enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Customs and etiquette in Chinese dining - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs_and_etiquette_in...

    A basic place setting consists of a small teacup; a large plate with a small, empty rice bowl; a set of chopsticks, usually on the right of the plate; and a soup spoon. Additions may include a chopstick rest or holder, a large water or wine glass, and a smaller glass for baijiu .

  3. Chinese tea culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_tea_culture

    China's national minority cultures have their own tea customs. In the words of Li Xiousong, "The Tibetans put tea before food." [24] A gift of brick tea is considered the most valuable gift. They give butter tea to the most distinguished guests, salt tea to regular guests, and plain tea to people of Han nationality. [24]

  4. Chinese tea - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_tea

    A traditional Chinese tea set consists of special clay or porcelain teapots, teacups, tea spoons, tea strainers, draining trays, tea forceps (for the leaves), a large forceps (for the tea cups) and occasionally, tea caddies. All of these are kept on a special wooden tea tray with an inbuilt draining arrangement and a holder for the drained ...

  5. Chinese culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_culture

    A traditional Chinese tea culture (茶艺,茶藝) set and three gaiwan. The practice of drinking tea has a long history in China, having originated there. [91] The history of tea in China is long and complex, for the Chinese have enjoyed tea for millennia. Scholars hailed the brew as a cure for a variety of ailments; the nobility considered ...

  6. Plate (dishware) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_(dishware)

    A plate is a broad, mainly flat vessel on which food can be served. [1] A plate can also be used for ceremonial or decorative purposes. Most plates are circular, but they may be any shape, or made of any water-resistant material. Generally plates are raised round the edges, either by a curving up, or a wider lip or raised portion.

  7. Food safety in China - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_in_China

    Changes in China's food production system are generating an awareness of food safety problems. China's agricultural system is composed mostly of small land-holding farmers [9] and subsistence agriculture. China, however, has less arable land than other nations and farmers intensively use fertilizer and pesticides to maintain high food ...

  8. Customs clearance in China - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs_clearance_in_China

    China with no unified custom process, standards and requirements or a single custom entity makes the process more complex. As customs regulation may vary from region to region across China. Each custom office has its own regulations and requirements for clearance. The following is a brief detail how export process works at the Shanghai Customs ...

  9. Etiquette in Asia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_Asia

    According to traditional customs, when sweeping the tomb, people should bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food in front of the tomb of their relatives, burn the paper money, cover the tomb with new soil, break a few new green branches and insert them on the tomb.