STATE TRADITIONAL CHINESE FOOD

 1. Dim Sum                                                                  

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Typical foods one can be found in almost all restaurant serving Chinese food. Dim sum is usually served as breakfast and complementary foods in a tea (yum cha). Dim sum is served in small portions in baskets or small plates. There is history, tablets, why dim sum comes in tiny portions.

In the past, people who travel in the path of the silk often stopped to rest in the tearoom which contained almost all the way. At first, serving tea is accompanied by a heavy meal. But people began to think that the combination of tea and a heavy meal is not appropriate because it would make excessive weight gain. Finally, the tea shop owner replaced it with a variety of snacks in small portions. Since then the tradition of dim sum began to spread.

2.       Moon Cake

Moon cake or mooncakes are mandatory food-Autumn Festival, and the offerings are meant for serving as a homage to the ancestors in the harvest. History records that the moon cakes appear on the Song Dynasty (960 -1279).

Initially round moon cakes containing a paste made from lotus seeds and tastes very sweet. However, over the time, appearing in all forms and contents of mooncakes. Function was developed not only as a mandatory food-Autumn Festival, but also as gifts and snacks.

3.  Marry Girl Cake

Although his name is in English, Marry Girl Cake is a traditional Chinese food. Girl Marry regular Cake served at a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony.

Era of increasingly advanced and modern makes essentially soft sponge cake is now simply known as cakeini cakes China alone and nearly lost function initially as a formal presentation of marriage.

4.       Sweetheart Cake

Chinese traditional cake made ​​of almond paste and melon fruit has another name, namely Wife Cake. The name was given by the legend that accompanies this cake.

According to legend, in the past there lived a couple who are very poor, but they love each other. One day her father gets sick husband hard. He also did not recover even though the couple had spent all their money on medical expenses. Secretly, his wife worked as a slave in order to get money to continue treatment. When her husband knew what his wife for the sake of their families, he seeks to avenge his wife's sincerity made ​​by pastry containing melon with a crispy coating. The cake turned out to be very popular to people looking to buy. Finally they get a lot of money so that his wife would not have to work as slaves.

Today many professional chefs who are trying to modernize this cake with variants and tastes better.

That's a little example of the typical food of the china.