Chinese Rice Recipes Online

Almost every Chinese meal includes at least one rice dish;

Rice marries perfectly with the rich and varied tastes of the other dishes. It is also a very economical way of eating as the Chinese eat a great deal of the rice with their meals. There are many ways to cook rice; it is not difficult, but you may find you need a little practice to get it absolutely right. The most important thing is knowing when the rice is ready. It should not be hard or mushy but firm to the bite.

Chinese Eating

The difference between eating the Chinese way Western way is that the Chinese use chopsticks and Western use knives and forks.

For one main course of a Chinese meal, there may be as many as 5-6 different dishes - fish and/or shellfish, meat, poultry, vegetables, invariably including plainly boiled or fried rice.

Savory sauces are also a feature of a Chinese meal. The three principal ones are chili (which one can buy), mustard (much like the sauce that we ourselves make) and plum, which one can also buy. (These are illustrated in color on the jacket). Small spoonful of the chosen sauce are placed on one's plate. A morsel of the fish, shellfish, meat or poultry is taken up with chopsticks, dipped in sauce and eaten - or the other way about. The use of chopsticks determines the kind and size of the portions to be consumed.

Chinese food is deliciously tasty and the variety of flavors is so cleverly contained in each dish that there is nothing incongruous in the serving of fish, meat and poultry in the same course.