5 Yue (Cantonese) Cuisine
From Guangdong Province, mainly made 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 everything 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, which helps to keep the nature of ingredients. The Most Famous Dishes: Scalded Shrimps Sliced Beef with Oyster Sauce Salt Baked Chicken Roasted Goose Rice Noodles Fried with Sliced Beef Tingzai porridge Guangdong-style Mooncake Roasted Suckling Pig Stewed Sweet and Sour Pork
6 Su Cuisine
From Jiangsu Province and Shanghai. Ingredients are supposed to be as fresh as possible 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, which can utterly digest the sweet and delicious sauce. The Most Famous Dishes: Fish Head in Casserole River Carp in Sweet-and-sour Sauce with Pine Nuts Steamed Bun Stuffed with Pork and Peeled Shrimp Different Kinds of Sticky Rice Cake
3 The Lu Cuisine
From Shandong province, mainly made up of 3 parts: Ji’nan style, Jiaodong style, Confucius Dishes
Ji’nan 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 rice as main food are also very typical in Shandong Province Confucius 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 Dishes one of the most expensive even luxurious dishes nowadays.
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Sichuan Cuisine
• 2 Hui Cuisine
Dishes made around Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province, characteristic of the cooking of abundant venisons( wild birds especially) and exquisite cutting technique. Main Characters: large quantity of servings; a little oily; sugary; smoked fowl or pork The Most Famous Dishes: Maofeng Mountain Smoked Fish Smoked Preserved Fish Fuliji Roasted Chicken Butterfly Noodles 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 the world.
7 Zhe Cuisine
Zhe Cuisine has long 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, while Shaoxing dishes are well-known for its delicate. The Most Famous Dishes: Peeled Shrimps with Longjing Tea Leaves West Lake Water Float Grass Soup Steamed West Lake Grass Carp in Vinegar Sauce Fried Small Bells( with dried soybean milk as the skin, stuffed with minced pork and some vegetable) Sautéed Prawns and Eel with Fresh Chilli Pepper
Various Chinese Dishes
• The 8 Cuisines of Dishes
1 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. Hot chilli, wild pepper and ginger are the ever-present ingredients Typical Flavors: spicy, sour and spicy, zanthoxylum-flavored, sweet and sour, garlicflavored, fish-sauce-flavored, etc The Most Famous Sichuan Dishes: Stir-fried Spicy Carp; Twice-cooked Pork Slice; (“twice” means boiled for Diced Chicken with Red Pepper and Peanuts ; Steamed Pork with Rice Flour; Ma Po Beancurd; (it’s said to have been invented by a pock-marked woman) Chongqing Hotpot; Rabbit Meat with Orange Peel ; Bean Noodles in Spicy Sauce; Sliced Beef and Ox Tongue in Spicy Sauce; Sichuan-flavored Noodles; Meat-stuffed Dumplings in Spicy Sauce