CHNS 281 Quiz 4 - Chinese Cuisine and Food Culture Food Recognition

Chinese Sour Plum (Unripe)

Chinese Sour Plum (Ripe)

Green (Tea) Plum Wine

Green Plum Wine (China)

Green Plum Wine (Korea)

Green Plum Wine (Japan)

Yellow Plum Sauce

• Very sweet, not healthy

Green Plum Sauce

• Used as a sauce to cook meat

• More expensive than Yellow Plum Sauce

• Can also be used as a dip

• Goes well with goose meat

Sour Plum Sale in a Farmer’s Marker

Salted Sour Plum

• One of the most popular snacks (along with Haw Flakes)

• Didn’t exist in the past (since not enough salt to waste on plums, and plums used as a flavor and not eaten itself)

Candied Sour Plum

• Fermented

• Can be put inside cherry tomatoes to make popular snack

Sugared Sour Plum

Candied-plum Roman Tomatoes

• Popular snack for Chinese girls?

Beggar’s Chicken Store

Beggar’s Chicken Cooking Process

Beggar’s Chicken

Smartweed

• Used to provide pungent flavor (in early China)

  • Aquatic plant

  • Young is more white

Young Smartweed

Bears Paw with Ducklings made of Winter Melon

• Menacius really enjoyed bears paw

  • Considered the best delicacy since early China (banned 1989)

• Many Bear’s Paw smuggled from Russia

Bear’s Paw Tofu

Image of Confucius provided by The Temple of Confucius, Qufu City, Shandong Province

Confucius Portrait that Students Traditionally Pay Respects To

Confucius Portrait commonly seen in a typical Temple of Confucius around China

Modern Smiling Confucius (Made to look more approachable)

Image of Confucius (left)

• Reconstructed from drawing in tomb of Marquis of Haihun (92 BC-59 BC)

• Unearthed in 2015, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province

Qufu Speed Train Station

A wine brand called “Friends from Afar”

• Opening line from the Analects

Hotel Named “Confucianism”

Qufu Hotel Room

Statue of Confucius in Temple of Confucius, Qufu, Shandong Province

• Feng4 li2 (pineapple) = become prosperous in some dialects

  • Originated from Taiwan

Lao Zi (Founder of Taoism)

• Wrote Dao De Jing

Lao Zi Statue

Lao Zi leaves the world on an Ox

Non action inscryption in the Forbidden City

• Written by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty

Non doing (Non action)

• Central idea of Taoism

Zhuang Zi

• Second master of Taoism

• Author of The Zhuang Zi

Zhuangzi, as the official in charge of the Lacquer Garden

Modernized Zhuang Zi