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Shacha sauce (沙茶酱) – A sauce or paste that is used as a base for soups, hotpot, as a rub, stir fry seasoning and as a component for dipping sauces. Cha Shao sauce (叉烧酱, Cantonese: Char Siu) Plum sauce (苏梅酱) Fish sauce (鱼露) Doubanjiang, the mother sauce of Sichuan cuisine Laoganma, a popular sauce in China. Oil, chili ...
A dictionary to rectify Chinese characters often misused in everyday life. The first volume covers names and terms relating to food and drink [118] Xilüe (On Vinegar) 醯略: Zhao Xin A collection of texts on vinegar from over 100 ancient Chinese works. [119] Yangxiaolu (Gourmet's Note) 养小录: 1698 Gu Zhong
Foods came to China from abroad, including raisins, dates, Persian jujubes, and grape wine. The Venetian visitor Marco Polo noted that rice wine was more common than grape wine, however. [57] Although grape-based wine had been known in China since Han dynasty Chinese ventured into Hellenistic Central Asia, it was reserved for the elite. [45]
The Chinese phrase "seven necessities" literally means "開 open 門 door 七 seven 件事 items" when translated, which is an old Chinese saying. They include firewood (柴 chái), rice (米 mĭ), oil (油 yóu), salt (鹽 yán), sauce (醬 jiàng), vinegar (醋 cù), tea (茶 chá).
Chinese imperial cuisine is derived from a variety of cooking styles of the regions in China, mainly from the cuisines of Shandong and Jiangsu provinces. The style originated from various Emperors ' Kitchen and the Empress Dowagers ' Kitchen, and it is similar to Beijing cuisine which it heavily influenced.
Li (Chinese: 鬲; pinyin: lì) is a kind of cookware in ancient China, used for cooking and heating. [1] Ceramic li appeared in the late Neolithic Age, and bronze li were popular from the Shang dynasty to the Spring and Autumn period. In the late Warring States period, with the popularity of stoves, they were gradually replaced by kettles.
Lajia (Chinese: 喇家; pinyin: Lǎjiā) is a Bronze Age archaeological site in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, on the border between the Chinese provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. As at other sites of the Qijia culture (c. 2300–1500 BCE), the people of Lajia had an agricultural economy based primarily on millet cultivation and sheep herding.
Kuai (Chinese: 膾 or 鱠) was a Chinese dish consisting of finely cut strips of raw meat or fish, which was popular in the early Chinese dynasties. According to the Book of Rites compiled between 202 BCE and 220 CE, kuai consists of small thin slices or strips of raw meat, which are prepared by first thinly slicing the meat and then cutting the thin slices into strips.