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Cash or li (simplified Chinese: 厘; traditional Chinese: 釐 or 厘; pinyin: lí) is a traditional Chinese unit of weight. The terms "cash" or "le" were documented to have been used by British explorers in the 1830s when trading in Qing territories of China .
The first franchise was opened in Beijing in 1988 by a Californian Chinese-American, Li Beiqi (Chinese: 李北祺; pinyin: Lǐ Běiqí), also known as "Mr. Lee". Li's face can be seen as part of the company logo, in a style similar to KFC's Colonel Sanders logo. Today, there are several hundred franchises present in many major Chinese cities.
Li (short) (厘), a Chinese unit of length; Li (area) (厘), a Chinese unit of land area; Li (mass) or cash (unit) (厘), a Chinese unit of weight; Li (subdivision) (里), the basic level administrative subdivisions of the Republic of China; Li people (黎族), an ethnic group of China; Li language, or Hlai; Limburgish language (ISO 639-1 ...
Li hing mui powder from Taiwan. Li hing mui powder is made of ground plum skin that has previously been pickled in a combination of licorice, red food coloring, salt, sugar, and occasionally aspartame and or saccharine. It can be used as a flavoring, usually sprinkled on candy and other fruits, notably pineapples, mangoes, guavas and apples.
English Image Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese Pinyin Notes Double steaming / double boiling: 燉: 炖: dùn: a Chinese cooking technique to prepare delicate and often expensive ingredients. The food is covered with water and put in a covered ceramic jar, and is then steamed for several hours. Red cooking: 紅燒: 红烧: hóngshāo
Li is the pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization (spelled Lí, Lǐ, or Lì when pinyin tone diacritics are used) of several distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different characters in Chinese. Li 李 is by far the most common among them, shared by 93 million people in China, [1] and more than 100 million worldwide. [2]
Xiaolongbao (小籠包 / ˈ ʃ aʊ l ɒ ŋ ˌ b aʊ /, 'little basket bun') is a type of Chinese tangbao (Chinese: 汤包), traditionally prepared in a xiaolong, a small bamboo steaming basket. [1] The xiaolongbao originates from the city of Changzhou in Jiangsu province , and is an iconic dish of Jiangnan cuisine.
Dark cuisine typically sounds or looks bizarre or even disgusting but in some cases is more appealing than anticipated. [1] [2] The Chinese term hei an liao li dates from its use in Chuuka Ichiban!, or "China's Number One!", [3] a 1990s manga series by Etsushi Ogawa, that follow a young chef in 19th-century China as he fights the Dark Cooking Society. [1]