Chinese Dietary Culture


  • Pork with Bean Sauce

    Pork with Bean Sauce

    Pork with Bean Sauce, Rolling Eating Way As the traditional well-known food, the dish pork with bean sauce stuffed in bean curd (pork with bean sauce for abbreviation) has not that long history. However, there's a touching story behind filled with emotion.

    2025/08/05

  • Pancake-Jianbing Guozi

    Pancake-Jianbing Guozi

    Pancake is one of Tianjin's well-known snacks. People in Tianjin are used to eating pancakes for their breakfast. Pancake is made of green bean flour, eggs, cracker or the crunchy "crisp fritter", with additional seasonings of fermented flour sauce, chopped green onion and hot pepper sauce.

    2025/08/05

  • West Lake Vinegar Fish

    West Lake Vinegar Fish

    You can see from the dish name "West Lake Vinegar Fish" that it's original from Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Actually it's a famous local dish with a long history, first made in Song Dynasty. It's indeed a classic dish with well-deserved reputation. No wonder that tourists travelling to Hangzhou must order this dish so that they feel the trip is complete.

    2025/08/05

  • Fried Shrimps with Longjing Tea

    Fried Shrimps with Longjing Tea

    Fried Shrimps with Longjing Tea, the Descendants of Royal Family in West Lake Fried shrimps with Longjing tea is a mixture of the best green tea and shrimps in rivers. The emerald-green Longjing Tea is presented with jade-white shrimp along with a stream of tea lingering around the shrimp. This dish embodies the splendor of spring in West Lake and the spirit of river and lake regions simultaneously.

    2025/08/05

  • Fried Pork with Perilla

    Fried Pork with Perilla

    The tale of Fried Pork with Perilla dated back to Ming Dynasty. The King Zhao named Zhu Gaosui (son of Emperor Chengzu) had a beautiful and intelligent maid who was a master of lyre, Chinese chess, writing and painting

    2025/08/05

  • Four-Joy Meatballs

    Four-Joy Meatballs

    "It is named ‘Four Consummation'. The first consummation is your achievement of the first place in the imperial examination, the second for your wedding, the third for you to become the Emperor's son-in-law, and the last for your reunion with your family. " Upon this answer, Zhang Jiuling had a great laugh and said, "Just call it ‘Four-Joy Meatballs'".

    2025/11/29

  •  Flavors and delicacies in Tongren

    Flavors and delicacies in Tongren

    What to eat in Tongren ? Tongren is located in the eastern Fanjing Mountain area of Guizhou Province. The local cuisine is somewhat salty, but not too spicy, and the snacks are very cheap. There are many flavors and delicacies in Tongren

    2024/01/08

  • Marinate Mandarin Fish

    Marinate Mandarin Fish

    Marinate Mandarin Fish,also known as Stinky Mandarin Fish 臭鳜鱼, is a traditional famous dish in Anhui Cuisine, belonging to the Huizhou Cuisine. It is as white as snow, as garlic cloves, and tastes smooth and tender. Because fish-meat is rich in protein, it gradually decomposes under the action of microorganisms, producing amines with a foul and fishy odor. Therefore, stinky mandarin fish will smell and eat fresh.

    2024/01/28

  • Bamboo Shoots from Wenzheng Hill

    Bamboo Shoots from Wenzheng Hill

    Bamboo Shoots from Wenzheng Hill is a traditional famous flavor in Huizhou mountainous area of Huangshan City. Bamboo shoots are produced in Wenzheng Hill located in Shexian county of Huangshan City in East China's Anhui province.

    2024/01/28

  • Yellow Crab Shell Cake  in Huangshan

    Yellow Crab Shell Cake in Huangshan

    Yellow Crab Shell Cake is one of the most famous specialities in Huangshan City. It uses first-class funky dried vegetables and fresh fatty meat as fillings. It's slowly roasted in a specially-made oven with a charcoal fire. Because its color looks like the yellow of a boiled crab shell, it gets the name "yellow crab shell cake". It's an ideal breakfast or snack.

    2024/01/28