China: Recipes and Cuisine

A list of typical Chinese dishes and foods. Use it to help you plan a Chinese-style meal, party or festival.

Appetizers and Dim Sum

• Chun Yao Bang (Fried scallion pancake)
• Chun Guen (Deep-fried spring rolls)
• Dan Bing (Crepe stuffed with spicy eggs)
• Guo Tie (Potsticker dumplings)
• Har Gow (Shrimp dumplings)
• Law Bock Gow (Steamed daikon cake)
• Pearl Balls (Steamed pork balls with rice coating)
• Potstickers (Boiled and fried dumplings)
• Siu Mai (Steamed pork and shrimp dumplings)
• Tsen Bao (Filled steamed buns)

Soups and Stews

• Yen Wo Tang (Bird's nest soup)
• Dan Hua Tang (Egg drop soup)
• Suan La Tang (Hot and sour soup)
• Ji Tang Mien (Chicken noodle soup)
• Su Mi Tang (Velvet corn soup)
• Dong Gua Tang (Winter melon soup)
• Hun Tun Tang (Wonton soup)

Eggs

• Pi Dan (1000 Year Eggs: duck eggs preserved in ash and lime)
• Cha Yeh Dan (Tea leaf eggs)
• Fu Rong (Vegetables in an creamy egg sauce)
• Liu Wang Cai (Scrambled eggs with peas over rice)
• Wang Pu Chao Dan (Layered omelet)

Noodles

• Ants Climbing Trees (Noodles with ground pork)
• Chao Mian (Stir-fried meat and vegetables with noodles)
• Lo Mein (Meat and vegetables with boiled egg noodles)
• Ma Jiang Ban Mian (Noodles with sesame sauce)
• Pork and Noodles in Brown Bean Sauce
• Shang Hai Leng Mien (Shanghai noodles with shrimp)
• Zha Cai Rou Si Fen Si (Pork and Szechuan pickles with cellophane noodles)

Poultry

• Bai Qie Ji (White-cut chicken)
• Beijing Kao Ya (Peking duck)
• Chicken with Lemon (Cantonese deep-fried chicken with lemon sauce)
• Cu Liu Ji (Chicken in vinegar sauce)
• Gung Bo Gai Ding (Kung pao chicken with peanuts)
• Hai Nan Ji Fan (Hainan chicken and rice)
• Shao Ya (Cantonese roast duck)
• Tangerine Peel Chicken (Citrus-scented roast chicken)
• Zhi Bao Ji (Paper-wrapped chicken)
• Zui Ji (Drunken chicken)

Meats

• Char Siu (Barbeque pork)
• Gu Lu Ron (Sweet and sour pork)
• He Dou Niu Rou (Beef and snow peas in oyster sauce
• Hui Guo Rou (Twice-cooked pork)
• Shuan Yang Rou (Mongolian hot pot)
• Hei Jiao Niu Liu (Mongolian beef)
• Mu Shu Rou (Mushu pork and vegetables with Mandarin pancakes and hoisin sauce)
• Pork and Cabbage Filling (Filling for buns, potstickers and dumplings)
• Hong Shao Rou (Red-cooked pork braised in soy broth)
• Shi Zi Tou (Lion's head meatballs)
• Siu Pai Guck (BBQ spare ribs)

Fish and Seafood

• Chi Jiao Xie (Crab in black bean sauce)
• Hu Nan Zhang Yu (Whole fish steamed with black bean sauce)
• Jiu Liu Yu Pian (Fish in wine sauce)
• Qing Dou Ha Ren (Shrimp with peas)
• Shrimp in Tomato Sauce (Shrimp stir fry)
• Si Chuan Dou Ban Yu (Szechuan fish)
• Si Chuan La Jiao You Yu (Chili squid)
• Song Shu Yu (Squirrel fish)
• Tian Suan Yu (Sweet and sour fish)

Tofu

• Dong Gu Dofu (Tofu with mushrooms)
• Ma Jiang Dofu (Tofu with sesame sauce)
• Ma Po Dofu (Tofu braised in a spicy brown sauce)

Vegetables and Beans

• Basic Vegetable Stir Fry (Stir-fried vegetables)
• Chao Bo Cai (Garlic Spinach)
• Green Beans with Water Chestnuts
• Hong Shao Qie Zi (Red-cooked eggplant)
• Kai Yang Bai Cai (Stir-fried cabbage)
• Luo Han Zhai (Buddhists' delight vegetables)
• Suan Zi Lu Sun (Asparagus with garlic)
• Zha Cai Dou Ya Rou Si (Stir-fried bean sprouts with shredded pork)

Breads and Grains

• Bai Fan (Plain boiled rice)
• Zhou (Congee breakfast rice porridge)
• Chao Fan (Fried rice with garnishes)
• Hua Chuan (Flower buns)
• Hun Tun Pi (Wonton wrappers)
• Mandarin Pancakes
• Nor Mai Gai (Lotus-leaf wrapped rice with savory stuffing)

Sauces

• XO Sauce (Dried seafood sauce)

Desserts

• Dun Tat (Egg custard tartlets)
• Five-Treasure Rice Pudding
• Mooncakes (Bean-filled sweetcakes)

Beverages

• Bubble Tea (Taiwanese milk tea beverage with tapioca balls)
• Cha (Tea)
• Jiu (Rice wine and spirits)