Chinese Food

Sachima 沙琪玛 – Chinese Food

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 […]

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Niangao 年糕 – Chinese Food

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

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Chinese Sausage 腊肠 – Chinese Food

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

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Wonton Noodles 云吞面 – Chinese Food

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

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Qingtuan 青团 – Chinese Food

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

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Spring Roll 春卷 – Chinese Food

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

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Liangpi 凉皮 – Chinese Food

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

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Stuffed Tofu 酿豆腐 – Chinese Food

Overview Chinese Name: 酿豆腐 English Name: Stuffed tofu; Stuffed bean curd Category: Snack小吃 Main Ingredients: Tofu Stuffed tofu Stuffed tofu酿豆腐 is a famous Hakka dish客家菜, which is commonly found in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, and other Hakka regions. In 2015, the cooking skills of Huizhou Hakka fermented tofu were listed on Guangdong Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Delicious

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