More than just meet the eyes

For Chinese people, food has a special meaning to them.  The "waste not, want not" ethos means that a surprising range and variety of plants and animals, where every part of them is used.  This has given rise to a remarkable diversity in regional cuisine, it can be overwhelming - surprising, fantastic, delicious, or horrifying - but above all, uniquely different.

When people talk about Chinese cuisines, they didn’t expect much, just the ordinary Chinese food but less we know that in Chinese there were more than “just Chinese food”, there were more than meet the eyes. Chinese cuisines are actually separated according to their regional cuisines and there are a lot of them from spicy Sichuan food to Cantonese dim sum.

In Szechuan cuisine, there are a variety of ingredients and spices used to create the basic taste sensations such as sweet, sour, pungent, salty and bitter.Chili peppers and red peppercorns are used in Sichuan cooking to stimulate the taste buds and counter the bitter cold of winter. Sichuan dishes are considered spicy, although the heat is not immediate, it can creep up on you but the food from this regional are not that familiar with Malaysian people since it focusing more on heating up in the winter and Malaysia as we know it, is not even cold.

That is why, Chinese cuisine in Malaysia is mainly Cantonese, Hokkien, Hainanese, Teochew and Hakka styles of cooking and the best among all that is Cantonese food. As we were well inform that Chinese people believes in the element of Yin and Yang, where there was positive and negative. 

Same goes in making food, which mean Cantonese food should be balanced. It is either Yin [cooling] like vegetables, most fruits and clear soup or Yang [warming] like starchy foods and meat. A cooling food should be balance with a warming food and with not too much of one or the other. Which is why,  Cantonese food are mild and subtle so as to not overpower the freshness of the ingredients. Well known Cantonese dishes include steamed whole fish, crispy-skinned chicken, and shark's fin soup. And lets not forget the most popular Cantonese Dim Sum among the Malaysian. This “little heart” food served in little baskets or bowls. There are like 10 to 30 ingredients in variety kind of Dim Sum that makes this “little heart” taste incredibly delicious and hard to forget. I try it before and now I cannot help myself from wanted to have it again and again.

 Seriously, I am a person who deeply in love with food. So, if I kept talking about all the type and the specialty and the awesomeness of all these type of Chinese cuisine, it can take me years to finish it up. Plus, Chinese food are unbelievably taste good! Okay, what I’m trying to say is, these Chinese cuisine are not ‘just a Chinese food’ because it is more than meet the eyes. Way more ^^ 

Click this link below for detail information http://www.chinatownconnection.com/szechaun_cuisine.htm http://www.marimari.com/content/malaysia/food/chinese/chinese.html http://www.malaysianfood.net/Chinesefood.html

A little bit about Chinese Delicious Cuisines

After receive its Independence, Malaysia has become a country celebrated for its multiculturalism. Here people of different race, religion and country live in a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere. The multiculturalism of the country is evident in the food of the country. Here you will find everything from spicy Malay food, and Chinese food to Indian, Nyonya and Portuguese food. This is one of the reasons why I am so proud to be Malaysian people:)

There are so many kind of Malaysia’s food and the one that I fall in love with lately is Chinese Cuisine. Did you guys know that there is a very long list of food under Chinese Cuisine? The main kinds of cuisine are Cantonese, Hokkiean and Szechuan. Not just that, they also have food that they called staple food. It is apparently rice with accompanishments which, by the way, look and taste really good. Sounds good? Well, it is good^^

Actually, Chinese Cuisine is already exist for a very long time, around our country Independence day but because of our country’s unstable economy status, this kind of food take a while to be fully accepted by the Malaysian people. When the Chinese people from China itself came to Malaysia to find jobs, they were not just bring in their custom, languages or culture but they also bring in their variety of Chinese Cuisine. 

Thanks to them, Malaysia then and now are a different country because Malaysia now is known as a country of multiculturalism and because the influence from this multiethnic country, Chinese cuisine in Malaysia, has taken on a spicier touch, often reinventing classic Chinese dishes.

                                                 

Want to know better, just click the link below =>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_Chinese 
http://www.malaysianfood.net/Chinesefood.html 
http://mymalaysia.net.my/knowmsia/socio-culture/

THE reasons behind this kinda-awesome-blog's creation

         Blog objectives

Ø  To let people know more about one of the traditional food in of the Chinese people as to strengthen the spirit of “One Malaysia”.

Ø  To open people’s mind about some traditional way of life there are in our beloved country, Malaysia. Especially in term of its food.

Ø  People can differentiate between Malay, Indian and Chinese food.

Ø  To attract people to also enjoy Chinese food, instead of ordinary daily food they consume.

Ø  To get people to really appreciate the creation of Chinese food by knowing all the attraction of Chinese food.