Coke chicken wings

Most people like to drink Coke. Have you ever tried to use Coke cook dishes? What we will learn today is how to use coke to cook. When I was in China Coke chicken wing is my little brother favorite food. So, let's begin!

We need prepare a can of Coke, chicken wings, ginger, green onion, soy sauce, salt, cooking oil.

1. Prepare all of the material. Wings, ginger, green onion.

2. Pour oil in the pan, and stir-fried ginger and green onion.

3. Stir-fry chicken wings with ginger and green onions in the pan, until golden brown on both sides.

4. Add two tablespoons of soy sauce, continue to stir-fry a minute.

5. Pour a can of Coke into the pan. When boiling, change a small fire to stew.

6. Stew wings until just has a little coke juice in the pan, turn to high heat, stir evenly until all juice is absorbed.

7. Dish up and serve!







I hope you will like!


Good mood, good cook!

Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs

Today, I will describe how to cook rids-named Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs. This dishes more children love to eat.

major ingredient: Ribs

minor ingredient: Green onion, ginger, garlic, anise, pepper, salt, sugar, vinegar, cooking wine, soy sauce, sesame.

1. Cut ribs into small blacks, then put the water, ribs, give a boil over a high heat. Remove the foam, add green onion, anise, ginger, garlic, and a little vinegar into the pot. Simmer over low heat for one to one and a half hours.

2. After one to one and a half hours, remove ribs and drain the water.

3. Put the rib soup into the bowl.

4. Use the hot oil, and put sugar into the pot, fry until like caramel.

5. Put ribs into pot until getting darker. And then add soy sauce, vinegar, cooking wine.

6.Add ribs soup, Simmer over low heat for half hour, and turn to high heat, stir evenly until all sauce is absorbed.

7. When the sauce is absorbed, add a little vinegar again.

8. Dish off and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Historical elements influencing Chinese food culture

As a Chinese old saying goes:"mountaineers rely on mountains, just like those by the waterside profit from water." People in different regions choose the food mainly by the materials they have. For instance, in southeastern coastal areas, people are fond of fish and shrimp, which are not accepted by the local people in the northwest area. In addition, politics, economic and technology are main factors which contribute to the area differentiation of Chinese food. Beijing ,an important city from very early time in Chinese history, attracts a lot of famous cooks, which makes different food habits from the whole country affect each other and mingle. The development of economic also performs a role. For example, the northeast China had been relayed on gathering-----fishing, hunting and nomadism. However, as more and more Han Chinese person moved in and reclaim, the agriculture in the central China has already take root there.

Let’s make it more concrete.

I’d like to divide the north China into northeast and northwest.

First talk about the northeast. This area includes Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia, in which, the soil is rich without large population nor frost period. The economic there is made up of farming, hunting, fishing and gathering. Compared with the food in the middle or lower reaches of the Yellow River and Yangtze River valley, the food in northeast consist of more animal albumen. Furthermore, because of the low temperature, people there like frozen food specially. The frozen food in northeast China being a large number of kinds and quantity, as well as a long eating period, is a big characteristic of northeastern food. Such as ,frozen meat, frozen fish, especially the frozen tofu. Because of a short nonfrost period, the fresh vegetable is in short supply. As a result, people like to stock a large number of them for the winter.

Then about the northwest. This food circle in made up of Shanxi, Gansu, Jiangxi and so on. From Qin dynasty on, this area is fine for the growth of grain and wheat. So until now, the wheaten food is popular there, especially in Shanxi and Jiangxi. Because the agriculture’s prior place, animal husbandry is not very advanced.

Food in south China presents another view.

The Yangtze River alley consists of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Shanghai. This area is the important cradle land of rice. Centuries ago, it already had an advanced technology of growing rice and other food materials. And until period in spring and autumn and warring states, the “a land of milk and honey” pattern had taken shape. Anhui food promoted with the development of Huizhou merchants and spread to the whole country. In Ming and Qing dynasty, Jiangsu was a reliable taxpaying province. And some books published that time such as <eating rules of Tong> push the polarization of Jiangsu food. The northeast area includes Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan and places surrounded where Vegetables and fruits, seafood and poultry are abundant. From the end of Qing dynasty, the evasion of western countries result in the change of food habit here. Western food made a great influence on the food culture of south of the Five ridges. Commercial advantages, tradition and atmosphere make the food culture commercial.

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Chicken soup with mushrooms

Today I recommend a very nutritious soup! Named Chicken soup with mushrooms! Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that it is can prevent a cold if drink chicken soup. Chicken soup with mushrooms not only delicious, but also very easy to cook!


Now, we are start step by step!


