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The origin of Sichuan Cuisine can be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties, although its recognition as a distinct regional system took place only in the Song Dynasty. The raw materials are delicacies from land and river, edible wild herbs, and the meat of domestic animals and birds. Masterly used cooking techniques are sauted, stir fry without stewing, dry braise, PAO (soak in water) and Hui (fry then braise with corn flour sauce). Sichuan Cuisine is famous for its distinct and various flavors, the most outstanding ones are fish flavors, pepper powder boiled in oil, strange flavor and sticky-hot. Famous dishes are fried diced chicken with chili sauce, Zhang Tea Duck, Mapo bean curd, chafing dish with pig's stomach, and cabbage in boiling water. Famous Sichuan Dishes include as follows: Stewed Duck, Holland Beans with Ginger Juice, Clubbed Chicken, Port Slice with Sizzling Rice, Sauted Eel Shreds, Fried Chicken, Fish Head in Bean Curd Soup, Fish Flavored Eggplant, Steamed, Yellow Croaker, Boiled Cabbage, Crystal Shrimps, Fish-Flavored Pork, Steamed Beef with Ground Rice, Twice-cooked Pork.
Hangzhou Dishes
Of a large number local cuisine styles, Zhejiang Cuisine occupies an important position and mainly consists of Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing and Wenzhou cuisine styles, each having its own local characteristics.
Hangzhou Cuisine, the representative of Zhejiang Cuisine, is delicious, light, crisp, elegant and highly finished. Ningbo local dishes are delicious, tender, soft and refreshing. Shaoxing Cuisine, which has the characteristics of the I,md of fish, includes various kinds of local dishes, which are soft and aromatic with original soup, mlid juice, light oil, and a heavy taste. Chefs are forbidden to use peppers. Wenzhou Cuisine, also I,nown as On Cuisine, is known for delicious seafood and light and delicious dishes.
Famous dishes are West Lake Sour Fish, Dongpo Pork, Longjing Shrimp Meat, Jiaohua Young Chickens, Steam Rice Flower and Pork Wrapped by Lotus Leaves, Braised Bamboo Shoots and Whitefish with Fermented Glutinous Rice.
Shanghai Cuisine
Chinese cuisine, known as the "ninth art", ranks one of the best in the world, whereas, Shanghai cuisine ranks high in China. This is the high appraisal of famous Chinese and Shanghai food made by foreign friends who are familiar with China and Shanghai.
Shanghai Dishes are fresh and beautiful. By absorption of foreign culture and innovation, they have gained an avant-garde reputation. Shanghai Dishes aim at lightness in flavor, beautifulness in decoration. The raw materials of Shanghai dishes are well-cut, and the colors harmoniously arranged. Now, special attention is being paid to low-sugar and low-fat food, a good quantity of vegetables and nutritional values. Famous dishes are chicken Kidney with Crab Meat, Sauted Squid Rolls, Golden and Silver Duck Slices, Sour and Hot Soup with Eel and Chicken, Black Sea Cucumber with Shrimp Roe, Duck with Prawn Rounds, Shrimps of Two Colors, Boiled Crucian Carp with Clam and Steamed Beef in Rice Flour .