Chinese Cuisine

Learning objectives

To be able to talk about Chinese food in general

To be able to tell the differences among the regions

To be able to give 3 information about Chinese New Year

Color, shape, aroma & taste

Chinese food can be divided into8 regional cuisines

Beijing, Shanghai

Peking duck (scallion, wrap, sauce )Shanghai

snack

Beijing

Shanghai

Shandong Cuisine Bird's Nest Soup Yellow River Carp in Sweet and Sour

sauce

Shangdong

Sichuang Cuisine

Sichuan cooks specialize in chilies and hot peppers and Sichuan dish is famous for aromatic and spicy sauces.

Hot Pot

Sichuang

Smoked Duck

Kung Pao Chicken

Mapo Dofu

Cantonese Cuisine

Roasted PigletShark Fin Soup

Steamed Sea Bass

Guangdong

Hong Kong

Dim Sum

Jiangsu Cuisine

Jiangsu Cuisine Stewed Crab with Clear Soup Long-boiled and Dry-shredded Meat Duck Triplet Crystal Meat Squirrel with Mandarin Fish Liangxi Crisp Eel

Fujian Cuisine

Buddha Jumping Over the Wall

Snow Chicken

Hunan Cuisine

Dongan ChickenPeppery and Hot Chicken

Zhejiang Cuisine

Stewed Snapper; Huangshan Braised Pigeon

Anhui Cuisine

Sour West Lake Fish, Longjing Shelled Shrimp, Beggar's Chicken

In general, southerners have a sweet tooth northerners crave salt

Vegetarian

Traditionally, one typical meal contains:

Starch Meat dishes Vegetables Soup

1 Starch - Rice

Noodles

More…

2 Meat dish

3 Vegetables

Beans

Lettuce

CeleryLotus root

4 Soup

Family Time Once the meal is cooked, it is

served all at once to the family.

Vegetable market

An old food street

New ones:

Philosophy about Food

Yang foods increase the body's heat dense in food energy acne & bad breath

Yin foods decrease the body's heat high water content lethargic/anemic

Balance & Healthy

The Chinese ideal is to eat both types of food to keep the body in balance.

Typical medicine cuisine Baby Pigeon Stewed with Gouqi (Medlar) an

d Huangqi (Membranous Milk Vetch Pork Simmered with Lotus Seed and lily …

Chinese New Year

Lantern Festival

Questions?

The most common way to greet people is to say

你好 !nǐ hǎo

你好吗？nǐ hǎo ma

see how chinese words make sense

Invitation

open arms......

‘Beijing Dancing’

北京

京 is developed into the form of a dancing human

京

中文 zhōng wén

Chinese is a visual language

The Chinese writing 中文 is the oldest living language history of Chinese writing spans over 5,0

00 or 6,000 years earliest writing discovered , dated betwe

en 1480 BC and 1122 BC inscribed on bones and turtle shells 甲

骨文 (jiǎ gǔ wén)

Chinese writing inscribed on bones and turtle shells

甲骨文

m.sprole

jiǎ gǔ wén

Chinese characters are pictographs

-a system of picture writing using pictorial sign or symbol

see how chinese words make sense

the sun

rì

draw a pictorial symbol for

yuè

Up

down

上shàng

下xià

see how chinese words make sense

shān

see how chinese words make sense

日 月

明míng

Together they light the world

bright

手shǒu

means handThe horizontal lines resemble fingers

Look at your hand - palm up

That’s the pinky curling up at the bottom

Here’s the thumb

The principles of writing a Chinese character

日 月 明as characters are added together, each one has to take up less space

‘fit in the box’

rule:

Questions?

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