Many unique regional Chinese food recipes and styles contribute to China's extensive cuisine. The most well-known of those are Cantonese, Shandong, Jiangsu and Szechuan cuisine forms. (Chinese food / cuisine) These styles are distinctive from one another due to the available produce, climate and geography, historical influences, variations in cooking techniques and population lifestyles.
Whilst one regional style may emphasize garlic and shallots versus chilli and spices, another favours seafood ingredients over meats or poultry. As an example, Sichuan cuisine is spicier with a fondness for baking, whereas Jiangsu recipes call more on braising and stewing techniques.
The 'hairy crab,' found in local lakes, is a popular menu item in Shanghai. The world-renowned Peking Duck is famous dish everywhere around the planet, not just in China.
Across China, and across Asia in general, a wide variety of menu items with differing flavours and textures are produced from the same raw materials and ingredients. The methods of preparation, aided by cultural nuances, engender significant regional food forms across the country. Many of the traditional regional cuisines rely on ancient methods of preservation; drying, salting, pickling and fermentation.
This Garlic Chive Boxes Recipe is tasty, nutritious and filling. Ingredients Filling: 70 grams cellophane noodles – You can also use Korean cellophane noodles (dangmyeon) 300 grams garlic chives 280 grams ground pork (you can use less if you want to) 2 eggs, beaten 4 tbsp dried baby shrimp (optional) 3/4 tsp chicken bouillon powder … Read more Garlic Chive Boxes Recipe
Chinese New Year food recipes are many and varied, with regional options across the country. Chinese New Year Even though the climax of the Chinese New Year, Nian, lasts only two or three days including the New Year’s Eve, the New Year season extends from the mid-twelfth month of the previous year to the middle … Read more Chinese New Year Food Recipes
Chinese Food History – An Anthropological Study Chinese food history, adapted from K.C. Chang, Food in Chinese Culture: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977. Reprinted with permission from Yale University Press. To say that the consumption of food is a vital part of the chemical process of life is to … Read more Chinese Food History
Banquets in Chinese Cuisine In Chinese cuisine, banquets are held to celebrate the New Year, the Moon Festival, weddings, and other special occasions. Each event is associated with particular treats — filled moon cakes for the Moon Festival or New Year’s pudding, for example — but there are also many common characteristics and ceremonies involved. … Read more Chinese Cuisine – Banquets
The kite, a Chinese invention, has been praised as the forerunner of the modern aeroplane. In the pavilion of aircraft of the National Aeronautics and Space Museum, Washington D. C., a plaque says, “the earliest aircraft are the kites and missiles of China”. The kite is mainly, but not only, a plaything. It has … Read more The Kite
Chinese New Year Far and away the most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. The dates for this annual celebration are determined by the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar, so … Read more Chinese Spring Festival / New Year
Article selected from Travel China weekly During the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) there were all kinds of Chinese royal banquets. Grand banquets were held for a number of reasons; when a new emperor came into power, when the government changed its title of reign, when a war was won, for the Spring Festival, or for special birthdays. … Read more Chinese Royal Banquets
based on material offered by Mr.Du Feibao Jade is loosely understood in China as the collective name for most precious stones, and jade carving in this sense constitutes an important part of Chinese arts and crafts. The love of jade ware, according to Dr. Joseph Needham, the noted British naturalist, has been one of the … Read more Jade History
History Of Tofu In China Origin and Early Development to 960 AD. The history of Tofu shows it almost certainly originated in China; its date of origin, however, is uncertain. The earliest existing document containing mention of the term “doufu” is the Ch’ing I Lu (Seiiroku in Japanese), written by T’ao Ku in about 950 … Read more History Of Tofu
The Art of Eating To understand the art of eating you must know the philosophy of food. food must be fresh, have flavor and possess proper texture. If the food itself is bad, even the greatest chef will not be able to cook a flavor into it. As in other things in life, we must … Read more Chinese Eating & Drinking Culture