Chinese Foods

If you want to talk about Chinese Foods, it is not easy to be brief because there are more than 50 cultures inside the mainland of China and there are many different types of food in China that can be categorized roughly by four regions, and they are different dining styles.
Chinese used to have their dinner together with all the family members sitting around a table and each person will have one set of dining tools in front of them, including two bowls, one for rice and another for soup, one pair of chopsticks and one plate for meat / vegetables.





Chinese diners never pick up rice from the bowl but will handle the bowl towards their lips, then poke the rice into their mouths by the chopsticks. In areas with strong Western influences, such as Hong Kong, diners are provided individually with a heavy metal spoon for this purpose. Chinese foods are not popular to use herbs and spices.
The art of cooking Chinese food can include dishes and food preparation techniques which are difficult to develop and may require the expertise of a chef with lots of experience.











Doufu (Mapo Daofu : Pockmark Woman's Bean Curd)

Doufu is the most popular food in Chinese Society. And Doufu is a main food in a faming family. Mapo Daofu is a popular Chinese dish from the Sichuan (Szechuan) province.











Mantou (Steamed bun in China)

Mantou made with milled wheat flour, water and leavening agents, they are similar in nutrition and eating qualities to the white bread of the West. Mantoa is kind of steamed bun in China or we know as name Chinese Steamed bun. It’s typical eat as staple in Northern parts of China. A popular story in China about Mantou actually originated from the meaning “barbarian’s head". Zhu Geliang of Shu State led his army back home. He encountered a swift-flowing river which defied their every effort to cross it. The local people told him he must throw fifty barbarian heads into the river to please the River. But Zhu, he didn't want to have anymore bloodshed for he had already killed many people. He came up with an idea, he asked a cook to make the buns in the shape of human heads and throw them into the river and the river had been fooled and then they were able to cross the river and go back home.







Dim Sum

Dim Sum is the most famous food in world-wide. Dim sum is inextricably linked to the Chinese tradition of "yum cha" or drinking tea. Dim Sum is best explained as a breakfast/lunch meal of small, individual prepared dishes that are usually ordered off carts that are pushed through the dining room. It is a Guangdong Style snack which served as light meal. Chinese people they are happy to eat Dim sum drinking tea in the afternoon and relaxing conversation.





Lobster

Lobster is the famous style seafood in Hong Kong. Some difference from the traditional western chef's style. Lobsters are invertebrates are found all over the world. They have a hard protective exoskeleton. A long time ago, lobsters were so plentiful that Native Americans used them to fertilize their fields and to bait their hooks for fishing. In colonial times, lobsters were considered poverty food. Maine Lobster has been harvested along the Maine coast for generations, but it was not always the highly-esteemed seafood that it is now.

Now Chinese food is widespread in many other parts of the world, from Asia to the America, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa but they know only few Chinese foods from some restaurant and tease is difference depends on climate.