English translation of representative dishes of eight Chinese cuisines ...

The main characteristics of Shandong cuisine:

1) is made of various materials. For example. Due to its proximity to the Yellow Sea, Jiaodong cuisine is mainly made of aquatic products. Jinan people and Jinan people like to cook with delicacies, fruits, vegetables and peppers.

2) Pure, strong and mellow taste, not mixed taste. The chef is good at using onions and seasonings.

3) Shandong cuisine is famous for its excellent seafood dishes and delicious soup.

4) Chefs are good at making clear, fragrant, crisp, tender and delicious dishes by frying, stirring and steaming.

Famous dishes: stir-fried prawn, fried sea cucumber with onion, sweet and sour carp, big Jiaodong chicken wings, red scale Taishan fish, etc.

Sichuan cuisine (Sichuan cuisine)

The main features of Sichuan cuisine:

1) prepared with various ingredients.

2) It presents various shapes and tastes, and is famous for spicy food, fish-flavored shredded pork and strange food.

3) Have numerous cooking techniques, such as frying, frying, frying before stewing, and stewing.

Famous dishes: kung pao chicken, fried tofu, shredded pork with fish flavor, crispy pork slices, fried beef slices, etc.

Cantonese cuisine (Cantonese cuisine)

Cantonese cuisine is one of the main cuisines in China, which consists of Guangzhou cuisine, Chaozhou cuisine and Dongjiang cuisine. Guangdong cuisine has gradually formed its own characteristics by taking advantage of delicious food from all over the country-using various ingredients, providing food with various tastes, shapes and colors, being good at variety, supplying light food in summer and autumn, and supplying rich and mellow food in winter and spring. Guangdong cuisine is characterized by sour, bitter, spicy, delicious and fragrant smell. Guangdong snacks enjoys the reputation of "100 kinds of snacks, 100 kinds of flavors and 100 kinds of shapes". There is an old saying: "Guangdong food is the best in the country." Now we can say: "Guangdong provides delicious food from all over the world."

Famous dishes: fried tofu shrimp, Baiyun pig's trotters, crispy roast suckling pig, Dongjiang brine chicken, tasty beef balls, grandfather chicken, fried jellyfish, etc.

Fujian cuisine (Fujian cuisine)

Fujian cuisine has the following characteristics:

1) The chefs skillfully use kitchen knives, which is full of fun.

2) Fujian people's strangeness about soup is full of changes.

3) There are many kinds of seasonings, each with its own characteristics.

4) The dishes are carefully prepared, exquisite and elegant.

5) Fujian cuisine is characterized by clear and refreshing taste, delicious and light, slightly sweet and sour.

Typical dishes: monk jumping over the wall, chicken soup clam, ganoderma lucidum cicada, litchi meat, fragrant distiller's grains spiral slices, emerald pearl abalone, distiller's grains chicken, etc. Famous snacks: oysters, pot stickers, clam cakes, Melaleuca cakes, meatballs and Taiji taro.

Su Cai (Su Cai)

The main characteristics of Jiangsu cuisine:

1) is famous for its exquisite ingredients, freshness and vitality.

2) High cutting technology.

3) Grasp the duration and degree of heating and cooking.

4) Be good at keeping the original flavor of dishes. All the dishes have a light, mellow and refreshing taste. Yangzhou cuisine is light and elegant; Suzhou food is slightly sweet; Wuxi food is quite sweet.

5) Pay great attention to soup, which is thick but not greasy and delicious.

Famous dishes: buttered fish in cream sauce, three peach ducks, steamed meatballs, fragrant soft fish, crystal trotters, steamed herring, farewell my concubine, etc. Famous snacks include jiaozi stuffed with juicy crab meat, clear soup noodles and jadeite steamed dumplings.

Zhejiang cuisine (Zhejiang cuisine)

Among many local cuisines, Zhejiang cuisine occupies an important position, mainly composed of Hangzhou cuisine, Ningbo cuisine, Shaoxing cuisine and Wenzhou cuisine, all of which have their own local characteristics.

Hangzhou dishes, the representative of Zhejiang cuisine, is delicious, light, crispy, elegant and highly finished. Ningbo local cuisine is delicious, tender, soft and refreshing. Shaoxing cuisine has the characteristics of I and md of fish, including various local dishes, which are original, soft and fragrant, [covered with juice, light oil and heavy taste. Cooks are forbidden to use peppers. Wenzhou cuisine, that is, I, is now called serving, which is famous for its delicious seafood and light and delicious dishes.

Famous dishes: West Lake sour fish, Dongpo meat, Longjing shrimp, beggar chicken, steamed rice flower, lotus leaf wrapped meat, braised bamboo shoots and white fish in fermented glutinous rice.

Hunan cuisine (Hunan cuisine)

Hunan cuisine has three characteristics:

1) Skilled in using kitchen knives, delicious in taste and beautiful in appearance.

2) It is famous for its hot and sour dishes with various condiments.

3) Adopt various technologies.

Famous dishes: spicy diced chicken, fried fish slices, steamed turtle, steamed bacon, fire whitebait, Dongting fat fish belly, Jishou sour meat, spicy and tender bamboo shoots, chestnut and cabbage heart.

Anhui Cuisine (anhui cuisine)

Anhui cuisine has the following four characteristics:

1) uses a variety of ingredients.

2) Adopt unique technology.

3) Attach great importance to nutritious food.

4) Provide various dishes, some of which are full of local flavor.

Famous dishes: fish king with cream, stewed horse-body soft-shelled turtle, welcome pine, clay pot crucian carp, Fuli chicken, waxberry dumplings and so on. Local snacks include butterfly noodles, wax gourd and jiaozi, frozen rice candy, and Tunxi wine-brewed crabs.