Do you really know Chinese cuisine?

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Do you really know Chinese cuisine? There is a old Chinese old saying: min yi shi wei tian(phonetic transcription of Chiese characters); A literal translation is:people regard food as their heaven/ for the common people food is heaven. To restate in a paraphrase is:food is the first necessity of the people/food is the prime want. Chinese cuisine is as long as in origin and rich in content as Chinese culture. To the Chinese, eating is a kind of culture in itself. If you know a little about Chinese cuisine and you will know that there is no such thing as simple "Chinese food", but a large and varied selection of Chinese cuisine. Chinese cuisine places great emphasis on three elements: color,aroma and flavor. Chinese cuisine is based on five tastes:sour,hot,bitter,sweet and salty. The main cooking mathods include sauteing,frying,braising,steaming,barbecuing and stewing. Chinese cuisine falls into four major categories:Shandong cuisine along Yellow River valley,Sichuan cuisine along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River,Jiangsu-Zhejiang cuisine along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and China's south-east coast, and Guangdong cuisine(Canton cuisine)along the Pearl River valley and China's south coast. This is a brief introduction to the Chinese cuisine. Next time, there will be more details. Hope you like it.