Chinese cooking of the Oriental cuisine and France's Western food, Turkey's halal cuisine is known as the world's three major culinary kingdoms. In the long history, Chinese cooking in the Chinese people for their own survival, development needs, unique cultural creation. This cultural creation activities, including both material and spiritual aspects.
Chinese culinary material and cultural development of the history of the level of productivity and the level of culinary skills as a sign of progress, and with reference to the division of China's social and historical stages, can be roughly divided into five stages. First, the prehistoric cooking stage, mainly in the Paleolithic Age; second, the pottery cooking stage, mainly in the Neolithic Age; third, the bronze cooking stage, mainly in the Xia, Shang, Zhou and the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period; fourth, the iron cooking stage, on the other hand, from the beginning of the Qin and Han Dynasties until the Ming and Qing Dynasties; and, fifth, the modern cooking stage from the Xinhai Revolution to the present. Chinese cooking is unique in each stage and has had an impact on world cooking.
Chinese culinary art is to cooking technology processed into the drinking food as an aesthetic object, to meet the people's diet practical and aesthetic art. It should be considered that the higher the degree of human civilization, the higher the requirements of culinary art, because the civilization of human society is synchronous development with the diet. Nowadays, in the dietary life, not only to pay attention to eat well, eat scientifically, but also eat beautiful; so the pursuit of art and health and longevity of the culinary culture will continue to develop in depth.
China has tens of millions of expatriates distributed all over the world, through generations of cultural exchanges, Chinese cooking in the world by the ordinary welcome. In Asia, especially in Japan, China and Japan since the normalization of diplomatic relations, set off a Chinese food fever, calling themselves "Chinese cuisine" store there are more than 50,000. Chinese food is very popular in the United States, and there are now 18,000 Chinese restaurants. In Europe, there is a popular saying that "Chinese food has conquered Paris". In France, there are Chinese restaurants all over the world, and there are more than 1,200 in Paris alone. In Britain, there are more than 4,000, scattered in London and larger cities. In the Netherlands there are nearly 3,000 Chinese restaurants. In Oceania, Australia, there are Chinese restaurants in cities such as Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. In Nigeria, a non-state, there are also 14 Chinese restaurants in the country, seven in the capital city, still not enough to meet the demand. With the progress and expansion of Sino-foreign exchanges, the number of overseas travelers to China increased, people on the Chinese food and beverage requirements will be higher, must accelerate the development of the food and beverage market in order to adapt to domestic and foreign demand for Chinese food flavors. These needs, it is the development of Chinese cooking potential advantages, seize the opportunity, you can turn the potential advantages into market advantages.
While Chinese cooking has cultural advantages, social advantages, market advantages and other major advantages, but, in the face of the 21st century, the world's culinary development, the East and the West of the great exchange of culinary culture, the world's food market, the great competition, Chinese cooking is still faced with serious challenges, we should objectively recognize the reality. The great integration of the world's culinary cuisine appeared after the reform and opening up, a variety of standards for the evaluation of food mostly in the second industrial revolution, when the Chinese people are still in deep water, basically no chance to customize the world's culinary standards.
Famous Michelin restaurants, for example, are a Michelin tire established in 1900, the founder of the publication of a guide for travelers to choose a restaurant on the trip "Michelin Guide". The content of the trip planning for tourism, attractions recommended, road guide and so on. The Michelin Red Book (also known as the Michelin Red Guide) rates restaurants annually. As the birthplace of Michelin, France has the most Michelin-starred restaurants. In other European countries, Michelin-recognized restaurants are also numerous, with Italy having the most Michelin-starred restaurants and Germany having the most three-starred Michelin restaurants. Also in Europe are Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland, among other countries with starred restaurants.
This book of customized standards for Michelin restaurants is tailored to Western cuisine in France and Halal cuisine in Turkey. The United States, as a representative of the Americas, the first edition of the Michelin guide for the U.S. first came out in 2005, and at that time included mostly New York restaurants. Later, restaurants in San Francisco and Chicago were gradually recognized by Michelin. As the Americas are mostly a country of immigrants, its cuisine is also mostly based on European style, thus giving rise to a new series of Western cuisine, which is blowing the wind of Western food all over the world.
Japanese Michelin restaurants only began in 2007, the meticulousness of Japanese cuisine won it the first round of Michelin attention in Asia, after which the food detectives began to set foot in China's Hong Kong and Macao, as a crossroads of Chinese and Western cultures, the restaurants in Hong Kong and Macao were also soon awarded star Michelin restaurant title.
It was only in 2016 that Chinese restaurants started the Michelin road, with the official release of the Michelin Guide Shanghai 2017, Michelin's 28th Michelin guide to be issued globally in 2016, and the first to be issued in mainland China,**** 26 starred restaurants were selected, including nine Cantonese, six Western, five Shanghai, and five other Chinese cuisines.