Three world region cuisines
A cuisine is specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific
culture or region. Each cuisine involves food preparation in a particular style, of food and drink
of particular types, to produce individually consumed items or distinct meals.
Some factors that have an influence on a region's cuisine include the area's climate, the trade
among different countries, religiousness or sumptuary laws and culinary culture exchange.
For example, a Tropical diet may be based more on fruits and vegetables, while a
polar diet might rely more on meat and fish.
Cultural influences. Cultural influences lead to the difference in the habitual consumption of
certain foods and in traditions of preparation, and in certain cases can lead to restrictions such as
exclusion of meat and milk from the diet.
The key driver for eating is of course hunger but what we choose to eat is not determined solely
by physiological or nutritional needs. Some of the other factors that influence food and cuisine
choice include:
Biological determinants such as hunger, appetite, and taste
Economic determinants such as cost, income, availability
Physical determinants such as access, education, skills (e.g. cooking) and time
Social determinants such as culture, family, peers and meal patterns
Psychological determinants such as mood, stress and guilt
Attitudes, beliefs and knowledge about food
Chinese cuisine Macau, China is 22.210928, and the longitude is 113.552971.
Chinese Cuisine History
Spanning thousands of years, Chinese cuisine has one of the world’s marvellous culinary
cultures. Its inventiveness and variety are indisputable. The most influential cooking styles in
China were Cantonese, Shandong, Sichuan, and Huaiyang cuisines.
Dishes from these regions stood out in taste, texture, aroma, and aesthetics. Varying ingredients,
cooking techniques, people’s lifestyle, geography, and climate made the style of each province
(or region) absolutely distinctive.
If you think traditional Chinese foods are about chop suey and fortune cooking, you are
mistaken. Both are modified or invented American-Chinese dishes, designed to please US
customers. To understand what is real Chinese cuisine, take a peek at China’s kitchens of the
past. In order to present the history of Chinese cuisine, we will need to use China’s dynasties for
convenience.
,Food and their Preparation in Various Dynasties
Grains (fan) and meat or vegetable dish (cai) make up a typical Chinese dish. Rice (e.g. porridge,
steamed, or fried) was Southern China’s dominant food. Meanwhile, wheat (e.g. dumpling,
stuffed buns, or steamed buns) was the staple of the North. This is due to geography, preference
and influence of neighbouring countries.
Han Dynasty
During the early part of this period, noodles made usually from wheat dough or millet were the
staple food of common folks. Excavated at the Northwestern part of China in 2005 was a 4000
year-old bowl of noodles made of millet. This is the earliest noodle ever found – implying that
Asians and not Europeans were the first to invent this famous dish.
Tang Dynasty
Chinese people explored all possible sources of food for diet diversity and good health. This led
to their discovery and fondness of eating exotic dishes. During this period, the drinking of tea
became popular among all social classes. Chinese also began to trade with Persia, Korea, and
other neighbouring countries. Though most people ate just about anything during this period,
cows or bulls were off-limits. Historians assert that this is likely due to religious and cultural
beliefs held by most people during this period.
Song Dynasty
Economic and social progress marked this period, which resulted to cosmopolitanism. This
resulted to the proliferation of restaurants serving special Chinese delicacies. In previous
dynasties, only emperors and those close to them could eat sophisticated meals. Yet during this
dynasty, even the common folks could enjoy great meals.
During Song dynasty, well-off Chinese got to choose food from a menu. This had not occurred
elsewhere in the world – not even in Europe – during the same period. Eateries or restaurants at
Song dynasty featured dishes that represent the unique cooking styles of each region in China.
Excellent cooks used a wide array of techniques to extract the most flavours, aroma and texture
from fresh ingredients. All these efforts led to the production of choicest Chinese foods we know
and enjoy today.
The Chinese Gourmets’ Notes
To show their appreciation and admiration of spectacular Chinese dishes, Song dynasty gourmets
wrote a great deal about Chinese gastronomy. According to tradition, Chinese gourmets judged
food based on the aroma, presentation, palatability, and texture.
