Guangdong Cuisine, or Cantonese Cuisine, is one of the eight famous cuisines in China. It is unique and enjoys great fame the world over with its specific dishes and flavor.so if you travel to guangdong,you must try their delicious cuisine.
Guangdong Cuisine, knows as Cantonese Cuisine in the West, was developed in Guangzhou, Huizhou and Chaozhou, and Hainan Island. As the climate of Guangdong is hot, there dishes are fresh, tender, and lightly seasoned. Guangdong Cuisine, sometimes referred to as Cantonese Cuisine, though referred to more often as Yue Cai ("Yue Cuisine"), in recognition of the "flavor" - both literally and figuratively - imparted to Guangdong Cuisine by its various ethnic minorities, most notably, by the Baiyue, or Yue, people, has been recognized as a distinctive cooking style, or what one today would call a cuisine "school", since ancient times.
Yue Cuisine, which in the meantime had assimilated certain international influences, was spread to practically every world capital and to every major urban area the world over. In New York city alone, Cantonese kitchens and restaurants sprang up not by the dozens, but by the hundreds, and the same phenomenon was repeated in other major U.S. and European cities.
Representative Cantonese dishes include: Fried Eggplant (sliced and fried), Fish-Flavored Bean Curd (Tofu), Fried Prawns with Sesame, Sautéed Conch (sliced and fried), Crispy Chicken in Hot Sauce, Fried Shrimp with Scrambled Eggs, Stir-Fried Meat Strips with Pear, and, although Guangdong Province is no longer known as "lamb city", it has become just as famous for its Roasted Suckling Pig, with its crispy golden exterior and its juicy, tender interior that tastes and smells like a little bit of heaven on earth.
The characteristics of Guangdong Cuisine: they should be light, fresh, tender and crisp in taste. The ideal is light but not tasteless, fresh but not gaudy, tender but not crude, oily but not greasy. Besides, tastes change with the seasons. In summer and fall, clear and light dishes are preferred; in spring and winter, thick and strong ones are favored.
When you want to travel to guangdong,not only see its highlights,but also eat yue cuisine.
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