Discover Taiwan's Culinary Techniques: Savor the Flavors

1. Savor the flavors of Taiwan品味台灣

2. Cooking Methods • Stir-frying 炒 • Deep-frying 炸 • Shallow-frying 煎 • Braising 以文火燉煮 • Boiling 煮 • Steaming 蒸 • Roasting 烤 http://www.travelchinaguide.com/tour/food/chinese-cooking/methods.htm

3. Stir-frying 炒 • The most frequently used • Usually, a wok 鐵鍋 is used at high heat, cooking oil is added followed by ingredients and seasonings. • cooks processed ingredients at high heat for a short period of time. • example --- stir-fried cuttlefish 烏賊

4. Deep-frying 炸 • much more cooking oil than stir-frying • the ingredient should be fully submerged in the oilover medium heat. • Deep friedfoodsare unhealthy. • example --- Stinky Tofu 臭豆腐

5. Shallow-frying 煎 • usesless cooking oil than deep-frying and lower heat than stir-frying. • Shallow-fried dishes are usually rather tender inside, appearing golden or slightly burnt outside. • When cooking, the ingredients should be shallow-fried on one side first and then turned to the other. • example --- Oyster Omelet蚵仔煎

6. Braising 以文火燉煮 • Low Temperatures, Slow Cooking • add ingredients and seasonings in a wok or a saucepan at the same time, add in some water, boil it and then simmer it for one hour or more • Braised pork rice 肉燥飯

7. Boiling 煮 • the simplest cooking methods. • placing food in boiling water. • takes a shorter time than braising. • Danzai Noodles 度小月擔仔麵

8. Steaming 蒸 • A special cooking method • It is widely used for steaming buns and dumplings • The process involves placing the ingredients in a steamer basket which is placed over water in a steamer pot. • contains more nutrition than boiled food. • Very little cooking oil and fewer seasonings are used

9. Roasting 烤 • uses dry heat , more indirect, diffused heat and is suitable for slower cooking • cook the food over the open flame火焰 of charcoal 木炭 or in an oven. • The outside of the roasted foods always gets drier and browned, but flavors are retained and enhanced增大的. • Meats and most root and bulb vegetables can be roasted.

10. Gourmet • Chiese Food Hakka Food 客家菜; Cantonese Food粤菜 Sichuan Food 川菜 ; Beijing Food 北京菜 JiangsuFood 江蘇菜 ; Hunan Food 湖南菜 • Foreign Food • Taiwanese Food

11. Let’s go to taste the different snacks and local products in Taiwan .

12. Taiwan’s Yummy snakes

13. Local products • Tea • peanut brittle花生糖 • Sorghum liquor高梁酒 • Pineapple cake • Candied fruits蜜餞

14. Tea topography地形 and climate氣候 are perfect for growing tea pot / Yingge鶯歌 Tea bag peanut brittle Kinmen金門 Air,water,soil,wind cooked in malt麥芽 sugar and left to cool and harden

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16. Sorghum liquor Kinmen金門 hot, dry weather and unpolluted environment Good water quality Pineapple cake canned Pineapple,Pineappledrinks ,and Pineapple jams. Pineapple meansthe coming of good luck

17. Candied fruits蜜餞 • fresh fruits---plums梅子,dates棗, mangoes芒果 • are rubbed with salt and fermented 發酵 by adding sugar • salty, sour, and sweet- moniker 俗稱

18. Savor the flavors of Taiwan #2

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