Top-5 MUST-TRY Chinese Food

1) HotPot:

A hot pot is often made with flavored broth and is often used to prepare various dishes. While the broth is being heated, the raw ingredients are added to the pot and are cooked according to the desired doneness. When taking your order, you can pick ingredients like beef, fish, prawns, noodles, and even pork brains. You get to also make your own dipping sauce to pair with the HotPot. Sauces such as sesame paste, soy sauce, oyster sauce, vinegar, etc.

2） Peking Duck:

This dish originated from Beijing during the Imperial era. It is commonly served with Chinese pancakes and is served with a thin-sliced layer of roasted duck skin and duck meat. In traditional Chinese Peking Duck restaurants, the chef will also ask your preference on whether make-use of the duck bones to cook a Duck Soup to serve, or cook it with spiced salted to make a Salted Roasted Duck Bone. Peking Duck is hands down one of the MUST EAT cuisines to try when coming to China.

3) Steamed Small Meat-Dumplings:

Steamed Small Meat Dumplings is one of the most symbolic dishes when you come to Shanghai, China. In fact, it is one of my favorite dishes to eat, because there's a special technique when eating the steamed dumplings. First, you need to bite off a small hole in the dumpling, and sip off the soup inside of the steamed dumpling to avoid squirting it on your clothes; then you can dip it into the soy sauce or vinegar, and eat it with ginger strips. The combination of the steamed dumpling and the sauce goes super well together, and it is worth trying in China.

4) Stinky Tofu:

Stinky tofu is a type of fermented tofu that has a strong smell to it. Although the smell of the tofu might be unpleasant to smell, yet the texture and the taste of the tofu are unlike other tofu on the market. The Stinky Tofu has a really nice crunch on its outside, and nice-seasoning on the inside. The tofu is completely soaked in the special sauce and has also been top-off with coriander to give it a special flavor. Stinky Tofu can be commonly found at night markets or roadside stands, and it is a super unique, yet specialty to try when you come to China to visit.

5) Red Braised Pork Belly;

This dish is also called “Hong Shao Rou”, where it is a classic pork dish from China, and it is also a famous household dish that almost every Chinese family knows how to make. The dish, red braised pork belly is using superior pork belly and marinated in ginger, chilies, garlic, and rice wine, then slowly braised with more spices, including aromatic spices, star anise, soy sauce, and sugar. The best combination with this dish is to eat it with steamed rice, where you can also mix the meat sauce with the rice and pair it with a piece of the pork belly to taste the deliciousness.