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[Wei Feng]

Do the Manchu have there own sort of food or is it just like Chinese food?

Edited by Wei Feng, 09 November 2006 - 11:43 AM.

[Publius]

For aesthetic reasons, I've reposted Suren911's reply:

"Meats and bread kind of stuff are stable part of the Manchu diet. This is a pretty famous Manchu snack, Saqima/Sachima. It tastes like card board" (Suren911, 2006).

[Publius]

Fish, deer, lamb, pork and beef barbeques were very important food in the Mancu's daily life. There grain (carbs) were largely from noodles, not rice. They usually roasted or boiled their food. I believe that Manchu Cuisine has been largely absorbed into the Beijing Cuisine classification during the Qing when there was something of a food fusion between Imperial Han and Manchu dishes. But others would know more about this.

From Wiki:

Northeastern Chinese cuisine (东北菜; pinyin: dōngběi cài), or Manchurian cuisine [citation needed], relies heavily on preserved foods and hearty fare due to the harsh winters and relatively short growing seasons. Pickling, such as is a very common form of food preservation and pickled cabbage (suan cai)is traditionally made by most households in giant clay pickling vats. Unlike the South of China, noodles tend to be the most common form of starch rather than rice. Popular dishes include pork and chive dumplings, suan cai hot pot, cumin & caraway lamb, congee, tealeaf stewed hardboiled eggs, nian doubao, congee with several types of pickles (mustard root is highly popular), and cornmeal congee.

Many dishes originated from native Manchu cuisine. Traces of Korean, Japanese and Russian cuisines can also be seen. Another distinct feature that separates Manchurian cuisine from other Chinese cuisines is to serve fresh raw vegetables and raw seafood in Manchurian coastal areas.

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Liaoning cuisine is a new rising star among Chinese cuisines and has become increasing popular recently. Furthermore, Liaoning cuisine chefs have continuously won awards in recent clinary arts competitions in China.

[Ashura]

I was lucky enough to try local North-East food when I was visiting Beijing. I did not get to enjoy it because I was meeting with some professors. It was the wife of a professor who ordered the foods and she was a Manchu, so the foods she ordered were really really local.

[enoz]

Anyone knows what the authentic courses of the famous "Man Han Full Banquet" were? Is the thing about the monkey's brain a myth or was it really a real dish? Which dishes were "Manchurian" and which were "Han"?

[Ashura]

On Man Han Full Banquet, see:

http://www.chinahist...showtopic=13153

no idea about the monkey's brain, but i doubt that it is included in the menu. Think about how many monkeys they have to catch.

[enoz]

On Man Han Full Banquet, see:

http://www.chinahist...showtopic=13153

no idea about the monkey's brain, but i doubt that it is included in the menu. Think about how many monkeys they have to catch.

Thanks for the thread. I am new here so I didn't know there's so much buried treasure (i.e. threads). It's almost as if everything under the sun (about China) had already been discussed.

[Moose]

Liaoning cuisine is a new rising star among Chinese cuisines and has become increasing popular recently. Furthermore, Liaoning cuisine chefs have continuously won awards in recent clinary arts competitions in China.[/i]

Hmm,what is Liaoning cuisine like?

[Centaur]

Hmm,what is Liaoning cuisine like?

Liaoning Cuisine, developed on the basis of Shandong Cuisine, is well known for its unique style. It integrates the quintessence of imperial dishes that spread far and wide among folks and rare dishes of various ethnic groups in China. Thanks to meticulously selected materials and highly skilled preparations, Liaoning Cuisine is well known for its unique colors, aromas and tastes and is spoken highly by Chinese and foreign gourmets. 　　
　　

Laobian jiaozi (dumplings)

Famous dishes include: Manchou and Han Banquet, Dalian Seafood, Laobian Jiaozi (dumplings), and Haicheng Meat Pies. Zhang Xueliang, a famous patriotic general. spoke highly of four dishes, namely Stir-fried Kidneys, Stir-fried Liver, Fried Meatballs and Stir Fried Day Lilies. Hou Baolin, a famous artist of cross talks, thought Laobian Jiaozi dumplings the most delicious.(transshipment)

Source site:http://www.publicchinese.com/resource/html/2/230.html

Sure makes me feel hungry now!