Chongqing cuisine enjoys a time-honored history and is well-reputed home and abroad. Also called Yu cuisine, Chongqing cuisine is a typical representative of Sichuan cuisine which plays the leading role in the four major cuisines of China. It features spicy, tongue-numbing, savory, delicious, oily and heavily seasoned flavor, using a lot of capsicum, prickly ash, pepper as well as fresh ginger. From high-class banquet to ordinary meal, from street snack to home-made dishes, Chongqing cuisines is diversified in variety, novel in style, and elaborate in cooking.