Word: chengdu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing curiosity about the state of Chinese cuisine and the quality of restaurants -- what will be offered and how it will taste. To find out, TIME Food Critic Mimi Sheraton spent three weeks tasting a variety of foods in eight cities: Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Peking, Xi'an, Chengdu and Canton. Her report...
...Chinese food. Snake cut in thin slivers and cooked in a soup suggests the most delicate chicken and, along with earthy black mushrooms, lends savor and body to the broth. Though a bit startling to the eye, thick, dark, firmly gelatinous sea slugs are delicious at Furong in Chengdu, where they are cooked in a velvety, dark sauce that is mellow with wine and fragrant with star anise. This is a sauce that would make even paper towels palatable. Much the same can be said for the rich black- bean-and-garlic sauce that envelops chewy webs of duck feet...
...great breakthrough is expected in the China talks. The way may be cleared for U.S. nuclear reactor producers to sell their products to China for power production. New consulates may be opened by each nation, one in Chicago, the other in Chengdu, which is some 950 miles southwest of Peking. Though hardly expected to pass up the opportunity to remind Reagan of "the Taiwan problem," the Chinese will be pleased to greet him: his visit will be yet another twist in the continuing diplomatic but psychological warfare that Peking is waging against Moscow. Declared one White House official last week...
...quick six-day tour of the province, for an oldtimer, is a delight. The small towns throb again, their booths full of sweets, cookies, housewares, clothes, textiles, flower pots and flowers. In big cities like Chengdu and Chongqing, the huge food markets overwhelm the eye with food that can be bought without coupons. Hogs come squealing to market in wheelbarrows, on tractors, even lashed to the backs of bicycles, then reappear in the markets as huge slabs of pink-and-white pork. Peasants bring in their wives' squawking chickens, eight to a basket. Down the market lanes peasants sell geese...
...sweep of terror, China under the Cultural Revolution was the equivalent of Nazi Germany. Thugs, Red Guard bands and idealists fought in the cities, all rivaling one another to show loyalty to Mao Thought. Stories from the interior convey the sweep of the violence. In Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, the handsome old government palace was blown to bits by Red Guards; in its place they erected a new hall filled only with portraits of Mao. In Chongqing, workers fought each other with machine guns, artillery, armored cars and tanks. In Harbin, the factions used air planes to bomb each other...