Chili oil / chili crisp: Oil infused with toasted chili flakes and often star anise, cinnamon and Sichuan peppercorn. Chili crisp keeps the crunchy fried flakes and garlic in the jar. It dresses cold noodles, wontons and dumplings, and sits on most Sichuan tables. On this menu as: Chili Oil Rabbit · Chili Oil Chicken · Poached Sliced Beef in Hot Chili Oil.
Wonton: Small dumplings in a thin square wrapper, loosely gathered rather than pleated. Served in clear broth (wonton soup, often with egg noodles), deep-fried as an appetizer, or tossed in chili oil as a Sichuan cold plate, "red oil wontons" or hong you chao shou. On this menu as: Wonton in Squid Soup · Chili Oil Wonton · Numbing Spicy Wonton Soup.
Hot pot: A simmering pot of broth at the table (Sichuan-style red with chili and peppercorn, or mild bone, tomato or mushroom) into which diners cook thin-sliced meats, seafood, tofu, greens and noodles, then dip them in sauces they mix themselves. Priced per person or per plate of ingredients. On this menu as: Spicy Hot Pot Dishes · Chengdu Style Hotpot.
Tofu (bean curd): Pressed soybean curd, from custard-soft (for mapo tofu and soups) to firm (for stir-fries and braises). Fried tofu puffs soak up sauce; tofu skin (yuba) is the sheet lifted off simmering soy milk, rolled and braised or fried as a "vegetarian duck". On this menu as: Potato / Cauliflower / Lotus / Sweet Potato Noodle / Tofu / Bamboo Shoot / Frozen Bean Curd / Bean Sprout / Cucumber / Kelp Knot · Sliced Sole Fillet with Tomatoes and Tofu · Mapo Tofu.
Mapo tofu: Soft tofu in a glossy red sauce of fermented broad-bean paste (doubanjiang), chili and ground Sichuan peppercorn, traditionally with a little minced beef or pork. The name honors the pockmarked (ma) old woman (po) said to have invented it in Chengdu; a vegetarian version is common. On this menu as: Mapo Tofu.
Kung pao: Diced chicken (or shrimp, tofu) stir-fried with dried chilies, Sichuan peppercorns, scallion and peanuts in a sweet-sour-savory glaze. The Sichuan original is dark, tangy and numbing; the American-Chinese version tends to be sweeter, saucier and heavier on the vegetables. On this menu as: Kung Pao Chicken.

How these dishes compare

Wontontypically $9.99 across 241 menus
Wonton souptypically $10 across 175 menus
Kung paotypically $16 across 169 menus
Mapo tofutypically $15.95 across 154 menus
Fish-fragrant (yu xiang)typically $14 across 151 menus
Cumin lambtypically $18.99 across 91 menus
Hot pottypically $17.95 across 60 menus

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