Cooking knowledge (seasoning): . Salty seasoning: salty has been listed as one of the five flavors since ancient times. Culinary applications in the salty flavor is the main flavor, is the majority of complex flavors of the base flavor, there are a hundred flavors of the Lord said, not only general dishes can not do without salty flavor, that is, sugar and vinegar, sour and spicy flavors, etc. should be added to the appropriate amount of salty flavor in order to make its taste rich and palatable. Humans know and use the history of salty to quite a long time, the earliest documented use of salt in China about 5,000 years ago in the period of the Yellow Emperor. Salty seasonings include: soy sauce, salt, soy sauce sweet seasonings.... Sweet seasoning: Sweetness is anciently known as Gan, one of the five flavors. Sweet in cooking can be used alone to modulate sweet food; can also be involved in the modulation of a variety of complex flavors, so that the food is sweet and tasty, but also can be used to correct the taste, to remove the bitter and fishy, etc., and has a certain effect of greasiness. In Chinese cooking in the south of the application of sweetness more, to Jiangsu's Wuxi cuisine with the sweetest, known as "sweet out of the head, salty mouth, thick oil and red sauce," said. Nature exists honey and other natural sweet substances have long been consumed by humans. Yinxu unearthed oracle bones have been "honey" word. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, sugar was made from sugar cane juice. Sweet seasonings include: honey, sugar, caramel.... Sour seasoning: sour flavor for one of the five flavors, cooking in a very wide range of applications, but generally should not be used alone. Sour astringent astringent effect, can help digestion; can also go fishy, greasy, taste and freshness, fragrance and color, appetizing, enhance appetite, especially suitable for spring consumption. Sour seasonings include: vinegar, tomato sauce.... Spicy seasoning: Spicy is actually a tactile pain rather than a taste sensation. However, because of habit, it is also considered a flavor. Spicy seasonings include: pepper, cayenne pepper, ginger, onion, garlic... Fresh Flavor Seasoning: Fresh flavor is a kind of deliciousness that people strive for in their diets, and it creates a comfortable and pleasant feeling. Fresh flavor mainly comes from amino acids, nucleotides and succinic acid, mostly found in meat and livestock, fish, eggs and other main ingredients. Foods such as monosodium glutamate (MSG), shrimp roe, fish sauce, oyster sauce and fresh bamboo shoots can also enhance freshness. Fresh flavor can not exist alone, only with other flavors with, can bake the clouds to the moon and shine, so there is "no salt is not fresh, no sweet is not fresh," said. Fresh flavor seasonings include: fish sauce, monosodium glutamate (MSG), oyster sauce

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