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  Rice vinegar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chinkiang vinegar is considered the best of the fl rice vinegars.
Normally fl rice vinegar is made with glutinous or sweet rice, although millet or sorghum may be used instead.
In Chinese cookbooks, ½ tablespoon of Western white vinegar is equivalent in strength to 1 tablespoon Chinkiang vinegar.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rice_vinegar   (324 words)

  
 AsianWeek.com
Made from three basic ingredients (water, glutinous rice and salt), Chinkiang vinegar is widely used in China, especially in the North and South, where dumplings are doused with the tart and mouth-puckering condiment, and pigs’ feet are glazed with the fl vinegar along with ginger and anise seed.
As I sit here writing this, my lower lip has been roughened and wrinkled by the numerous teaspoons of Chinkiang vinegar, balsamic vinegar and distilled white vinegar I’ve sipped and sampled, and a warm sensation is beginning to fill my stomach.
Appearancewise, Chinkiang vinegar resembles balsamic vinegar; however the taste is milder.
news.asianweek.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=dcd86dc7c83d91f2079714cf8e3a053a   (747 words)

  
 China_story
Our stop at Chinkiang was brief and solely for the purpose of dropping off one small piece of cargo for a missionary but long enough to enable us to see a bit of this ancient treaty port.
A commercial center of nearly 200,000 people, the walled city of Chinkiang is located at the junction of the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River and also on the railroad from Shanghai to Nanking.
From Chinkiang we pushed on up the river toward Nanking, passing Kwachow where the Grand Canal completes its "crossing" of the Yangtze and strikes off to the North across a plain which at many points lies below the level of the bed of the Canal.
www.angelfire.com /ca/turkeytales/China_story.html   (4782 words)

  
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CHINKIANG, or CHEN-KIANG-FU, a treaty port of China, in the province of Kiang-su, on the Yangtsze-kiang above Shanghai, from which it is distant rho m.
It is in railway communication both with Shanghai and Nanking (40 M. distant), and being at the point where the Grand Canal running N. and S. intersects the Yangtsze, which runs E. and W., is peculiarly well situated to be a commercial entrep6t.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=15449   (2470 words)

  
 PA-KAU CANCELS ON CIP COVERS
A Chinkiang cover franked by a strip of 5, 2 cents CIP stamps was canceled by 3 strokes of the Chinkiang Pa-Kau (111 121) on the back of the cover.
On the front of the cover is a Chinkiang Bilingual cancel of 6 FEB 01 and a 10 sen Japanese stamp canceled by a Shanghai IJPO cancel of 9 FEB 01.
These features of thick and thin lines and the wide and narrow gaps between these lines is a good tools for separating the towns with mirror image even on single stamp as long as there is a full cancel.
www.chinesephilately.com /page/p29.htm   (287 words)

  
 Tales of old Shanghai - Library - A Short History of Shanghai
He was a fourth class assistant in the Maritime Customs at Chinkiang where he became connected with the Kolaohwei.
Having entered its ervice, he undertook to procure arms and ammunition, and to smuggle them into Chinkiang for the purpose of starting a revolt against the Manchus.
On arrival at Chinkiang, his share in the plot having been discovered, he was arrested and sent to Shanghai.
www.earnshaw.com /shanghai-ed-india/tales/library/pott/pott13.htm   (1771 words)

  
 Chapter II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The British expedition passed on up the Yangtze River and bombarded Chinkiang, an important city at the junction of the Yangtze and the Grand Canal.
From Chinkiang an advance was made on Nanking, at which place the expedition arrived on August 9, 1842.
This occupation of the Yangtze led the Chinese to sue for peace, inasmuch as the blockade of the river hindered vessels carrying the tribute rice from proceeding to the capital by way of the Grand Canal.
www.eden.rutgers.edu /~willisw/mysite2/pott02.htm   (3495 words)

  
 H.M.S. Falcon - Chinkiang on the Yangtze River in China
H.M.S. Falcon - Chinkiang on the Yangtze River in China
In the courtyard of the Silver Temple." - Chinkiang (modern day spelling "Zhenjiang") is where the Grand Canal (built 485 B.C. and connecting Tientsin and Hangchow) intersects the Yangtze.
Inquiries regarding the photographs or information appearing here should be directed to Robert Peace.
www.hmsfalcon.com /Gallery/chinkiang/chinkiang.htm   (246 words)

  
 Welcome to Sushi Train!
Sushi Train mixes Chinkiang Black Vinegar in the rice used in the making of sushi.
Chinkiang Black Vinegar contains a large amount of Amino acids and Histidine.
Chinkiang Black Vinegar contains isolation amino acid, the most effective amino acid, while the majority of other foods contain very little of this.
www.sushitrain.com.au   (309 words)

