Kitchen of China |
Meal
You, probably, are surprised, if learn, that the Chinese cuisine as that does not exist. The Chinese culinary tradition unites set of dishes, characteristic for the different areas of China which are at times in absolutely different climatic zones. Climatic conditions influence both culinary traditions, and on a typical set of products, as causes a gastronomic variety. Practically each province offers the original kitchen, but conditionally culinary China can be divided into four big regions: Beijing, Sichuan, Shanghai and Canton. Usually begin with cold meat snack, then submit fish or seafood, hot meat or a bird, vegetables and soup. Fish submit entirely, and to overturn it does not follow: the boat of the fisherman who has caught it is considered, that differently, can overturn. To a table fig. necessarily moves Forget about knifes and plugs. The Chinese cuisine is specially created for sticks with which it is easy to pick up the small slices making a basis of dishes. Rice moves to a table in any case. In the north of China instead of rice can submit noodles and the rolls prepared on pair. The traditional breakfast represents rice broth with meat slices (or fishes) and vegetables. Have dinner at midday; have supper in 18. Fans of a night life will be disappointed - Chineses early go to bed. If you have invited, do not try rice which bring the last. So you show to owners, that the meal was plentiful and tasty. With sticks handle with care and never leave them in the plate: it reminds Chineses sticks for aromas during commemoration.
Peking or northern kitchen (Imperial kitchen)
In dishes mutton, and also кунжут (oil, grains, the dough), borrowed of the Mongolian kitchen is traditionally used. Noodles and rolls on pair often replace rice (in northern areas grow up grain). The most widespread vegetable - so-called Chinese cabbage, something an average between cabbage, salad-latukom and a celery. Here prefer to season food with sharp rice vinegar and to prepare vegetables in sweet-sour sauce. The Peking kitchen combines simple nourishing dishes with refined dishes of an imperial court yard. Top of culinary art, undoubtedly, a duck on-pekinski. A duck dry, impregnate with soya sauce and fry. The ready dish is direct at you the waiter in white gloves undresses. To you will submit a slice of a duck with a crisp, cucumber slices, a plumelet of onions and hardly sweetish plam sauce on thin, almost transparent fritter. Other popular dish - "a poor chicken". As well as on-pekinski, it it is necessary to order a duck in advance. The chicken is stuffed with field mushrooms, cabbage, an onions, grasses, turned in lotus leaves, obmazyva-etsja by clay and is fried in the furnace. The client himself should break the fallen asleep clay crust by means of small молоточка. A smell simply delightful!
Shanghai, or East kitchen
We recommend to try various soups, fried равиоли, the seafood, the well-known "hairy" crab living in fresh water. Besides, here prepare improbable quantity of dishes from a duck. In Shanghai the culinary technology - products long extinguish in soya sauce with addition of rice vodka. Равиоли with meat, the eel in fault with garlic, fried noodles with shrimps - only small part of that can offer you.
Sychuansky, or the Western kitchen
The area Sychuanja located in the centre of the country, is one of the most fertile in China. For it preliminary processed products are characteristic: dried, salty, smoked, with a considerable quantity of the pepper added for the best safety. Sychuansky kitchen very spicy, smelling sweet as aromas of garlic, fennel, a coriander, an anise. Cooking on pair and smoking - the most widespread methods of a local cuisine. The frog pads. A smoked duck in tea leaves, royal shrimps with garlic, a tofu (cheese from квашеной a soya) with pepper - masterpieces of culinary art Сычуаня. And the chicken with a peanut is simply inimitable.
Kantonsky, or Southern kitchen
The Kantonsky kitchen has developed under the influence of the best imperial cooks when in 1644 the court yard of a dynasty of Mines has been compelled to run from capital in Canton. The developed fishery has predetermined a local cuisine basis. Prepared on pair fish and дим сум - small pies which submit in bamboo small baskets - the most popular dish. The main requirements to food - fresh products and a minimum of seasonings. At restaurants submit rice on-kantonski, soup from the spark fins, and also exotic dishes from meat of a dog, snakes and turtles.
