Category: Chinese Food

1/2 lb(200g) pork, lean and fat,cut in a Square with skin attached
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp scallion sections
1/2 tsp (3g) red fermented rice
1 /2 tsp fresh ginger, chopped
1 oz (25g) red fermented bean curd
2 tsp rice wine
1 oz (25g) rock sugar, crushed

Stuffed buns（包子bāozi） are traditional instant food favored by most Chinese people. In northen China,people call stuffed buns as "bāozi" while in southern regions, they are named "mántou".

Manti(羊肉水饺yángròu shuǐjiǎo) or Mantu are dumplings popular in most Turkic cuisines, as well as in the Hejaz and Caucasian, Central Asian, and Chinese Islamic cuisines.

Banku and kenkey fit the definition of a dumpling in that they are starchy balls of dough that are steamed. They are formed from fermented(having undergone fermentation) cornmeal dough. Banku are boiled while kenkey are partly boiled then finished by steaming in banana leaves.

The dumplings(dumplings are small lumps of dough that are cooked and eaten, either with meat and vegetables or as part of a sweet pudding) are a food that consists of small pieces of dough, either cooked alone or wrapped around a filling. They can be based on flour, potatoes or bread, and may include meat, fish, vegetables, or sweets.

The Youxiang(油酥烧饼yóusū shāobǐng) is a traditional snack(a snack is something such as a chocolate bar that you eat between meals) of China’s Hui minority. To make youxiang, you need to make dough mixed with brown sugar water, and then deep fry the dough. When it’s done, the cake is Bordeaux in color and sweet and soft in taste.

The Cool herbal tea(凉茶liángchá) is a drink made from decocted Chinese herbal medicines that are cool in property or capable of removing internal heat from the human body. The drink is made to drive away the heat inside the human body in summer or to cure the sore throat caused by dryness in winter and other illnesses. Actually, cool herbal tea is not “tea” in the general sense, but the decocted Chinese herbal medicine soup. And cool herbal tea may not be cool; it works better when taken hot. The tea is for heat-clearing, detoxifying, lung clearing, dryness moistening and reliving heat.

From the name we know this snack is made of the white potato(白土豆bái tǔdòu). This kind of pan-cake is a sort of must food during harvest seasons in mountainous(a mountainous place has a lot of mountains) areas. Making White Potato Pan-cakes(土豆饼tǔdòu bǐng) is to express a good harvest and skills. Lijiang Yangyu Baba is the mixture of mashed potato, slightly salt and pepper sauce. After deep-frying, it is a bit hot, fragrant and tasty.