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Essay About Chinese Food

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Chinese cuisine originated from various parts of China. This reflects the traditional cooking methods rise to different styles of food. There are eight famous Cuisines in China named from their originated region: Shangdong, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Hunan cusines (廖华英). There are four out of eight, Sichuan (Chuan), Shandong (Lu), Cantonese (Yue or Guangdong) and Huaiyang (Jiangsu) cuisine, which are often greeted as leaders of Chinese food. It is slightly different division from Thailand that Thai major delicacies are divided following their originated areas such from the Northern, Southern, Central and Northeastern (Isan) (Bhumichitr).
In case of talking about the taste and some techniques, in Cantonese food, many cooking methods are used especially steaming and stir frying due to their ease and quickness. Balancing of flavors and not greasy of a dish is preferred, so that using of modest spices will not cover the primary flavors …show more content…

It usually consists of two elements. Firstly, a source of carbohydrates like noodles or rice and secondly, other component side dishes like vegetable or meat. Soup is often served at the end of a meal on Chinese table (Kittler and Sucher). For Thai people, soup is usually served together with a meal. Chinese food presentation is considered to be a form of art as similar as original Thai cuisine prepared very neat for the presentation of the food and the decorative details (Kittler and Sucher; Bhumichitr). The Chinese menu are named and considered lucky while Thai menu names reflect the cooking style, for example, stirred pork with basil leaves. Nowadays, a Thai meal typically consists of a single dish if eating alone (rice top with some cooked meat or vegetable). Many occasions, rice with many complementary dishes served alongside and shared by all, which is similar to Chinese meal like family style (Kittler and

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