Foreigners are curious about China cuisine at first, then incredible, and then infatuated with it. The richness of China cuisine far exceeds the imagination of foreigners. Once a foreigner who had just arrived in Chengdu boasted that he had eaten all the delicious food in China in one year. As a result, five years later, he didn't even go out of Chengdu.
Chinese people abroad have also brought Chinese food abroad, and Chinese restaurants have opened all over the world. Foreigners love Chinese food very much, and our ancient and mysterious ancient civilization, delicious and varied food, deeply attracts foreigners. So, which dishes in our Chinese food are foreigners' favorite?
1, kung pao chicken
Kung pao chicken, a famous Sichuan dish, was improved in Qing Dynasty from diced chicken with soy sauce in Shandong cuisine. This dish has spread abroad and is very popular among foreigners. It combines five flavors: hemp, spicy, sweet, sour and salty. It has the freshness of chicken, the sweetness of peanuts and the freshness of cucumber, which really makes foreigners taste buds wide open and delicious! It is a must-have dish for Chinese restaurants abroad, and it is also a Chinese dish that foreigners eat most often.
2. Fish-flavored shredded pork
Fish-flavored shredded pork is a classic dish of Sichuan cuisine. It is a China delicacy with rich layers of taste, sour, spicy, salty and sweet, which is made of shredded pork, shredded bamboo shoots, shredded auricularia and shredded carrots fried with bean paste and pickled peppers. After it was spread abroad, its name translated into English once puzzled foreigners. Why is there no fish in it? After eating shredded pork with fish flavor, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States praised it as his best Asian food.
3. Husband and wife lung slices
Husband and wife's lung slices? The name startled foreigners. When the first couple's lung slices were taken abroad, they were translated into English as "Husband and Wife's Lung Piece", and foreigners called the police directly! Later, foreigners shouted delicious food after tasting it, and thought the name was not suitable, so they named the dish "Mr. and Mrs. Smith". American GQ magazine published the "American Food Ranking" and the couple's lung slices were selected as "Appetizer of the Year".
4. Mapo Tofu
Mapo tofu, one of the classic Sichuan dishes. Tofu itself is a magical food in the eyes of foreigners, and it is incredible for them to make soybeans into lumps. Then make tofu into spicy dishes, which is even more wonderful. Especially in Japan, Mapo tofu is even rated as the best food in the world, which is favored by the Japanese. A Japanese gourmet said that if he had to choose the best food in the world, it would be Chinese food. If you choose the best dish in Chinese food, it must be Mapo tofu.
5. Sweet and sour tenderloin
Sweet and sour cooking methods are very common in Chinese food, including sweet and sour fish, sweet and sour ribs, sweet and sour prawns and so on. Sweet and sour tenderloin is a classic sweet and sour dish. Foreigners like it very much for its sweet and sour taste, and almost all sweet and sour dishes can conquer their taste buds. Pork tenderloin was originally the favorite part of foreigners, and then it was made into a sweet and sour taste, and it was tender in the outside. Foreigners accepted it without pressure and fell in love with sweet and sour tenderloin.
6. Roasted duck
Roast duck, a famous Beijing dish, is a famous national banquet dish. Roast duck is a tall delicacy in the eyes of foreigners, and it is incredible that the skin of roast duck is crisp and the meat is fresh and tender, which is in sharp contrast. Many foreigners say that they don't eat duck in their country, but only after eating roast duck do they find that their country has given up the best food. Almost everyone who has eaten roast duck will be so impressed with it that they even want to eat it three times a day.
7. jiaozi
Jiaozi is the most representative food in northern China. Jiaozi is very special in the eyes of foreigners. The habit of foreigners is to put all the ingredients outside so that everyone can see the richness of the ingredients, such as "pizza"; China's jiaozi, on the other hand, makes foreigners feel very "connotative". All the fillings of different ingredients are wrapped in the dough, which is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. You must bite a mouthful to know what is wrapped inside. Especially in jiaozi, Jiaodong, Shandong Province, seafood and meat, dozens of kinds of dumpling stuffing, let foreigners shout delicious, delicious to the incredible! Jiaozi is the favorite staple food of foreigners in Chinese food.