Chinese Dietary Culture


  • Fried Meat with Pepper

    Fried Meat with Pepper

    Fried Meat with Pepper, Hot and Special Fried meat with pepper represents the most common life in Changsha. Having a bowl of it, you can easily recognize the free and plain lifestyle of people in Changsha. The fragrance of the pepper and the local pork merged together in the meat soup at the bottom of the plate.

    2025/07/30

  • Custard with Double Creme

    Custard with Double Creme

    Custard with double creme was a classic dessert since late Qing Dynasty and it was first spread in Shunde, Guangdong Province. Later, it became the specialty of Shunde and then circulated to the large areas of China with people's preference.

    2025/08/04

  • Sweetheart Cake

    Sweetheart Cake

    Sweetheart cake is famous around Guangzhou and it shares an elegant name "Dongrongsu". A legend came as this when we talked about wife cake. Once upon a time, a poor couple loved each other very much. But their father was seriously ill. Without any money to invite a doctor, the wife sold herself to a landlord to earn money for her father. Instead of being despaired, the husband created delicious cakes. He ransomed her with the money he made on selling cakes.

    2025/08/04

  • Chinese Herbal Tea

    Chinese Herbal Tea

    Chinese Herbal Tea, Refreshingly Cool and Healthy Chinese herbal tea enjoys a long history. It was said that in 306 AD, a doctor of Taoism named Ge Hong in East Jin Dynasty traveled to the south and found that malignant malaria was prevalent due to its warm and humid climate. He studied the medicines that were used to cure diseases caused by dampness and wrote many books targeted at the diseases caused by the climat of south of the Five Ridges.

    2025/08/04

  • Sausage in Guangdong

    Sausage in Guangdong

    Sausage in Guangdong, Different Flavor of Meat in Winter Traditionally, cured meat is processed of meat or poultry with salt and spices and wind-dried in low temperature for one winter. Due to its special taste and flavor, it has a long history in China and is closely connected to culture.

    2025/08/04

  • Cantonese Soup

    Cantonese Soup

    Soup in Guangzhou is usually boiled by strong fire and there is little condiment except the food materials and salt. Sometimes, small amount of ginger is added to reduce the fishy smell of meat. Only in this way can we get the original taste and flavor of the food materials. Often, there is a saying of "three-hour cook and four-hour stew" . More specifically, three hours for the strong fire cooked soup and four hours for the water stewed soup.

    2025/08/04

  • Porridge in Guangdong

    Porridge in Guangdong

    Porridge is the essence of the long-standing culture of Guangdong.

    2025/08/04

  • Crisped Grass Carp in Zhongshan

    Crisped Grass Carp in Zhongshan

    Crisped Grass Carp in Zhongshan, Crisp and Delicious By a pure chance, crisped grass carp swam out the Yangtze water reservoir. In a year, a villager caught a crisped grass carp in a pit near Fuhuo Village and brought it home. He cooked the carp and found the meat crisp. That's very rare for a grass carp. The Hakkas who resided near the Yangtze water reservoir were very superstitious and they were on the pins and needles for they thought they had eaten the fabled "holy fish".

    2025/08/04

  • Shredded Pancakes in Mutton Soup

    Shredded Pancakes in Mutton Soup

    Shredded Pancakes in Mutton Soup, Authentic Delicacy of Xi'an

    2025/08/04

  • Marinated Meat in Baked Bun

    Marinated Meat in Baked Bun

    Marinated Meat in Baked Bun, China-Style Hamburger

    2025/08/04