中国历史文化概况(英文版)Unit 10 Chinese Cuisine, Tea and Medi

Taiwan Cuisine
• A hundred miles from the Chinese mainland lies Taiwan. Most simply described, the cuisine of this mountainous island on the edge of the Pacific is Chinese, with some significant Japanese influences. Apart from the staple, rice, Taiwan is a bounty of fruit, vegetables, and seafood.
Cantonese Cuisine
• Yue Cuisine, namely Guangdong flavor dishes, is one of the four Chinese cuisines. It enjoys extremely good reputation at home and abroad for its unique types of dishes and special charm.
Hong Kong
• Known as the Oriental Pearl, Hong Kong remains as one of the most traveled places in all of Asia, with its splendid natural beauty and man-made wonders. To get a break from your busy tours in the city, visit a local teahouse.
Teahouses in Taipai are said to be the most typical of Chinese teahouses. It is quite a comfortable thing to sit in a local teahouse and drink a cup of oolong tea or the Pearl Milk Tea like what locals do.
Having grown along with this commercial city, Wuhan's teahouses have a history of over 1,500 years and have an air of business. Teahouses are serving increasingly as an arena for commercial transaction and a resting place for businessmen and dock workers.
Sichuan Cuisine
• Sichuan cuisine enjoys a time-honored history and is well-reputed home and abroad. Represented by the local dishes of Chengdu and Chongqing, Sichuan cuisine is particular about ingredients, unified in standard, distinctive in arrangement, and vivid in coordination. Sichuan cuisine features spicy, tongue-numbing, savory, delicious, oily and heavily seasoned flavor, using a lot of capsicum, prickly ash, pepper as well as fresh ginger. From high-class banquet to ordinary meal, from street snack to home-made dishes, Sichuan cuisines is diversified in variety, novel in style, and elaborate in cooking.
Guangzhou
• Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital city and also the largest city of Guangdong. Besides endless skyscrapers and shopping malls, this dynamic metropolis also has one of the best local cuisines in China.
Min Cuisine
• Min Cuisine, one of the Eight Cuisines of China, is mainly represented by dishes of Fuzhou and Xiamen styles. The dishes of Xiamen style are of strong local flavor of southern Fujian, which feature light soup and flavor, crisp stir-fried dish, and excellent seafood cooking techniques.
• Located along the southern coast of China, Guangdong abounds with food of animal and plant sources. At the same time, Guangzhou has been a long-standing treaty port city, which attracted and absorbed various foreign cooking materials and techniques. And thus Yue Cuisine was gradually perfected. In addition, overseas Chinese brought the cooking techniques from Europe, America and Southeast Asia back to their hometown and accordingly enriched the recipes of Yue Cuisine. There are very obvious traces of Western cooking techniques in Yue Cuisine.
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Wuhan
• Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, is the most populous city in Central China. Beginning from the late seventeenth century, during the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1654-1722) of Qing Dynasty, Wuhan was the starting point of a tea trade road to Mongolian Plateau.
Most of Hong Kong's teahouses are not fashionably decorated and cannot produce a romantic atmosphere, but they are simple and unassuming, and provide cool and fresh tea, together with scrumptious snacks.
• Broadly speaking, the food of China can be divided into four regional styles - northern southern, eastern and western. Fujian, according to E. N. Anderson, belongs to the eastern tradition but is quite distinctive in its own right. Taiwanese cuisine can be see as an outgrowth of Fujianese cuisine.
Benbang Cuisine
• Shanghai cuisine is the youngest among the ten major cuisines in China though with a history of more than 400 years. Traditionally called Benbang cuisine, it originated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368-1840). Shanghai dishes usually look red and shiny, for they are often pickled in wine and their cooking methods include baking, stewing, teaming, deep-frying, etc. In the later part of 19th century after Shanghai became a major domestic and international trading port,Benbangdishes underwent some substantial changes by adopting certain merits of other cuisines. It formed a complex flavor structure, cooking style and technique norms. It stresses on using condiments and keeping the original flavors of the materials and has features of being fresh, smooth and crispy. Shanghai Dishes aim at lightness in flavor, and beautifulness in decoration.
Taipei
• Taipei is as exciting and attractive as any other major city in China, like Hong Kong or Shanghai. It is also full of a certain charm which makes it unique.
Unit 10
Chinese Cuisine, Tea and Medicine
Contents
• Brief introduction about some famous Chinese cuisines
• Chinese Tea cuuisines
• Lu Cuisine • Sichuan Cuisine • Cantonese Cuisine • Min Cuisine • Benbang Cuisine • Taiwan Cuisine