sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty

color, taste, aroma, health benefit

Hui: Anhui
Yue( Cantonese): Guangdong
Min: Fujian
Lu
Xiang: Hunan( XiangjiangRegion, DongtingLake, Xiangxi)
Hui
Su( HuaiyangCuisine): Jiangsu Su

Chuan
Lu: Shandong( Jinan, Jiaodongstyles, etc.)
Min
Zhe
Xiang
Chuan: Sichuan
Zhe: Zhejiang( Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxingstyles)
Yue
 • Higher humidity Sichuan
People
• Too cold
Northeast
• Salt flavor North
Plant
• Sweet flavor South
The Hui nationality
Uyghur nationality
The Dai nationality
Korean nationality
Manchu
 Flour and rice are Indispensable food,
complementary with corn and peas grains.

Like to eat beef, lamb, chicken, duck

and fish, love to eat vegetables

Don't eat horse, donkey, mule and dog meat & pork.

descended from the Arabic & Persian merchants who

came to China during the 7th century
 Uyghur loves eating fruits and nuts.
Xinjiang is rich in grapes, honeydew,
apple because of its environment

Don't eat horse, donkey mule, dog meat and pork.

Kabab is their traditional food which is spicy & tasty.

‘Nang’ is the most usual stable food in their family,

which is made by baking white flour and corn.

The Uyghurs are of Turkic ethnicity who live in East

and Central Asia, they primarily practice Islam
Nan (nang or bread)

Opke Hessip (stuffed intestines / lungs)

closely related to the Lao and Thai people who form a majority in
Laos and Thailand
Rice is their stable food, especially sticky rice which is put rice
into the bamboo with meat or kinds of grains

They like sour, spicy and aromatic food, like roasted fish,
stewed chicken in boiler.

Love drinking alcohol and tea after

meal or during spare time.
Formed due to the proximity of borders between China and
the Korean Peninsula, today's ethnic Korean population in
China are descendants of Korean emigrants since Qing
dynasty

The staple food is rice, cold noodle and rice cake.

In their dishes, soup is essential.
They love salty and spicy food.
Korean like to eat beef, chicken, egg, seafood and
kimchi.
 Manchu Han
Imperial Feast
One of the grandest meals ever
documented in Chinese cuisine

It consists of at least 108 unique dishes from the

Manchu and Han Chinese culture during the Qing
Dynasty

The banquet is held for three whole days.

 Manchu Han
Imperial Feast
Relies heavily on preserved foods (pickling) due
to harsh winters and scorching summers.
Popular for grilling, wild meat, strong flavours
and soy sauce
• 白扒四宝 Four-Delicacies Soup
• 鸳鸯簿乳 Mandarin Duck Thin Milk
• 御膳豆黄 Imperial Pea Purée
• 御龙火锅 Yulong Chaffy Dish
• 龙凤柔情 Dragon Phoenix Heartthrob
• 芸豆金鱼 French Bean Gold Fish
• 云片鸽蛋 White Fungus with Pigeon Egg
• 鸳鸯酥盒 Crispy Fried Duck
• 云河段霄 Banana Cake
• 枣泥糕 Date Cake
• 珍珠雪耳 White Fungus
• 炸鸡葫芦 Fried Chicken Legs
• 芝麻卷 Sesame Roll
• 抓炒大虾 Stir-fried Prawn
• 炒里脊 Fried Bork Fillet
• 咖喱菜花 Curry Cauliflower
• 鸭丝掐菜 Braised Sliced Duck with Bean Sprouts
• 琉璃珠玑 Coloured Glaze Pearl
• 抓炒鱼片 Stir-fried Fish Slices
• 百寿桃 Peach-Shaped Birthday Cake
• 荷花酥 Water Lily Crisp
• 油焖鲜蘑 Braised Fresh Mushroom with Balsam
• 熊猫品竹 Panda Tasting Bamboo
• 金丝烧麦 Gold Thread Porridge
• 栗子糕 Chestnut Cake
• 金钱吐丝 “Chinese Golden Coin Spin
• 金糕 Golden Cake
• 鸡沾口蘑 Mushroom Consommé with Eggs
• 虎皮兔肉 Deep-fried Boiled Rabbit Meat
• 桂花干贝 Sweet-scented Osmanthus & Dry Scallop
• 宫保兔肉 Rabbit Meat with Hot Pepper & Peanuts
• 仿膳饽饽 Fangshan Cake
• 凤凰展翅 Phoenix Spreading the Wings
• 凤尾群翅 Braised Shark’s Fin Like Phoenix Tail
The silk road

