Soya-Bean Milk
Soy milk (also called soya milk, soymilk, soybean milk, or soy juice) and sometimes referred to as soy drink/beverage is a beverage made from soybeans. A stable emulsion of oil, water, and protein, it is produced by soaking dry soybeans and grinding them with water. The oldest evidence of soy milk production is from China where a kitchen scene proving us...

How Do Chinese Celebrate Dragon Boat Festival?
Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. There are different findings about the origin of Tuen Ng. The mostly widely accepted one is about the patriotic scholar-statesman Chu Yuan who drowned himself to protest against the emperor. Chu Yuan worked very hard to offer good counsel to the emperor but the emperor won't lis...

Traditional Chinese Lantern Festival Food
The most popular food for the Chinese Lantern Festival is yuanxiao, a kind of sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice or wheat flour. The  Lantern Festival (or Yuan Xiao Festival in Chinese) is an important traditional Chinese festival, which is on the 15th of the first lunar month, marking the end of celebrations of the New Year. The biggest attr...

Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner
On New Year's Eve in every home in China a huge family reunion dinner is held. No matter where people live, they are expected to return home for Chinese New Year, and this dinner. Chinese new year is a time of great celebration marked by different festive activities everywhere. New year in China is looked forward with great anticipation and high expectat...

Chinese Tea Lore
Chinese tea lore has hundreds of  years history. It also has different representations at different historical stages. Teas are also different but all embody the tea spirit of “clearness, respect, joy and truthfulness”. Drinking tea£ºTea is taken as a beverage to quench thirst. Tasting tea£ºEmphasis is placed on the color, fragr...

Chinese Cooking Art
A nation's cooking culture reflects its food traditions, from the food-preparation and eating habits of the countryside to the food-preparation and eating habits of the city, notwithstanding the increasing introduction of foreign fare that is not only served in "foreign" restaurants in the city, but which today is also found in the freezer secti...

Huaiyang Cuisine
Huaiyang cuisine, one of the major components of Chinese cuisines, consists of the styles of Yangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou and Zhenjiang dishes. It is very famous in the whole world for its distinctive style and taste. It is especially popular in the lower reach of the Yangtze River.  Known as "a land of fish and rice" in China, Jiangsu Prov...

Chinese Style Cocktail
The Chinese style cocktail is made up of traditional Daqu liquor (a kind of liquor with high alcohol content) and nutritious fruit juice, which keeps not only the savory and mellow aroma of the Daqu liquor but also the nutrition and flavor of fruit juice. Besides, it is easy and simple for people to make the cocktail according to their own requirements ...