Yuyangxian (Fresh fish and sheep)

"Fresh fish and sheep" is a dish in Jiangsu. The main ingredient is fish, which is boiled together with mutton slices thin as a piece of paper; they will be cooked into soup which gives off inviting smell. This dish tastes salty and sweet, fresh and mellow, a regale in winter. If stewing mutton with skin and crucian seasoned with salt, onions, ginger, wine and pepper powder for a long time, the...

Arts of Love and Cooking

Along the Qinhuai River in Nanjing's old town stands the well-preserved love nest where one of China's great beauties and culinary queens demonstrated a universal truth: the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. The sun was setting but threads of luminous afterglow lingered on the Qinhuai River lined with Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasty buildings with whitewashed walls,...

6 Best Foods for Early Summer

1. Bitter gourd Bitter in taste with cold nature, it clears away heat and purges pathogenic fire. The bitter taste could stimulate he secretion of sputum and gastric, so as to promote digestion. 2. Lotus seed At the beginning of summer, when the weather gradually turns hot, according to theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), it is a good time for heart physiological activity. Lotus ...

Green Bean Cake

Category Green bean cake is a traditional Chinese cate favored by most people. Due to different flavors of different areas, it could be put into several categories, which mainly include Beijing type, Suzhou type, Zhenyuantong (in Huzhou, Zhejiang), Zhanglin Ancient Alley (Shantou, Guangdong), Weifang Jingzhi (in Shangdong). Nutritive value Traditional Chinese medicine records that green bea...

Dragon's beard candy

Dragon's beard candy (or Chinese cotton candy) is a form of spun sugar traditional in China. It is said to have been invented for the emperor about 2,000 years ago. It consists of many very fine strands of sugar, giving it the appearance and consistency of a fine beard – hence its name. Dragon's beard candy being madeThe candy is made by boiling partially solidified sugar or a plain sa...

A county of chefs

Cantonese cuisine is known all over the world as representative of Chinese food. There is a branch of Cantonese cooking, however, that is a cut above even this excellent sample. Pauline D. Loh takes a journey to Shunde. The best chefs in China come from Guangdong, and the best Cantonese chefs, they say, come from only one place - Shunde county, known as the Normandy of China. Pick a Chinese exe...

Shanghai butterfly

Go where the locals go and you cannot go wrong. Pauline D. Loh gets invited for a true taste of Shanghai. My colleagues by the Bund love to eat, and it was clear that the best food critics were right there in the office. They were going to buy lunch, and there was no doubt it was going to be a good meal. Benbang cai, the genuine flavors of the Shanghainese, is down-to-earth, salty, sweet and s...

Nurturing honest food

Beijing Country Fair, started in 2010 as an art project, has evolved to become a well-supported weekly market for CSA produce Organic, healthy and sustainable are the new keywords for a breed of socially conscious consumers and producers in the major cities of China. Han Bingbin reports on back-to-basics food networks. To many, it means grappling with pollution from too many cars and industria...

Chinese Breakfast

There’s a famous saying that it is a healthy diet to have breakfast like an emperor, lunch like a common person, and supper like a beggar. Obviously, the traditional Chinese healthy keepers attach much importance to the food served for breakfast, since it provides the nearly all energy consume for the whole day. The stomach is empty after the long night, and it absorbs most of the nutrition cont...

Chinese Islamic Cuisine

China is a multi-ethnic country. The Muslim has a relatively larger population among minorities, so restaurants run by Muslims are distributed in every cities in china. Northern Chinese Islamic cuisine originated in China proper. It is heavily influenced by Beijing cuisine, with nearly all cooking methods identical, and differs only in material due to religious restrictions. As a result, north...