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  The Cultural Heritage of China :: Food & Drink :: Cuisine :: Regional Cuisine
However, Szechuan cuisine's reputation for being spicy is much older: sichuan pepper, or "numbing pepper" is an indigenous plant (fruit) that produces a fragrant, numbing, almost citrus-y spice, and is still a key ingredient in Szechuan food to this day; ginger and spicy herbs were used early on.
Fujian cuisine is derived from the native cooking style of the province of Fujian, China.
Yunnan cuisine (Chinese: 云南菜; Pinyin: yúnnán cài) is an amalgam of Han and Chinese minority cuisines.
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  cantonese cuisine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The prominence of Cantonese cuisine outside China is likely due to the disproportionate emigration from this region, as well as the relative accessibility of some Cantonese dishes to foreign palates.
Cantonese cuisine is sometimes considered bland by Westerners used to thicker, richer and darker sauces of other Chinese cuisines.
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.
wikipedia.openfun.org /en/wikipedia/c/ca/cantonese_cuisine.html   (1191 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Chinese cuisine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Fujian cuisine is derived from the native cooking style of the province of Fujian, China.
Yunnan cuisine is an amalgimation of Han and Chinese minority cuisines.
Categories: Chinese cuisine American Chinese cuisine (什碎館 or 雜碎館) is a unique style of cooking served by Chinese restaurants in the United States and Canada.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chinese-cuisine   (1075 words)

  
 Macau - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Broadly, Macanese refers to all permanent inhabitants of Macau.
The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, or the so-called Macanese.
Cuisines of Portuguese Encounters: Recipes from Angola, Azores, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Goa, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Madeira, Malacca, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /macau.htm   (1722 words)

  
 American Chinese cuisine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Chinese cuisine (什碎館 or 雜碎館) is a unique style of cooking served by Chinese restaurants in the United States.
Other cuisines influence the menu: some restaurants substitute grilled flour tortillas for the rice pancakes in mu shu dishes; brown rice is often offered as an optional alternative to white rice.
Owing to the diversity of ethnicities in Hawaii, Chinese cuisine forms a component of the cuisine of Hawaii, which is a fusion of different culinary traditions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Chinese_cuisine   (1234 words)

  
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According to common understandings, Macanese are Portuguese national citizen with Portuguese blood who were born in Macau, including mixed bloods between Portuguese and Chinese or other ethnicities and all Portuguese who have lived in Macau for generations.
The Macanese regard Portugal as their motherland, and received Portuguese education and are influenced by the Portuguese culture for a long period.
Apart from the language, the Macanese cuisine, a mixture of traditional Portuguese, Indian, Malay and Cantonese cuisine, is a specialty of Macau.
members.lycos.co.uk /macau1999/features/macanese.htm   (822 words)

  
 Mandarin cuisine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mandarin cuisine or Beijing cuisine (Chinese: 京菜; Pinyin: jīngcài) is a cooking style in Beijing, China.
Since Beijing has been the Chinese capital city for centuries, its cuisine was influenced by people from all over China.
The Emperor's Kitchen (御膳房 yùshànfáng) was a term referring to the cooking places inside of the Forbidden City of Beijing where thousands of cooks from the different parts of China showed their best cooking skills to please royal families and officials.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mandarin_cuisine   (183 words)

  
 Revista 7 - Inglês
The fact of being Macanese results from the emergence of an autonomous cultural awareness that transcends the mere conjunction of a cosmopolitan Portuguese humanism with the millenary Chinese civilisation.
But the fact of being Macanese also extends to the members of the Territory's diaspora, inasmuch as the preservation of many of the daily rituals of their birthplace generates a strong sense of a common homeland.
In this sense the Macanese culture possesses an inner dynamic that is strong enough to overcome the vagaries of time - especially those of this new political period in which the Territory is returning to China.
www.instituto-camoes.pt /revista/revista7in.htm   (3487 words)

  
 Macanese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Macanese is also used to refer to a special ethnic group in Macao Special Administrative Region of People's Republic of China, which is a former Portuguese colony.
It refers to people who have Portuguese ancestry or partial Portuguese ancestry, particularly descendants of intermarriage between Chinese and Portuguese who have settled in Macao.
They speak a creole called Patuá or Macaista Chapado which is almost extinct, and have preserved the special Macanese cuisine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Macanese   (144 words)

  
 Asiaweek.com | Special Report: Macau | A Proud People | 12/24/99
They are the Macanese - descendants of the soldiers and administrators who came out from Portugal and stayed on to marry local women and make their lives here.
Macanese cuisine is basically Portuguese, but with local ingredients and embellishments.
Hundreds of Macanese recipes have probably been lost to history, either because they were never written down or because some families kept them a secret.
www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/99/1224/sr.macanese.html   (1661 words)

  
 wiki/Mandarin cuisine Definition / wiki/Mandarin cuisine Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Chinese Buddhist cuisine Buddhist cuisine is known as 齋菜 (pinyin: zhāi caì) among Chinese.
Chinese Islamic cuisine Due to a large Muslim population in western China, many Chinese restaurants cater to Muslims or cater to the general public but are run by Muslims.
Macanese cuisineWith over 450 years of history, Macanese cuisine is unique to Macao.
www.elresearch.com /wiki/Mandarin_cuisine   (777 words)

