Category: Chinese Food

This tasty pork dish can be used in stir-fry dishes, served with noodles, or used as a stuffing for pork buns. Food coloring gives it the red coloring common to barbecued pork purchased in Chinatown.

Noodles are made of a flour of grains or beans, after adding the water into the flour, mixing until a dough with no lumps forms, and then cut it into strips. There are varieties of noodles in China, like Fried Sauce Noodles in Beijing, Shaved Noodles in Shanxi and Plain Noodles in Shanghai.

As for the food part of the experience, the dim sum chefs' artistry and ingenuity is astounding, for some dim sum dishes seem to defy all the laws of physics and gravity. Even the standard shrimp dumpling—har gau—is a minor culinary miracle whereby a wafer-thin rice-flour wrapping cloaks a baby shrimp and some minced meat. The skin of rice-flour is so translucent that the ingredients can be clearly seen. Soup dumplings are another marvel of culinary engineering in which a portion of soup is magically sealed inside a gossamer skin, and steamed without a drop of leakage.

Kung Fu Tea is not one kind of tea leaves or the name of tea, but a skill of making tea. It is because of the exquisite process of making tea that people call it Kung Fu Tea, the operation requires a certain techniques, knowledge of brewing and tasting skills.

In terms of Chinese culinary history, dim sum are relatively new on the scene. Since the 10th Century, however, the Cantonese have acquired a dim sum repertoire of around 2,000 varieties of the teatime snacks. The larger specialist dim sum restaurants will usually prepare up to 100 of them on any one day. So a visitor to Hong Kong need never eat the same dim sum. But visitors do, once they discover particular favorites such as har gau (shrimp dumplings), cha siu bau (barbecued-pork buns) or tsun guen (real spring rolls).

The guest of honor naturally receives the choicest morsels, and is expected to lead the way when necessary. With a fish course, the fish head would be left for the guest of honor—and it is the most nutritious part (the eyes and lips are the valued delicacies offered to the senior lady present). The platter holding the fish will always be laid on the table in such a way that the fish head points towards the guest of honor (at family meals, the head faces the head of the family). If visitors find that they are the guest of honor and are unwilling to accept the duties involved, they should always delegate the honor to the person on their left, or politely turn the platter so that the fish head faces the host.

Xi'an one of the four ancient cities, and the domestic tourist city, is famous for its cuisine and snacks, if you are visiting this city, you cannot miss the food here. In this article, several most famous Xi’an cuisines will be introduced to you.

In this section, we explore some of the variety found in Hong Kong's Chinese cuisines. Cantonese Cuisine