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Eight Distinct Regional Cuisine

Created by jasmine at 2009-2-8; Last updated by samshen at 2011-12-8 23:44:00

China's vast territory and diverse climates has given risen to distinct regional cuisines over the country. There are main eight major culinary schools throughout the nation, each of which boast its characteristic way of cooking and unique taste.

Eight Distinct Regional Cuisine


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There are eight styles of distinct regional cooking  in China. Of them, the most influential and representative ones are the culinary styles of Lu, Chuan, Yue, Min, Su, Zhe, Xian g and Hui.

Each culinary style is inseparable from its long history and influenced by geography, climate, resources, specialties and dining habits of each area. Some descriptions of the eight culinary schools are: the cuisines of Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been compared to delicate beauties of the Yangtze River Delta; those of Shandong and Anhui have been compared to simple but sturdy men of the north; those of Guangdong and Fujian are compared to elegant nobles; those of Sichuan and Hunan are likened to people with substantial and varied accomplishments.

The cooking techniques of each of the Chinese culinary schools are unique and the dishes have their own distinguished characteristics.

Fujian Cuisine(Min cuisine)

Fujian Cuisine(Min cuisine)
Fujian Cuisine, aka Min Cuisine, has long been known for its four distinctive sub-categories, or styles, corresponding to two regions and two cities. These are: Southern Style, Western Style, Fuzhou Style and Quanzhou Style. In particular, Fujian Cuisine is famed for its use of seafoods, its soups and stews, and for the stunning visual presentation of its dishes. To list all of the ingredients ..»details

Guangdong cuisine(Cantonese Food)

Guangdong cuisine(Cantonese Food)
Guangdong Cuisine, sometimes referred to as Cantonese Cuisine, though referred to more often as Yue Cai (Yue Cuisine), in recognition of the flavor - both literally and figuratively - imparted to Guangdong Cuisine by its various ethnic minorities, most notably, by the Baiyue, or Yue, people, has been recognized as a distinctive cooking style, or what one today would call a cuisine school, since ..»details

Sichuan Cuisine

Sichuan Cuisine
Sichuan Cuisine, sometimes referred to as Chuan Cuisine, is one of the eight great cuisine schools of China. Sichuan Cuisine is often compared to Hunan Cuisine, since the dishes of both of these cuisine schools tend toward the spicy-hot, but where the spicy-hot dishes of Sichuan Cuisine are said to be dry hot, a term that is not easily grasped by outsiders or by those not keenly familiar with th ..»details

Shandong Cuisine(Lu cuisine)

Shandong Cuisine(Lu cuisine)
Shandong Cuisine, known more commonly as Lu Cuisine, is one of the eight great cuisine schools of China, and one of the most influential such schools as regards the rest of China (when one places the eight great Chinese cuisine schools on a map of China, one immediately wonders what happened to the rest of China, i.e., one wonders what kind of cuisine is practiced in all of the cities - many of ..»details

Other Culinary Schools

Other Culinary Schools
In addition to the Eight Great Culinary Schools of China, there naturally exist a number of special cooking traditions that are strictly ethnic in origin as well as a number of special cooking traditions that belong to Banquet Service, or, as it is often referred to in China, Official Residence Dishes. This category applies to Banquet Service as it was practiced both on a royal level, on the ..»details
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