Chinese Food


Chinese Foods China foods culture has a history of five thousand years. Hundreds of thousands cuisines were brought into or out of China during the five thousand years. Nowadays, Chinese foods and restaurants can be found in countries all over the world. In order to make the taste of Chinese foods suit for themselves, foreigners changed ways to cooking Chinese foods. It is said that there are already over 60,000 Chinese cuisines all over the world so far.

Generally speaking, Chinese cuisines consist of eight cuisines, which are Shandong Cuisine, Sichuan Cuisine, Guangdong Cuisine, Fujian Cuisine, Jiangsu Cuisine, Zhejiang Cuisine, Hunan Cuisine and Anhui Cuisine. The features and renowned dishes for each of the eight cuisines are listed below.



Cuisines

Features

Renowned Dishes

Shandong Cuisine

Braising, Sea foods

Baked Prawns, Braised Pork Balls

Sichuan Cuisine

Spicy

Kungpao Chicken, Sichuan Hot Pot, Mapo Tofu

Guangdong Cuisine

Lite

Steamed sea bass, Boiled Chicken

Fujian Cuisine

Salty, Sweet, Spicy, Sour

Oyster omelette, Buddha Jumps over the Wall

Jiangsu Cuisine

Sweet, Lake Foods

Crab Tofu, Fried shrimp

Zhejiang Cuisine

Sour, Sweet

Sweet and Tour Chicken, West Lake Fish in Vinegar Gravy

Hunan Cuisine

Spicy, Greasy

Sour Pepper Fish, Changsha Shrimps

Anhui Cuisine

Greasy

Zhu Hongwu Tofu