We need the following food material:

         


                                               

1. Put the chicken leg into the boiling water for a minute. Than bails out.


2. Put a little oil into the hot pot, wait a few second than put ginger and chicken into the pot, stir-fry until medium well.


3. Put the water into the pot,until boiling and add some cooking wine.


4. Then simmer half hour. After half hour, add mushrooms into soup.


5. Now you just need wait 2-3 hours later, add some salt and green onion (according to personal preferences), then you can drink chicken soup with mushrooms.


Tips:

1. According to personal preferences, can slice mushroom.

2. Put some ginger as much as possible, the tastes will be better. (If you like ginger)

Braised fish in brown sauce

Now I show you how to cook another fish dish, this is the very common way to cook fish in China, named Braised fish in brown sauce.

So, let's start.

1. Clean the green onion, and cut off.

2. Clean ginger and cut it into slices.

3. Clean the fish block, pat dry with kitchen paper.

4. Pour oil in the pan and put the ginger in the pan.

5. Put the fish block into the pan until golden brown on both sides.

6. Pour soy sauce into pan.

7.Pour the cooking wine into the pan.

8. Pour some water into the pan and add a little sugar and salt.

9. After just a little water in the pan, put the green onion into it. And then remove the fish into the plate.

10.Began to taste it!

Salmon head and tofu soup

My favorite food is fish. Almost all kinds of fish. In china, there are variety of fish dishes. Such as fried fish slices with sweet and sour sauce, steamed fish, stewed fish with soy sauce, etc. However, fish soup is the most nutritious. Today I will show you how to cook the salmon head and tofu soup.

Let's start step by step!

1. Clean the salmon head, and remove the gill. Pat dry with kitchen paper.








2. Clean the tofu, ginger and pleurotus eryngii, then cut into slices

3. Clean the greens.

4.Put the oil in the pan and heat it until the oil is hot. Then put the fish head into the pan, fry until golden brown on both sides.

5. Put the water into the pan until boiling, then put the tofu into the pan. Use the the low fair for an hour.

6. After an hour put the greens into the soup, add the salt and after few minute, the soup finish!

7. Began to taste it!









This soup is very bland, and while being high in nutrition also happen to be spectacularly low in calories.

If you also like fish, you can try to cook this soup!

Chinese food menu(1)

As you know, there are too numerous to count dishes in China. Just pork, we can cook a variety of dishes. So, I am show you the menu. Today, I show you the pork menu.

    炸酱肉丁 fried pork dices with soya bean paste

　　

　　酱爆肉丁 stir-fried diced pork with bean sauce;

　　

　　quick-fried diced pork with soybean paste

　　

　　宫爆肉丁 stir-fried diced pork with chilli/chili sauce and peanuts

　　

　　板酱肉丁 stir-fried iced pork with chilli/chili sauce

　　

　　辣子肉丁 stir-fried diced pork with green pepper

　　

　　青椒肉丁 stir-fried diced pork with green pepper

　　

　　青豆肉丁 stir-fried diced pork with green peas

　　

　　炒肉片 stir-fried pork slices

　　

　　脆皮锅酥肉 deep fried pork slices

　　

　　木须肉 stir-fried pork slices with eggs and fungi;

　　

　　stir-fried pork slices with scrambled eggs

　　

　　青椒肉片 fried pork slices with green pepper

　　

　　葱烹白肉 fried pork slices with leeks

　　

　　葱爆肉粉条 fried pork slices and bean starch vermicelli with leeks

　　

　　清炸里脊 fried pork fillet slices with leeks

　　

　　葱爆里脊 fried pork fillet slices with leeks

　　

　　葱爆里脊丁 fried diced tenderloin with scallion

　　

　　酱爆里脊肉 fried diced tenderloin with soybean paste

　　

　　酱炸里脊丁 fried diced tenderloin with soy sauce

　　

　　糖醋里脊 fried pork fillet slices with sweet and sour sauce

　　

　　粉蒸肉 steamed pork slices with glutinous rice flour;

　　

　　steamed pork slices with ground glutinous rice

　　

　　米粉肉 steamed pork slices with glutinous rice flour;

　　

　　steamed pork slices with ground glutinous rice

　　

　　荷叶米粉蒸肉 steamed pork slices with glutinous rice flour wrapped in lotus

　　leaves; steamed rice-flour-coated pork wrapped in lotus leaves

　　

　　冬菜扣肉 steamed pork slices with spicy cabbage

　　

　　青椒塞肉 steamed green pepper stuffed with minced pork

　　

　　扒白条 braised pork slices

　　

　　红烧猪肉 braised pork with soy sauce; braised pork with soy sauce

　　

　　红烧肉 braised pork with soy sauce; braised pork with soy sauce

　　

　　栗子红烧肉 braised pork with chestnuts

　　