  
 Macau: Chinese or Portuguese?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Macanese food has Portuguese, Indian, Malay, African and Chinese influences which were adapted from the various overseas colonies of Portugal.
Macanese cuisine is generally spicier and more flavorful than standard Portuguese and Chinese fare.
Among some of the more common Portuguese and Macanese dishes are caldo verde (potato soup with green veggies and Portuguese sausage), galinha a Macau (Macau chicken), Macanese chicken curry, chocos guilhados tinta (grilled squid), fei joada (red bean, pork and veggie stew), gambas grelhadas com molho (chili-garlic prawns) and bacalhau assado na braca (grilled codfish).
www.paksearch.com /globe/2000/Feb/macau.html   (1699 words)

  
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Macanese patois, unfortunately, is rarely heard today, although efforts have been made in Macau to revive it through theatre.
Another distinguishing feature of the culture is Macanese cuisine, which is still very much alive in restaurants in Macau and among the homes of Macanese at home and abroad.
The Macanese have been able to translate Portuguese legal and administrative rules and regulations to the larger Chinese community, therefore playing a crucial role in the fabric of Macau's society.
members.lycos.co.uk /macau1999/archive/macan-en.htm   (698 words)

  
 Saveur - Original Fusion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The cuisine is further threatened by the enclave’s pending reversion to Chinese rule, after four centuries of Portuguese stewardship, on December 19 of this year—two years after its neighbor Hong Kong went back to China.
But the pride of the supervising chef—83-year-old Aida de Jesus, whose Macanese cooking classes at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the early ‘90s were often videotaped by students—remains her Macanese dishes, which include chicken curry, beef stew, tripe stew with chickpeas, pine nut and almond cake, mango pudding, and the ever-popular minchi.
True comfort food, minchi is the Macanese equivalent of sloppy joe: ground meat, often a combination of pork and beef, sautéed with chopped onion and garlic, flavored with soy sauce, and stretched with diced potato.
www.saveur.com /article.jsp?ID=1053&typeID=100   (1661 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hakka cuisine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Chiuchow cuisine or Chaozhou cuisine (潮州菜) originates from China in the Guangdong Province, not far from Canton.
American Chinese cuisine (什碎館 or 雜碎館) is a style of cooking served by many Chinese restaurants in the United States.
See also: cuisine, Chinese cuisine, cooking A cuisine (from French cuisine, meaning cooking; culinary art; kitchen; itself from Latin coquina, meaning the same; itself from the Latin verb coquere, meaning to cook) is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a place of origin.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hakka-cuisine   (1170 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hunan cuisine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
While similar to Szechuan cuisine, Hunan Cuisine is often spicier and contains a larger variety of ingredients.
Hunan is known for its liberal use of chilli peppers, shallots and garlic.
Hunan cuisine is difficult to precisely characterize, as it has absorbed stylistic elements from all over China.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hunan-cuisine   (212 words)

  
 Small is beautiful   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Macanese cuisine is a mixture of Portuguese and Chinese cuisine, so it is unique - you can't find it everywhere in the world.
Twenty or thirty years ago, it was impossible to find Macanese restaurants, because Macanese food was made at home, and recipes were passed on from generation to generation.
Macanese cuisine is part of the heritage of Macau, and I think the government recognizes that.
www.macautourism.gov.mo /news/mttdetail.phtml?lan=en&id=2431   (905 words)

  
 Local Cuisines of Macau - Chinese Food
Macanese cooking is a hybrid of ingredients and recipes from Portugal, India and Malaysia.
Typical Macanese dishes are more spicy and curried than their Portuguese counterparts and include "balachu" (cod, baked and grilled) and soups such as "caldo verde" and "sopa alentejana".
A couple of good restaurants to sample typical Macanese fare in are the A Locha on Rua do Almirante Sergio and the Solmar on Avenida da Praia Grande.
www.muztagh.com /chinese-food/macau.htm   (274 words)

  
 The Ultimate American Chinese cuisine - American History Information Guide and Reference
Restaurants serving American Chinese cuisine are mainly run by the descendants of early Chinese immigrants (dating back to the 19th century) and cater to the taste of non-Chinese Americans.
As most American Chinese cuisine establishments cater to non-Chinese customers, menus are usually written in English and only some may be in Chinese, however the part written in Chinese may be an entirely different menu from the English version (see McCawley).
Other cuisines may exert their influence: a common substitution is grilled flour tortillas in place of rice pancakes in mu shu dishes, and brown rice is readily available as an alternative to white rice.
www.historymania.com /american_history/American_Chinese_cuisine   (1117 words)

