| Chinese food - Think about it next time you order takeout | | Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 12:14:16 PM by Kate Grant | I love-love-love sweet and sour Chinese food. I don't know what it is, but the combination just does it for me.
 Maybe it has to do with the fact that like in Chinese food, life can be sometimes sweet, and sometimes sour...
But we digress.
If you look through ancient Chinese food recipes, you'll see, that what we eat today, especially in the western world, is quite different from the Traditional Chinese food.
What we find on a Chinese restaurant menu, was adapted to a western palate, and when we finally visit china, we're amazed that the food is nothing like we're used to at home.
Chinese culture is so vast, that we in the west sample only a fraction of it. If we look back in history, china was among the first to grow rice and tea, thousands of years ago.
These products still come to mind when we think about Chinese food. With all the sugar and oil in Chinese food, calorie intake could be quite high, so watch out, sometimes even an innocent stir-fry is drowning in oil.
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| | | Velvet, it comes in chicken too... | | Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:12:39 AM by Kate Grant | | | Little spare time? Working mother, here's a recipe for you. This lovely dish, an old family recipe of one of my best friends, takes its name from the moist, velvety texture the chicken gets, after being poached at a low temperature. Keep it in a covered pot, and the heat will do the rest. freeze the poaching liquid and you'll be able to use it again. Preparation time is around an hour, and the taste...
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| | | Chinese Cuisine - Not Fast Food | | Posted Tuesday, December 27, 2005 6:18:33 PM by Emma Brown | | | If you are looking for good Chinese cuisine, original and authentic Chinese cooking, then you will love the Forbidden City. This is Eric Leong’s new Chinese restaurant on Main Street, Middletown. Leong, originally from Malaysia, co-owns the restaurant with his partner and chef, Kevin Zhao. He hopes that this restaurant will give Americans a better "cultural understanding of China." | |
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| | | Lucky Fortune Cookie Inc. | | Posted Monday, December 26, 2005 2:14:11 PM by Emma Brown | | | Chisin Yeung opened the first fortune cookie business. At first no one thought it would work out. How many people want to buy fortune cookies? His family were skeptical. But after a decade of hard work, The Lucky Fortune Cookie Inc. is the only fortune cookie manufacturer in Maryland and has its own online Fortune Cookie Depot. Fortune cookies are being sold everywhere. | |
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| | | A chance to shine in China, US for local food processors | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:02:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | KORONADAL CITY -- Food producers and processors here are organizing themselves to take advantage of the opportunity of penetrating the huge Chinese and American markets. Allan Yaphockun, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI)-Southern Mindanao governor, said local food processors would be given significant insights on how to increase exports in these markets. Sun.Star Network Online's 12th Asean Summit Watch "We're organizing a business delegation to the seminar that will be held in Thailand," Yaphockun revealed. The series of seminars, dubbed "Targeting Overseas Markets: Opportunities for Southeast Asian Packaged Foods," will be conducted at the Grand Mercure Fortune Hotel in Bangkok. The last two legs will be on March 14 for targeting the US market and April 4 for targeting the Chinese market.... | |
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| | | Quick cookbook includes Italian food and more | | Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:09:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | I know that when you look for great reading material you dont generally turn to cookbooks. However, in the interest of locating a collection of recipes that are not impossible to cook due to lack of experience or lack of funds, I think all readers and cooks alike will find Rachael Rays 30-Minute Meals cookbook an absolute blessing. This book covers a wide range of food choices including pastas, salads, pizzas, sandwiches and even Chinese food. So far I have found the pasta section to be particularly satisfying. Ray includes a wonderful recipe for penne pasta with sausage, fennel and tomato sauce, as well as spaghetti dish with classic Bolognese meat sauce. If one of your New Years resolutions is to shed a few pounds, there is a great section dedicated to salads as meals with enough recipes to satisfy you for the rest of the semester.... | |
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| | | Chinese volunteers in Ethiopia | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 10:57:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ethiopia is totally new and exotic "I can see monkeys in my room"- "I saw camels in my school!" said two participants in the Ethiopian Project for the Chinese Youth Volunteers Association (CYVA) in 2006. "Everything is new and exotic, there are so many varieties of car on the streets, it seems like we are in a car museum", said Xu Li, another volunteer. Overseas volunteers already in Ethiopia are adapting to the new environment while waiting for assignments. Xu Li was assigned to work in the Ethiopian State News Department and will be committed to sourcing information on current affairs and setting up a news website. "I majored in software development, so I'm okay at this job," said Xu Li. "I prepared fully before I came, so I brought some gifts for children in case I was sent to teach in a school and some software in case I was asked to work in a computer-related field." Liu Ziyan, Xu Li's husband, wanted to work in his field of specialty and was assigned to the Ethiopian TV Station.... | |
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| | | European Union calls IPR piracy a dead end for Chinese business | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:01:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | BEIJING: The European Union's trade chief called on Beijing yesterday to do more to stop the pirating of foreign brands in China, warning that it also threatens the profits of successful Chinese companies. On the third day of a five-day visit to China, Peter Mandelson called intellectual property theft the “top issue" for Europe in its trade relations with China. Mandelson met in the morning with officials of China's State Intellectual Property Office to inspect Chinese efforts in the field. He urged them to improve enforcement of anti-piracy laws, make it easier to prosecute violators, and toughen punishments. “It's the biggest problem for companies trying to do business here," he said. Many of China's lively street markets are awash in counterfeit European goods such as Gucci bags, Lacoste shirts, and counterfeit DVDs that often hit the streets while movies are still in theatres.... | |
