About Chinese Cuisine

Chinese cuisine is a very prominent food cuisine served in every part of the world. Chinese cuisine has a long history spanning from the ancient Chinese empires. Due to the historical immigrant of Chinese populations to ever parts of the world, traditional original Chinese food recipe from China has currently evolved from the original taste. Often time Chinese recipes are being localize and blended to adept and cater for the local taste.  Chinese dishes served in different parts of the world will be distinctive and differ significantly in flavour due to this factor. Often times, the term such as American Chinese recipe, Canadian Chinese recipe, Indian Chinese recipe, Malaysian Chinese recipe are used to describe the localized Chinese cuisine.

Rice is the main source of food for Chinese. Steam rice is a necessity form of dish in the Chinese cuisine culture. Every other different dish such as poultry, pork, fish, vegetable and soups variants are mainly used as a supplement and serve together with rice. Noodles are another form of main Chinese food source next to rice. Noodles comes in different forms of texture, sizes and shapes of noodles can be found such as such as Hokkien noodles, vermicelli, rice sticks and rice noodles.

The Chinese cuisine preparation method can be divided into few main methods such as stir-fry, deep-frying, steaming, red stewing, boiling, deep frying, shallow frying, barbecuing, roasting, cold mixing and finally poaching. Each and every cooking method preparation creates a unique distinctive taste, flavour and texture for the ingredients used.

Popular Chinese dishes such as Fried Rice, Fried Noodles (Chow-mien), Peking Duck, Roast pork (Char siew), Roast duck, spring rolls, fried Chinese dumpling (Jiaozi), Chicken soup, steamed barbecued pork buns (Char Siew Bao) are a common name found in the Chinese food menu list.

Dim Sum is a term used for small servings of dishes served in wooden baskets and often steamed. Dim Sum is often served as a breakfast or lunch for the Chinese community. Popular top dim sum includes the Siew Mai, Har Gau, Char Siew Pau, Chee Cheong Fun, Spring Rolls and the list goes on. Dim sum is a very well accepted Chinese cuisine around the world.