  
 Macanese cuisine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is a blend of Portuguese and southern Chinese cuisines.
Many unique dishes resulted from the spice blends that the wives of Portuguese sailors used in an attempt to replicate European dishes.
Typically, Macanese food is seasoned with various spices including turmeric, coconut milk, cinnamon and bacalhau, giving special aromas and tastes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Macanese_cuisine   (157 words)

  
 Macau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Macanese cuisine is created by taking a Portuguese recipe and using Asian spices and cookery methods.
Macanese cuisine is generally spicier and more flavorful than standard Portuguese fare.
Among the restaurants sampled for their Macanese cuisine, and highly recommended, are Flamingo Restaurant in the Hyatt Regency Macau Hotel and Restaurant Litoral in central Macau.
www.hawaii-island.com /travel/favorite.htm   (1790 words)

  
 Taste of Macau: Portuguese Cuisine on the China Coast And Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer, ISBN 014028155X   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Over 450 years ago, the Portuguese landed in what was to be the first European colony in Asia, Macau, bringing their culture and their cuisine.
This lavishly illustrated cookbook is the first to introduce to the English-speaking world one of the oldest "fusion" cuisines in Asia.
It includes 62 recipes, most of which are straight from the source-old family recipe collections or the files of influential Macanese chefs.
www.supercreepsvideo.com /tastei.htm   (160 words)

  
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Capella is the quintessential Macanese dish: It is a robust hodgepodge of finely diced pork, Portuguese sausages, eggs, pitted olives, and shredded cheese, perfumed with spices from India, Portugal and China, saturated in butter, topped with bread crumbs and more cheese and then baked.
Macanese food is something that’s cooked and eaten at home.” Jesus is considered the foremost authority on Macanese food in Macau.
Macanese food was born not just from the marriage of new ingredients that had become available over the years, but literally, from the marriage of different races.
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 Oceanic - Around Town Hawaii - Leisure - Reviews - What's Cooking Around Town / Wokking Around Town by Anthony Chang - ...
Diversity is thus very much a part of Macanese life: women wear Iberian-style mantillas (scarves placed over the head and shoulders) with Chinese-style dresses; street signs are both in Portuguese and Cantonese; and children with Asian features speak with Portuguese accents.
Macanese cuisine was created by taking Portuguese recipes and using Asian ingredients, spices and cookery methods.
A typical Macanese meal, then, became a study in contrasts: olive oil and soy sauce, potatoes and rice, chourico sausage and preserved duck.
www.hawaii.rr.com /leisure/reviews/anthony_chang/2002-02_hkceewest.htm   (1349 words)

  
 Culture of Macau - History and ethnic relations, Urbanism, architecture, and the use of space
The Macanese cuisine is a much-praised mixture of Portuguese and Mediterranean cooking with some Indian and African influence (as people from Portugal's African colonies also came to Macau).
Macanese cuisine is popular among the Chinese population, and also outside Macau's boundaries, such as in Hong Kong.
The Portuguese and Macanese had formal monogamous marriage, while the Chinese also engaged in polygamous unions until the 1940s (depending on the economic situation of the husband).
www.everyculture.com /Ja-Ma/Macau.html   (4206 words)

  
 Macanese Cuisine - CookbookWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The characteristic of this cuisine is the fortunate blending of sweet and sour, sharp and blends, hot and cool and sometimes even crunchy and smooth.
Macau cuisine is a branch of the Chinese umbrella cuisine.
The diversity of vegetables and cereals found in Macau is also noticed in the delicious dishes belonging to their cuisine.
www.cookbookwiki.com /Macau   (934 words)

  
 Macau: East Meets West in 6.5 Square Miles -- ThingsAsian Article
I could sense that the Macanese take great pride in their historic city, and have made a concerted effort to preserve it.
The Macanese are fortunate that, unlike so many other Asian metropolises, their city never suffered the destruction of war or natural disaster.
Macanese cooking blends recipes and ingredients from not just Portugal and China, but also Portuguese colonies where ships stopped on their way to Macau.
www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.781.html   (2450 words)

  
 Macau Yellow Pages
Macanese food is renowned for its flavour-blending culture.
Typically, Macanese food is seasoned with various spices including turmeric, coconut milk, cinnamon and balichao, giving you unforgettable aromas and tastes.
Portuguese cuisine is typically seasoned with salt and various spices –; a briny and zesty combination.
www.yp.mo /en/dgfood.html   (708 words)

  
 BBC News | FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT | Macau: Mediterranean life on the South China Sea
This display of typical Macanese food, a melting pot of Chinese and Portuguese cuisine, is one of my favourite items in Macau's newest museum, opened just last year.
Macanese cuisine is a melting pot of Portuguese and Chinese influence
The term Macanese does not just mean someone from Macau, it refers to a mixed-race community with Portuguese and Chinese ancestry, proud families whose history here stretches back generations.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/555946.stm   (960 words)

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