April 2023

Overview Chinese Name: 酥油茶 English Name: Butter tea Category: Drink饮品 Main Ingredients: Tea Butter tea Butter tea酥油茶 is a kind of medicinal diet made of butter, brick tea, and salt. Butter tea is a daily essential drink for Tibetan藏族 people and a necessity for life on the Tibetan西藏 plateau. Drinking buttered tea can cure altitude sickness, prevent chapped lips due to […]

Overview Chinese Name: 重庆小面 English Name: Chongqing noodles; Chongqing Xiaomian Category: Staples主食 Main Ingredients: Flour Chongqing noodles Chongqing noodles重庆小面, a Sichuan noodle, is one of the four characteristics of Chongqing重庆. Chongqing noodles originated in Chongqing, Sichuan, and is one of the staple food in Chongqing, especially for breakfast. Chongqing Xiaomian is the simplest kind of pasta in Chongqing. Chongqing

Overview Chinese Name: 沙琪玛 English Name: Sachima; Caramel treats; Saqima; ShaQima Category: Snack小吃 Main Ingredients: Flour Sachima Sachima沙琪玛, also written “Saqima”, is a transliteration of The Manchu language “sacima”. Sachima is a sweet pastry with Manchu characteristics. Saqima is loved by people for its soft, sweet, and melt-in-your-mouth properties. ShaQima with black sesame Saqima originated from the sacrifices of

Overview Chinese Name: 年糕 English Name: Niangao; New Year’s cake Category: Snack小吃 Main Ingredients: Glutinous rice Niangao Niangao年糕 is a traditional food of the Han nationality in China, which belongs to the seasonal food of the Lunar New Year农历新年. New Year cake is a kind of cake made of rice or glutinous rice. It is customary to eat New

Overview Chinese Name: 腊肠 English Name: Chinese sausage; Sausage Category: Snack小吃 Main Ingredients: Pork Chinese sausage Chinese sausage腊肠 refers to meat products with Chinese characteristics, which are made of meat as raw materials, cut and ground into dice, supplemented with auxiliary materials, poured into animal casings, fermented, and matured. It is one of the largest categories of meat products

Overview Chinese Name: 云吞面 English Name: Wonton noodles Category: Staple food主食 Main Ingredients: Flour Wonton noodles Wonton noodles云吞面, also known as fine Rong, and big Rong, are Han-style snacks in Guangdong Province and belong to Cantonese cuisine粤菜. Wonton noodles is a very common food in China. Cooked wonton, eggs, and noodles are served with hot soup. Wonton noodles are

Overview Chinese Name: 青团 English Name: Qingtuan; Youth League Category: Snack小吃 Main Ingredients: glutinous rice flour Qingtuan Qingtuan青团 is a traditional snack that Jiangnan people eat during Qingming Festival清明节. In making green dough, the juice of wormwood is usually mixed into glutinous rice flour and then wrapped into bean paste or lotus paste. It is not sweet or greasy and

Overview Chinese Name: 春卷 English Name: Spring Roll Category: Snack小吃 Main Ingredients: Flour Spring Roll Spring Rolls春卷 are also called spring cakes春饼, spring plates春盘, and pancakes薄饼. It is a kind of traditional food at Chinese folk festivals. It is popular all over China, especially in Jiangnan and other places. In southern China, we don’t eat dumplings but spring rolls

Overview Chinese Name: 皮蛋 English Name: Century egg; Preserved egg Category: Snack小吃 Main Ingredients: Duck egg Century egg Century egg皮蛋, also known as pine eggs松花蛋, broken eggs变蛋, etc., is a kind of egg processing food invented by the Chinese Han people. It is an exceptional food in China, with a special flavor, and can promote appetite. The principle of

Overview Chinese Name: 凉皮 English Name: Liangpi Category: Snack小吃 Main Ingredients: Flour Liangpi Liangpi凉皮 originated from the traditional food of the Han nationality汉族 in the Guanzhong关中 area of Shaanxi Province陕西省. It is popular in northern China and is a rare natural green pollution-free food. Due to the different raw materials, production methods, and regions, cold skin can be divided