Brown sugar and soy sauce bubbling on the stove. Chiles sizzling in hot oil. The scent of Sichuan pepper, cassia, ginger, star anise and cardamom in the kitchen. This is Thanksgiving. It starts by ...

In restaurants across Chengdu, China, there is a singular dish that evokes a tingling response - crispy stir-fried chicken on a plate piled high with thin red chilis. It’s called la zi ji, and as ...