中国饮食文化简介(英文版)Various_Chinese_Dishes

1、Various Chinese Dishes The 8 Cuisines of Chinese Dishes1 Sichuan Cuisine Sichuan cuisine is famous for its hot and spicy dishes. The climate in Sichuan and Chongqing is very humid all through the year, then people there like to keep the damp out by eating heavily spiced food. Hot chili, wild pepper

2、and ginger are the ever-present ingredients Typical Flavors: sour and spicy, zanthoxylum-flavored, sweet and sour, garlic-flavored, fish-sauce-flavored, etc The Most Famous Sichuan Dishes: Stir-fried Spicy Carp; Twice-cooked Pork Slice; (“twice” means boiled for the first time and stir fried for the

3、 second time) Diced Chicken with Red Pepper and Peanuts ; Steamed Pork with Rice Flour; Ma Po Beancurd; (its said to have been invented by a pock-marked woman) Chongqing Hotpot; Rabbit Meat with Orange Peel ; Bean Noodles in Spicy Sauce; Sliced Beef and Ox Tongue in Spicy Sauce; Sichuan-flavored Noo

4、dles; Meat-stuffed Dumplings in Spicy SauceSichuan Cuisine2 Hui Cuisine Dishes made around Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province, characteristic of the cooking of abundant venison( wild birds especially) and exquisite cutting technique. Main Characters: large quantity of servings; a little oily; suga

5、ry; smoked fowl or pork The Most Famous Dishes: Maofeng Mountain Smoked Fish Smoked Preserved Fish Fuliji Roasted Chicken Butterfly Noodles By the way, Anhui Province is also famous for its beautiful scenes, the Huangshan Mountain (with a diversity of grotesque pine trees) , the scattered small folk

6、 villages( which is one of the scenes in the Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon ) are all very attractive to visitors from every corner of the world. 3 The Lu Cuisine From Shandong province, mainly made up of 3 parts: Jinan style, Jiaodong style, Confucius Dishes Jinan and Jiaodong dishes mainly use

7、the soybean sauce to cook, seafood is the most representative part of these two styles. And snacks made of all kinds of grains instead of rice as main food are also very typical in Shandong Province Confucius Dishes has a long history, which can even parallel the ancient royal cuisines. Most of the

8、Confucius dishes have refined names related with historical stories, and the exquisite cutting technique and delicate style make Confucius Dishes one of the most expensive even luxurious dishes nowadays. The Most Famous Dishes: different sorts of sea food Wowo Tou (a kind of snack made from maize po

9、wder) Peeled Shrimp in Cucumber Rings Birds Nest Cooked in 4 Ways 4 The Min Cuisine Food from Fujian Province and neighboring places. People there are good at cooking delicious soup, and food there are not very strong in flavor, sour and spicy, sour and sweet, mild and fresh are the main characters

10、of Fujian food. And snacks in Fujian are also very particular, the diversity of pills made from different sea fish has become one of the marks of Min dishes. The most Famous Dishes: Monk Jumps over the Wall/ Double-boiled Super Seafood (several kinds of luxurious sea food cooked in a special cassero

11、le) Fish Balls( from sea fishes, crabs, shrimp, squid, etc) Fujian Wonton (ravioli) Fujian Rice Noodles5 Yue (Cantonese) Cuisine From Guangdong Province, mainly made up of 3 parts: Guangzhou, Chaozhou and Dongjiang. Though with a relatively short history, Guangdong dishes is quite famous all around

12、the world. The Chinese food in many Chinese Town majorly belong to Yue Cuisine. ”Daring to eat” is a commonly accepted saying for Guangdongnese, for they put everything edible to their dinning table, thus Yue Cuisine has the largest diversity of ingredients. What is more, cooks in Guangdong has also

13、 compounded some western cooking methods with their local traditional ways, making Yue Cuisine more creative. Yue Cuisine is also famous for its fresh and mild flavor, which helps to keep the nature of ingredients. The Most Famous Dishes: Scalded Shrimps Sliced Beef with Oyster Sauce Salt Baked Chic

14、ken Roasted Goose（烤鹅） Rice Noodles Fried with Sliced Beef Tingzai porridge Guangdong-style Mooncake Roasted Suckling Pig烤乳猪 Stewed Sweet and Sour Pork 6 Su Cuisine From Jiangsu Province and Shanghai. Ingredients are supposed to be as fresh as possible in this cuisine. Because of the delicate life st

15、yle around this region, people would like to process ingredients in a exquisite way. Thus the servings are always little smaller but much more refined. Sweet is the main flavor of Su Cuisine, and food are always cooked thoroughly into very soft, which can utterly digest the sweet and delicious sauce

16、. The Most Famous Dishes: Fish Head in Casserole River Carp in Sweet-and-sour Sauce with Pine Nuts Steamed Bun Stuffed with Pork and Peeled Shrimp Different Kinds of Sticky Rice Cake7 Zhe Cuisine Zhe Cuisine has long history in China due to the ancient prosperity ever since Song Dynasty. It includes

17、 places like Zhejiang, Ningbo and Shaoxing, all of which are places of historical importance. Hangzhou dishes are characteristic of the cutting skill and the mild flavor; Ningbo is famous for its seafood cooking, while Shaoxing dishes are well-known for its delicate. The Most Famous Dishes: Peeled S

18、hrimps with Longjing Tea Leaves West Lake Water Float Grass Soup Steamed West Lake Grass Carp in Vinegar Sauce Fried Small Bells( with dried soybean milk as the skin, stuffed with minced pork and some vegetable) Sauted Prawns and Eel with Fresh Chilli Pepper 8 Xiang Cuisine From Hunan Province, the middle part of China. Hunan dishes are also very popular nowadays because of its spicy and oily flavor. Most of the ingredients are thoroughly stewed, thus taking in all th