Most Popular Chinese Dishes
This is a traditional street food that can be found on most street vendors’ stalls in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, especially in the busy shopping districts, attracting hungry shoppers and people succumbing to a snack on their way home from work. Three of a kind usually includes aubergine, peppers and tofu, filled with a …
A pork chop bun(zhu pa bao), known as a Maranese hamburget, is one of the most popular snacks in Macao. Macao is a small peninsula in mainland China, acros the Pearl River Delta fom Hong Kong, and it was a Portuguese overseas teritory umtil 1999. When I visited recenty, it reflected a mix of Portuguese …
Char shao su(Barbecued Pork Puffs) is a local traditional snack in Guangdong Province and belongs to Cantonese cuisine. Probably one of the best ever variations of dim sum. Crisp puff pastry wraps a filling of savoury yet sweet Cantonese barbecued pork, and the edges of the pastry are encrusted with the oozy sauce. The char …
Rice wraps, Northeast China style, the taste of autumn, you can’t forget it after one bite. It is a super simple Northeast snack in China. There are vegetables and rice. Several ingredients are wrapped in vegetable leaves. It has rich taste and delicious taste. Many restaurants in the north have this dish. My family eats …
I grew up in a poor household, but that didn’t stop my grandmother from telling me to dream big. If I wanted to eat lobster, she told me to close my eyes and imagine the next bite I was taking was lobster. That was a wonderful leap of imagination and I’ll always be grateful for …
We had just finished our tour around the hutongs (alleys) of Beijing when we saw a lady with a small cart selling these steaming buns. I asked her in Mandarin, “What is that?” and she replied “Zhuròu baozi”-which means pork bun. When I bit into it, I loved how the coriander and leek complemented the …
Shengjianbao, also known as Pan-Fried Baozi Stuffed with Pork is a Shanghai speciality. Shengjianbao are buns filled with juicy pork, then arranged in a flat, oil-slicked wok in which the bottoms are fried until they are crisp. My uncle introduced me to shengjianbao at Shanghai’s famous Dongxin Lu wet market; we both ran over to …
Next to the New Year festivities, the Chinese wedding was, perhaps, the most noisy and colorful celebration. The entire village joined in the party which lasted until the bridegroom got drunk! But before going any further, let’s go back a few months when a matchmaker began the affair. A’Chinese girl was considered marriageable when she …
In this post, we are going to tell you how to make chilli chicken step by step. Tender chunks of marinated chicken breast are swiftly stir-fried with chilli and other seasonings to create this enduringly popular homestyle poultry dish, which may be prepared and cooked in less than twenty minutes. Along with rice and some …
This is one of the simplest dishes of all to cook, relying entirely on the unadorned rich flavor of pumpkin, which blossoms when allowed to cook in its own juices. Try to select sweet mature pumpkins for this dish. This is a vegetable dish that most children like to eat. It is a popular choice …