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Cantonese
cuisine is one of the four main cuisine in China. It has absorbed
the strong points of other cuisine, diverse and delicate in material.
The choice materials cover a wide range and the seasonings are varied
and well coordinated. The dishes are prepared carefully and exquisitely.
Quick-fried or stewed, they turn out to be fresh, crisp, tender, slippery
and not salty with all flavors and tastes. They varies with the change
of seasons, conforming to modern dietetics.
Guangzhou's catering industry ranks first in scale in the country.
According to statistics, there are about ten thousand catering enterprises
and restaurants with some 500,000 seats, of which quite a number are
old name restaurants with a history of more than 100 years or newly-built
famous ones. There are numerous well-known dishes, pastries, snacks
and local-flavor food. Dishes renowned at home and abroad are the
Complete Dinner of Manchu and Mandarin Dishes of Guangzhou Restaurant,
The Refreshments Meal of Panxi Restaurant, Fish with Pine Nuts of
Beiyuan Restaurant, Chaozhou Dishes of Nanyuan Restaurant, moon cake
with lotus seed paste of Lian Xiang Lou, Tao Tao Ju Restaurant, stewed
shark's fin in brown sauce of Da Sanyuan Restaurant, Jinpai roast
suckling pig of Datong Restaurant, Dongjiang Kejia dishes of Dingjiang
Restaurant, Shanshui Shahe rice starch noodles of Shahe Restaurant,
Qingping chicken of Qingping Restaurant, Beijing and Tianjin dishes
of Huabei (North China) Restaurant, Muslim dishes of Huimin Restaurant
and snake dishes of Man, the Snake King's Restaurant, etc. Most restaurant
in Guangzhou provide three teas, two meals and one night snack. Combining
eating with entertainment, they usually open from 5:00 a.m to 12:00
at night. Some even provide 24-hour service.
People say that you are not counted as having been to Guangzhou if
you haven't tasted the well-known dishes and pastries here. |
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