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 Cantonese cuisine at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Despite the countless Cantonese cooking methods, steaming, stir frying and deep frying are the most popular cooking methods in restaurants due to the short cooking time, and philosophy of bringing out the flavor of the freshest ingredients.
It is not unusual for a waiter at a Cantonese restaurant to bring the live flipping fish or the crawling lobster to the table to show the patron as proof of freshness before cooking.
The ingredients of a rather expensive Cantonese slow cooked soup are: fresh whole chicken, dried air bladder of cod fish, dried sea cucumber and dried abalone.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Cantonese_cuisine.html   (986 words)

  
 Cantonese (linguistics) Paper @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Unusual for a regional (i.e., non-Mandarin) Chinese language, Cantonese has a written form, developed over the last few decades in Hong Kong, and includes many unique characters that are not found in standard written Chinese.
Circumstances where written Cantonese is used include conversations through instant messenger services, entertainment magazines and entertainment sections of newspapers, and sometimes subtitles in Hong Kong movies, and advertisements.
However, written colloquial Cantonese does exist; it is used mostly for transcription of speech in tabloids, in some broadsheets, for some subtitles, for personal diary, and in other informal forms of communication such as BBS on internet or e-mails.
www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Cantonese_(linguistics)   (2128 words)

  
 Cantonese (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Like other major varieties of Chinese, Cantonese is often considered a dialect of a single Chinese Language for cultural or nationalistic reasons; most linguists consider Cantonese a separate language in the sense that they use the term, with notable exceptions in the People's Republic (see Is Chinese a language or a family of languages?
See Standard Cantonese for a discussion of the sounds of Standard Cantonese and pages on individual dialects for their phonologies.
Although the ancient pronunciation has not been maintained in Cantonese, there have been fewer changes in Cantonese, and so their modern values are closer to the older ones than Mandarin.
www.montereypark.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Cantonese_Chinese   (2205 words)

  
 Cantonese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The term "Cantonese" derives from "Canton", the old name given by Westerners to Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province.
Cantonese usually refers to the people, spoken language (dialect) or cuisine of Canton and the surrounding area.
Cantonese dialect written in Chinese is 廣州話; (Cant.
www.websign.sk /ca/Cantonese.html   (126 words)

  
 Cantonese cuisine: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The prominence of Cantonese cuisine outside China is likely due to the disproportionate emigration from this region, EHandler: no quick summary.
Cantonese cuisine is sometimes considered bland by Westerners used to thicker, EHandler: no quick summary.
It is not unusual for a waiter at a Cantonese restaurant to bring the live flipping fish or the crawling lobster[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] to the table to show the patron as proof of freshness before cooking.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cantonese_cuisine.htm   (2299 words)

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