About the food research , i do think i can go on with the different kind of dishes among different regions. It is important for people who live in certain area to have different prefer in taste. For example: people who lives in cold places like Tibet loves meat and high calories containing foods, they even drink tea named “buttered tea” which contains salt ,animal oil, and some sugar. People who lives around moist places are much likely having traditional food with spicy seasoning like peppers and chilies. But places near the coast like Guangzhou are willing to keep the food`s original taste. Japanese people are even eat those seafood uncooked, because they thinks it is delicious to have their original flavor. Also not only region cause different eating habit, culture and even some accident are also important part.
People who lives in India loves spicy food, according to this survey(ref: Food bacteria-spice survey shows why some cultures like it hot ) some of the places use spicy seasoning as a way to protect foods from being spoilage. Places like Chongqing china have similar situations as most part of India, peoples there using peppers for keeping food away from bacteria and insects. Research from “Food bacteria-spice survey shows why some cultures like it hot” shows that 30 kinds of hot and spicy food that can kill bacteria. Those spicy ingredient keeps the food edible for a long time. And with generations and generations, people in those areas are accustomed with the taste of pepper, even become addicted to that slightly pain when pepper comes into their mouth. Times goes on, those places developed a lots of different spicy foods in their recipe. Young people grow up with the memory of the spicy taste. They accustomed to those taste and they will love this taste, even if they are far away from their homeland. Such as me, a Chinese student from Chongqing province. I born in that place , a humid,extremely hot place. 40°C is the average temperature in there. There are a kind of food named “hotpot” , a huge pot with boiled spicy oil soup. People set around and put raw food in to the hot pot,than take them out after few minutes boiling. Foods not only keeps it own great taste, but also contains the flavor of spicy and hot. After eating a “hot pot” people can feel hot in few minutes. With the sweat streaming, people will soon feel cool. That will be the third reason why people who lives in hot area prefer spicy food. I am good at eating spicy food, every time i eat spicy food, i will get a satisfactions in my mind, that makes me addicted to the pepper.
People who lives in Shanghai and Hangzhou province loves sweet food and their food need to keep the food`s original taste. Unlike the Sicilian and Chongqing food, with spicy and salt, their food is more depend on the food`s quality and the chef`s skill. For those people who lives in place which both have coast and lake, food materials could be easy to found. For them, it is important to eat quality food than using spicy ingredient to keep them not spoiled, and they do not have reason to eat spicy food for cooling them self because the weather is cozy and cool. So their food are unique, mostly sweet and fresh. Here is some thing i found in website , shanghai`s development involves three nations by the British, France, and America. So this city was a mixture of multiple culture ( Kristin Baird Rattini n.d). So spicy flavor is not what they want if they need more delicate food. Although spicy food are delicious, it still cover the food`s original taste. As a national city, shanghai food need to be controversial,and most of people loves sweet food. That is the reason the famous food in shanghai are mostly sweet and fresh. This is the culture reason effected the taste of food in some place.
Some kind of food are unique, because they appears by accident. Changsha famous food, “fried strong-smelling preserved bean curd(tofu)” is a kind of bad smelling food. It made by spoiled tofu. Long times ago, a people in a poor village bought some tofu for meal. But he forget to cook and eat it. After few days decaying, his tofu became a black, smelling bean curd. But that person was so poor and he did not willing to though away it. He decided to fry and eat them all. But to his surprise , it is taste like meat and delicious. after he teach his friend the way to produce this kind of food, “fried strong-smelling preserved bean curd” became famous among the village and the whole province. This kind of food is interesting, it not because the region or the culture. It is only occurs because of an accident. But these accident are usually had some reasons, if everyone are rich in that period of time, nobody will try to eat the spoiled food and that kind of tofu will never be invented. “Mapo tofu” a mixture of tofu, goat meat and black pepper, chinese prickly ash , is because a girl named mapo, she was a orphan, people around her wants to help her by giving her different kind of food like meat and tofu. The girl was smart and she was good at cooking. She made a mixture dish by using these materials. After this dish become famous, she runs a restaurant and led everyone who helped her become rich.
Yes there are much things to find about the food of china, it is even a huge series in china named “a bite of china” tells many different dishes in china, the story behind and the taste itself. China culture are mostly related to food, from ancient times to nowadays, food is one of most important thing in my homeland.
Work cite
Kristin Baird Rattini ，A Short History of Shanghai，Retrieved from
Survey : Food bacteria-spice survey shows why some cultures like it hot
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/1998/03/food-bacteria-spice-survey-shows-why-some-cultures-it-hot
Source: "Antimicrobial Functions of Spices: Why Some Like It Hot," Jennifer Billing and Paul W. Sherman, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 73, No.1, March 1998
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