For starters remove these wrong assumptions ...
1.Indian chinese food is not the real chinese food available in china
2. In china you will starve as everything is snake meat, smelly and horribly bland
3. china is an island where only chinese food is available .
I was there for two weeks and couldnt locate snake meat ... Good or bad ? Good for the snake :)
Indian chinese food is very tasty but the fact remains its only a distant distant cousin of the chinese food available in China . Or strictly speaking for the average human there is no relation except for the soy sauce and noodle base . So if you are not a food experimenter (whats that if you ask me .. you are not one ) need not try chinese food . But if you are like me its a gastronomic adventure . China has at least 8 different cuisines . And some of them like Cantonese cuisine is fantastic for a food adventurer like me . Let me explain . Shanghai being a big city in China has restaurants serving different cuisines . But you have to searchg and find these places which are spread out . I got so worked up seeing them roasting a goose Cantonese style i searched in the net and found one called Hengshan cafe serving cantonese food . Now ask me why i am asking hongkong food (cantonese ) in shanghai my answer is shanghai doesnt have a strong cuisine of its own rather it has restaurants from different other areas of china which are famous . Roast goose belongs to the category of sui mei or roast meats and it is roasted after marinating with a rich spicy paste which contains red chillies , cloves , cinnamon , orange peel . Dont ask me why they put orange peel in a marinating mix . I will ask a question back as why they put orange peel which is dried and aged for 10-20 years and this recipe is more than 100 years old . Restaurant is a nice chinese restaurant very close to metro station (check on google ) and how to recognise it is by the many roast goose and duck close to the gate of this cafe . Cost for a piece of roast goose is 50 rmb and i had one piece and a piece of soy marinated chicken . The sauces for dipping was yummy pum sauce and some other sauce i have never had before . Fried rice is available but i am highly focussed . Only meat for tonights dinner .
1.Indian chinese food is not the real chinese food available in china
2. In china you will starve as everything is snake meat, smelly and horribly bland
3. china is an island where only chinese food is available .
I was there for two weeks and couldnt locate snake meat ... Good or bad ? Good for the snake :)
Indian chinese food is very tasty but the fact remains its only a distant distant cousin of the chinese food available in China . Or strictly speaking for the average human there is no relation except for the soy sauce and noodle base . So if you are not a food experimenter (whats that if you ask me .. you are not one ) need not try chinese food . But if you are like me its a gastronomic adventure . China has at least 8 different cuisines . And some of them like Cantonese cuisine is fantastic for a food adventurer like me . Let me explain . Shanghai being a big city in China has restaurants serving different cuisines . But you have to searchg and find these places which are spread out . I got so worked up seeing them roasting a goose Cantonese style i searched in the net and found one called Hengshan cafe serving cantonese food . Now ask me why i am asking hongkong food (cantonese ) in shanghai my answer is shanghai doesnt have a strong cuisine of its own rather it has restaurants from different other areas of china which are famous . Roast goose belongs to the category of sui mei or roast meats and it is roasted after marinating with a rich spicy paste which contains red chillies , cloves , cinnamon , orange peel . Dont ask me why they put orange peel in a marinating mix . I will ask a question back as why they put orange peel which is dried and aged for 10-20 years and this recipe is more than 100 years old . Restaurant is a nice chinese restaurant very close to metro station (check on google ) and how to recognise it is by the many roast goose and duck close to the gate of this cafe . Cost for a piece of roast goose is 50 rmb and i had one piece and a piece of soy marinated chicken . The sauces for dipping was yummy pum sauce and some other sauce i have never had before . Fried rice is available but i am highly focussed . Only meat for tonights dinner .
Very intuitive. Orange peel in cooking is scraped thinly off the fruit and is called zest. It is used like a spice.
ReplyDeletei thought that there were only the indian way of marinating . But their way of marinating is equally good in another way . Cooking is really an art and a vast ocean by itself :)
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