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Chinese Recipes
Chinese meals are generally based around two main elements: firstly, a starchy "main food"
(Mandarin Chinese: Zhushi) dish such as noodles, rice or steamed
buns ("mantou"), and secondly, accompanying meat, seafood or vegetables (Mandarin Chinese: Cài).

It would wrong however to think of China as simply being
home to a single cuisine. Each region of the country has developed
its uniquely culinary style, and additionally overseas Chinese communities
around the world have both adapted traditional Chinese dishes, and developed
entirely new dishes.
Some popular Chinese dishes include:
- Baozi (xiaolongbao) - Steamed buns usually containing meat soup (sometimes seafood or vegetables may
be used instead). The buns are initially prepared using
a meat gelatin filling, but when the bun is steamed, this melts and becomes soup.
- Congee - A porridge, usually made from rice, although sometimes barley, cornmeal, millet or sorghum may be used instead.

- Guotie - Fried dumplings containing ground (minced) meat and/or vegetables.
- Jiaozi - Steamed dumplings containing ground (minced) meat and/or vegetables.
- Shuijiao - Boiled dumplings containing ground (minced) meat and/or vegetables.
- General Tso's chicken - Deep-fried chicken in a sweet-spicy sauce. This dish
is very popular in
Canada and the
US, but is virtually unknown in
China.
- Kung Po chicken - Chicken cooked with Sichuan peppercorns, Shaoxing wine, and nuts
(peanuts or cashew nuts). In Western countries, the dish has been adapted to local tastes
and ingredients (for example, by using bell peppers), and additionally other meats, or seafood,
may be used instead of chicken.

- Mantou - A steamed bun. One of the staple dishes of North China.
- Peking duck - Originally from Beijing
(which used to be known as "Peking"), Peking duck is one of the most famous
Chinese dishes. A duck is glazed with a syrup and roasted, it is then carved in front
of diners, and eaten by wrapping the duck meat, with scallions or cucumber, and plum sauce,
into small steamed pancakes (Mandarin Chinese: pinyin).
In the UK, the duck is generally prepared using
more spices, fried instead of roasted, and known as "cripsy aromatic duck".
- Soy egg - A hard-boiled egg in soy sauce, sugar and water, flavored with herbs and spices.
- Tea egg - A hard-boiled egg, soaked or stewed in tea.
- Zhajiang mian - Thick wehat noodles with ground pork, stired-fried with fermented soybean paste.

- Zongzi - Bamboo leaves filled with glutinous rice and other fillings. Zongzi are boiled or steam before eating.
Here are some recipe books and cookbooks for
Chinese food:
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By Barbara Tropp
William Morrow Cookbooks Released: 1996-04-15 Paperback (624 pages)
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This classic text on Chinese Cooking Technique, now available in paperback, combines an insider's knowledge of authentic Chinese cooking and culture with more than two hundred recipes. |
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By Ken Hom
Knopf Released: 1997-09-30 Hardcover (319 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: From Ken Hom, the internationally bestselling cookbook writer, comes this warm, personal evocation of the foods he savored as a child growing up in Chicago's Chinatown. His 150 simple, comforting, scrumptious recipes represent the kinds of dishes his mother prepared every day or served on family occasions. Throughout, Hom shares memories of his family. 23 photos and 45 drawings. |
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Kindle Edition
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Click Here | Product Description: 100 Succulent Chinese Recipes! You too can quickly and easily be Cooking Chinese Style with these excellent recipes! Do you ever get that craving for your favorite Chinese dish, but it's too late to go out and eat or just not convenient? Well now you can satisfy that craving and make it yourself in the comfort of your own kitchen! These simple recipes will put delicious Oriental recipes within your ability to prepare at home, thanks to these simple instructions! |
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Whitecap Books Paperback (240 pages)
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By Emily Hahn and the Editors of Time-Life Books
Time-Life Books Hardcover
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By Time-Life Books
Time-Life Books Spiral-bound
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ICON Group International, Inc. Released: 2003-06-02 Digital (226 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: This study covers the world outlook for chinese recipe cooking sauces across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-a-vis others. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each country and across countries, latent demand estimates are created. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. |
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By Li Yung
Wan Li Book Company Paperback
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By Emily Hahn and the Editors of Time-Life Books
Time-Life Books Hardcover
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