Showing posts with label cuisine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cuisine. Show all posts

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Popular Chinese Food: Fried Breadstick(Youtiao) 炸油条


Youtiao has a tale to tell.   In Chinese, youtiao is called 油炸桧 (fry 秦桧1090–1155)or 油炸鬼(fry the ghost), Chinese people made this food for abreact their anger toward a most blamed traitor in Song dynasty of China.  No matter the original story is true or not, the interesting fact is youtiao has become a popular food in China and east Asia since then.

Monday, November 2, 2015

Slim down by eating Cantonese food 想减肥长寿 吃粤菜

Hong Kong people have longest life in the world, life expectancy is 83.48, which should be credited to their diet. Cantonese food features rice, vegetable, sea food and soup, drinking tea after having meal. They're used to steam rice, fish and meat,  so their foods have more original taste and less oil and fat, no butter and cheese.

If you try to slim down, eat Cantonese food daily, it won't disappoint you.

The picture shows fry rice noodle.

Cooking introduction:
1, Put the rice noodle into boiling water, cook 95% done, then take it out.

2, Fry the vegetable and meat with a bit oil and salt, when it almost done, put 1 in to 2, mix it well.  Enjoy!

After meal, drinking tea will get rid of grease.

P.S.
Canton / Guangdong is also called (yue),  it's used in special words, e.g. 粤菜,粤语,粤剧。You can also say 广东菜,广东话,but no 广东剧。


Monday, October 26, 2015

Recommend food: Xian Shui Jiao 咸水角

 This is my homemade Cantonese food Xian Shui Jiao (salt water fried dumpling,咸水角).

Feature: crunchy outside, soft inside, good taste, very delicious.

Introduction:

Skin: 
Sweet rice flour and regular flour (1:1), salt, sugar, use hot water mix it, then knead it into a dough. 

Stuffing:
Meat, vegetables, white pepper powder, salt. 

You can find it in Chinatown, Cantonese and Hong Kong restaurant provide morning tea always have it and other tapas, like siu mai(烧卖)、steam shrimp dumpling (虾饺)、soy bean skin roll(腐竹卷 )、sweet rice chicken(糯米鸡), these are called Dim Sum(点心).