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 Chinese food - definition of Chinese food in Encyclopedia
Solid Chinese food is eaten with chopsticks and liquid with a wide, flat bottomed spoon (usually ceramic).
Chinese consider having a knife at the table as barbaric, so most dishes are prepared in smaller pieces, ready for direct picking and eating.
Unlike Western meals where meat protein is the main course of a meal, a source of carbohydrates (rice, steamed buns, noodles) is usually the main ingredient of a Chinese meal.
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Chinese_food   (140 words)

  
 EthnoMed: Chinese Food Cultural Profile
Foods that belong to the yang (also known as "hot" food) are chili pepper, garlic, onion, curry, cabbage, eggplant, toro, pineapple, mango, cherry, peanuts, beef, turkey, shrimp, crab, French fries, fried chicken, and pizza.
The reason most of the Chinese restaurants in America have deep-fried dishes such as sweet and sour pork, almond fried Chicken, and deep-fried shrimp is to promote business and to please western tastes.
Again, in Chinese food, meat portions are usually small, and often used for the purpose of flavoring the dish or soup.
http://ethnomed.org/ethnomed/cultures/chinese/chinese_food.html   (2172 words)

  
 Chinese food culture: Necesity, art and enjoyment
Food is preserved by smoking, salting, sugaring, steeping, pickling, drying, soaking in many kinds of soy sauces, and so forth, and the whole range of foodstuffs is involved-grains, meat, fruit, eggs, vegetables, and everything else.
The basic stuffs from which food is prepared; the ways in which it is preserved, cut up, cooked (if at all); the amount and variety at each meal; the tastes that are liked and disliked; the customs of serving food; the utensils; the beliefs about the food's properties -these all vary.
In the Chinese culture, the whole process of preparing food from raw ingredients to morsels ready for the mouth involves a complex of interrelated variables that is highly distinctive when compared with other food traditions of major magnitude.
http://www.index-china-food.com/food-culture.htm   (2318 words)

  
 Chinese Food Recipes - Introduction to Chinese Food and Cooking
Chinese Pork Recipes - Cantonese roast pork, Szechuan pork, sweet and sour pork, steamed spareribs, Szechuan pork tenderloin, Szechuan style pork chop, Chinese barbecued pork chop, sweet and pungent meatballs and many more Chinese recipes...
Chinese food is deliciously tasty and the variety of flavors is so cleverly contained in each dish that there is nothing incongruous in the serving of meat and poultry in the same course.
Chinese Chicken Recipes - Lemon chicken, sesame chicken, Kung Pao chicken, Moo Goo Gai Pan, garlic chicken, orange chicken, sweet and sour chicken, whiskey chicken wing and many more Chinese recipes...
http://www.chinesefood-recipes.com   (666 words)

  
 CHINESE FOOD THERAPY
Foods are classified by the five tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty and pungent.
Most therapeutic food dishes are eaten as meals or with meals and repeated for days or sometimes weeks until the body has enough nutrition to repair itself.
The four food groups in the Chinese diet are grains, fruits, meats and vegetables.
http://www.dhyansanjivani.org/chinese_food.asp   (2949 words)

  
 Chinese Food Recipes UK - Chinese Recipes - Curry Recipes - Hungarian Recipes - Recipes Chicken - Indian Recipe
Chinese Food Recipes UK - Thai Recipes uk - We provide the best wild boar and many other alternative meats all with a wide range of recipes for you to create healthy, tasty meals.
Chinese food recipes, thai recipes, venison recipes, wild game recipes.
Chinese Food Recipes UK - Chinese Recipes - Curry Recipes - Hungarian Recipes - Recipes Chicken - Indian Recipe
http://www.speciality-meats-online.co.uk/chinese-food-recipes.htm   (157 words)

  
 Chinese Food Recipes - Delicious Chinese Cooking Recipes
Chinese food and Chinese cooking recipes are popular around the world.
The soup receipe is Chinese Tofu Lettuce Soup, and the two stir-fries are: Pork and Vegetable Stir fry, and Stir-frying Gai Lan (Chinese Broccoli).
I've prepared a three course Chinese meal with a soup and 2 stir fry dishes that servers 3 to 4 people.
http://www.healthycookingrecipes.com/chineserecipes/chinese-food-recipes.htm   (213 words)

