Category: Chinese Food

Gongbaojiding ingredients: chicken legs two; Gongbaojiding burden: a root of cucumber, green pepper three, peanuts;

Ginger duck are home-style recipes, main raw material is a duck, the craft is fried, difficulty medium.

Saliva chicken ingredients: chicken; Steamed chicken with chili sauce ingredients: peanut, ginger, garlic, cucumbers, onions, chili oil, peanut butter;

Eat healthy: Taro plot strenthening Qi, invigorating the spleen, clearing away heat and antitussive potency. Taro contains more protein, starch and Chitosan (phlegm), crude fiber, and sugar, protein content than most other high protein plants such as soybeans and the like are higher. Taro tubers of meat quality and exquisite flavor and fragrance, often for table consumption, fertilizers made of chicken, cooked and General "Braised Chicken with Taro" or the end of cold dishes. Taro effects can enhance the body's immune system, increase resistance to disease, diet, detoxification and nourish the body.

Today China has become a gathering place of world food and people can see various restaurants at all levels in China, including western restaurants, hotel restaurants, hotpot restaurants, cafeterias, fast-food restaurants, barbecue restaurants, Muslim restaurants, and so on. Different restaurants provide people with diverse flavors of dishes. In many cities there are food streets where people can have a taste of the local food and snacks, e.g. Wangfujing Street in Beijing and Hui Street (Muslim Street) in Xi’an. Meanwhile, elegant west-style restaurants, Japanese restaurants, Korean restaurants, Indian restaurants, KFC, Mcdonald's, Pizza Hut… can be easily found in Beijing, Xi’an, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, etc.

The choosing of a restaurant usually depends on consumption levels of different consumer groups:

– Students: Most Chinese students especially college students have meals at their school canteens or the small restaurants near their college because of the delicious snacks of various places and their limited living expenses. If you are a backpacker, these places may be a good choice and you may try Guilin rice noodles, Xi’an cold noodles, Yangzhou fried rice, hotpots and other dishes. But please note that the waiters or waitresses there usually can not speak English or other foreign languages.

– General Public: All kinds of restaurants and food stalls. When common people want to celebrate something or have a dinner, they will probably choose a middle-grade or a small one; while food stalls are more popular among common laborers due to their lower prices, but environment in food stalls is usually not as good as that in restaurants.

– Office Workers: With the faster and faster pace of work and life, many office workers always want to make full use of every minute to finish their work, therefore, fast-food restaurants like KFC and Mcdonald's are usually their first choice.

– Wedding Banquet and Formal Feast:In China today, many wedding parties prefer a combination of Chinese tradition and western romance and a formal feast is usually held at a formal occasion, so a local renowned restaurant or a star-rated hotel with first-rate service and nice environment will be chosen.

Today, local foods in tourist cities of China have been become a part of tourism. While enjoying sightseeing, visitors can also have a taste of all kinds of cate in China, e.g. Beijing roast duck, pieces of bread with mutton soup in Xi’an, Chongqing hotpot, Guilin rice noodle.

For a memorable experience of Chinese food, tourists can also try to cook with the guidance of Chinese professional chefs. In Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an, Chengdu, Guilin and Yangshuo, cooking lessons are usually arranged in cooking schools. Normally, Jiaozi (dumpling) making in Xi’an, but in Yangshuo tourists who want a cooking lesson will be led to the local market to purchase cooking materials such as pork, fish and vegetables and then try the cooking own their own after the show-how of the chef.

It is suggested for tourists to check with their China tour operator beforehand so that it can be guaranteed that cooking classes are available in cities they will visit and good preparations for the cooking classes are made beforehand.

1. Scrambled egg with tomato（西红柿炒鸡蛋）
Materials: two median-size tomatoes, two eggs, shallot, oil, salt, sugar, chicken powder.
Cooking Procedures:
a. Cut the tomatoes into slices, break up the eggs and stir it in a bowl with a little salt (add a little bit water will make the egg more tender), cut the shallot into short sections.
b. Heat the pan until it gets try and put some oil in it, fry the egg liquid before the oil seethes and smash the egg into pieces.
c. Then fry the tomatoes pieces with the egg, add some salt, continue to fry for a while and add some sugar.
d. When the tomatoes pieces are cooked, add some chicken powder and stir it well. Remove the cooked food into the plate. Spread the cut shallot one on the dish.

