Chinese Cuisine & Dishes
Chinese dishes by cuisine, with Chinese-English names and ingredients
A dish-by-dish guide to Chinese cuisine: each entry gives the Chinese and English name, pinyin, a short description and key ingredients, covering Sichuan, Cantonese, Hunan, Jiangzhe, Northeastern, Northwestern, Yunnan-Guizhou cuisines, hot pot, street food and desserts.
Siu Mai
📍 Cantonese cuisine
Pork and shrimp dumplings
Slow-Cooked Soup
📍 Cantonese cuisine
Slow-cooked Cantonese soup
Steamed Fish
📍 Cantonese cuisine
Steamed fish with soy sauce
Sweet and Sour Pork
📍 Cantonese cuisine
Sweet and sour pork
White Cut Chicken
📍 Cantonese cuisine
Poached chicken with ginger-scallion sauce
Wonton Noodles
📍 Cantonese cuisine
Wonton noodle soup
Egg Fried Rice
📍 Home-style cooking
The most basic Chinese fried rice with egg
Scrambled Eggs with Tomato
📍 Home-style cooking
China's most common home dish: eggs stir-fried with tomato
Lettuce in Oyster Sauce
📍 Home-style cooking
Blanched lettuce drizzled with oyster sauce
Red-Braised Spare Ribs
📍 Home-style cooking
Spare ribs braised in rich soy sauce
Red-Braised Pork Belly
📍 Home-style cooking
Pork belly slow-braised in soy sauce and rock sugar
Red-Braised Fish
📍 Home-style cooking
Whole fish braised in soy sauce
Cola Chicken Wings
📍 Home-style cooking
Chicken wings braised in cola, sweet and savory
Smashed Cucumber Salad
📍 Home-style cooking
Smashed cucumber with garlic and vinegar dressing
Spicy Numbing Stir-Fry Pot
📍 Home-style cooking
Choose-your-own ingredients stir-fried in spicy numbing sauce
Moo Shu Pork
📍 Home-style cooking
Stir-fried pork with eggs, wood ear and lily buds
Century Egg Tofu
📍 Home-style cooking
Cold dish: century egg with silken tofu
Stir-Fried Seasonal Greens
📍 Home-style cooking
Simple stir-fried seasonal vegetables with garlic
Hot & Sour Shredded Potatoes
📍 Home-style cooking
Stir-fried shredded potatoes with vinegar and chili, crispy
Sweet & Sour Pork Tenderloin
📍 Home-style cooking
Deep-fried pork tenderloin in sweet and sour sauce
Cumin Lamb
📍 Home-style cooking
Lamb stir-fried with cumin and chili
Rock Sugar Pear Soup
📍 Drinks & Desserts
Sweet pear soup with rock sugar, good for throat
Herbal Jelly
📍 Drinks & Desserts
Black herbal jelly, believed to have cooling properties
Red Bean Soup
📍 Drinks & Desserts
Sweet red bean soup, a Cantonese dessert staple