中国菜(Chinese food) Presentation

In Mandarin, we are getting ready for a Chinese food presentation. We will each choose a province to present about: 四川 (Sichuan)，湖南(Hu Nan)，广东(Guang Dong)，and 江苏(Jiang Su). Though the separate provinces all are Chinese food, the different provinces have different tastes and flavors. We are also learning more detailed words to use in our presentation when explaining a type/style of food. Some words we’ve learnt are: 辣 (la) (spicy), and 麻(ma) (tingly spicy). For example, 四川 (Sichuan) food consists of mostly spicy food. So if I were to write a sentence explaining about how Sichuan food is spicy, it would look like this: 四川的菜很辣因为他们用很多的花椒。(Sichuan de cai hen la yin wei ta men yong hen duo de hua jiao) (Sichuan food is very spicy because they use a lot of Sichuan peppercorns)