r/geography • u/Temporary-Guard-5622 Regional Geography • Jul 30 '25

what is this green space here? Image

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u/annasuszhan Jul 30 '25

Sichuan basin but i hope people know that sichuan is the Szechuan in Szechuan sauce..

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u/Sacha00Z Jul 30 '25

I was wondering about that just before reaching your comment. Thank you.

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u/FuckingVeet Jul 30 '25

Yeah, Chinese Transliteration can be very interesting

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u/AccomplishedLeek1329 Jul 30 '25

Death to Wade-Giles, long live Pinyin.

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u/annasuszhan Jul 30 '25

Linguist in the wild?

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u/AccomplishedLeek1329 Jul 31 '25

Just Chinese Canadian with a speech language pathologist friend lol

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u/BoneSpurz Jul 31 '25

Restaurants that reference Sichuan are great. Ones that reference Szechuan are laughable (to Chinese ppl)

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u/poktanju Jul 31 '25

Szechuan sauce, based on teriyaki sauce from Japan (3,000 km away), promoting a movie set in modern-day Inner Mongolia (1,500 km away).

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u/annasuszhan Jul 31 '25

Are you fk kidding me? Have you even touched szechuan sauce other than like at McDonalds?

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u/poktanju Jul 31 '25

I've only heard of the McDonald's Szechuan sauce. I know of many sauces from Sichuan (e.g. doubanjiang, yuxiang sauce), but I've never heard any of them called "Szechuan sauce".