Chinese Food - tradition and art

Chinese food is very popular in SUA as a catering service or served in restaurants. It is a unique, tasty and very common cuisine with main ingredients: chinese rice, soya sauce and noodles and fish. Chinese rice or noodles with vegetables, fish or meat, being very spicy. In South China rice is dominant and in the north, wheat based products are dominant. Soup (with some wheat based product) is usually served at the end of the meal, but the western world influenced the chinese cuisine to serve soups at the start of a meal.

As everybody knows, the chinese are famous for their unusual eating method: two chopsticks. The chinese cuisine uses raditional chopsticks made of ceramics and not with regular wooden chopsticks. The Chinese dishes are especially made in small pieces in order to make eating with chopsticks a lot easier.

In China, a lot of people eat without meat, so they adopted the vegetarian style. The chinese people have allowed themselves to became vegetarian because of an incredible thing called: Tofu. Chinese kitchens use Tofu as a replacement for meat in their meals because they say it is much more healthier. Tofu is also used to produce milk and cheese for those who are lactose intolerant.

Desserts in the Chinese Cuisine are not as common as they are in the West. Desserts are not commonly served in the chinese cuisine, but instead sweet foods are served during the meal: sweet and sour chicken, sweet and sour pork, sweet duck etc. The prefered sweets in the chinese cuisine are based on fruits: the most popular being banana and apple, exotic fruits or rice.

Fried Rice is a very popular dish in the chinese cuisine from over centuries. It is used as a home dish from around 4000 BC. Fried rice in the past was made from cold leftover rice which is then fried with other leftover ingredients. Today fried rice is made with fresh ingredients and usually served before the dessert. Fried rice have dozens of varieties, each one with their own unique list of ingredients. Fried rice with sweetcorn, with seafood, with shrimps, with prawns, with carrots and onions etc. Yuanyang Fried Rice is topped with two different types of sauce, usually a savory white sauce, and a red sauce based on tomatoes.
Thai Fried Rice is topped with a special sauce made by a combination of fish sauce, lime, cliantro and black pepper beef , vegetables , squid, muscles , prawns , shrimps , sweetcorn.