# Sichuan Restaurant Menu Template

## First-order guidance
For two:
- Couple's beef or smashed cucumber
- Mapo tofu
- Dry-fried green beans
- One rice order

For four:
- Cold appetizer
- Water-boiled beef or fish
- Chongqing chicken
- Mapo tofu
- Green vegetable
- Rice

## Menu sections
### Cold dishes
Smashed cucumber — garlic, vinegar, chile oil.
Couple's beef — sliced beef and tripe in chile oil.

### Ma-la specialties
Mapo tofu — soft tofu in chile-bean sauce with Sichuan peppercorn.
Water-boiled beef — beef slices in spicy chile broth.

### Dry pot
Dry pot chicken / shrimp / cauliflower.
Note: usually spicy and oily; may not be adjustable.

### Stir-fries
Dry-fried green beans.
Twice-cooked pork.
Yu xiang eggplant.

### Vegetables and tofu
Pea shoots.
Cabbage with dried chile.
Tofu with mushrooms.

## Spice note
Ma-la means spicy and numbing. Dishes cooked in chile oil may not be available non-spicy.