  
 Chinese food therapy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
chili pepper, deep fried food, dried meat, (Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried) lychee.
As a generalization, Yang foods tend to be dense in (Click link for more info and facts about food energy) food energy, especially energy from fat, while Yin foods tend to have high water content.
One of the most commonly known is a rice soup that goes by many names including (A Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast) congee and jook.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/c/ch/chinese_food_therapy.htm   (1124 words)

  
 FOOD AID - chinese food recipe
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 Chinese Food Recipe
Cajun Food Recipe - Jambalaya, gumbo and more...
Chinese Food Recipe - Different Chinese cooking styles, mouthwatering recipes and more...
Malaysian Food - Wafting aroma of Meat Satay on a bed of rice...
http://www.targetwoman.com/articles/chinese-food.html   (963 words)

  
 UPHS Nutrition Care Guide: Chinese Food
Good low-fat Chinese entrees include: chicken, beef, pork or shrimp chow mein, chop suey, moo goo gai pan, and stir-fried meat with vegetables.
Chinese dishes -- such as steamed vegetables, fish and rice -- are very healthy, nutritionally balanced and low in fat and calories.
Select foods that are steamed, broiled or roasted.
http://www.pennhealth.com/health_info/nutrition/chinese.html   (316 words)

  
 The Food Timeline: history notes--Asian-American cuisine
Food historians tell us although the ingredients (chicken/soy sauce) and cooking methods are ancient, this particular recipe is relatively new.
A well-known modern use of sweet and sour is the meat and fish dishes from the Guangdong region of China.
These are delectable Siberian dumplings filled with meat or mushrooms or potatoes or cabbage.
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodasian.html   (8826 words)

  
 traditional foods
Probably more food is consumed during the New Year celebrations than any other time of the year.
Other foods include a whole fish, to represent togetherness and abundance, and a chicken for prosperity.
Vast amounts of traditional food is prepared for family and friends, as well as those close to us who have died.
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/traditional_foods.html   (250 words)

  
 Chinese Food
Cooked and warm food is preferred as cooking is a form of pre-digestion on the outside of the body.
Food should not be too sweet, as according to Chinese medicine excessive sweetness overwhelms and weakens the spleen.
Ninety percent of the Chinese selected for the study were from rural areas where they ate locally raised food and stuck to a 'traditional diet'.
http://www.sacu.org/food.html   (865 words)

  
 Chinese Food: A Wok On The Wild Side
(Chicken with Chinese Vegetables.) Fifty-five percent veggies and 30 percent chicken.
American Chinese focuses on the chicken and meat.
And if you're only ordering one dish, at least make it a vegetable-rich one like Chicken Chow Mein or Shrimp with Garlic Sauce.
http://www.cspinet.org/nah/chinese.html   (1652 words)

  
 Chinese Food Served At Buddhist Temple, Beijing Restaurant, Chinese Takeaway
From the appearance of the food, texture and taste, it was hard to believe that it was all vegetarian food and cooked over a wood fire on the earthen floor of a large kitchen.
All the Chinese food, including the Sweet and Sour Chicken, is freshly cooked to order.
Most of the food that had not been eaten at the end of the meal was packed in doggy-bags to take home.
http://beifan.com/033food/33chinese.html   (453 words)

  
 Chinese Food Culture
Chinese food seems to taste better eaten with chopsticks which are the special utensil Chinese use to dine.
In China, foods are given different meanings, so that in certain occasion a kind of food, can only be eaten by some specific individuals, or a kind of food must be eaten in specific occasion.
There are other foods and snacks symbolizing good wishes under special circumstances, such as duck, chicken and melon seeds.
http://www.warriortours.com/intro/cuisine_culture.htm   (792 words)

  
 Chinese Food
Yangzhou chefs use stir-frying, steaming and red-stewing a lengthy braising with soy sauce and wine and a bit of sugar.
Unlike Western meals in which several foods are combined on one plate, at a Chinese banquet you will be served one dish at a time.
Foods are classified as cool or hot, remedial or damaging.
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/china/js97/index/htms/31/food/food.html   (1224 words)

  
 FOOD AID - chinese food
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 Chinese Cuisine/Chinese Food
Chinese medicine cuisine seems to be Chinese monopoly.
Eight cuisines will lead you to a visual restaurant full of delicious food and impart you the most important cuisine systems.
Minority cuisines provide you information on a few popular minority foods, although most minority diets are worth trying.
http://www.warriortours.com/intro/cuisine.htm   (147 words)

