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Ten Chinese Food You Would Never Miss to Taste

When you come to China, you must try Chinese food. In order for your rewarding trip, we select top 10 Chinese food you never miss to taste according to their popularity and hope that you can get delicious food in China.

1. Roast duck
Roast duck is no doubt the best representative of Chinese cuisine. It, which has a centuries-old history, seems to be even more popular than Donald Duck. People who come to China or Beijing eat roast duck. During Beijing Olympic, the daily consumption of roast duck reaches an alarming number. From this you can see how much people love roast duck. Therefore, China must come to eat roast duck.

2. Kung Pao Chicken
In China, Kung Pao Chicken gets many cooking methods, from which you can see how much people’s approval to it. Their rich, spicy and sweet taste is enjoyed by all people. In various restaurants it is one of the most popular dishes. You will never regret to try it if you come to China.

3. Beijing snacks
Beijing snacks have unique taste and are worthy of careful taste such as Pea Cake and Ai Wo Wo; Muslim snacks such as fried pork tripe and Fried Chop Rice Cake; Han people snacks well-received by under stratum people such as Wheaten cake boiled in meat broth. Beijing snacks, which are the world-famous, are special food for people coming to Beijing.

4. Mapo Beancurd
With the most homely method and the most common raw materials, it stimulates people's taste for it being strong hot and spicy. More and more people cannot stop tasting it. What is the most important: it is cheap and affordable! Maybe no other style of cooking is able to be spicy to the extreme like Sichuan dishes.

5. Pork Lungs in Chili Sauce
A kind of Sichuan food you cannot miss! Never try such a provocative food in the morning, right? So taste it!

6. Crawfish with Chili Sauce
Crawfish with Chili Sauce has become a favorite of the Chinese people long time ago, and thus the Double Street got its reputation. Bright red crayfish with a delicious spicy make people give two thumbs up. During Beijing Olympic Games, many people eat the crawfish after watching the games.

7. Bullfrog
Though Bullfrog is small, its delicious taste gains so many people’s love. Silky smooth meat makes its taste fabulous no matter it is with pickled pepper or water cooking. Maybe you don’t feel good to see raw meat or something, but you cannot resist the delicious taste after it being cooked specially.

8. dumpling
As a unique Chinese cuisine, Dumpling is a symbol of traditional Chinese culture in addition of delicious taste. So it is undoubtedly the most right food that should be recommended.

9. Yangchow fried rice
Yangzhou cuisine is renowned for their elaboration, but Yangzhou fried rice really belongs to the public. It is from the public awareness and research. As a result of its cooking speed and convenience, it is also very popular to ordinary people in China.

10. Chinese noodle
Although far from being artistic, Chinese noodle can be cooked with any material and adapt to everyone’s special needs. It is a worldwide food favor by eastern and western people with different eating habits. Therefore, you have no reason not to try it.

From: www.raychinese.com

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The Story of Chinese Dumplings

Jiaozi (Chinese dumpling) is a traditional Chinese food—one of the most widely loved foods in northern China In ancient times. jiaozi, whose shape looks like a horn, was called 'Tiao" (literally "horn"). It was also called "bianshi" (literally "flat food") due to its flat shape The name "jiaozi" derives flora the ancient time-counting method in China When the Chinese people eat dumplings stuffed with meat and vegetables at the junction of the end of the old year and the beginning of the New Year, it is right between eleven pm and one am. Since this period is called jiaozi (交子) in Chinese, the dumplings people eat during this time are named after it. Later it becamejiaozi (饺子), with a radical added to the left part of the original Chinese character indicating it is a kind of food. As early as the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) eating dumplings became a custom in the capital city of Chang'an (present-day Xi'an inShaanxi Province).

It is believed that eating dumplings on New Year’s Eve brings good luck and happiness. Furthermore, since the shape of dumplings is similar to that of ancient Chinese gold or silver ingots, they are also believed to bring wealth if you have them that eve. Later, when people got married or gave birth to a child, they usually treated their guests with Chinese dumplings, which gradually become an essential ritual food for special occasions or during holidays in northern China. The Chinese dumpling consists of a wrapper and its fillings. There are two main kinds of dumplings: those with vegetable and those with meat filling. The latter include chicken, pork, beef and mutton, etc; whereas the former are Chinese cabbage, celery, Chinese leek, carrot and cucumber, etc. Seafood such as crab, shrimp and fish can also be used as fillings.

