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Dunlop's Ten Sichuan Flavour Profiles

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Dunlop documents, in *The Food of Sichuan* and *Land of Plenty*, a formal system of twenty-three distinct flavour profiles (wei xing) used by Sichuan cooking professionals to categorise preparations. The ten most commonly encountered in home and restaurant cooking are presented here as a reference system for understanding which flavour combination governs a given preparation.

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