  
 Chinese food
The Chinese people whether living in or outside the county all share a proper sense of pride for such a rich Chinese food and drink culinary culture.
This page is designed to help you better understand Chinese food, provide some easy recipe, and show how to cook the cuisine.
Being one of the important fruits of China's age-old culture, the Chinese food and drink culinary art enjoys a high prestige both at home and abroad.
http://web.syr.edu/~sshih/recipe.htm   (1195 words)

  
 Chinese food index: food and tea culture, recipe and pictures
Chinese cuisine is one of the greatest methods of cooking.
Chinese food index: food and tea culture, recipe and pictures
The Chinese people enjoy eating good food at all levels of society so cooking has developed into a very sophisticated art.
http://www.index-china-food.com   (133 words)

  
 Chinese Food
Chinese food can be roughly divided into the Northern and Southern styles of cooking.
At the same time, restaurants serving foods from all over the world have been springing up everywhere in Taipei: American hamburgers, Italian pizza, Japanese sashimi, German beer, and Swiss cheese are easily found in practically any part of the city.
In Western cooking, lemon is often used to remove fishy flavors; in Chinese cooking, scallions and ginger serve a similar function.
http://www.china-inc.com/education/food   (2001 words)

  
 Chinese Food Nutrition Calories
Chicken, beef, shrimp, or pork stir fried with noodles, contains 36g of fat, and 31% of its calories from fat.
For a diet where you can eat Chinese food and still lose weight, we recommend Slim for Life ™.
Fried wonton wrapper surrounding vegetables and pork or shrimp, contains 11g of fat, and 52% of its calories from fat.
http://www.weightlossinternational.com/newsletter/chinese-food-nutrition-calories.html   (157 words)

  
 Discovering China > Chinese Food
Certain foods are eaten during the New Year celebrations.
There are many different types of Chinese food. A lot of the food that is eaten in China is eaten around the time of the Chinese New Year.
On New Year's Day, Chinese families will eat vegetarian food called jai.
http://zone.cps.k12.il.us/Showcase/Student_Projects/China/Chinese_20Food/chinese_20food.html   (127 words)

  
 Chinese Cuisine
Chinese cuisine information on major cuisines, medicinal cuicine and sections on chopsticks and food culture.
Food Culture : Just as the ingredients of each dish and presentation is important, table manners and courtesy among diners are very much part of the Chinese cultural tradition.
The development and diversity of the delights of Chinese cuisine are also representative of China's long history.
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/cuisine_drink/cuisine   (600 words)

  
 Chinese Food at Sweet-Rice.Com
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Related terms are recipes for chinese tea, easy japanese recipes, chinese herbal teas, japanese soup recipes, and easy japanese food recipes.
Not only Chinese like to drink tea, yet its neighboring tribes too learn to enjoy tea.All Japanese dishes have been served within your house since I was a particular kid.
http://www.sweet-rice.com/CHINESEFOOD.php   (702 words)

  
 traditional chinese food recipes emporium
traditional chinese food recipes research is not all that easy at times.
We’re sure of this because we’ve done an awful lot of exhausting research in the traditional chinese food recipes niche and we believe we’ve been to every single site on the web covering it.
What we’ve done is break down everything into small chunks and analysed it to come up with the traditional chinese food recipes pages most relevant to your needs.
http://www.websitings.com/mall/traditional_chinese_food_recipes.htm   (273 words)

  
 Language Log: Chinese Philadelphia Food
It consisted of a miniature cheese steak inside a spring roll casing, and amazingly, the casing was fried to perfection, neither soggy nor brittle and dried out.
For the most part the menu is like that of all the other take-out Chinese places in the area, but when I went over the appetizers I encountered some unfamiliar dishes.
I can't say that it seemed terribly Chinese, but I have to admit, its good, and it goes nicely with my favorite (闌記 brand) chili and garlic sauce.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000855.html   (525 words)

