5,000 years of eclipse
"World Capital of Gastronomy" is a title conferred by UNESCO as of November 2023, 10 cities around the world have received this title, respectively:
Ödertsund in Sweden, Zahele in Lebanon, Popayan in Colombia, Jeonju in South Korea, Chengdu in Sichuan (China), Shunde (Guangdong) (China), Macao SAR (China), Yangzhou and Huai'an in Jiangsu Province (China), and Chaozhou (Guangdong).
Among them,China occupies 6 seats, namely: Chengdu, Shunde, Macau, Yangzhou, Huai'an, and Chaozhou.
1. Chengdu: Food in China, taste in Sichuan
On February 28, 2010, UNESCO awarded Chengdu the title of "City of Gastronomy".
Chengdu has the earliest brewing factory, the earliest tea culture center and the first cuisine industry base in China. As the birthplace and development center of Sichuan cuisine, Chengdu has become one of the most important gastronomic centers in the world.
Sichuan cuisine has hundreds of cooking methods, such as exploding, boiling, boiling, boiling, and dry stir-frying, which also creates a light and heavy taste in Chengdu.
Representative dish:Mapo Tofu, Husband and Wife Lung Slices, Kung Pao Chicken, Boiling Water Cabbage, Yellow Spicy Dice, Hot and Sour Bean Curd, Dandan Noodles, Sad Noodles, Three Cannons, Hot Pot, Strings of Incense, Lai Tangyuan, Pixian Douban, Gaiwan Tea and so on.
2. Shunde: Eat in Guangzhou, cook out of Fengcheng (another name for Shunde).
On December 1, 2014, Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong Province was awarded the title of "Food Capital" in the world.
Shunde is the birthplace of Cantonese cuisine.
1. The hometown of Chinese chefs, food has long become the most important business card of Shunde. Shunde rookies, beasts, insects and fish can be used as raw materials for dishes, and they are slaughtered and cooked, and fresh coarse fruits and vegetables can also be included in the dishes, and the condiments are borrowed from major cuisinesSecondly, the dishes pay attention to the right time, the summer and autumn dishes are mainly to relieve heat and dispel heat, and the winter and spring dishes are mainly nutritious and nourishing.
Representative dish:: Shunde Yusheng, Shunde Ancient Steamed Bighead Fish, Fengcheng Four Cup Chicken, Fried Baked Fish Mouth, Chrysanthemum Water Snake Soup, Hometown Stuffed Dace, Ginger Milk, Double Skin Milk, Chen Cun Noodles, Pheasant Roll Stir-fried Milk, London Cake, Ba Jun'an Steamed Pig, Flower Pepper Sea Bass, Daliang Jumping Sand, Parietal Eel, Niu Zhan Claypot Rice, Fried Fish Cake and so on.
3. Macao
In November 2017, Macau was awarded the title of "World Capital of Gastronomy".
Portuguese cuisine is a must-try cuisine in Macao, and it is divided into two types: authentic Portuguese cuisine and Macanese Portuguese cuisine. Authentic Portuguese cuisine is extremely salty, sour and sweet, and is known for its rich flavor and strong flavor, with roasting, baking, roasting, and stewing as the main cooking techniques.
Macanese Portuguese cuisine is an improved Portuguese cuisine, which gradually integrates Portuguese cooking methods and ingredients into the essence of African, Indian, Thai, Malaysian and Chinese Cantonese cuisine cooking techniques, creatively producing a unique cuisine in the world, more suitable for the taste of the East, especially the Chinese.
Representative dish:Macehu, Portuguese chicken, green vegetable soup, African chicken, Portuguese fried clams, Portuguese sausage, roasted oxtail, sardines, pork knuckle with red beans, Portuguese egg tarts, wood bran pudding, pork chop buns, vegetable cakes, coconut milk cakes, sesame cakes, almond cakes, dried pork jerky, peanut candy, wife cakes, egg rolls, Bawang Eight Treasures Grilled Duck, Dry fried prawns, water crab porridge, pomfret balls, salted husband cakes, crockpot soup chicken pot, curry beef offal and so on.
Fourth, Yangzhou:
On October 31, 2019, UNESCO announced that Yangzhou had been selected as the World Capital of Gastronomy.
The famous poet Yu Guangzhong once said that "Yangzhou is fragrant, and the whole country is greedy";The famous calligrapher and painter Feng Qiyong also wrote that "the world's delicacies belong to Yangzhou";Writer and dramatist Wang Zengqi was haunted by the dishes of his hometown after leaving his hometown.
Representative dish:Crystal pig's trotters, Yangzhou old goose, oil port lobster, boiled dried shreds, crab roe lion head, pagoda pickles, Yangzhou fried rice, three Ding buns, glitter Gaoyou hemp duck, mille-feuille oil cake, jade siu mai, salted shrimp, salted goose meat, boiled tiger tail, braised silver carp head, Yizheng seaweed, Tianxiang lotus root, Jinghe cake, bergamot ginger, red sandalwood tiger tail and so on.
5. Huai'an:
On November 8, 2021, Huai'an was successfully selected as the "World Capital of Gastronomy".
Huai'an is one of the birthplaces of Huaiyang cuisine, and has previously been awarded the titles of "Hometown of Huaiyang Cuisine in China" and "Famous Food City in China".
Huaiyang cuisine began in the Spring and Autumn Period and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and was the benchmark cuisine of the "First Banquet of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" in New China. Huai'an cuisine not only has the characteristics of crisp and tender southern cuisine, but also integrates the salty and fragrant characteristics of northern cuisine. There are more than 1,300 kinds of famous dishes in Huai'an, and 298 of them have been selected as provincial intangible cultural heritage, which is the largest number of districts and cities in the country.
Representative dish:White robe shrimp, soft pocket long fish, Pingqiao tofu, Qingong meat balls, Wenlou soup dumplings, Xuyi lobster, Hongze Lake hairy crab, Huai'an tea dumplings, Zhuqiao soft-shelled turtle, steamed white fish, Kaiyang cattail, Zhuqiao soft-shelled turtle soup, Huaiyin wharf soup mutton, Jiangba sour soup fish balls and so on.
6. Chaozhou, Guangdong, China:
On October 31, 2023, the official website of UNESCO announced that Chaozhou was selected as the "World Capital of Gastronomy".
Chaozhou has a deep food culture accumulation, and has many food city titles such as "the most Chinese food city recommended by global netizens", "the hometown of Chinese Chaozhou cuisine", "China's famous food city", "Chaozhou cuisine landmark food city" and so on. Teochew cuisine is the representative of Cantonese cuisine, the four major cuisines of China, and an important representative of Teochew culture.
Chaozhou cuisine began in the Han and Tang dynasties, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, throughout the establishment history of Chaozhou for more than 2,000 years, not only integrates the culinary art of the Tang and Song dynasties, but also gathers the essence of famous food at home and abroad, with cooking seafood, condiments are exquisite, not tired of eating, light and elegant, with a wide variety of food, with more than 500 dishes and more than 300 kinds of snacks. In 2021, the cooking skills of Chaozhou cuisine were selected as the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.