  
 Guide to the Lyman and Sadie Hale Papers (Record Group No. 147): Finding Aid
They were stationed in Wuhu (1916-1925), Nanking(1925-1927, 1945-1949), Shanghai (1927-1929), and Chinkiang (1929-1941).
The Hale family resided in Shanghai from 1927 to 1929, with Lyman serving as mission treasurer and secretary.
From 1929 Sep to 1941 (except furlough in 1933-1934) the family resided in Chinkiang, with Lyman serving as mission supervisor and treasurer and editor of The China Christian Advocate; served in Nanking after WW II (1945-1949).
webtext.library.yale.edu /xml2html/divinity.147.con.html   (442 words)

  
 BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANK KENDALL EVEREST JR.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In May 1944 he was assigned to a fighter squadron at Venice, Fla., as an instructor.
He asked for combat duty again and was assigned to the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations where he commanded the 17th Fighter Squadron of the 5th Fighter Group at Chinkiang, China.
He completed 67 combat missions and destroyed four Japanese aircraft before his plane was shot down by ground fire in May 1945.
www.af.mil /bios/bio_print.asp?bioID=5378&page=1   (706 words)

  
 Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Biography
Her parents were Presbyterian missionaries, on furlough at the time of her birth from their activities in Chinkiang, China, although they soon returned there.
During the anti-foreign Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the family was forced to flee to Shanghai where, from 1907 to 1909, Buck attended boarding school.
After receiving a bachelor's degree in 1914, she took a teaching assistantship at the college but almost immediately returned to Chinkiang to care for her ailing mother.
www.bookrags.com /biography/pearl-sydenstricker-buck   (715 words)

  
 Eggplant Sauteed with Crushed Red Chili and Black Vinegar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Unlike fine vinegars from other regions, such as Shanxi, near Beijing, where chefs add vinegar to practically every dish (they even poach eggs in it), good Zhejiang vinegar is found here at Chinese food stores.
Other flavorful fl vinegars on the market include Tientsin, a good all-purpose sorghum vinegar that's not as interesting as the Zhejiang, and Narcissus brand "Yongchun Loagu," a fine aged vinegar.
Some fl rice vinegars, such as Hong Kong's Koon Chun, are often diluted (meaning they have only about 2-1/2 percent acetic acid) and have little depth.
www.globalgourmet.com /food/special/2000/asian/eggplant.html   (327 words)

  
 Fiction: Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, was born Pearl Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
Her parents were missionaries who took her at the age of three months to live in China in the city of Chinkiang on the Yangtze River.
At seventeen she returned to the United States to attend Randolph-Macon Women's College in Virginia, where as a senior she won a literary prize for the best short story.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/buck.htm   (412 words)

  
 Zhenjiang formerly transliterated as Chinkiang is a city in the...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Zhenjiang formerly transliterated as Chinkiang is a city in the...
"Zhenjiang" (formerly transliterated as "Chinkiang") is a city in the eastern Jiangsu Jiangsu province of China China.
The city is located east of Nanjing Nanjing, along the Chang Jiang Chang Jiang and the Grand Canal of China Grand Canal of China.
www.biodatabase.de /Zhenjiang   (146 words)

  
 Catherine Kekoa Enomoto - By Request
Chinkiang fl vinegar, right, for dipping sauces and salad
Chef/author Ken Hom uses dark, sweetened vinegar in braised pork dishes.
Bay-area restaurateur/author Bruce Cost writes, "In Shanxi (region) near Beijing, chefs add vinegar to practically every dish; they even poach eggs in it." He recommends Gold Plum "Chinkiang," Tientsin or Narcissus "Yongchun Loagu" brands.
starbulletin.com /97/10/21/features/request.html   (582 words)

  
 ICP - The First Postal Card Issue
ICP Postal Stationery - 1st Issue 1c canceled by Shanghai Dollar Dater of Oct. 20, 1897.
On the back Chinkiang Dollar Dater of Oct. 21, 1897.
ICP Postal Stationery - 1st Issue 1c canceled by Shanghai Dollar Dater of Nov. 23, 1897.
filatelist.tripod.com /1stpc.html   (256 words)

  
 Classic Authors: Pearl S. Buck
Pearl would remain in China for the first 40 years of her life.
The Sydenstrickers lived in Chinkiang (Zhenjiang) in Kiangsu (Jiangsu) Province, a small city which lay at the junction of Yangtze River and the Grand Canal.
Pearl's father spent many months away from the family, combing the countryside for people to convert.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/classic_literature/28983   (505 words)

