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A culinary book with recipes for dishes, pastries, snacks, brewing methods as well as food preservation methods. [114] Yangsheng suibi: 养生随笔: 1773 Cao Tingdong Health care knowledges for the elderly, the 5th volume is dedicated to congees listing 100 recipes [115] Suiyuan shidan (Recipes from the Garden of Contentment) 随园食单 1792 ...
Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book (Chinese: 培梅食譜) is a cookbook series by Fu Pei-mei, written in both Chinese and English. [1] There were three volumes, the first published in 1969 and the last published in 1979. [2] The sales of the first volume reached 500,000. [3]
The book, comments the food author Anne Mendelson, "never claims to be presenting an encyclopedic, region-by-region picture of Chinese cuisine in all its vastness and complexity", but evokes the "shape and feeling of the major Chinese cooking techniques and putting them to simple use in her recipes". The ingredients are generally limited to ...
The Butterfly Lovers is a Chinese legend centered around the tragic romance between Liang Shanbo (梁山伯) and Zhu Yingtai (祝英臺), whose names form the Chinese title of the story. The title is often abbreviated as Liang Zhu ( 梁祝 ).
Meng Po (Chinese: 孟婆; pinyin: Mèng Pó; Wade–Giles: Meng-p'o; lit. 'Old Lady Meng') is the goddess of oblivion in Chinese mythology, who serves Meng Po Soup on the Bridge of oblivion or Naihe Bridge (Chinese: 奈何桥; pinyin: Nàihé qiáo). This soup wipes the memory of the person so they can reincarnate into the next life without the ...
West Lake Fish in Vinegar Gravy. West Lake Fish in Vinegar Gravy (Chinese: 西湖醋鱼; pinyin: xīhúcùyú), also known as Song Sao Fish (宋嫂鱼; sòngsǎoyú), is a traditional local specialty dish of Hangzhou in Zhejiang. It first originated in Southern Song dynasty. The material of West Lake Fish in Vinegar Gravy usually is the grass ...
"Ye Xian" (traditional Chinese: 葉 限; simplified Chinese: 叶 限; pinyin: Yè Xiàn; Wade–Giles: Yeh Hsien; [jê ɕjɛ̂n]) is a Chinese fairy tale that is similar to the European Cinderella story, the Malay-Indonesian Bawang Putih Bawang Merah tale, [1] and stories from other ethnic groups including the Tibetans and the Zhuang. [2]
According to some Chinese legends, there are 4 kinds of cranes which differ in colours: white, yellow, blue, and black. [ 4 ] : 108 The black crane is believed to have lived for centuries. [ 4 ] : 108 According to Chinese legends, at the age of 1000, a crane would turn grey and after another 1000 years, the crane would turn dark; thus being ...