中国美食英语介绍

1、Various Chinese Dishes The 8 Cuisines of Chinese Dishes1 Sichuan Cuisine Sichuan cuisine is famous for its hot and spicy dishes. The climate in Sichuan and Chongqing is very humid all through the year, then people there like to keep the damp out by eating heavily spiced food. Typical Flavors: spicy,

2、 sour and spicy, zanthoxylum-flavored, sweet and sour, garlic-flavored, fish-sauce-flavored, etc The Most Famous Sichuan Dishes: Stir-fried Spicy Carp(红烧鲤鱼）; Twice-cooked Pork Slice(回锅肉）； Diced Chicken with Red Pepper and Peanuts ; Steamed Pork with Rice Flour（粉蒸肉）; Ma Po Beancurd（麻婆豆腐）； Chongqing H

3、otpot（重庆火锅）; Rabbit Meat with Orange Peel （陈皮兔肉）; Bean Noodles in Spicy Sauce（川辣凉粉）; Sliced Beef and Ox Tongue in Spicy Sauce; Sichuan-flavored Noodles; Meat-stuffed Dumplings in Spicy SauceSichuan Cuisine2 Hui Cuisine Dishes made around Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province, characteristic of the co

4、oking of abundant venisons( wild birds especially) and exquisite cutting technique.Main Characters: large quantity of servings; a little oily; sugary; smoked fowl or porkThe Most Famous Dishes: Maofeng Mountain Smoked Fish（毛峰山熏鱼） Smoked Preserved Fish Fuliji Roasted Chicken（烤鸡） Butterfly Noodles（蝴蝶面

5、） By the way, Anhui Province is also famous for its beautiful scenes, the Huangshan Mountain (with a diversity of grotesque pine trees) , the scattered small folk villages( which is one of the scenes in the Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon ) are all very attractive to visitors from every corner of

6、the world. 3 The Lu CuisineFrom Shandong province, mainly made up of 3 parts: Jinan style, Jiaodong style, Confucius DishesJinan and Jiaodong dishes mainly use the soybean sauce to cook, seafood is the most representative part of these two styles. And snacks made of all kinds of grains in stead of r

7、ice as main food are also very typical in Shandong ProvinceConfucius Dishes has a long history, which can even parallel the ancient royal cuisines. Most of the Confucius dishes have refined names related with historical stories, and the exquisite cutting technique and delicate style make Confucius D

8、ishes one of the most expensive even luxurious dishes nowadays.The Most Famous Dishes: different sorts of sea food Wowo Tou (a kind of snack made from maize powder) Peeled Shrimp in Cucumber Rings Birds Nest Cooked in 4 Ways （燕窝）4 The Min CuisineFood from Fujian Province and neighboring places. Peop

9、le there are good at cooking delicious soup, and food there are not very strong in flavor, sour and spicy, sour and sweet, mild and fresh are the main characters of Fujian food. And snacks in Fujian are also very particular, the diversity of pills made from different sea fish has become one of the m

10、arks of Min dishes.The most Famous Dishes: Monk Jumps over the Wall（佛跳墙）/ Double-boiled Super Seafood (several kinds of luxurious sea food cooked in a special casserole) Fish Balls（鱼丸） Fujian Wonton (ravioli)（馄饨） Fujian Rice Noodles（福建米粉）5 Yue (Cantonese) CuisineFrom Guangdong Province, mainly made

11、up of 3 parts: Guangzhou, Chaozhou and Dongjiang. Though with a relatively short history, Guangdong dishes is quite famous all around the world. The Chinese food in many Chinese Town majorly belong to Yue Cuisine. ”Daring to eat” is a commonly accepted saying for Guangdongnese, for they put everythi

12、ng edible to their dinning table, thus Yue Cuisine has the largest diversity of ingredients. What is more, cooks in Guangdong has also compounded some western cooking methods with their local traditional ways, making Yue Cuisine more creative.Yue Cuisine is also famous for its fresh and mild flavor,

13、 which helps to keep the nature of ingredients. The Most Famous Dishes: Scalded Shrimps白灼基围虾 Salt Baked Chicken盐烙鸡 Roasted Goose（烤鹅） Tingzai porridge Guangdong-style Mooncake Roasted Suckling Pig （烤乳猪） 6 Su CuisineFrom Jiangsu Province and Shanghai. Ingredients are supposed to be as fresh as possibl

14、e in this cuisine. Because of the delicate life style around this region, people would like to process ingredients in a exquisite way. Thus the servings are always little smaller but much more refined. Sweet is the main flavor of Su Cuisine, and food are always cooked thoroughly into very soft, whic

15、h can utterly digest the sweet and delicious sauce.The Most Famous Dishes: Fish Head in Casserole（砂锅鱼头）（砂锅鱼头） River Carp in Sweet-and-sour Sauce with Pine Nuts （糖醋鲤鱼）（糖醋鲤鱼） Steamed Bun Stuffed with Pork and Peeled Shrimp Different Kinds of Sticky Rice Cake（糯米团）（糯米团）7 Zhe Cuisine Zhe Cuisine has long

16、 history in China due to the ancient prosperity ever since Song Dynasty. It includes places like Zhejiang, Ningbo and Shaoxing, all of which are places of historical importance. Hangzhou dishes are characteristic of the cutting skill and the mild flavor; Ningbo is famous for its seafood cooking, whi

17、le Shaoxing dishes are well-known for its delicate.The Most Famous Dishes: Peeled Shrimps with Longjing Tea Leaves West Lake Water Float Grass Soup西湖水水草汤 Steamed West Lake Grass Carp in Vinegar Sauce蒸西湖草鱼醋汁 Fried Small Bells（西湖醋鱼） Sauted Prawns and Eel with Fresh Chilli Pepper 8 Xiang Cuisine From H

18、unan Province, the middle part of China. Hunan dishes are also very popular nowadays because of its spicy and oily flavor. Most of the ingredients are thoroughly stewed, thus taking in all the delicious and hot sauce completely. Smoked and preserved chicken and pork are also very unique in Hunan Pro

19、vince.The Most Famous Dishes: Preserved Pork Fried With Dried Radish Peel Steamed Preserved Pork（熏腊肉） Fried Stinky Beancurd（油炸臭豆腐） Stewed Duck in Chilli Sauce（辣椒酱卤鸭） Fish Head Steamed with Minced Pepper （胡椒蒸鱼头） DumplingsWonton/huntunbaozijiaozi Jiaozi has a very long history in China, once it was in

20、vented by a famous doctor to prevent people from getting sick. Though the present Jiaozi has changed a lot from the original one, its significance has, however, improved. Nowadays, Jiaozi is a very common food in the north part of China (as introduced just now, in Shandong Province and many other ne

21、ighboring places). When the Chinese new year comes, almost every Chinese family will eat jiaozi, because the pronunciation of jiaozi can express a very good meaning, which both means the happy get-together of family members and connection of the new year and the past old year. Jiaozi can be made int

22、o many shapes, the stuffs inside are also various. Ways to cook Jiaozi are also diverse: deeply-fry, boil ,steam,etc Now, please join me and use your own hand to creat some fantastic work!粽子-Zong ziSticky Rice Wrapped in Leaves A Famous Ancient Chinese Poet and Statesman-Quyuan When Chinese People t

23、alk about Zongzi, we are always related to this great man, who was talented as a poet but chilled in his political career.Being framed by some flunkies who were jealous of his talent and afraid of his sense of justice, Quyuan could no longer stand all of these, threw himself into a river and ended his life. Hearing about that misery, many poor people, who all got protected by Quyuan once, went to the river intending to get back the body of him, th