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.
Ginger Milk Curd
Drinks & Desserts
Cantonese dessert: milk curdled by fresh ginger juice
Herbal Tea
Drinks & Desserts
Cantonese traditional herbal cooling tea
Pu'er Tea
Drinks & Desserts
Yunnan fermented tea, improves with age
Sour Plum Drink
Drinks & Desserts
Sweet and sour drink made from smoked plums
Bubble Milk Tea
Drinks & Desserts
Milk tea with chewy tapioca pearls
Black Sesame Paste
Drinks & Desserts
Rich and smooth black sesame dessert soup
Beijing Copper Pot Lamb
Hot Pot
Thinly sliced lamb in clear broth copper pot
Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot
Hot Pot
Fresh-cut beef in clear broth, emphasizing meat quality
Chongqing Butter Hot Pot
Hot Pot
Rich beef tallow base, intensely spicy and numbing
Tomato Hot Pot
Hot Pot
Sweet and sour tomato broth, non-spicy option
Sliced Fatty Beef
Hot Pot
Thinly sliced marbled beef, cooks in seconds
Beef Tripe
Hot Pot
Must-order for hot pot, best blanched for 7 seconds
Sichuan Spicy Hot Pot
Hot Pot
Classic Sichuan spicy and numbing hot pot broth
Sliced Lamb Rolls
Hot Pot
Thinly sliced lamb rolls, hot pot classic
Coconut Chicken Hot Pot
Hot Pot
Hainan-style: chicken cooked in fresh coconut water
Sesame Oil Dip
Hot Pot
Chongqing hot pot standard dip: sesame oil with garlic
Half-and-Half Hot Pot
Hot Pot
Split pot: half spicy, half mild broth
Yunnan Mushroom Hot Pot
Hot Pot
Hot pot with various wild mushrooms from Yunnan
Changde Beef Noodles
Hunan cuisine
Changde-style beef rice noodles
Stir-Fried Pork with Chili
Hunan cuisine
Pork slices stir-fried with green peppers
Chopped Chili Fish Head
Hunan cuisine
Steamed fish head with chopped chili
Cured Pork
Hunan cuisine
Hunan-style cured pork
Dongan Chicken
Hunan cuisine
Dongan-style chicken
Maos Braised Pork
Hunan cuisine
Chairman Maos braised pork belly