  
 Chinese Cultural Studies: Chinese Food
The principal food of all Chinese is rice, for although they have wheat and sell bread kneaded therefrom, yet they do not eat it save as if it were a fruit.
There were whole geese and ducks, capons and hens, gammons of bacon and other chops of pork, fresh pieces of veal and beef, many kinds of fish, a great quantity of fruits of all kinds, with elegant pitchers and bowls and other knickknacks all made of sugar, and so forth.
All these tables were loaded as much as they could be with plates and dishes of food, save that only the principal table contained cooked meats, and all the uncooked food was on the other tables which were for grandeur and display.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/cfood.html   (1185 words)

  
 chinese food index: chicken recipe
Authentic Chinese dishes do not always find the chicken dishes with gravy.
Cooking methods and utensils, popular recipes, chopsticks, and dim sum for the Chinese meal.
Many of them are dry, or then tossed with different ingredients in an almost dry consistency.
http://www.index-china-food.com/index-chicken.htm   (232 words)

  
 The best herb, food and health sites. - chinese food
Chinese food and tea culture, recipes and photos for Beijing duck, Shanghai noodles, Sichuan soup and Guangdong dumplings...
Explore the world of Chinese cuisine, including recipes, cooking tips and the role of food in Chinese culture....
Chinese food index: food and tea culture, recipe and pictures...
http://eatmoreherbs.com/links/chinesefood.html   (303 words)

  
 chinese food fat content
chinese food fat content and chinese chicken salad dressing recipe.
chinese food fat content chinese chicken salad dressing recipe
World Class Cookbooks - Easily find a great recipe by choosing from over a hundred cookbooks at your fingertips!
http://www.netrecipes.net/chinese-food-fat-content-.html   (48 words)

  
 AsianWok.com:Chinese food recipes
The exquisite taste of Chinese food recipes are the most universally accepted, unsurpassed in variety, dominating all Asian cuisine by their history and magnitude.
The unmatched breadth and scope of chinese recipes is a product of the oldest continuous civilization in the world, an immensely vast land, and an infinitely creative, ingenious, and diverse people.
Find Chinese food recipes and more at AsianWok.com
http://asianwok.com/aqoi/chinese_food_recipes.html   (205 words)

  
 ChinaVista's Recipe Corner
Chinese dishes appeal to the senses through colour, shape, aroma and taste.
Tan cuisine is both sweet and salty, There is a saying that "southerners have a sweet tooth, and northerners crave salt", but Tan dishes manage to satisfy both.
Qing Dynasty Palace Food and the Full Manchu-Han Banquet
http://www.chinavista.com/culture/cuisine/recipes.html   (141 words)

  
 Pai's Food
(A.) Use food processor to process the fish fillets until fairly smooth paste forms; Add fish sauce, curry paste, egg, salt, cornstarch, green pepper; stir and mix them well.
(C.) Heat 2 table spoon of oil, fry the Chinese Chives cakes by a simmer to golden brown.
(1.) 380 gm bean sprouts; 5 pieces dried bean curd; 4 Chinese mushrooms; 1/3 carrot; 12 egg roll wrappers; 1 table spoon flour; your own amount of ground pork or shrimp.
http://www.geocities.com/jpai2   (823 words)

  
 Vegetarian Recipes Recipes Index - Chinese Vegetarian Recipes
Recipes you may be looking for: chicken recipes, beef recipes, pork recipes, soup recipes, vegetarian recipes, fish recipes, dumpling recipes, healthy recipes, low fat recipes, Chinese recipes.
Based on a master chef's 40 years of cooking practice and 4 years of writing and research, it has helped over 12,800 people worldwide improve their health.
Nicholas Zhou's cookbook "Real & Healthy Chinese Cooking" - 500+ low carb and low fat recipes with 170+ colorful pictures.
http://www.chinesefooddiy.com/recipes_vegetarian.htm   (146 words)

  
 Chopstix
Fuchsia is switching from her usual Sichuan cuisine to cook Babi Pongtay, a Singaporean dish to mark this year's Singapore Food Festival.
On Wednesday 21 April there was Good Food Live, the critically-acclaimed daily magazine show on cable and satellite channel UKTV Food.
Highlights include turnip cake, chicken peking dumplings, crispy prawn dumplings, chicken paw in black bean sauce, and cha siu buns.
http://www.chopstix.co.uk   (1361 words)

  
 Chinese Food Culture
Now the food is made in various shapes and sorts.
Never insert chopsticks upright onto the vessels for food, as this will be viewed as an evil presage and will sustain the disapproval of the seniors.
In ancient times, monks would kindly share all sorts of food grains with people and made them flavorful porridge on this particular day.
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/cuisine.htm   (1019 words)

