Falling in love

There is sweetness and spice and all things nice at Xiang'ai, a new Hunan restaurant heavily influenced by the food of Sichuan, Chongqing, Anhui and Yunnan

There is a Chinese saying that people of Sichuan have no fear of spicy food and that the people of Hunan fear food that is not spicy.

The number of Chinese regional cuisines far exceeds the number of the country's provinces and other jurisdictions, but when Chinese talk about spicy food, you can almost guarantee that the first name to fall from their lips will be Sichuan, which may be followed in quick order by Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan.