Do you enjoy Chinese food? Are you thinking of learning to cook Chinese recipes? Have you ever thought of becoming skilled enough to share your culinary masterpieces with your family? Well, we can share some basic knowledge about Chinese cuisine to help get you started. Moreover, you may also learn to cook your favorite Chinese cuisines on spot in a local Chinese family, if you take part in a special China tour with the Family Visit.
Chinese cuisine enjoys a universally stellar reputation with its long history, varied cooking techniques, colorful presentations and unique flavors. Chinese cookery is rich and diffuse using a variety of meat, poultry and seafood. Food preparation varies widely throughout China from region to region.
Chinese Food Recipes
Vegetable Dishes
Meat Dishes
Cold Dishes
Chinese Staple Foods
Chinese Soups
Chinese Seafoods
Chinese Festival Foods  | In China, people eat different food in different traditional festivals. Most northern Chinese make and eat dumplings to celebrate the Spring Festival, the most important Festival in China, while the southerners eat rice cake then; both northerners and southerners eat sweet dumplings on the Lantern Festival; till the double fifth festival, nearly every Chinese family eat zongzi; on the Mid-autumn Festival and Laba Festival, people usually eat moon cake and Laba porridge. |
Chinese Vegetables
Chinese Seasonings
 | There are virtually no ingredients or flavors missing from Chinese cookery. In addition to grains, vegetables, fruits, seafood and meats of every kind and taste are used in recipes in the various regions. Various seasonings help to produce flavors running the gamut as well ranging from salty to sweet to sour to spicy to other mixed flavors. |
Chinese Kitchenwares
 | To cook a delicious diet, a set of clean and effective kitchen wares are of course necessary. Kitchen wares are mainly made up of five categories, including storing wares (fridge, wall cupboard), washing wares (basin, tap), small kitchen appliances (kitchen knife, chopping board), cooking wares (microwave, induction cooker) and dining tools (chopsticks, spoons). |
Chinese Cooking Methods
| With stir-frying as the representative, Chinese cookery employs multiple cooking methods. Dishes can be boiled, steamed, braised, stir-fried, simmered sautéed or roasted. Meanwhile, China also invented some unique cooking techniques, including streaming over water, various tofu cooking methods and cooking ladle. |
Chinese Food Forum
Q & A on Chinese Food Cooking Class
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Feb. 5,2010 16:41 Reply
Mr.Fontaine(Canada) said:
Chinese food is verry good you must taste the food to discover what you like and dont like, the food is differen from one region to the other, the prepare many vedgetable plate dont be affrays to try new plate and you will enjoy your experience.
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Nov. 10,2009 07:12 Reply
Mr.DASY(China) said:
The pics look very good. Those chinese food seems very delicious, I want to have a try!
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Nov. 8,2009 07:14 Reply
Mr.zhuanzhuan(China) said:
I am a northern Chinese person,and our people live mainly on wheat. So, almost we eat noodles everyday. The way to make it is very easy. when the water is boiling , put the noodles into the boiling water, after 5 or 6 minutes ,it will be done. you can get the noodle out with some soup , then you can eat with dishes.
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Nov. 1,2009 18:56 Reply
Mr.selinda(USA) said:
Can you teach us to cook some chinese soup, i love soup!
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Nov. 1,2009 08:52 Reply
Ms.Sophie (England) said:
This is great Now i will geat a B or if i am lucky a A in my assesment, :)