Located at GuCheng county PiDu district ChengDu SiChuan province, Chuancais Museum(Sichuan Cuisine Museum) covers an area of 27000 square meters, enjoying the title of national museum of level three and national scenic spot of level AAA. You can appreciate more than 6000 pieces of antique and cultural relics as well as have a sight view of the new style classical garden scenery and traditional western Sichuan style folk houses here .In a word,Chuancais Museum is showing the world the significant part of local Sichuan culture by spreading the Sichuan culture of cuisine, wine, tea, drama, architecture, the style of garden and so on, which has been a unique and popular cultural tourism line of China.

Sightseeing for cultural relics in western-Sichuan garden

Raw Material Display Area
Kitchen god ancestral hall
Old Sichuan restaurant alley
Traditional raw material processing tools display area
Cooking class
Enjoying the meal

10:30 :

Sightseeing for cultural relics in western-Sichuan garden

While lingering around the museum, visitors may enjoy neoclassical garden scenery in an area of 27,000 m². Our Western-Sichuan building complex is decorated with age elements, such as bricks from the Han Dynasty, black wood folding screen with scented rosewood inlay, Sichuan embroidery and hand-carved wooden door from the Qing Dynasty. Over 6,000 antique collections standing by our sides are telling us an over 3000-year-old story about food origin, cooking methods, kitchen wares as well as chefs and its followers.

10:50 :

Raw Material Display Area

Here in our brewing factory, 200 odd pots of naturally fermented Pixian chili bean paste is revealing the taste of time. These handmade treasures, aged 1 to 9 years, is well known as the soul of Sichuan Cuisine. Visitors may take part in the strict and sensational process of making paste, which have been produced by “flipping, sun burning and dewing”, a traditional way passed down from 300 years ago Qing Dynasty. Then, while stretching out your body, a peaceful and lively pastoral picture spreads out in front of your eyes. With organic vegetables growing, rang-free poultry and mixed grain-fed livestock being raised.

11:10 :

Kitchen god ancestral hall

Respected as a grandmaster of all Chinese chefs, kitchen god involves an essential part of Sichuan culinary culture. The museum boasts the largest Kitchen God Ancestral Hall in the world. Here, visitors may participate a worshipful ritual by offering incense and come to have a perception of cherishing food, drinks, families and anything what we have been endowed.

11:20 :

Old Sichuan restaurant alley

As wandering in Western Sichuan classical buildings along an alley, visitors may enjoy paintings of Sichuan restaurants well-known in the first half of the 20th century, taking them back to the prosperous time of Sichuan cuisine in those old days.

11:40 :

Cooking class

Here, we take pride in our ancestors’ diligence and wisdom by showcasing such traditional raw material processing tools as wind machine, sugar machine, hit machine, stone grinder, etc. Visitors may be glad to try soy bean milk with grinding machine. Then a bowl of delicious spicy or sweet bean curd pudding will be served up as rewards.

12:20 :

Enjoying the meal

Under the guidance of our senior chefs, visitors change into chef uniforms and start a cooking class to cook three typical Sichuan dishes, getting sensational experience from firing in the wok, quick stir frying to marvelous presentation. Then our chief executive chef will give comments on students’ outcomes and award them with “rookie master chef ” certificate.