Chinese cuisine: Peking Roast Duck

Chinese cuisine is very different from European. Chinese dished are famouse for their "colour", "flavour",and "tast". There are four major cooking styles in china:Sichuan,Cantonese,Shandong and Huaiyang, each distinctly differdnt.

Sichuan cuisine is distinctly spicy.Cantonese are famouse for its widely food material,Shandong cuisine excels fish and seafood for its coastline. And simmering,boiling or baking in earthenware pots over a low fire are the feature of this cuisine."Bagger's chicken" is a famouse Jiangsu specialties. It is baked in a hole in the ground with lotus leaves covering a clay pot,which has appeared in many Chinese Kongfu stories.

Shanghai does not really have a cuisine of its own, but has combined different regional styles from surrounding procinces, such as the Jiangsu food. Its flavors are generally richer, heavier, sweeter and oilier than those of cantonese Cuisine.

The Beijing food tends to be more more substantial, to keep the body warm, for its norther location.Noodles, dumplings, and chinese bread are served as the staple diet. Hot Pot is very popular in Beijing. The most famous dish is roast duck.

Peking toast duck

Peking Roast Duck smells good and the skin tastes crisp. The crisp skin is the most prized part of the duck. To archieve the right crispy texture,the duck is dried, and then coasted with a syrup and soy sauce before it is roasted. The skin is skillfully carved. It is eaten with pancaks, Chinese onion and sweet soybean Sauce. The common way is as follows: take a piece of pancake, clip some slices of onion into the sweet soybean sauce and put them on the pancake, together with two or three pieces of duck meat. Roll the whole thing up and then it is ready to eat. Some restautants also serve up just about every part of the duck, from the webbed feet to the beak and liver. On request, the remainder of the duck meat can be sauted with bean sprouts and the bones made into wondetful soup with cabbage.

Is your mouth watering now?

For my sensitive body, a lot of food are unsuitable for me. But I still can't resist the temptation to taste sevral pieces of duck meat and the crisp skin for the first time in my life. It's great! But maybe the effect of my traditional Chinese medicine will cut down as a cost.

Last week I got up early to see the famouse traditional Chinese medical doctor. With go and fro twice and more than 5 hours waiting in line, I see the doctor for less than five minites. After that, I can make sure that he is a highly skilled doctor. I hope with his traditional Chinese medicine I will be more and more strong.