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