酸菜鱼 (suāncàiyú) · pickled cabbage fish

Measure Word

一份酸菜鱼 fèn

Meanings

1 pickled cabbage fish
2 fish with pickled mustard greens

Made with

草鱼 cǎoyú 酸菜 suāncài 泡椒 pàojiāo 花椒 huājiāo 姜 jiāng

About the dish

川菜 Sichuan · 热菜 Hot dish

Thin slices of fish, often grass carp, in a sour broth of pickled mustard greens with chili and Sichuan pepper. Sour more than hot. The fish has small bones, and pieces of head and backbone are often in the pot.

Usually contains fish

Characters

Examples

HSK 1

今天我们去吃酸菜鱼吧。

Jīntiān wǒmen qù chī suāncàiyú ba.

Let's go eat pickled cabbage fish today.

HSK 4

这家店的酸菜鱼又酸又辣，特别下饭。

Zhè jiā diàn de suāncàiyú yòu suān yòu là, tèbié xiàfàn.

This place's suancaiyu is sour and spicy - perfect with rice.

Tips

culture

酸菜鱼 originated in Chongqing/Sichuan in the 1980s and rode the chain-restaurant boom (太二, 鱼你在一起) into a nationwide staple. The fish is typically grass carp (草鱼) sliced thin; the sourness comes from fermented mustard greens, the heat from pickled chilies and Sichuan peppercorns.