China Facts Tag: Chinese Food,

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Easy DIY Recipes
Easy DIY Recipes
Created by jasmine at 2009-7-30 2:44:00; Last updated by david at 2013-4-23 0:04:00
What means Chi le fan mei you?(吃了饭没有?) It is one of the most usual Chinese greetings. It means Have you eaten yet? That greeting says a lot about the role food plays in Chinese culture. Chinese people spend an average of 40% of their income in food. Every region has its own delicacies. Whatever they are, people are passionate about them, and they will go to any length and expense to enjoy them on special occasions. And what do you suppose DI... »View details
Chinese Vegetarian Food
Chinese Vegetarian Food
Created by jasmine at 2009-7-31; Last updated by lotusblue at 2013-4-22 23:35:00
Buddhist cooking斋菜 (zhāi ci) - Casserole ... »View details
Staples and Main Food Types
Staples and Main Food Types
Created by jasmine at 2010-4-7; Last updated by wendysong at 2013-4-22 21:58:00
Dont eat to live, live to eat ---Chinese saying From the earliest times, the Chinese have divided their foodstuffs into two general categories: fan (cooked rice and staple grain dishes) and cai (cooked meat and vegetable dishes). This division dates back to the earliest recorded history, with bronze ritual vessels found in tombs from as early as the Zhou dynasty (1122-256 B.C) designed to hold one or the o... »View details
Chinese New Year Food
Chinese New Year Food
Created by eric at 2011-1-26 20:21:00; Last updated by meimeili at 2013-3-12 21:46:00
The family comes together On New Years Eve, the whole family shares a hearty dinner. One dish is a whole fish. The Chinese word for fish sounds like the word for abundance. It is important that the fish is served with the head and tail intact to ensure a good start and finish and to avoid bad luck throughout the year. It stands for togetherness and ... »View details
Eight Distinct Regional Cuisine
Eight Distinct Regional Cuisine
Created by jasmine at 2009-2-8; Last updated by joyce at 2013-4-23 0:02:00
The foods of China provide daily sustenance to more than one-quarter of the worlds population almost a billion and a half people. More people in the entire world are eating Chinese foods than the foods of any other single culture. In all, the Chinese cuisine has more than ten thousand different kinds of dishes. Many dishes boast regional cooking styles and made of regional ingredients, which conform to regional characteristic tastes. There is no better way to understand this ... »View details
Chinese Food
Chinese Food
Created by mansion at 2008-2-18 19:47:00; Last updated by fabiowzgogo at 2013-4-22 21:51:00
The preparation of food was traditionally managed by meticulous guidelines. It was Confucius who is credited with establishing the cultured standards that marked the beginnings of classic Chinese cuisine. According to the Confucian Analects, excerpted from Food in Chinese Culture edited by K.C. Chang (Yale University Press, 1997): He did not eat what was discoloured or what was of a bad flavour, nor anything which was ill-cooked, or was not... »View details
Chinese Medicine Food
Chinese Medicine Food
Created by drwi at 2009-9-21; Last updated by joyce at 2013-4-22 21:06:00
The theory of yin and yang is applied to all Chinese things including the classification of food and herbs. For over three thousand years the Chinese have combined the various ingredients for cooking food and the various types of food in harmonious balance for sustenance and the improvement of health. Since the 5th century BC, they have discovered the secrets of using herbs and other natural ingredients for healing. The ancient records named Huangdi Neijing contain information on the anato... »View details
Chinese Table Manners
Chinese Table Manners
Created by chinatravel at 2010-10-7 12:08:00; Last updated by david at 2013-4-22 22:31:00
Getting to know Chinese Table Manners The history of Chinese dining traditions is as old as the beginning of Chinese cooking. The Chinese claim that they were on the first civilizations to develop a proper orientation of etiquettes. They have worked so hard to develop government accepted table manners. These manners are followed all over the China and people like to use it properly. Chinese»View details
Zhejiang cuisine
Zhejiang cuisine
Created by drwi at 2009-9-20 19:28:00; Last updated by moyuchu1990 at 2013-5-10 4:35:00
Zhejiang Cuisine It was not so long ago that everyone in the West thought of Chinese food as a single cuisine. A country as large as geographically and climatically varied as China naturally has a wide range of regional cuisines. <... »View details
A Typical Dish Potstickers with Prawns and Cilantro
A Typical Dish Potstickers with Prawns and Cilantro
Created by lotusblue at 2011-12-8 21:40:00; Last updated by david at 2013-4-27 20:27:00
This is one of the most typical, representative, and mouthwatering dishes in China, making the recipe for potstickers with prawns and cilantro well worth learning. Ingredients: 1 package gyoza or wonton wrappers 1 egg, lightly beaten 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup ground pork (not lean) 4 ounces shrimp meat, finely chopped»View details

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