2. Fried Kidney Bean（干煸四季豆）
Materials: kidney beans, several garlic cloves, two dry red peppers, salt, chicken powder.
Cooking Procedures:
a. Peel off the skin of the skin of the garlic cloves and cut up the garlic cloves.
b. Heat the pan until it gets try and put some oil in it, fry the mashed garlic before the oil seethes, put the kidney beans into the pan and fry with the garlic, add some salt and fry for a while, lid the pan (you can add a little water to avoid it chars) for some 5 minutes.
c. When the surface of the kidney beans gets wrinkled, add some chicken powder and fry for less than one minute. Remove the cooked food into the plate.

3. Sweet and Sour Spareribs（糖醋排骨）
Materials: half a kg of spareribs, ginger, garlic, shallot, salt, sugar, vinegar, cooking wine.
Cooking Procedures:
a. Heat the pan until it gets try and put enough oil in it, deep-fry the chopped spareribs with ginger slices when the oil gets hot, stir the spareribs from time to time.
b. Remove the spareribs out of the pan when they get golden, pick out the ginger slices and leave a little oil in the pan, fry the diced garlic, salt, sugar and cooking wine together for a while, then put the fried spareribs into the pan and continue to fry.
c. After some 2 minutes, add a little vinegar and stir for several times, then add some chicken powder and continue to stir for a while.
d. Remove the cooked food into the plate and spread cut shallot on it.

4. Sour Shredded Potatoes（醋溜土豆丝）
Materials: 2 median-size potatoes (for 4-6 people), a red pepper and a green pepper (spicy both), a garlic clove, salt, vinegar, chicken powder.
Cooking Procedures:
a. Shred the potatoes and the peppers, soak the shred potatoes, peel off of skin of the garlic clove and cut it up.
b. Heat the pan until it gets try and put enough oil in it, quick-fry the mashed garlic when the oil gets hot, then fry the shredded potatoes together, add some salt and continue to fry for one minute, and then add the shreddedpepper.
c. Keep frying it for about 5 minutes and add some vinegar, stir it well, then add dome chicken powder and remove the food into the palte.

5. Spicy Cola Chicken Wings（香辣可乐鸡翅）
Materials: some pairs of chicken wings, cola, aniseed, salt, chicken powder, soy sauce, cooking wine, shallot, ginger, garlic.
Cooking Procedures:
a. make some cuts on the surface of the wings for seasoning, then pickle the wings in a bowl with soy sauce and cooking wine for some one hour.
b. Heat the pan until it gets try and put enough oil in it, fry the cut ginger and garlic when the oil get hot, then turn down the heat and put the wings (without the pickled liquid) into the pan and fry them, stir them from time to time.
c. When both sides of the wings get golden, turn the heat down and remove the oil out, then add enough coca to cover the wings, add some salt and aniseed. Lid the pan with moderate heat.
d. When all of the coca in the pan evaporates, add chicken powder and cut shallot. Remove the cooked food into the plate.

Staple food in China generally includes rice, wheat, buckwheat, corn, potato, sweet potato, beans and varieties of vegetables. Besides, wheaten food such as Mantou (steamed bun), noodle, Youtiao (deep-fried dough stick), Xiaolongbao (steamed pork-stuffed dumpling in bamboo basket), and many other local snacks, are commonly seen on the table in China.

Regionally, a general feature of spicy east food, sweet south food, sour west food and salty north food can be summarized, but flavors of food in places differ from each other as a matter of fact. Generally, people living in South China pay more attention to nutrition and prefer delicate, tasty and refreshing food such as rice porridge and soup; however, spicy hotpot is always people’s favorite in the southwest areas due to the humid and rainy climate. And, people living in North China prefer wheaten food such as Jiaozi, noodle, while all kinds of streamed bun and beef and mutton are most popular in northwest areas.

In the past thousands of years, Chinese has had tried countless cooking ways and has successfully developed many cooking styles, e.g. steaming, stewing, braising, simmering, frying, quick-frying, stir-frying, roasting, sauting with starch extract.

The Sheraton Guilin(桂林Guìlín) Hotel, one of the best 5-star hotels in Guilin, is the hotel we always recommend this hotel to our clients, and I myself have also been there for meals for several times. The hotel is located on the bank of the Li River in the heart of the enchanting city of Guilin, and different restaurants in the hotel provide different tastes of food.