CHNS 281 Midterm 1 - Chinese Cuisine and Food Culture Food Recognition

ONLY contains items between Quiz 3 and Midterm 1 (I'm too lazy to add the old cards; Just go to those kowts instead)

Pork Kidney Bloom Quick Stir Fry (fascia = disgusting kidney part) (Small Green Onions, Black Fungus (wood ear) (mu4 er3), Ginger, Garlic)

Steamed Spiked Trepang with Scallion Whites (Shandong (North) Style)

• Chinese restaurants will sometimes show you trepang before cookinng it so you can examine the quality (make sure it’s wild)

Sweet and Sour Carp (Shape: Carp Jumping in the Dragon Palace Gate) (Shandong (North) Style)

• Yellow river carp

• Invented > 1000 years ago

• Cook head and body separately and serve it together in the dish at the end

• Does retained cuts to curve the fish

• Said to help students on exams if eaten the day before

Roast Suckling Pig (Shandong (North) Style)

• Not actually a Cantonese dish

  • China had this 3000 years ago

• Goes with wheat flour sheets and black soybean sauce

• Best part is the skin

Fried Cicada or Cicada Larvae (Shandong (North) Style)

• Very popular street food

• Also popular in South Korea

• Flavored with salt and white pepper

Manchu-Han Full Banquet

• Han part based on Shandong Cuisine

• Modern imitations are super expensive

Shredded Soft Tofu Soup (Jiangsu/Huaiyang Style)

• Not vegetarian, because it is in chicken broth

• Tofu is hand cut

Mandarin Fish (or Aukua) resembling a squirrel (Jiangsu/Huaiyang Style)

• Common Name: Squirrel Fish

Lion’s Head (Jiangsu/Huaiyang Style)

• Made of pork (not beef like meatballs)

• With baby boy chow (small is more expensive)

Steamed Hairy Crab (Yangcheng Lake Crab) in high class presentation (Jiangsu/Huaiyang Style)

• Freshwater Crab: Caught in rivers/lakes, mate and lay eggs in the ocean

• High in protein (hard to digest)

• Eaten with vinegar and shredded vinegar

• Super expensive, popular bribery gift (like moutai)

• Banned in many Chinatowns

  • Destroy the water systems in America

• Authentic crabs have a special tag

Ants climbing up a tree (Sichuan Style)

• Crystal noodles (made with mung beans)

• The noodles are arranged like a tree before being cooked in front of you

• Sauce contains Sichuan peppercorn, soy sauce, soy beans, minced pork, and hot chili sauce

Married Couple’s Lung Slices (fu4 qi1 fei4 pian4) (Sichuan Style)

• Created by a married couple who ran a restaurant

  • Main meat was beef

  • Leftover parts of cow used to make the dish

    • Beef heart, beef stomach, beef tongue, and cow head skin

      • All dishes require good teeth to eat (crunchy)

• No lung in food; Lung is a homophone for discarded (fei4)

• Leftover meats = discarded meats

Numb hot hotpot (Sichuan Style)

• Tons of chili peppers and Siichuan peppercorn

• Spicy and non-spicy style uses Yin and yang hotpot

Mapu Tofu (Sichuan Style)

• Common style top right (pork)

• Halal style bottom left (beef)

Thousand year old (century) Egg with Lean Pork Porridge (Guangdong Style)

• Available in KFC

Thousand Year Old Egg (Guangdong Style)

• Fermented with limestone powder

Gai Lan with Oyster Sauce (Guangdong Style)

• Gai Lan is high class

Abalone, Trepang, Seafood Soup (Guangdong Style)

Bird's Nest Swallowed by a Pigeon Soup (Guangdong Style)

• It’s common to empty a bird carcass and fill it with something else

Shark’s Fin Soup (bottom right is fake) (Guangdong Style)

Dim Sum (Guangdong Style)

Buddha Jumping over the Wall (Fujian Province)

• Most expensive soup for Chinese New Year

• Contains spiked trepang, sea scallop, abalone, and Chinese caterpillar fungus, quail egg, and shark tail skin

Drunk Chicken (Zhejiang Province)

• Use yellow wine (type of rice wine)

Fish Head with Chopped Chillies (Hunan Province)

• Made with Bighead Carp (Buffalo Carp)

  • Considered invasive in lake Michigan

Stinky Mandarin Fish (Anhui)

• Very famous dish

Mandarin Fish 🐸

Caterpillar Fungus

• Possibly most expensive herb

• Is a parasitic fungus which infects caterpillars

• Grows between Tibet and Sichuan province

Chinese Hawthorn (has dots)

American Hawthorn (doesn’t have dots)

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