FOOD

By Karen Kong Sin Yun

 The Social Functions Of Food

• Establish and maintain interpersonal relationship

• Express the degree of interpersonal relationship
• Represent social status
• As a group characteristic
• Celebrate important event
• Symbolic significance
• Means of reward or punishment
 Types of Chinese Meal

• Cold dish
• Hot dish
• Soups and Congees
• Staple Food and Xiaochi
 Festival Food

• Chinese Dumpling – Spring Festival

• Chinese Niangao – Chinese New Year
• Tangyuan – Yuanxiao
• Zong Zi – Dragon Boat Festival
• Moon cake – Mid-Autumn Day
• Chongyang Cake – Chongyang Festival
• Laba porridge – Laba Festival
 Breakfast
• Soybean Milk and Deep-Fried Dough Sticks
• Steamed Buns Stuffed with Meat, Soup, or Nothing
• Tofu Pudding
• Wheat Noodles
• Rice Noodles
• Steamed Glutinous Rice
• Rice Porridge or Congee
• Wontons and Dumplings
• Pancakes with Eggs
• Morning Tea and Dim Sum
 Chinese Tea

• Green Tea
• Yellow Tea
• White Tea
• Oolong Tea
• Black Tea
• Dark Tea
• Pu’er Tea