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By Xie Tingting crienglish

The word you will hear most often in Anxi is probably Tie Guan Yin, the name of a premium variety of Oolong tea. Anxi, a small and mountainous county in southeast China’s Fujian Province, is hailed as the birthplace of this special tea. Here, Tie Guan Yin has infiltrated everyday life – [...]

Shapotou Desert

27, Aug 2009

Shapotou in Ningxia Zhongwei Xian, is a unique landscape of the Resort. Shapotou sand control once known for its results. Paulhan Zhongwei Railway in the territory of six across the desert, of which the most severe sandstorm in Shapotou, in order to guarantee the unimpeded, from the 1950s onwards, creating a windbreak in the sand [...]

Materials:
100g cooked clam meat
250g Chinese radishes
15g flour
250g soup stock 
Preparations:
Wash the radishes and cut into 100 pearl-shaped pieces, scald, pass through hot oil, put in soup-stock and bring to the boil.
Pour out the soup, add white soup and simmer for five minutes, transfer to a bowl.
Slightly fry flour in oil until brown, put in the radish [...]

Jar of Delicacies

27, Aug 2009

Materials:
shark’s fins
shark’s lips
fish maw
abalone
bechedemer
scallops
chicken
duck meat
lamb shoulder meat
ham
pork tendons
dried mushrooms
winter bamboo shoots 
Preparations:
Pile the soaked dry ingredients in layers in an earthen jar containing Shaoxing rice wine together with the chicken, duck, lamb, ham, tendons, mushrooms and bamboo shoots.
Add cassia bark, crystal sugar, cooking wine and salt, seal the jar with a lotus leaf, boil over a [...]

Materials:
2 live red-colored crabs
25g each of pork loin
duck gizzard
chicken breast
sea cucumbers
abalone
scallops
fresh shrimps
winter bamboo shoots 
Preparations:
Clean the red-colored crabs, draw out the meat and ovaries.
Put a piece of dough on each side of a plate.
Dice and scald the other eight ingredients, drain off the water, add condiments, put the mixture around the dough; mix egg white with [...]

Materials:
400g whelk meat
10g soaked mushrooms
75g winter bamboo shoots
2 scallions
20g distiller’s grains 
Preparations:
Slice thinly the whelk meat, scald, stir in Shaoxing rice wine.
Slice the mushrooms and bamboo shoots.
Slice scallion stalks, Mix with clear soup and condiments to make a spicy sauce. Stir-fry bamboo shoots lightly.
Flavor oil with ginger and garlic, add distillers grains, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, spicy [...]

Drunk Crab

27, Aug 2009

Materials:
one live crab
sorghum wine, vinegar 
Preparations:
Discard the shell, clean and dice the crab, place in a bowl, pour in sorghum wine and steep for a while.
Mix together soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, vinegar and seasonings, add the crab, and fry-stir then marinate for three hours.

Materials:
30g fresh prawns
75g ham
15g mushrooms
50g winter bamboo shoots
10g scallion stalks 
Preparations:
Slice the mushrooms, bamboo shoots and scallion stalks.
Cut the ham into strips.
Clean the prawns, keeping on the tails and shells, beat with the side of a cleaver.
Put the ham strips crosswise on the prawn tails and bend them up.
Dip into boiling oil to retain the shape.
Heat [...]

Stir-fried Clam

27, Aug 2009

Materials:
400g clean clam meat
10g soaked mushrooms
cooked winter bamboo shoots
 
Preparations:
Clean the clams and cut each one in half, dip into 60 centigradeæ water and remove when half-done; remove the membrane, rub in cooking wine.
Slice the mushrooms and add fresh soup, salt, MSG, sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil and cornstarch to make a spicy sauce.
Saute chopped garlic, [...]

Squid with Pineapples

27, Aug 2009

Materials:
350g soaked squid
200g fresh pineapples
6g scallion
50g tomatoes
25g crushed garlic 
Preparations:
Score the squid with crisscross cuts, then cut into pieces, scald, remove and drain off the water.
Cube the fresh pineapple and put on a plate.
Mix condiments to make a spicy sauce, pour into a wok containing a little oil and bring to the boil, put in the [...]


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