What are the characteristics of Italian cuisine?

Answer 1

Chinese cuisine attempts to balance the flavors (salt, sweet, bitter, pungent, and umami). Umami is central to the experience of Chinese cuisine as different from most European cuisines, which ignore it. Chinese cooking often uses ingredients that impart this flavor, epitomized by MSG. Although MSG is known as an artificial additive its analgoues are found naturally in many foods, such as chicken; these foods are used more heavily in Chinese cooking than in European cooking.

Chinese five spice powder contains one ingredient from each flavor category, and is central to many Chinese dishes.

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Chinese cuisines has its main features diversified color, aromatic flavor, and excellent taste.

Answer 2

Answer 1

Because of the variety; there's something for everyone.

From vegetables to all kinds of meats from all animals on earth.

Sweet, salty, sour, hot, spicy, steam, fried, boil, stir-fry, they have it all.

Answer 2

The popularity of Chinese cuisines comes from the uniqueness and the quality of how it is prepared and cooked. There are lots of methods Chinese use to cook their foods, such as stir-frying, stewing and roasting. Also, Chinese cook their foods with precision, making all of their cuisines popular around the world.

Answer 3

Italian cuisine includes cooking by using local foods grown in the same geographic region. Each region of Italy has its own specialty foods and recipes based on micro-climate and rich history.

Answer 4

First we need to clarify what Chinese Cuisine is. Unlike most cuisines around the world, Chinese Cuisine is incredibly different between countries. Americans who go to China and Chinese who come to the United States are often wildly surprised by the menus they see and recognize nothing or next to nothing. (For example, General Tsao's Chicken, Sesame Chicken, and Cold Noodles do not exist in China at all.)

The reason for Chinese's cuisine's popularity, therefore differs primarily between Western countries, which, by and large, feature an American Chinese menu, China itself, and East Asian countries, which have a Chinese menu with different modifications.

American Chinese Food
Westerners typically like Chinese food because it is quick to prepare, easy to transport, easy to eat, and relatively inexpensive. As a result it can be more easily treated as a form of fast-food without all of the negative impressions that people have of fast-food. Chinese food is also rather simple in its preparation and has a very limited flavor palette. It uses almost no spices (other than hot peppers if requested) and is primarily based on stir-fried foods. It can be sweet or sour, but both to very limited degrees. It is easy to eat because the food is already cut, so the person need only use chopsticks or a fork to shovel food into the mouth as opposed to the much more complex requirement of using all three basic utensils (spoon, knife, and fork) to eat a more complex meal.

Chinese Chinese Food
The Chinese love their food immensely and are proud of its history and traditions. The foods are actually quite diverse across the country. People also eat these foods because it is the dominant cultural food. I have included an episode from a series called "A Bite of China" which is about Chinese Chinese food and its diversity throughout China.



East Asian Chinese Food
Koreans have a distinct form of Chinese food, which features a lot of soups and thick stews. Koreans tend to eat Korean Chinese Food because it is different from Korean traditional food and because it is relatively inexpensive. Unlike American Chinese Food, Korean Chinese Food is not really that portable and is usually eaten in social settings as opposed to by oneself. To see some Korean Chinese food, I have included a video discussing it below.