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| | | Art and Chinese food | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:13:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Took in a compelling Anselm Kiefer show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This is one of my favorite museums anywhere. There's always a diverse array of exhibitions, and the permanent collection is broad and bright. We followed this up with dim sum at Yank Sing — yes, it's where all the tourists go, and it costs roughly three times what dim sum usually costs. But it's good and, at times, inventive (little sea bass tidbits). Dinner was more grass-roots Chinese: duck and green-lipped mussels in black bean sauce at Yuet Lee, which we call the Coca-Cola retaurant because of the big Coke sign on its lime-green building. Excellent food, and it's cheap, unless you order a fresh (still swimming in the tank) fish, which we didn't. Off to Golden Gate park for the day, but I wanted to mention this Sunday's travel section, which highlights gems in Colorado ski country.... | |
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| | | Indian, Chinese gangs smuggling counterfeit pesticides into EU | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:09:19 AM by Blog57 Team | | London, Nov 7 (IANS) Criminal gangs from India and China are smuggling counterfeit pesticides, fungicides and herbicides into the European Union, threatening food safety in Britain and the rest of Europe, according to agriculture experts. As many as one in 20 pesticides sold in the European Union may be fake and could harm human health, according to the European Crop Protection Authority (EPCA). The illegal trade also costs 20 million pounds a year in lost taxes, it said. Europe's agri-chemical market is reported to be worth five billion pounds. According to a report in The Times, two British firms are being investigated over the supply of bogus agri-chemicals by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and enforcement agencies have been urged to monitor the problem more closely after the industry alerted the European Commission to the potential threat to human health.... | |
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| | | AFRICA: Summit will boost Chinese aid | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:08:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | BEIJING, 2 Nov 2006 (IRIN) - Trade and investment are likely to dominate the agenda when African and Chinese leaders meet for a summit here this weekend that is expected to yield pledges for more aid, training, health and agricultural assistance, and debt relief for Africa. More than 40 African heads of state and representatives are expected to attend the two-day summit, which opens on Saturday with all 48 invited countries sending representatives. The five remaining nations in the 53-strong African Union that have kept ties with Taiwan, which China does not recognise, have also been invited to send observers. Chinas Foreign Ministry says the summit is the largest and most extensive gathering of Chinese and African officials in history. While Western nations increasingly condition financial assistance on political reform and respect for human rights, analysts say many African leaders welcome Chinas streamlined, no-questions-asked approach to aid.... | |
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| | | Bush food taste test in China | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 2:58:06 AM by Blog57 Team | | THE Chinese will begin digging into the tastes of indigenous Australia when Worn Gundidj representatives visit the country later this week to share food, dance and a kitchenware range. Three dancers and four Worn Gundidj staff are packing their bags to showcase their culture at the Australian Lifestyle Expo at Guangzhou, the Australian Food Festival at Chengdu and a visit to the Australian Consulate General's residence. Worn Gundidj tourism manager Jamie Thomas said the promotional trip would show Outback Spirit bush foods and also kitchenwares including mittens, table runners and mats depicting traditional earthy Worn Gundidj designs. ``The plan is to partly promote Outback Spirit and show Australia has its own unique culinary taste from Australian indigenous plants,'' Mr Thomas said.... | |
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| | | NEARLY 90 PERCENT WORRIED ABOUT IMPORTED FAKE CHINESE FOOD | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:00:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | Taipei, Oct. 25 (CNA) Nearly 90 percent of respondents to a recent survey are worried about imported fake Chinese food products, according to the survey results released Wednesday by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The DPP conducted the survey Oct. 3-5 prior to a meeting in southern China in mid-October sponsored by Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). A total of 1,018 effective samples were collected with a margin of error of 3.13 percent. The results show that up to 89 percent of the people polled are worried about the inferior quality of Chinese products, while 76 percent are worried that competition from cheap Chinese agricultural produce will affect the livelihoods of local farmers and 61 percent are worried that closer cross-Taiwan Strait agricultural exchanges will lead to the flight of Taiwan's expertise and the loss of competitiveness.... | |
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| | | One US Chain's Unlikely Goal: Pitching Chinese Food in China | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 12:57:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | SHANGHAI -- Looking for a quick lunch, Zheng Li stopped in at East Dawning, a bright, clean fast-food restaurant in this bustling city. Scanning the menu board, she saw crispy pig ears, marinated egg with seaweed and shaved ice topped with corn, peanuts and red beans. The 26-year-old hotel receptionist chose spicy chicken and carried it to a table on a paper-lined tray. "The taste is so Chinese," she said. But the company that created it is so American. Yum Brands Inc., which owns KFC and Pizza Hut, developed East Dawning from scratch two years ago. Just as with its ... .... | |
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