, Aside from these factors, a perfect Chinese meal must have the balance famous Four Natures and
Five Tastes. Four natures refer to the hot, the warm, the cool, and the cold while Five tastes refer
to pungent, sweet, bitter, sour, and salty.
The 8 Great Cuisines of China
Shandong Cuisine: fresh and salty with a lot of seafood dishes.
Sichuan and Hunan cuisines: hot spice.
Guangdong (Cantonese), Zhejiang, Jiangsu cuisines: great seafood, and generally sweet and light
flavors.
Anhui and Fujian cuisines: inclusion of wild foods from their mountains
Locally grown and found ingredients
1. Tilapia:
Tilapia is commonly fish-farmed in China. These fish are some of the worst, most toxic and
unhealthy fish that you can come across. A tilapia fish will eat anything, comparable to a bottom-
feeder fish and fish farming is a small pool of wastewater that the fish live in. It’s one of the
worst fish purchases you could buy and it’s commonly known that in China the seafood farmers
won’t even let their children eat the seafood that they farm, that should tell you something. 80%
of the Tilapia in America comes from there.
2. Cod Fish:
Cod is another type of fish that is fish farmed in China. This fish is not healthy and lives in its
own waste. Currently, just over 50% of American Cod comes from China.
3. Chinese Apple Juice:
Believe it or not approximately 50% of the apple juice sold in the United States comes from
China. They are the LARGEST pesticide producing country in the world and they haven’t even
begun to address pesticide or chemical residue on foods. I recommend completely avoiding apple
juice, for yourself and your children. Fruit juice is too rich in sugar and is better mixed with
vegetable juice for your blood sugar levels.
4. Processed Mushrooms:
US inspectors have found tainted mushrooms from China. Some manufacturers there go so far as
to label these processed mushrooms organic to increase their profits. If you do a google search
you’ll find that there are many “mystery mushrooms” in that area of the world, completely fake.
A cuisine is specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific
culture or region. Each cuisine involves food preparation in a particular style, of food and drink
of particular types, to produce individually consumed items or distinct meals.
Some factors that have an influence on a region's cuisine include the area's climate, the trade
among different countries, religiousness or sumptuary laws and culinary culture exchange.
For example, a Tropical diet may be based more on fruits and vegetables, while a
polar diet might rely more on meat and fish.
Cultural influences. Cultural influences lead to the difference in the habitual consumption of
certain foods and in traditions of preparation, and in certain cases can lead to restrictions such as
exclusion of meat and milk from the diet.
The key driver for eating is of course hunger but what we choose to eat is not determined solely
by physiological or nutritional needs. Some of the other factors that influence food and cuisine
choice include:
Biological determinants such as hunger, appetite, and taste
Economic determinants such as cost, income, availability
Physical determinants such as access, education, skills (e.g. cooking) and time
Social determinants such as culture, family, peers and meal patterns
Psychological determinants such as mood, stress and guilt
Attitudes, beliefs and knowledge about food
Chinese cuisine Macau, China is 22.210928, and the longitude is 113.552971.
Chinese Cuisine History
Spanning thousands of years, Chinese cuisine has one of the world’s marvellous culinary
cultures. Its inventiveness and variety are indisputable. The most influential cooking styles in
China were Cantonese, Shandong, Sichuan, and Huaiyang cuisines.
Dishes from these regions stood out in taste, texture, aroma, and aesthetics. Varying ingredients,
cooking techniques, people’s lifestyle, geography, and climate made the style of each province
(or region) absolutely distinctive.
If you think traditional Chinese foods are about chop suey and fortune cooking, you are
mistaken. Both are modified or invented American-Chinese dishes, designed to please US
customers. To understand what is real Chinese cuisine, take a peek at China’s kitchens of the
past. In order to present the history of Chinese cuisine, we will need to use China’s dynasties for
convenience.
