An Introduction To Chinese Food Culture Ebook

This little e-book is your perfect complements to "Vegetarian Recipe: The Chinese Way". You'll be able to:

• Understand the importance of having a good name for the dish you've created.
• Understand the 7 common items used in a Chinese kitchen.
• Understand the 4 common spices used in Chinese cooking.
• Revealed: Why must you be invited to a banquet before you can attend!
• Revealed: Who is the Kitchen God, and why offering sweet cakes to Him is important?
• Master the do's and don'ts when attending and eating in a banquet. (Unless you want to embarrass yourself!)
• Master the characteristics of Chinese cuisines - the 5 colors, 5 tastes and 5 smells; as well as the 10 Perfections required to enjoy a perfect Chinese cuisine!
• Know the stories, purpose and the culture involving chopsticks, and the do's and don'ts when using chopsticks. (Wrong chopstick behavior may turn you into a beggar!)
• How to whet one's appetite by using the matching crockery when serving the dishes.
• How to have healthy eating practices, using 9 maxims of eating; tonics, soup and vegetarian meal.
• Discover your status in the eyes of the host when you're ushered and seated in a formal Chinese banquet.
• Discover the various cooking techniques commonly used in Chinese cooking! (How many of the 18 cooking techniques have you mastered?)
• Discover the common food practices and how they came about, and what are the food taboos told to the children, and the meaning it carries!
• Discover the common and unique Chinese utensils and crockery and why the World Health Organization encourage the use of Chinese wok!

Bonus to the "Vegetarian Recipe: The Chinese Way"