  
 NOW: T.O.'s best Chinese food, Feb 3 - 9, 2005
Best: toasted cashews with mixed stir-fried veggies; Chinese black, button and straw mushrooms with bok choy; massive spring rolls stuffed with sprouts, carrots and mushrooms, or soya rolls filled with mung beans and chewy cloud ears; deep-fried wontons wrapped with gluten and dipped in old-school sweet 'n' sour sauce.
Delicious dumplings, slurp-worthy noodles, beautiful barbecue - the Chinese food in T.O. is famous, and as the Year of the Rooster begins, we've scoured the city to find the best.
Best: crisp pan-fried House Special Crispy Pancake stuffed with shredded shrimp, Chinese chives and scallions, or Onion Pancake Roll layered with lightly five-spiced beef; soup dumpling purses bursting with broth and minced shrimp; velvety deep-fried tofu sided with crushed marinated garlic and fiery red chili sauce; barely spiced Chinese meatballs with bamboo shoots.
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2005-02-03/cover_story.php   (2462 words)

  
 Chinese Food Recipes, Chinese Food Cooking Tips, Chinese Cookbook and Chinese Cuisine
Chinese Food Recipes, Chinese Food Cooking Tips, Chinese Cookbook and Chinese Cuisine
Chinese Food - A Taste of the Orient
Get 500+ authentic and healthy Chinese recipes w/ 173 colorful pictures in 5 minutes
http://www.chinesefooddiy.com   (99 words)

  
 Calorie Counter - Chinese Food
Calories in a serving (386g) of beef in black bean sauce: 432kcal
Calories in a serving (200g) of egg fried rice: 250kcal
to find calories in over 40,000 foods and calculate the calories in your serving.
http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/calories/calorie_counter/chinese_food.htm   (300 words)

  
 Healthy Chinese Food Recipes
This Chinese Food Recipes website is always a "work in progress".
To receive updates from time to time whenever I discover a new exciting or helpful Chinese Food Recipes resource or item, you can sign up to my "Chinese Food Recipes bulletin" - an informal email announcement list.
In a nutshell, you won't need to look anywhere else for Chinese Food Recipes
http://www.chinese-food-recipes.net   (508 words)

  
 Chinese Cooking
Susanna Foo Chinese Cuisine : The Fabulous Flavors and Innovative Recipes of North America's Finest Chinese Cook
It means that you will decide the amount by your own taste.
The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen : Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing
http://www.china-on-site.com/cooking   (84 words)

  
 Panda Express : Chinese Food, Wok-Cooked and Served Fast
Panda Express : Chinese Food, Wok-Cooked and Served Fast
http://www.pandaexpress.com   (9 words)

  
 List Calories Chinese Food
It's time to order up another serve of steaming, hot noodles and calorie information about Chinese food, in plum sauce.
Although this entree is the lowest measured in salt content, it certainly makes up for it in fat and calories.
Topping the "oh so naughty" list is the egg roll, with a whopping 52% of its calories coming from pure fat.
http://www.weightlossinternational.com/newsletter/list-calories-chinese-food.html   (183 words)

  
 An Encyclopedia of Chinese Food and Cooking - Wonona W. Chang ( ISBN 0517506610 )
Give An Encyclopedia of Chinese Food and Cooking by Wonona W. Chang as a present.
You'll find An Encyclopedia of Chinese Food and Cooking by Wonona W. Chang ISBN 0517506610 here.
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http://www.fuenfmarkschein.de/a_0517506610.html   (99 words)

  
 Chinese New Year 4697
Links to food sites Links to non-food sites Links to Chinese New Year greeting cards Chinese recipes
San Francisco Bay Area Chinese Restaurants The ten best, the ten worst, and the ten Chinese dishes to avoid...plus tips on ordering
Stephen Thielke's Hot and Sour Soup Recipe links Yes, you read that right.
http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/holidays/chinesenewyear/foodlinks.html   (142 words)

  
 Chinese recipes, Feng Shui, Chinese Astrology, herbal medicine
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We are the ORIGINAL Chinese Recipes Web site
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 JustZipPages Fred's Chinese Food
Fred's Chinese Food has been proudly serving the best and most authentic Chinese food to business people and families for many years.
Because we use only the best ingredients and the best recipes, we have been voted the Best Chinese Restaurant in the Shrewsbury area for four straight years!
Fred's Chinese Food accepts the following forms of payment:
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