Culinary Art (2)

   4. Zhejiang Category

     At the east boast of East China Sea, rich of water channels north, hills in southwest, rich in wild lives, Zhejiang Province is a land lowing with milk and honey. People here make use of ample seafood resources, they have created many kinds of famous Zhejiang dishes which are deeply loved throughout the world.

  The first character is the pursuit of slim, special, fresh and delicate. They choose delicate materials here, making the dishes super of the delicate parts. By using specialties, the dishes here are full of local characteristics. Due to the stress of being fresh and live, the taste is pure and true. Second the cooking method is famous for burn, stew, braise and simmer, keeping original taste. Last they stress delicate and exquisite, many dishes are full of beautiful legends, thus strong color of culture is another character of the category.

  5. Jiangsu Category

  There are exceptional advantages in Jiangsu Province: sea east, Lake Hongze west, T'ai Lake south, Yangtze River in the middle, canals from north to south, wild weather and fertile land, thus there are abundant in material in the forming of category.

   The main material of the category is seafood, delicate cutting technique, stressing on fire, famous for cooking in a slight way, always for a long time, keeping the original taste, fresh and mild. The dishes here are elegant, with wonderful shape while bones soft, fresh and crisp, all make the dishes more delicious.

  6. Shandong Category

  Lying at downstream of Huang River, Shandong Peninsula, Shandong Province extends between the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. Due to the wild weather and ample products here, there are plenty of seafood at coastal areas, and other various kinds of cattles, fowls, vegetables, fruits and freshwater fishes, they all spread in a large scale.

  Cooks here always finish the culinary art in the way of burn, fry, and blast, fresh, pure, crisp and tender dishes. The traditional method of cooking here is famous for the use of clear soup and creamy soup, mainly light and with the attention to keep fresh taste of major materials.

  The main character of Shandong category lies at strengthening the original taste of dishes, salty and fresh inland while fresh and salty coastal.

   7. Guangdong Category

   Located at southeast, wild weather and ample products, after developing for a long time, Guangdong gradually forms a category with distinct characters, which is especially famous throughout China.

   At first the dishes are made by plenty of materials, wide and strange, often using live seafood. Actually it is the category that takes the most kinds of materials. Then the skilled cutting technology, especially the killing of fresh seafood, making the dishes simple and natural. Featured at the taste of fresh and tender, due to its own different way of cooking, thus it has formed a complete different way of cooking after a long time of development.

8. Sichuan Category

 With vast expanse of fertile land and ample products, Sichuan owns abundant materials for cooking. It also stresses taste, full of features, with different condiments, mainly hot pepper, pepper, black pepper, green onion etc. It has different tastes, famous for administrative and incremental levels.

They often do cooking by burn, stew, simmer etc, always the usage of soup. Actually there are countless kinds of the category, which is the biggest one in China. As for the category, there are different tastes such as fresh and salty, domestic trivia, spicy and hot, ginger juice, sour and hot, sweet and sour, mustard etc.    Different taste has different kinds of dishes, with a lot of choices for you.

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