Fuqi Fei Pian Technique — The Cold Dish Standard (夫妻肺片)
Chengdu, Sichuan Province — attributed to Chen Senfu and Zhang Tianzheng, 1930s
Technical deep-dive into the most iconic Sichuan cold dish — husband and wife lung slices. The classical version uses ox heart, tongue, tripe, and tendon (not lung, as the original offal is now rarely used). Each cut must be cooked to its specific ideal texture: tongue boiled until just tender, tripe briefly blanched, tendon gelatinous. All dressed in Sichuan cold dish sauce.