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Food and Dining Take the opportunity to savour traditional Chinese food as cooked and enjoyed by the locals. Due to the vast size of the country each province specialises in local delicacies and with the advent of internal migration within China you need not visit the specific province to taste these dishes as you are likely to find skilled practitioners in the major towns and cities offering the food of their home province.
Some dishes you may like to try include:- Beijing
Zha Jiang Mien translates as “fried sauce noodles” – the noodles are simply boiled, it’s the sauce that is fried, typically a yellow bean paste cooked with some meat and vegetables which is then mixed in with the noodles.
Shanghai
Xiao Long Bao – Little dragon buns, more like dumplings than buns in terms of the actual pastry, these parcels of steamed meat retain their juices inside and come served in a large bamboo basket
Sichuan
Flavoursome food that makes good use of chilli, pepper, garlic and ginger for those who like it hot and spicy. Alternatively, you can spend an afternoon chilling out in a Chengdu Tea House relaxing and enjoying the slower pace of life.
Hunan
Their food is also spicy, they make more use of chilli soya bean sauce and their cuisine can be considered salty and spicy.
Hong Kong / Cantonese
Dim Sum – steamed dumplings offered in bamboo baskets consumed for breakfast or lunch washed down with hot tea as people go out for “yum cha” which literally means to drink tea.
Vegetarian
As one of the world’s largest consumers of pork, you may be surprised to learn that vegetarians are also well catered for, with many practising Buddhists in China it’s common for people to take a meat free diet for one day of the week, besides being a religious practice it’s also considered good to cleanse the system.
You need not restrict your visit to purely eating, participation can be just as fun and rewarding, you can join a cookery class, exploring the shops and markets to see where fresh ingredients are sourced, bring them back to the kitchen and prepare them with the guidance of a local expert – who can explain the methods and uses of the various seasonings and flavours.
Tea
There is an old saying in China that there are seven daily necessities of life - firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. When sharing good company, the intelligentsia of imperial China would group together ‘music, chess, painting, poetry, wine and tea’. Without doubt, tea has been an important part of traditional and cultural practices over many centuries and continues to be so today.
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