Restaurant guide

If you decide to use chopsticks to eat your Chinese meal, these best practices will help: It's considered bad manners to place your chopsticks vertically in your rice bowl. Skewering pieces of meat with a chopstick is also considered rude.

The Chinese culinary tradition is ancient. An old Chinese herbal book states: “The method of making doufu dates back to Liu An (179-122 BC), the Prince of Huainan. It is made of soya beans, either the black or yellow variety.”

The Chinese are pretty clever about discovering ways to use available ingredients to make tasty dishes. One good example is ice cream. Yes, the Chinese are credited with inventing ice cream. Really. The first ice cream used fresh snow as a main ingredient. Now, that's clever.

The iconic paper Chinese takeout boxes originally started out as something else entirely. In the 1950s, businesspeople would pick up Chinese food from a restaurant in the city and take it home to the suburbs in the folded boxes used as oyster pails.

Did you know that authentic Chinese food is one of the healthiest foods on the planet? This is because many of the dishes are made using fresh vegetables and meats. As a bonus, many of the spices used in Chinese food have medicinal properties.

Have you ever wondered why so many Chinese recipes use finely chopped ingredients? That would be to conserve fuel. Smaller ingredients cook more rapidly. Think of it as naturally green cuisine.

You probably already know China is a large country with a correspondingly large population. Were you aware, though, that China has the largest population of any country in the world? As of 2013, its population was 1.357 billion.

Lychee nuts are actually a popular chinese fruit served as a desert course or in desert dishes in many Chinese restaurants and the Lychee tree originates in Asia.

Did you know that there are around 57 regional styles of food and cooking in China? This is due to the vast size of the country, which contains a wide range of climates, weather conditions, and sub-cultures.

Chinese cuisine is characterized by flavorful, colorful dishes that range from mild to extremely hot. Sweet and sour dishes are commonly on the lesser end of the spice spectrum, as their primary ingredients include brown sugar and rice wine.

Flavors are an important part of Chinese medicine: Sour foods are thought to help the liver, bitter foods benefit the heart, sweet foods calm the stomach, spicy foods aid the intestine, and salty food strengthen the spleen.

How to Cook and Eat in Chinese is perhaps the earliest Chinese cookbook. Authored by Buwei Yang Chao, it was written in English and intended for non-native cooks. First released in 1940, it has been reprinted many times since.

How to Cook and Eat in Chinese is perhaps the earliest Chinese cookbook. Authored by Buwei Yang Chao, it was written in English and intended for non-native cooks. First released in 1940, it has been reprinted many times since.

Soy sauce is naturally quite briny, but low-sodium options are available. Please ask us for more information. Low-sodium isn't the only soy sauce variation out there, either. There are light and dark soy sauce varieties, as well as soy sauces that contain added ingredients like pepper, garlic, ginger and mushrooms.

What are the two main styles of Shandong cuisine? Jiaodong style cuisine which includes light seafood dishes of the Fushan, Qingdao and Yantai regions and Jinan style cuisine with a heavy basis on soups from the Jinan, Dezhou and Tai’an regions.

What are the two main styles of Shandong cuisine? Jiaodong style cuisine which includes light seafood dishes of the Fushan, Qingdao and Yantai regions and Jinan style cuisine with a heavy basis on soups from the Jinan, Dezhou and Tai’an regions.

Various types of noodle soup are popular in many parts of Eastern and Southeastern Asia. In China, favorite soups include Banmian (handmade egg-noodle soup), Pinyin Soup (made of uncooked eggs, meat, rice noodles, vegetables, and flowers), and of course, Won Ton Soup (which contains vegetables and wonton dumplings).

Even though you'll find them in any American Chinese restaurant, onions, broccoli, tomatoes, and carrots aren't generally found in Chinese dishes that are served in China. These ingredients were blended into the cuisine when Chinese immigrants started restaurants in the mid 1800s.

Chinese cuisine can run the gamut from the subtle and sublime to the explosive and exciting, depending on the region where the dish originated. We offer something for everyone, whether bold and adventurous or content and traditional.

Chinese cuisine can run the gamut from the subtle and sublime to the explosive and exciting, depending on the region where the dish originated. We offer something for everyone, whether bold and adventurous or content and traditional.