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Chinese Food Menu for Homemade Feast

Chinese food menu for homemade feast

In holidays, festivals, or at weekend, it can be fun and relaxing to serve your guests with your own homemade dishes. However, to make each occasion a success, a good planning is indispensable.

First, you must have in mind how many to serve and how much to cook. Basically, the number of dishes should match the number of guests.I.E.,eight people with eight dishes, excluding soup, snacks, ( or main food). Always be generous to your food,and you don't want to starve your guests.

Second, decide upon the Chinese food menu.

Usually, a set Chinese food menu should include cold dishes (kind of appetizer in western food), hot dishes, meat&sea food, soup,snacks, and main food (rice or cooked wheaten food, sometimes replaced by snacks).

From view of health, food prepared should be compatible. The nutrition contained should be complementary but avoid conflict match. And seasonal food is fresh.

The method of cooking. Guang Zhou Style is light. Shanghai Style is sweet. Beijing Style is heavy flavor. Seafood and meat are steamed or braised. For people with a "spicy" tooth, dishes that are baked, stewed, stir-fried,sauted or deep-fried are preferable.

It is definitely a good idea to add in some appetizing dishes or a light salad among heavy and rich dishes. In case there are children and elderly people among your guests, milder food cooked tender is more appropriate.

Third, plan your cooking and arrange your time with care. Prepare dishes that can be cooked ahead of time such as meat, cold dishes (Chinese salad), and choose recipes that are easy to assemble. Not only will you find work a lot easier, you can also spare time socializing with your guests in and out of the kitchen.

A homemade feast may involve a lot of work, but when you and your guests enjoy the food and those special moments spent together in your house, you will find that all your efforts are just worth it.

Guangzhou Style Chinese Food Menu--- serve 8 people

Vegetables:

1. Baked Assorted Vegetables with Portuguese Sauce

160g fresh straw mushroom
160g button mushroom
300g each of brocolli and heart of mustard green

2. Stir-fried Oyster Mushroom with Green Vegetables

1 canned oyster mushroom
160g lettuce
300g cole

Meat

3. Sredded Vermicelli Sheets with Pork Slices

300g lean pork
6 vermicelli sheets

4. Stir-fried Chicken Cubes with Cashews

160g each of chicken meat breast and cashews
140g each of carrot, celery and green peas

5. Raw Beef Casserole - Vietnamese Style

480g beef
120g vermicelli

Fish & seafood

6. Steamed Snakehead Fish

1 snakehead fish,about 600g
2 each of lemon grass and spring onion
1 sprig of parsley
2 slices of ginger
40g celery
80g each of Chinese long cabbage and pork fillet
2 red chilli pepper

7. Stir-fried Squid with Pickled Vegetables and Black Bean Sauce

300g squid
120g preserved mustard
1 each of red and green pepper
1 spring onion
2 slices of ginger
1 tbsp black beans

8. Stir-fried Prawns with Brocolli

480g fresh prawns
160g brocolli
1/2 tsp each of ginger rice and minced garlic

Soup

9. Seafood and Beancurd Soup

2 wrapped beancurd
40g each of crab meat, scallop,shrimp, garoupa, straw mushroom, mushroom, carrot and seasonal vegetables.

Main Food/Snacks

10. Candied Walnuts

600g walnuts, blanched
160g sugar
3 tbsp malt candy

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Shanghai Style Chinese Food Menu

Traditional Shanghai food feature: much oil, heavy color soy sauce, and lots of white sugar.

Shanghai "Hai Pai"* food absorbs many other cities' food features, even including western food style. As a whole, Shanghai dish choose material in preciseness, make in delicacy, taste thick not greasy, fresh not thin, insipidity and simple but elegant, mellow and strongly fragrant.

*note: Hai Pai means Sea absorbing hundreds of rivers. It's one of Shanghai culture feature. Shanghai culture absorbs many other cities, even western country feature.

Since Shanghai is colder than Guang Zhou, in a feast it stresses the order serve of dish courses. Usually, cold dish(salad) comes first,which like appetizer in western food. Then hot dish (meat and fish first, vegetable followed), soup (if have),snack,and fruit last.

Chinese Food Menu Recipes- Shanghai Style: Salad (Cold Dish)

A.Roast Chicken