Chinese Cuisine Flashcards
(35 cards)
Is the second largest country in the world
China
China has its latitude extends from _____to _____ and its longitudinal from ______to______.
18°N to 53°N, 73°E to 135°E.
China has a total population of __________.
1.35billion
What is the capital of China?
Beijing
Is the oldest civilization in the world and believed to be first discoveries of fire in the unrecorded history.
Chinese Culture
It includes styles originating from the diverse regions of China, as well as from Chinese people in other parts of the world
Chinese Cuisine
These are the three characteristics of Chinese dishes.
Color, Aroma and Taste
These are the spices are added to help dispel the ingredients particular smells, such as foul, fishy and mutton smells.
Aniseed, Chinese Cinnamon
Chinese cuisine taste is divided into five classes.
Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Hot, Salty
Texture is another very important feature of Chinese cuisine. A dish may have just one or several contrasting textures such as ____________,__________,___________,____________, and ______________.
Tenderness, Crispiness, Crunchiness, Smoothness, and Softness.
Chinese divide the temperature of heat into ___________, and ___________.
Military and Civil Heat
Usually used for quick cooking of crisp and tender foods.
High or fierce heat
It is thinly sliced ingredients are dipped into boiling water for a second or two then served with a dip sauce.
Shaun-Instant Boiling or rinsing
Flavor a little hot oil with spring onion and ginger root, then stir fry ingredients for a short time.
Ao-stewing or braising
A method of cooking a dish that contains several ingredients.
Hui-braising
This method doesn’t actually involve cooking, but simply call for cutting the raw or cooked ingredients and dressing it with seasonings.
Ban- Mixing salads
It is a raw ingredients are par boiled or blanched first then dressed with seasoning.
Giang-Hot salads
Pickle the food with salt and sugar or wish salt and wine. Dishes prepared in this way have a substle fragrance and crispiness.
YAN- Pickling
A flat bottomed pan is used with little oil and medium or low heat.
JIAN- shallow frying
Ingredients are coated with batter and fried in a small amount of oil on both sides over a low heat until down.
Ta-Pan-Frying
This cuisine is from eastern region of china. wide variety of fruit , vegetables and fish is used with light and delicate seasoning.
Shantung cuisine
This cuisine is from northern region of china (beijing). that space noodles , pancakes and dumplings are famous from this region as the wheat and corn is produced instead of rice.
Peking cuisine
This cuisine is from northern region of china (beijing). that space noodles , pancakes and dumplings are famous from this region as the wheat and corn is produced instead of rice.
Peking cuisine
Is a famous dish which is a handmade of noodles in the soup of braised and sauce and served with shredded chinese mushroom and minced pork
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