The development of Chinese

economy
1949~1980: most meals would have consisted of rice
accompanied with green vegetables, Fats and sugar
were luxuries not eaten on a regular basis by most of
the population..

1980~now: With increasing wealth, Chinese

diets have become richer over time,
consuming more meats, fats, and sugar, but
we also pay more attention on diet
Traditional Chinese festival
Special occasions
The Spring Festival
 The Spring
Festival is on the
1st day of the
lunar year

饺子
Jiǎozi
(Dumplings)
 Fish has always been used to
suggest the accumulation of
“prosperity and wealth” with
meals on New Years Eve.
年年有魚 Nian Nian You Yu
Yu also means surplus

Rice cake 粘糕 (Nian Gao)is

popular in the southern China. People
wish to move up to higher positions
in the future eating rice cake.

粘 (nián) = “sticky“, identical in sound to 年 = "year“

糕 (gāo) = "cake“, identical in sound to 高 ="high or tall".
The Lantern Festival
元宵节 yuánxiāojié
 The Lantern Festival is on the 15th day of
the 1st lunar month.
Tang Yuan are rice
balls made of
glutinous rice flour
served in soup.
They have different
filings such as peanuts,
sesame or sweetened
bean paste.
 Tomb-sweeping Day

Qingming Day in Chinese

(Pure Brightness) is on the 5th day
of the 4th lunar month.
 Qingming snails is a dish
cooked with snails,
onions, ginger, soy sauce,
cooking wine, and sugar.

Sweet Green Rice Ball (青团) is

made of glutinous rice flour
mixed with juice of a kind of
green wild vegetable &
sweetened bean paste
 端午节 Duān wǔ jié
Traditionally celebrated on the 5th day
of the 5th month on the lunar calendar.
 Zong Zi is rice dumpling
wrapped in bamboo, lotus or
banana leaves to form a
pyramid.

Wu (午) in “Duanwu” sounds

alike to number “5”, so many
practice the traditions of eating food
related to number 5. In Guangdong
& Hong Kong, there’s tradition of
having congee made from 5 different
beans.
 Chinese Valentine’s Day.
on the 7th day of the 7th month on the lunar calendar

Tanabata Festival
 The festival was introduced to
Japan in 755, but originated from
Qixi Festival (七夕节) which was
celebrated in China.

Qiao Guo is fried food

The tale is about a forbidden love made of flour & sugar.
between Zhinu (fairy) & Niulang
(human). They were banished to
opposite sides of Silver River (Milky
Way). Once a year, on the 7th day
of the 7th lunar month, a flock of
magpies would form a bridge to
reunite the lovers for one day
The Mid-autumn
Celebrated on the 15Festival
thday
of the 8th month on the
lunar calendar
 Làbā Jié
Celebrated on the 8th day of
the last month on lunar
calendar.
 Influenced by Buddhism
and coincides with the
enlightenment day of the
Buddha. Therefore, many
customs of the Laba
Festival are related to
Buddhism.

'La Ba Zhou' is a
nourishing
porridge
 When a baby is born, the father
is so happy to distribute red
boiled eggs to announce the
news.
eggs = birth/new start
red = prosperity & good fortune
The long noodles indicate the longevity in China

Steamed buns shaped in peaches will be added

symbolizing the longevity and immortality

The longevity peach represents Peaches of Immortality, which

was believed to ripen every thousands of years, and grant
immortality to humans when consumed.
It is also customary to serve Chinese dates,
peanuts, longan and chestnuts together to
wish the couple to have a baby soon.
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