When placing the raw dumplings in preparation for cooking, it is desirable to arrange them in a circle, symbolizing family reunion. When making dumplings for New Year's Eve, people may hide a coin in one of the dumplings. The person who finds the coin at dinner will likely have good fortune in the New Year. When dumplings are boiled in water, people try their best not to break the skins or wrappers. Even if some are broken, it is best not to say so because it is not auspicious to say "broken" during the New Year season Chinese dumplings can be cooked in various ways boiled in water, and eaten together with mixed flavorings such as vinegar, garlic, sesames oil and light soy sauce or steamed in a steamer or flied or baked in a pan. In Henan and Shaanxi, people usually boil dumplings and noodles together, thus this food is also called "Ingots stringed with golden threads", while in some provinces in northeastern China and Inner Mongolia, some people boil dumplings with pork and pickled vegetables in a pot, creating a special flavor for the dumplings. Well, that's all for the story of Chinese dumplings this time.

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10 Notes for Tibet Tour　

Tibet’s mystery has been attracting the world's tourists. Traveling in Tibet is not similar to that in other places, As Tibet is located in the highland areas, you need to pay more attention to the following 10 notes.

1. Drink more water

As the low-altitude air humidity in Tibet, the human body is vulnerable to dehydrate, coupled with the increased hemoglobin, which leads to the increase of blood viscosity, it is easy to form clots and cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents. Therefore, drinking more water is a necessity.

2. Quit smoking

Cigarettes produce carbon monoxide, which has high affinity ability with hemoglobin 250 times to 300 times stronger than that with the oxygen. Smoking a lot will significantly increase the altitude sickness.

3. Learn correct

Exercise proves that abdominal breathing gets more rules and rhythms than pectoral breathing. When you are walking or climbing, place your hands on your hip so that the muscles of the arm, clavicle, scapula and the torso above the waist make assisted respiration in order to increase the activity of the respiratory System.

4. Avoid severe activities, excited emotions and too hot water bath

These should be avoided to prevent the body to speed up metabolism and increase hypoxia, leading to pulmonary edema.

5. Adhere to the diet principles of high-carbohydrate, high-vegetable protein and low fat

Carbohydrates provide energy quickly so that people adapt to the high-intensity activities, and increase the exchange of oxygen ventilation. Excess fat and animal protein can increase the altitude sickness.

6. Take some diazepam tablets appropriately

Altitude sickness is easy to cause insomnia. Take some diazepam tablets appropriately to ensure adequate sleep. In addition, people under the age of 16 and above 60 years old or suffering from anemia, diabetes and serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and chronic lung disease, mental illness and pregnant women are unfit for the plateau tourism.

Things to prepare

1. Drugs

Prepare a number of conventional flu drugs, gastrointestinal drugs and some heat and pain medicines such as: cold tablets, cold-fever-treating infusion, the compound aspirin, chlorpheniramine and antibiotics. If you fear altitude sickness, you can prepare some anti-altitude sickness drugs such as Rhodiola plateau (taking it at least 10 days ahead of schedule), Bufferin (control the headaches caused by altitude sickness), American ginseng tablet.

2. Food

In order to prevent food intolerance or being blocked on the way, you can bring: chocolates, beef jerky, hot pickled mustard tubers, biscuits and other food you love. High-calorie food is better. You can also bring some gums, because chewing gums can ease the headache and tinnitus, but remember not too frequently, or it will cause dry mouth.

3. Necessary articles for daily use

Sunglasses, sun hat, sunscreen, skin cream, lip balm, long-sleeved shirt, sweater; for special travel such as Ali, northern Tibet, Sichuan-Tibet line tourism, better bring: sleeping bags (cold proofing), sheet (anti-dirty) , down jacket, hiking shoes, slippers, toothbrush, toothpaste, towels, roll paper, paper underpants, disinfection wipes, flashlight, waterproof matches, knives and rope.

4. Wear

Due to the strong ultraviolet rays in Tibet, you can not wear short-sleeved T-shirt and shorts and must prepare sweaters. For spring, autumn and winter, bring the down jacket and woollen underpants. You must take the down jacket together with you all he year round if you travel to Mount Everest, Ali area and northern Tibet; the best shoes Is the travel shoes or hiking shoes.

 

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