  
 Did You Know ...?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lyceum villages or associations could sponsor schools, and one of the parent institutions for the Baldwin Institute, later Baldwin University, was the Berea Lyceum Village School (chartered 1837).
that in the 1920s and 1930s Baldwin-Wallace College had a sister relationship with the Chinkiang Institute, or academy, in the city of Chinkiang, China?
Chinkiang is now Zhenjiang and is about 25 miles down the Yangtze River from the city of Nanjing, formerly Nanking.
www.bw.edu /quickfacts/history/dyk/indexprintversion.html   (519 words)

  
 T&T Supermarket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gold Plum Chinkiang Vinegar and Superior Mature Vinegar from Shan Xi
Chinkiang is known for its light vinegar and Shan Xi, its more mature and stronger vinegar.
The reputation of Chinkiang vinegar has now spread internationally with Gold Plum Chinkiang vinegar winning the Golden Laurel Leaf Award in France.
www.tnt-supermarket.com /new/new_goldplum-e.php   (413 words)

  
 Inverted Mnh Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
China 1895 Chinkiang 1c DUE Inverted MNH n667
China 1895 Chinkiang 5c DUE Inverted MNH n663
China 1895 Chinkiang 1/2c DUE Inverted MNH n668
jakeswithin.com /inverted-mnh.html   (206 words)

  
 Chinese black vinegar - Ingredients, Substitutions and Equivalents
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Chinese brown rice vinegar, Chinkiang vinegar, Chekiang vinegar
A dark complex vinegar made of glutinous rice and malt somewhat similar to a balsamic used in Chinese stir-frys, braises and sauces.
www.gourmetsleuth.com /qa/equivalents_substitutions.asp?index=C&tid=2300   (123 words)

  
 CHINA PHILATELY - STAMP CATALOGUES
C.P.O. Chinkiang - J.P.A. Shanghai to the U.S.A. Description: 1890 Sep 4, envelope from Chinkiang to the United States, franked with 1888 'clean-cut perforation' 3ca mauve horizontal pair, tied by CHINKIANG Customs c.d.s., Shanghai transit of Sep 5; passed to the Japanese Postal Agency, franked with 5s, tied by Shanghai c.d.s.
Note: Single rate to the United States of America via the Japanese Postal Agency in Shanghai (5 sen).
Note: Double registered rate to the United States of America via the Japanese Post Office in Shanghai (15 sen).
www.annett-klengler-verlag.de /china-philately/page_088.htm   (140 words)

  
 Buck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
American writer who was born in West Virginia, USA.
She grew up among Chinese children by American missionary parents in Chinkiang, and lived in China until 1932.
There she wrote about China for American magazines.
www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/literature_n2/5aUS.html   (382 words)

  
 Religious and Political Aspects of The Good Earth by Pearl B
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, in 1892.
Her parents were Christian missionaries in an area called Chinkiang, where she spent most of her life.
When she was nine, she went to America with her parents to escape Chinese anti-foreign violence.
www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=48581   (277 words)

  
 icehousebooks (book: 000825)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS Storms On The Chinkiang Docks, Foreign Languages Press, Peking (Beijing), First, 1975.
Front cover illustrated in colour, depicting two men on a small boat - one rowing, one armed with a pistol.
From introduction: ``In the spring of 1949 when the Chinese People`s Liberation Army was about to cross the Yangtze River, the Kuomintang troops in Chinkiang tried to ship some arms and ammunition out through the Chinkiang docks.
www.icehousebooks.co.uk /book000825.htm   (162 words)

  
 Vinegars
Black Vinegar [Brown Rice Vinegar, Chinkiang Vinegar, Chekiang vinegar, Chenkong vinegar, Zhejiang vinegar] is particularly popular in southern China where that made in Chinkiang (Zhejiang) province is considered to produce the best.
Like Balsamic it is dark and has a deep flavor but the taste is is very different.
Gold Plum is often recommended as the best brand of Chinkiang and is made from water, glutinous rice and salt only.
www.clovegarden.com /ingred/sours.html   (1522 words)

  
 Dragon and the Pearl - On-line Edition of Cyberbil!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The play takes place at Green Hills Farm, Bucks County, Pennsylvania on a spring day in the late 1960's, and at various locales in Pearl's memory, representing the past from 1900 up to the "present."
A street in front of The Door of Hope in Shanghai.
A dining room at the White House in Washington, D.C. Eleanor Roosevelt
www.michaelbutler.com /cyberbil/pearl2/synopsis.html   (245 words)

  
 Guide to the Hayes Family Papers (Record Group No. 18): Finding Aid
These papers provide detailed accounts of the life and work of the Hayes family in China during a turbulent time, as well as documenting their post-China experiences.
Paul and Helen Wolf Hayes were missionaries serving under the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wuhu and Chinkiang, Anhwei Province from 1921 to 1935.
She held teas and Bible study classes for groups of local women, and conducted a small school for missionary children in her home using the Calvert system for six years.
webtext.library.yale.edu /xml2html/divinity.018.con.html   (3509 words)

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