Food in China

Charles Chen
Alex Guan
Sio Chong Dao
Danny Ma
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 Chopsticks

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 Chopsticks
• How to use them?
•Rice
•Tea
•Sweet Potatoes
•Sugarcane
•Fruit and Vegetable
•Stir-frying, frying,
stewing, frying in
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•Wheat
•Sweet Potatoes
•Cotton
•Soybeans
•Corn
•Fruit and Vegetable
•Millet
•Roasting and
“Explode Frying”
are common cooking
techniques
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•3 meals a day

•The importance of
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•Dessert: Fresh or
Preserved Fruits; not a
common practice

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•Zao Chan 早餐

•Congee (Rice Porridge),

served with Youtiao (Chinese
Doughnut)

•Fried Noodles, Steamed http://p4.p.pixnet.net/albums/userpi

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Bread, and Dummplings

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• Wu Chan 午餐
• Similar to Dinner but
in smaller portions
and eaten much
quicker
• Usually rice and
accompaniments of
meat, poultry, fish
or vegetables
• Sometimes rice and
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• Wan Chan 晚餐
• The most important
meal of the day
• The meal where
family members are
gathered
• Usually rice and
accompaniments of
meat, poultry, fish or
vegetables
• Rice and
accompaniments are
alwas separated
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• Always served with tea
• Bite-Sized Dumplings
• Eaten between Breakfast
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• Usually eaten during http://touringmalaysia.files.wordpress.
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• Usually people take their
time
• can be steamed, deep-fried
or baked,
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Lunar New Year
Mythology

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 Chinese Candy Box

• Placed in the living room

during CNY
• Items stored, e.g.:
– Chocolate coins
– Dried candied lotus seed
– Dried candied lotus root
– Melon seed
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Dragon Boat Festival

Myth: as a memorial
festival for Qu Yuan, a
patriach offical in the
Zhou dynasty, who
threw himself into a
river.

People make zhongzi to

throw into the river to
prevent fish from eating
Qu’s body.
Zong zi

•Glutinous rice or sweet sticky

rice that may be stuffed with:

•Beans
•Eggs and meat
•Sweet potato
•Walnuts
•Or a combination of all of
them
Moon Festival

Myth: A long time ago during the Yuan dynasty (AD

1280-1368) China was ruled my Mongolian people
after they overtook the Sung dynasty. The leaders of
the Sung dynasty wanted to revolt without being
caught, so they coordinated a way send messages to
each other without being noticed. Since the moon
festival was near, they ordered special cakes, moon
cakes, and had messages inscribed inside each of them.
On the night of the moon festival, they successfully
attacked and regained control of their government.
Moon Cakes

•round or rectangular with Chinese

character imprinted on the top.
•thin crust outside with dense filling
•Often made with:
•Lotus seeds
•Taro paste
•Red Bean paste
•Jujube paste
•Each may contain an egg in the
middle as well
Chinese Believes On Food: Yin & Yang

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 The Nature of Food
•   Yang                      Yin
Hot < Warm < Neutral > Cool > Cold

• Nature of Taste
Sweet Sour Salty Bitter Spicy
Spleen & Liver & Heart & Kidney & Lung &
Stomach Gall Small Bladder Large
bladder Intestine Intestine
 How to Eat According to Season
• Spring is dominated
by wind.
• Summer is dominated
by fire/heat.
• Fall is dominated by
dryness.
• Winter is dominated
by Cold.
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 Eat according to the Nature of
Sickness
Illness Nature
Fever Yang Evil
Cough Wind Evil
Dizziness Yin Evil
Diarrhea Damp Evil
 Chinese Herbs

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Common Therapeutic Food - Plants
• Caterpillar fungus
• Ginseng
• Ginger
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 Common Therapeutic Food from Animal
• Dried Deer horn
• Tai He Chicken
• To be continue on
weird/Exotic food…

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 Unusual Food
• Dry Lizard
• Alligator
• Stinky Tofu
• Bird’s Nest Soup
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 Weird Food
• Caterpillar
• Scorpion
• Baby Mouse Liquor
Exotic Food
 Life Expectancy
• Average = 73.18 years
– Male: 71.37 years
– Female: 75.18 years
• Longer expectancy in Macau and Hong Kong
SAR
 Health Issue: Smoking
• 67% of men and 4% of women smoke
• More than 3 million Chinese Smokers
• Contributes to four of the five leading causes,
in which heart disease, cancer and stroke are
the first three.
 Heart Disease: Coronary artery Disease
• the most prevalent heart disease
• Cause: changing dietary habit
– More fast food, atherogenic, high fat and salt
intake
– >800 Kentucky and >430 Mcdonald’s
 Cancer: Lung Cancer
• Increased by 465% in the past 30 years
• Most deadly cancer in China
• Causes: smoking, air-pollution
 PNDC:
Public Nutrition and Development of China
•Growing Number of Nutrition Related Diseases
•Aim to maintain a health nutrition status
•Ensure health care system is not overloaded

What is PDNC doing?

-Research
-Advocating a National Working Committee on Nutrition
-Coordinate and advance UNICEF nutrition program in
China
-Encouraging and creating communication with between
government, industry, consumers, and research and
development institutions
--Increasing access to nutrition related information
--Contributing to developing China’s nutrition industry
 Summary
Chinese population is denser in South East region, and food
culture is more developed and recognized there
Major Staples in Southern China: Rice, Tea Sweet Potatoes,
sugarcane and Fruit and Vegetable
Major Staples in Northern China: Wheat, Sweet Potatoes,
Cotton, Soybeans, Corn, Fruit and Vegetables
Grains are importain in breakfast, lunch, and dinner as well.
Dim Sum is a family gathering during weekend, eaten in
Brunch hours.
Chinese New Years, Dragon Boat Festival, and Moon
Festival are the three major festivals in Chinese culture.
People eat specific food to celebrate each of them.
 Summary Con’d
Chinese people believe that health is a result of balancing yin
and yang in the body; Food and season can affect the balance,
so food choices should be based on improving the balance for
optimal health.
There are more than 2000 recorded Therapeutic food in
China. Examples are caterpillar fungus, ginseng, and ginger
etc.
Some of the Chinese people eat very exotic food, such as Dry
lizard, Caterpillar, and animals' penis.
Smoking contributes to all the top five causes of death in
China, including Heart Disease and Cancer
PNDC is the center that works on reducing nutrition related
health problems in China
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