Gastronomia Sichuanensis, id est provinciae Sichuan in Sinis, est una e quattuor "magnis traditionibus" artis coquinariae Sinensis. Sapores capsici atque zanthoxyli, inter alios multos sapores, hunc stilum gastronomicum definiunt; quae coniunctio ma la(en), "pungens torpens", a coquis appellatur.
ante 1374 : Ni Zan, Yunlintang yinshi zhidu shi 32 (Teresa Wang, E. N. Anderson, "Ni Tsan and his Cloud Forest Hall Collection of Rules for Drinking and Eating" in Petits Propos Culinaires no. 60 (1998) p. 35)
Eruditio
E. N. Anderson, "Sichuan (Szechwan) Cuisine" in Solomon H. Katz, William Woys Weaver, edd., Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (3 voll. Novi Eboraci: Scribner, 2003. ISBN 0-684-80565-0) vol. 1 pp. 393–396
Fuchsia Dunlop, The Food of Sichuan. Londinii: Bloomsbury, 2019
Alexander Hosie, Szechwan: its products, industries and resources. Sciamhaevi: Kelly & Walsh, 1922 Textus apud Internet Archive