Chinese dishes

Since we were talking about cooking in the previous article, let's let us introduce you some typical Chinese dishes discovered as the stay progresses.

We are fortunate to be in Canton, whose gastronomy is famous and reputed to be the best in China. There are all kinds of animals, although we didn't venture to test insects, monkeys and other exotic animals (at least not to our knowledge...).

A Chinese meal is very different from what you can see in our home. Several dishes occupy the table and everyone can pick whatever they like, giving a much more convivial image to the meal.

It has often been hallucinated to see restaurants full at any time of the day. It's very simple, the Chinese eat all the time!

You will take a little rice?

There are dim-sum, a kind of pastry filled with meat and surrounded by rice or wheat dough. With time this term is increasingly being used wrongly and through, but you grasp the idea.

Example of dim sum

Dim-sum can be fried (spring rolls for example), baked in the oven (tartlets) or steamed.

This is the case with baozi, these stuffed rolls in different ways. For our part, we can find them in meat (bao red), or red beans (dou sha bao). They serve small snacks when you have a lunch break...

Some rou bao

Another example is jiaozi, a kind of Chinese ravioli stuffed with vegetables and steamed, which can be eaten without hunger. We could also evoke cheung fung (excuse spelling), that is, meat (pork, beef or chicken) in rice paste embedded in soy sauce.

Jiaozi, or Chinese-style ravioli

You should also know that in most restaurants, the Chinese come to occupy empty seats even if they don't know anyone at the table, eat their soup in 2 minutes and leave.

Noob baguette

Here is a brief glimpse of Chinese and especially Cantonese cuisine, which is frankly much more appreciable than what we expected... More than just a perfect mastery of how to handle the chopsticks, we're on the right track!