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http://www.liuzhou.co.uk/china/food.htm
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Banquets Strange Food Drink Chinese food must be among the most famous in the world. Sweet and sour pork with egg fried rice is reported to be the second favourite dish in Britain, and must of course be preceded by a plate of prawn crackers. All washed down with a lager or three.
Well, perhaps not. A few dishes are well known, but the majority of "Chinese" restaurants in the west provide a westernised version of Hong Kong or Cantonese food, with the occasional Beijing or Sichuan dish thrown onto the menu. The vast majority of Chinese cooking is all but unknown outside China.
I have lived in China for ten years and travelled extensively throughout the country, yet I've seldom seen a prawn cracker! And egg fried rice is usually eaten as a quick snack, not with main courses. My wife, who is Chinese, saw her first prawn cracker in a London Chinatown Restaurant. And although sweet and sour is available in China, it bears little resemblance to that served in the west. Her verdict on her first 'Chinese' meal in England was memorable. "What is this ****?"
So what is the authentic Chinese food? Well, like any question about China, there are several answers. It is not surprising that a country larger than western Europe should have more than one typical culinary style. Then we must distinguish between what you may be served in a large hotel dining room, a small local restaurant, a street market stall or in a Chinese family's home. For an authentic menu from a medium-sized restaurant in Guangxi province of Southern China, .
But first, one myth needs to be dispelled. The starving Chinese! When I was a child I was encouraged to eat the particularly nasty bits on the plate by being told that the starving Chinese would lap them up. My suggestion that I would be more than happy to donate them never went down too well. At that time (the late fifties), there was indeed a terrible famine in China (almost entirely manmade). When I went to China first, it was after having lived in Soviet Russia and I expected to see the same long lines of people queuing up to buy nothing very much in particular. Instead, on my first visit to a market (in Hunan Province), I was confronted with a wider range of vegetables, seafood, meat and assorted unidentified frying objects than I have ever seen anywhere else. And it was so cheap I couldn't convert to UK pounds. And, when you arrive, you will probably be invited to a banquet (see below) where the host will ensure that there is at least twice as much food on the table as anyone could possibly eat.

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2007-03-20 04:52:23 · answer #1 · answered by LucySD 7 · 0 0

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2016-10-19 04:03:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

......and the question is: what specifically would you like to know about Chinese food?

2007-03-20 03:50:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

It is good to eat, they like using peppers.

2007-03-20 03:50:49 · answer #4 · answered by Patrick 5 · 0 0

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