,Food and their Preparation in Various Dynasties
Grains (fan) and meat or vegetable dish (cai) make up a typical Chinese dish. Rice (e.g. porridge,
steamed, or fried) was Southern China’s dominant food. Meanwhile, wheat (e.g. dumpling,
stuffed buns, or steamed buns) was the staple of the North. This is due to geography, preference
and influence of neighbouring countries.
Han Dynasty
During the early part of this period, noodles made usually from wheat dough or millet were the
staple food of common folks. Excavated at the Northwestern part of China in 2005 was a 4000
year-old bowl of noodles made of millet. This is the earliest noodle ever found – implying that
Asians and not Europeans were the first to invent this famous dish.
Tang Dynasty
Chinese people explored all possible sources of food for diet diversity and good health. This led
to their discovery and fondness of eating exotic dishes. During this period, the drinking of tea
became popular among all social classes. Chinese also began to trade with Persia, Korea, and
other neighbouring countries. Though most people ate just about anything during this period,
cows or bulls were off-limits. Historians assert that this is likely due to religious and cultural
beliefs held by most people during this period.
Song Dynasty
Economic and social progress marked this period, which resulted to cosmopolitanism. This
resulted to the proliferation of restaurants serving special Chinese delicacies. In previous
dynasties, only emperors and those close to them could eat sophisticated meals. Yet during this
dynasty, even the common folks could enjoy great meals.
During Song dynasty, well-off Chinese got to choose food from a menu. This had not occurred
elsewhere in the world – not even in Europe – during the same period. Eateries or restaurants at
Song dynasty featured dishes that represent the unique cooking styles of each region in China.
Excellent cooks used a wide array of techniques to extract the most flavours, aroma and texture
from fresh ingredients. All these efforts led to the production of choicest Chinese foods we know
and enjoy today.
The Chinese Gourmets’ Notes
To show their appreciation and admiration of spectacular Chinese dishes, Song dynasty gourmets
wrote a great deal about Chinese gastronomy. According to tradition, Chinese gourmets judged
food based on the aroma, presentation, palatability, and texture.
, Aside from these factors, a perfect Chinese meal must have the balance famous Four Natures and
Five Tastes. Four natures refer to the hot, the warm, the cool, and the cold while Five tastes refer
to pungent, sweet, bitter, sour, and salty.
The 8 Great Cuisines of China
Shandong Cuisine: fresh and salty with a lot of seafood dishes.
Sichuan and Hunan cuisines: hot spice.
Guangdong (Cantonese), Zhejiang, Jiangsu cuisines: great seafood, and generally sweet and light
flavors.
Anhui and Fujian cuisines: inclusion of wild foods from their mountains
Locally grown and found ingredients
1. Tilapia:
Tilapia is commonly fish-farmed in China. These fish are some of the worst, most toxic and
unhealthy fish that you can come across. A tilapia fish will eat anything, comparable to a bottom-
feeder fish and fish farming is a small pool of wastewater that the fish live in. It’s one of the
worst fish purchases you could buy and it’s commonly known that in China the seafood farmers
won’t even let their children eat the seafood that they farm, that should tell you something. 80%
of the Tilapia in America comes from there.
2. Cod Fish:
Cod is another type of fish that is fish farmed in China. This fish is not healthy and lives in its
own waste. Currently, just over 50% of American Cod comes from China.
3. Chinese Apple Juice:
Believe it or not approximately 50% of the apple juice sold in the United States comes from
China. They are the LARGEST pesticide producing country in the world and they haven’t even
begun to address pesticide or chemical residue on foods. I recommend completely avoiding apple
juice, for yourself and your children. Fruit juice is too rich in sugar and is better mixed with
vegetable juice for your blood sugar levels.
4. Processed Mushrooms:
US inspectors have found tainted mushrooms from China. Some manufacturers there go so far as
to label these processed mushrooms organic to increase their profits. If you do a google search
you’ll find that there are many “mystery mushrooms” in that area of the world, completely fake.
