Due to different climates, topographies, products and customs, the culinary cultures of different parts of China have evolved over a long history and are distinctive. The recognized dietary cuisine of China is divided into eight schools, which are Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Lu cuisine, Su cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Anhui cuisine.
1, Szechuan
Sichuan cuisine tastes mainly spicy, good use of spicy seasoning, a variety of dishes, a wide range of materials. Characterized by hemp, spicy, fresh, fragrant. Sichuan has the reputation of "the world's culinary capital". Representatives of the dishes are shredded pork with fish, Kung Pao chicken, boiled fish, boiled pork, husband and wife lungs, spicy chicken, Mapo tofu, back to the meat, chicken, pickled pepper phoenix claw, pepper stir-fried beef and so on.
2, Cantonese cuisine
Cantonese cuisine is clear, fresh, crisp, tender, smooth, good at stir-fry, focusing on the momentum of the dish and grade. Traditional dishes include fried rice noodles, thin-skinned shrimp dumplings, crab buns, barbecued pork buns, horseshoe cakes, glutinous rice chicken, intestinal noodles, dry-steamed siu mai, pork red soup, marinated beef dumplings, and thin crisps.
3, Min Cuisine
Min Cuisine is known for cooking mountain delicacies and sea food, pay attention to freshness, meat. The essence of Fujian cuisine is soup, known as "a soup of ten changes". Representative dishes are Buddha jumped over the wall, chicken soup blanch mussels, eight treasures red sturgeon rice, white fried fresh razor clams, Taiji taro puree, light bad slices of fragrant snails, stir-fried double crispy, southern fried liver, lychee meat, drunken pork ribs, shark's fin in lotus, dragon body phoenix-tailed shrimp, emerald pearl abalone, chicken mushrooms and golden bamboo shoots, meat and rice fish lips, Dingbian paste, Fuzhou fishballs, meat bird, Zhangzhou halo noodle, Putian halo noodle, oyster fry, Shaxian noodles, flatbread, Xiamen Cha Cha Noodle, noodles and paste, Southern Minnan Salted rice, Xinghua rice noodles, red bad fish, five Liuju, snow chicken, Changting dried tofu, etc.
4, Hunan cuisine
Xiang cuisine, also known as Hunan cuisine, has a long history, and became a cuisine of its own in the Han Dynasty. Hunan cuisine is fine, with a wide range of ingredients, varied flavors, heavy oil color, pay attention to the fragrant, spicy, fresh, tender. The representative dishes are group-an tofu, group-an shark's fin, etc.; chopped pepper fish head, chili pepper stir-fry, Xiangxi grandmother's vegetables, Jishou sour meat, beef noodles, Hengyang fish noodles, Qifengdu fish noodles, Dong'an chicken, goldfish play lotus, Yongzhou blood duck, Jiuyi mountain rabbit, Ningyuan stuffed tofu, preserved meat co-steaming, sister dumplings, Ningxiang taste snake, Yueyang ginger and spicy snakes and so on.
5, Lu Cuisine
Lu Cuisine is the most difficult, known as the first of the eight cuisines. Liaonan cuisine represented by Dalian cuisine also belongs to the Lu cuisine. Representative dishes are a product of tofu, green onion roasted sea cucumber, three shredded shark's fin, white grilled four treasures, sweet and sour Yellow River carp, nine-turned sausage, oil burst double crisp, grilled abalone in its original shell, braised prawns, vinegar pepper fish, bad fried fish slices, warm chokers mandarin fish slices, coriander popped squid rolls, clear broth fungus, muxuxi meat (woodruff), the four major JiaoDong warm, sweet and sour loin, braised prawns, beckoning steamed pills, jujubezhuang chicken with spicy sauce, steaming gajiao, green onion and pepper fish, sweet and sour sauce chicken nuggets oil splash bean stalk, poetic gift ginkgo, milk soup with cattail, egg soup, pot roasted duck, crispy chicken, yellow croaker tofu soup, pulled yam, honey pear balls, casserole Sandaan, chicken, hibiscus chicken, blanch hibiscus yellow tube, Yangguan three fold, shrimp before the rain, Wuyun Tuojue, cassoulet chicken, pot collapsed yellow croaker, milk soup crucian carp, roasted two winter, Taishan three beautiful soups, clear soup Xishi Tongue, race crab, braised two shredded chicken, pigeon eggs with elephant's eyes, cloud slices of monkey head mushrooms The most important thing is to make sure that you have the right ingredients for your meal, and that you have the right ingredients for your meal.
6, Su cuisine
Su cuisine is good at stewing, stewing, steaming, stir-frying, and attach importance to the transfer of soup, to maintain the original juice of the dish, the flavor is fresh, thick but not greasy, light but not thin, loose bone without losing its shape, tender and crisp without losing its flavor. Its famous dishes are Jinling roast duck, duck soup, stewed raw knock, roasted square, crystal dishes hoof, stewed crabmeat lion's head, yellow mud simmered chicken, stewed chicken fu, salt water duck (Jinling plate duck), gold incense cake, chicken soup boiled dried silk, meat stuffed with raw bran, anchovy prawns, three sets of duck, Wuxi meat bones, Lu draft recommended sauce pork and so on.
7, Zhejiang
Zhejiang cuisine is small and delicate, handsome and elegant, the dishes are fresh and tender, crispy and soft and refreshing. The use of lees flavoring. Representative dishes are Dongpo meat, West Lake vinegar fish, Longjing shrimp, three silk knocking fish.
8, Hui cuisine
Hui cuisine cooking method is good at burning, stewing, steaming, and explosion, stir-fry dishes less, heavy oil, heavy color, heavy fire power. Representatives of the dishes are the whole family, phoenix nest, fried eel paste, plum balls, sand crucian carp, silver buds, chicken, braised paddle, five-color hydrangea, three shrimp tofu, emerald shrimp, braised big grill, honey fire square, curd fried meat, snow on the red plums, fire plucky burnt side bamboo shoots, squirrel slippery yellowtail, casserole duck wontons and hundreds of other kinds of. Nowadays, Hui Cuisine also retains the Yipin Pot, Knife Plate Fragrance, Pickled Fresh Stinky Mandarin Fish, Tiger Skin Tofu, Bamboo Shoots, Ham Stewed Turtle, Huangshan Double Stone (Stone Frog Stewed with Stone Ear), Yangmei Round Rice Dumplings, Phoenix Stewed Peonies, Steamed Meat in Lotus Leaf, Stewed Duck with Green Snails, and Zhonghe Soup.