cantonese cuisine
Cantonese cuisine is one of the four traditional Chinese cuisines and one of the eight major cuisines, originating from Lingnan. Cantonese cuisine consists of three local flavors: Guangfu, Chaoshan and Hakka. Each of the three flavors has its own characteristics. Cantonese cuisine and French dinners are the same famous in the world. Since the number of overseas Chinese in Guangdong accounts for 60% of the overseas Chinese, many of the Chinese restaurants in the world are mainly Cantonese cuisines.
notable dishes in cantonese cuisine
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Dimsum
Dimsum is a traditional Canton breakfast where you have different dishes and teas with it. The highlight of the dimsum is to have it with tea and most of each Canton families will have teas in their house. Dimsum has buns, noodles, and congee three different sections. Buns has stew, fried, and bake ones. Noodle has stew and fried. And congee mostly need to take some times to let the rice pop open and make it taste good.
2. Rice Noodle Rolls
We call rice noodle rolls “chang fen.” It’s a thin layer of rice flower and stew it in a machine for a couple minutes. Ones you take it out then roll it in and cut it in halfs. We mostly eat it with soy sauce and the soy sauce for dimsum are a bit sweeter than the original ones.
3. Congee
Congee are more lighter taste than other dishes and it’s more like thick soups. It’s kind of the same way you will cook rice, except you need to put more water and cook it for longer times. Their plain congee that we mostly will eat at home as breakfast. Century egg congee will have more salty taste and more ingredients in it.
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4. Char siu
Char siu literally means "fork roasted" after the traditional cooking method for the dish: long strips of seasoned boneless pork are skewered with long forks and placed in a covered oven or over a fire. Char siu is typically consumed with a staple, whether inside a bun, with noodles, or with rice in fast food establishments, or served alone as a centerpiece or main dish in traditional family dining establishments. If it is purchased outside of a restaurant, it is usually taken home and used as one ingredient in various complex entrees consumed at family meals.