Main Chinese Cooking Methods

Chinese Cuisine adopts several cooking techniques. Cooking temperatures and methods are as important as the ingredients. Stir-Fry(chao) Stir-frying is the classic method; drop a small amount of oil in the wok over high heat, toss and turn the food when it cooks. In stir-frying, the food should always be in motion. Spread it around the pan or up the sides of the wok, then toss it together agai...

Dongpo Pork－Hangzhou’s Trademark Dish

Dongpo pork, Hangzhou's trademark dish, is named after a distinguished poet Su Dongpo in the Song Dynasty. He is supposed to have invented the dish. The meat should be as tender as you can quite easily pry it into small pieces with chopsticks. As it is made from a slab of pork belly, there is a lot of fat, but the long cooking time results in fat sans much of its greasiness. The accompanying gin...

Eight Chinese Special Cuisine

As is known to all, Chinese food enjoys a high reputation in the world. Due to the diversity of the climate, products and customs, there is a wide range of different food styles and tastes based on regions. In prepared dishes, the stronger fragrant aroma stimulates one's appetite. With the use of scallion, fresh ginger, root garlic or chili pepper; wine, aniseed, cinnamon, peppercorn or s...

Nanjing Food festival

A woman admires a candy dragon made of sweet potato sugar at Shiziqiao Food Street in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, November 3, 2008. The five-day-long food festival started on Monday in the eastern Chinese city. A woman admires a candy dragon made of sweet potato sugar at Shiziqiao Food Street in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, November 3, 2008. The five-day-long food festival started on...

Yantai held the third China International Food Festival

The 3rd China International Food Festival kicked off Saturday in Yantai, east China's Shandong Province, Nov. 1, 2008. Visitors look at the traditional dough modellings during the third China International Food Festival kicked off Saturday in Yantai, east China's Shandong Province, Nov. 1, 2008. A businessman introduces the traditional dough modellings during th...

Zongzi (Rice Dumplings in Bamboo Leaves) 粽子

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival in May or June. In China and in Chinese communities worldwide, that means boat races for some, but delicious zongzi for all. At this time of year, the unmistakable smell of bamboo leaves is in the air, and there are few things more tantalising to the nostrils than steaming zongzi. Zongzi are eaten all year round but during the Dragon Boat Fe...

Bowls and Chopsticks in Chinese culture

Maybe you are unskilled with Bowls and Chopsticks on a Chinese dinner while I am unskilled in using fork and knife. Obviously, table ware performs more duty than assistantance of taking in food. It is a piece of mirror, reflects the local culture and civilization. In certain times, bowls and chopsticks come to be media in transfering oriental and Chinese culture to people live in other place wh...

Drinking Tea in Different Cities

If you want to understand someone, you don't need to know everything about him or her. Sometimes a tiny behavior can betray everything. The same is true with a city - some details hidden in public may be the spirit of the city. Similarly, unique charms and characters of different cities are concentrated, hidden, and permeated in different tea houses. Tea houses have lon...

In a Chinese restaurant

The Chinese love to eat out, especially when they entertain guests. This habit results in the abundance of restaurants everywhere. Eating together, like the westerners drinking in pubs or bars with friends, is a social gathering, a thanksgiving for the food, a celebration of family ties and the bonds of friendship. Unlike in a western restaurant that every diner ...

Dim Sum :Bun With Oyster Sauce BBQ Pork

ca xao bao (Mandarin) 　 Materials For Filling Fat-lean BBQ Pork 300 g2"x 2" Pain Paper some SauceOyster Sauce 3 tbspSesame Oil 1/2 tbspLight Soy Sauce 1 tbspDark Soy Sauce 1 tbspSugar 3 tbspWater 150 mlSalt 1/2 tbsp Thickening For Sauce Water Chestnut Powder 1/2 tbspWater 4 tbsp Materials For Dough Flou...