Chinese Culture: Definitions

I’ll add to this page as I need to, but for right now we’ll deal with food terms…

 1. Dim Sum:  this is a Chinese form of dining, in which rolling carts are taken around the dining room continuously, and the diners choose little baskets of different items… there is the dessert cart, the steamed cart, the fried stuff, etc etc. Some things I’ve seen on dim sum carts:

steam buns (tons of different varieties, like bbq pork, vegetable, and sweet)

sticky rice (rice wrapped in leaves)

shrimp balls

jellyfish

beef tripe

bok choy, chinese broccoli, tofu

chicken feet

(the list here could be endless)

2. Hot Pot: this is like Asian fondue. A boiling wok of soup broth, that you just throw your meat, cabbage, and noodles into, and then pick it out with your chopsticks. I love this but it makes the room really hot so not good for hot weather.

3. jasmine rice: best rice ever. Growing up, rice for me was an “Uncle Ben’s sort of side dish” thing….I learned how to cook better rice (and make it sticky) once I married Ang. :)

4. Jasmine tea: Ang loves this stuff. Instead of using a Lipton tea bag (ha ha) Ang prefers the loose tea. So his cup is always full of leaves at the bottom.  I don’t really like this but he prefers it.

Responses

Hmmmm almost everything sounds nice to me except the chicken feet. Stayed and work in china for 3 yrs but i never ate that chicken feet. hehehe.

I love hotpot on winters. Steam buns as snacks and hey, you forget to mention the Dumplings. Lots of my friends say, it is sort of the national food. :)

By: sunshineforlife on December 12, 2007
at 12:34 pm

Aye!! I forgot the dumplings, you’re right. I knew I’d have to add to this page…

Now, you say you wouldn’t eat the chicken feet…I won’t either…but you LIKE the beef tripe??? :P Cuz I feel woozy when the tripe rolls by me in the restaurant!

By: chineseambassador on December 13, 2007
at 9:14 pm

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