{"id":3441,"date":"2013-04-30T10:20:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:20:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:20:11","slug":"authentic-indian-schezwan-dishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/authentic-indian-schezwan-dishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentic Indian &#8220;Schezwan&#8221; Dishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/schezwan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3442 aligncenter\" alt=\"schezwan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/schezwan-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/schezwan-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/schezwan-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/schezwan.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Narayan Venkatasubramanyan (that&#8217;s an awesome last name) sent me a link to a popular Indian company called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chingssecret.com\/\">Ching&#8217;s Secret<\/a>, which sells Chinese dishes to prepare at home, including Schezwan dishes.<\/p>\n<p>In English we spelled\u00a0??\u00a0as Szechwan or Szechuan, now Sichuan in pingyin.\u00a0But in Indian the spelling went a bit awry.\u00a0As he explains it,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the taste of that province was introduced in India, some Indian\u00a0decided that it was silly to add a &#8220;z&#8221; after an &#8220;s&#8221;, decided it was some horrible misspelling, and &#8220;corrected&#8221; the spelling to the more logical-looking &#8220;Schezwan.&#8221; and then proceeded to pronounce it as it was written. these days, India\u00a0is full of restaurants with menus with &#8220;Schezwan sauce&#8221; and diners who loudly demand the &#8220;authentic&#8221; <em>shay-zwan<\/em> flavour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Narayan Venkatasubramanyan (that&#8217;s an awesome last name) sent me a link to a popular Indian company called\u00a0Ching&#8217;s Secret, which sells Chinese dishes to prepare at home, including Schezwan dishes. In English we spelled\u00a0??\u00a0as Szechwan or Szechuan, now Sichuan in pingyin.\u00a0But in Indian the spelling went a bit awry.\u00a0As he explains it, When the taste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-chinese-food"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-Tv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}