry beauty of Sichuan simplicity

The soft, sultriness of Fish Fragrant Eggplant is something that Sichuan food fans swoon over. With the deep color, silky texture and ticklish taste of this unique flavor, this classic favorite causes all who eat it to immediately crave more.

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Project Sichuan #1 - To eat the food of Chengdu is to eat well.

Project Sichuan #1 - To eat the food of Chengdu is to eat well.

China is the place for food, and Sichuan is the place for flavor.” (“Shi zai zhongguo, wei zai Sichuan.”). PROJECT SICHUAN kicks off with this introduction to the wonders of Sichuanese food. Start here and follow along in future posts!

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