Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu, lunch

ByQin Xie 13/09/201418/03/2016

Menu from a lunch at the Hua Yang branch of the rural themed Tian Yuan Yin Xiang (Farmland Impression – 田园印象) in Chengdu, Sichuan:

Steamed pan bread

Spicy jelly noodles

Lotus leaf steamed beef

Pumpkin soup

Sweet corn bread

Old tofu

Twice cooked pork

Rabbit with giant spring onions

Enoki mushroom soup

Chopsticks, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Farm themed room, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Sweetcorn patty cooking, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Wooden buckets, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Payment booth, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Chopsticks and bowl, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Spicy jelly noodles, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Steamed pan bread, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Lotus leaf steamed meat, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Lotus leaf steamed meat opened, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Pumpkin soup, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Sweetcorn bread, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Twice cooked pork, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Rabbit and giant spring onion, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Enoki mushroom soup, Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, Chengdu

Tian Yuan Yin Xiang, another themed restaurant, is based on the style of food that’s typical on rural farms. The basis is that the ingredients a natural and unadulterated and the cooking is not very sophisticated.

But the food, though simple, is perfectly delicious. And if anything, they’re made deliberately rustic.

Qin Xie

Qin Xie is a London based food, wine and travel journalist and trained chef.

When not infiltrating Michelin restaurants as a kitchen tourist, she writes about food, drink and travel. Her work has appeared on Yahoo, FT, The Times and CNN.

Her first cookbook, co-authored with YS Peng at Hunan Restaurant, is out March 2014.

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