China Restaurant Tips by nepalgoods Top 5 Page for this destination

Excellent food!

The local restaurants are mainly very good. Chinese people love the ingredients of their meals to be very fresh. And they do not like to boil the vegetables to a unrecognizable mass. So the meals even in the small street restaurants are very good. I never got sick from the food in China. Only: don't look into the kitchen!

Comparison: least expensive

Rating: 4

Theme: Local

Delicious Fruits

China has a big variety of delicious fruits: Melons and apricots and grapes from the west, peaches, strawberries from Central-China, mangoes and papaya from the south. On every big market you'll find many different kinds of fruits an dvegetables. apples, which are very normal in Germany are some of the most expensive fruits in china.

Rating: 4

Theme: Other

Century Eggs

Recipe:
* 1. Select eggs that are fit for incubation. Eggs should come from mated flocks, and be not more than five days old. They should have thick shells without any cracks.
* 2. Preheat the selected eggs under the sun for three to five hours.
* 3. Heat some unpolished rice in an iron cauldron or vat until it reaches a temperature of about 42 to 42.5 degrees C (107 to 108 degrees F).
* 4. Put 100 to 125 eggs into a large cloth made of either abaca (sinamay) or nylon.
* 5. Place a layer of heated rice at the bottom of a cylindrical bamboo incubator basket (45 cm in diameter and 60 cm deep, Fig.1 and Fig. 2), and place a bag of eggs on the rice. Alternate the bags of eggs with the bags of heated rice. Eight bags of eggs will fit into the basket. Bamboo baskets can be arranged either in a single row along the wall of the balutan, or in double rows placed in the middle of the balutan. Rice hull is firmly tamped down between baskets as an insulator.
* 6. Turn the eggs at least two or three times a day (Fig. 3).
* 7. Heat the rice in the morning and in the afternoon on cool days.
* 8. Candle the eggs on the 7th, 14th and 18th day to select infertile eggs; D1 (dead embryo on first candling) and D2 (dead embryo on second candling). The infertile eggs, both D1 and D2, are removed, hard-boiled, and sold as a snack.

CAUTION

Numerous entrepreneurs have successfully adopted this technology. However, marketing aspects such as demand for the product, promotional activities and pricing need to be considered. The shelf life of balut is one day, but this may be extended to one week if the eggs are kept in a refrigerator.

Favorite Dish: OK, this recipe is copied. I would not recommend to do them yourself. I had a hard time to find them in Hannover. But now I got them!!!

I love them!!!

This foto is actually from the package of eggs I bought.

The second pic is from century eggs I ate in Kashgar, Xinjiang

Rating: 5

Theme: Local

A few Steps off the busy and touristy roads

Just go a few steps away from the tourist streets and places, then you will always find nice restaurants with great food! Even if the menu is only in Chinese you can easily order by pointing onto the plates of your neighbours. The food will almost always be fresh and delicious.

Favorite Dish: Gong Bao Ji Ding: Chicken with peanuts
Yu Xiang Niu Rou: sour and sharp beef

Address: everywhere

Rating: 5

Theme: Local

Streetvendors: Donuts/Bagels

Where do bagels and donuts come from?? Doesn't it look as if Centralasia is the country of origin of all this wonderful cookies?

I tried this "bagels" and they tasted wonderful!

Address: Everywhere in the West of China

Comparison: least expensive

Rating: 4

Theme: Street Vendor

Reading a Chinese Menue...

... without knowing Chinese Characters. When you go "Off the beaten Path" in China you'll find, that many restaurants don't have an English menue. Then this two characters are very helpful.

If you order "si" the meat will be shredded. "ding" means, the meat comes in dices. This way you have at least a slight idea of what you order. Without "si" or "ding" the meat you order comes with lots of bones.

You still don't know, which kind of meat you get, but you can be sure, that most times you'll get chicken or pork. Sometimes you'll get beef. Don't be afraid, that you get dog-meat by accident. This can only happen, if you order the most expensive food on the menue.

Directions: Everywhere in China

Rating: 5

Theme: Local

Green Tea

China is famous for its green tea. Everybody drinks it all the time. It is healthy and good against almost every disease. The more you drink of the green tea the longer you'll life!!

Be sure to have only the best sort and don't boil it, just pour hot water onto the leaves.

The best Chinese Tea is said to be grown in Hangzhou.

Rating: 4

Theme: Local

Homemade noodles

China is famous for its rice. But the Italians would not have their spaghetti without the Chinese people inventing noodles.

You can find cheap noodle-shops almost everywhere. Specially in Muslim areas like Qinghai or Xinjiang Province you'll find more often noodles than rice in the restaurants.

Comparison: least expensive

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 0

Theme: Local

Mc Donald's: American Cuisine

When you are tired of the Chinese food (what I can not imagine), then you'll find plenty of American Speciality Restaurants at least in the big cities...

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 0

Theme: American

Baozi

Baozi are my favourit food from the street vendors in China: Hot dumplings stuffed with a mixture of cabbage and minced meat. Delicious!!!

Comparison: least expensive

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 0

Theme: Chinese/Dim Sum