Guangdong Dishes

The Cantonese cuisine is one of the four schools of Chinese cooking. It can be divided into Guangzhou style, Chaozhou style, and Haka style, with Guangzhou style as the representative. The Guangzhou style is broad and rare in ingredients, exquisite in matching of ingredients, good at taking initiative after imitation and modifying according to the tastes of guests. The cuisine pays much attention to clearness, freshness, refreshment, smoothness, tenderness, and crispness and particular to smell and presentation. The styles are numerous and complete in flavoring. The Guangzhou style cuisine incorporates the strong points of other schools and keeps on taking initiative, such as Beijing Spareribs, Deep fried Yellow Croaker, Saute Shrimp with Eel, which absorbs the characteristics of Beijing style: Beef on Sizzling Platter, Pork Balls with Hot Spicy Sauce, Sichuan Chicken Cubes, absorbing the characteristics of Sichuan style: Five Spots Fish, Dongpo Pork, and Wineblanched Shrimp, absorbing the characteristics of Zhejiang style: Great-grandfather Chicken, famous in South of the Five Ridges, drawing on the experiences of Anhui style: while the Pork Steak with Watermelon Sauce and Steak with Tomato Sauce are adopted from the western style.

Cantonese cuisine has three wonders: Braised Dog, Salt Baked Sparrow and Snake Soup. The dog selected for “Braised Dog” should have the following features: The head is like an anvil, the ears are like dried orange peel, the legs are like chopsticks and the tail is like a pepper. The dog is braised with dried orange peel, ginger, and straw grass, called “Three treasures of Guangdong”, and other flavorings, After modification, lettuce, purple medic, and garlic are added. If it is eaten with lemon leaves or sea purple medic, a sweet scent will assail the nostrils and it is really delicious. Salt Baked Sparrow means Salt baked Skewbald Sparrow. The meat of this kind of sparrow is very tender and the bone is small. The taste of this dish is delicious. Snake soup refers to “Dragon Fights with Tiger Soup”. The ingredients are cobra, serpentine, old cat, and young chicken. Because snake looks like dragon, cat looks like tiger, and chicken look like phoenix, this dish is also called “Dragon-Tiger-Phoenix Soup”.

Publishes at : 07-10-29 20:35

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