　　烩里脊丝 braised tenderloin shreds

　　

　　酱爆白肉 stir-fried pork with soybean paste

　　

　　炒肉丝 stir-fried shredded pork

　　

　　芙蓉肉丝 stir-fried shredded pork with egg-white sauce;

　　

　　stir-fried shredded pork with egg-white

　　

　　鱼香肉丝 stir-fried pork shreds with chilli/chili sauce

　　

　　肉丝炒青椒 stir-fried pork shreds with green pepper

　　

　　蔬菜肉丝 stir-fried shredded pork with vegetables

　　

　　榨菜肉丝 stir-fried shredded pork with hot pickled tuber mustard

　　

　　炒腊肉 stir-fried cured pork

　　

　　炸猪肉串 pork shashlik

　　

　　煎猪肉串 pork shashlik

　　

　　炸丸子 fried pork balls

　　

　　红烧狮子头 stewed large pork ball with brown sauce

　　

　　冬瓜火腿 stewed sliced ham with white gourd

　　

　　火腿酿冬瓜 stewed ham-stuffed white gourd

　　

　　冰糖蜜灸火腿 stewed ham with crystal sugar

　　

　　炒猪肝 stir-fried pig’s liver

　　

　　炒肝尖 stir-fried pig’s liver

　　

　　熘肝尖 quick-fried liver with distilled grains sauce

　　

　　软炸猪肝 soft-fried pig’s liver

　　

　　清炸猪肝 fried pig’s liver

　　

　　炸腰花 fried pig’s kidney

　　

　　炒双脆 fried kidney with pork tripe

　　

　　炒腰花 stir-fried pig’s kidney; fried sliced pig’s kidney

　　

　　炒腰肝 stir-fried pig’s kidney and liver

　　

　　椒麻腰片 steamed sliced kidney with hot sauce

　　

　　椒盐排骨 fried pork ribs with pepper sauce

　　

　　豉汁排骨 fried spareribs with black bean sauce

　　

　　糖醋排骨 fried spareribs with sweet and sour sauce

　　

　　炒什件 fried mixed meat

　　

　　烤乳猪 roast piglet; roast suckling pig

　　

　　猪杂碎 chopsuey; cooked chopped entrails of pigs; cooked chopped entrails

　　

　　杂碎 chopsuey; cooked chopped entrails of pigs; cooked chopped entrails

　　

　　杂烩 chopsuey; cooked chopped entrails of pigs; cooked chopped entrails

　　

Cultural elements related to Chinese delicacies

The cuisine culture of China is wide and profound. It has a long history and enjoys a high honor in the world. Today I will introduce the Diet Culture Circle in China! Let you learn more about Chinese cuisine culture.

1.Conception of  “Diet cultural circle”

Because of the regions, nations, customs, beliefs and other reasons, historically formed a unique diet cultural area. Each diet cultural district can be understood as the occupied area with the same diet and cultural attributes.

2.Types

• Northeastern Diet cultural circle (东北饮食文化圈) 
• Beijing and Tianjin（京津）
• North（中北）
• Northwestern（西北）
• The middle reaches of the Yellow River（黄河中游）
• The lower reaches of the Yellow River（黄河下游）
• The middle reaches of the Yangtze River（长江中游）
• The lower reaches of the Yangtze River（长江下游）
• Southeastern（东南)
• Southwestern (西南)
• Qinghai-Tibet Plateau（青藏高原）

3.Chinese regional food culture

Northeastern Diet cultural circle

1. Favorable natural conditions, abundant food ingredients
2. Changbai Mountain， Greater Higgnan Mountains
3. Diverse  Diet Cultural characteristics 
4. North Korea，Russia

Beijing and Tianjin Diet cultural circle

1. Abundant food ingredients
2. Various cooking techniques
3. Prosperous markets and restaurants

North Diet cultural circle

1. bold，milktea
2. Food ingredients focus on animal products

Northwestern Diet cultural circle

1. Unique ethnic flavor
2. Wide variety of food

The middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River Diet cultural circle

1. Special preference for pasta

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Diet cultural circle

1. Use beef ，mutton and diary products for main food ingredients
2. Lack of fruits and vegetables

Southeastern Diet cultural circle 

1. Abundant food ingredients 
2. Be crazy about innovation

Southwestern Diet cultural circle 

1. Heavy taste
2. Especially famous for its spicy and sour taste

The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Diet cultural circle

1. A time-honored history of diet culture
2. Pay great attention for dish’s appearance and cooking skills
   

Enormous cultures lead to multitudinous eating habit

And all of this build up the time-honored history of 

Chinese cuisine

We are lucky to own these precious culture

So, why not 

Enjoy eating, taste their culture and love our life