Comfort food refers to a variety of familiar, simple foods usually home-cooked or eaten at informal restaurants. It is typically inexpensive, uncomplicated, and easy to prepare, composed largely of simple or complex carbohydrate, such as sugar, rice, refined wheat, and so on.
 
We connect food with important times, feelings, and people in our lives. Most comfort [...]

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Xi’an cuisine has a good, hearty style that should never let you leave the table hungry. Noodles and dumplings are the staples of the local food and these are almost always filling and warming.
Yangrou Paomo is a tasty Xi’an specialty that consists of a mutton soup served with wheat flour flat bread. The hard bread [...]

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I probably was not a very romantic person, compared to see sunset or sunrise or walk on beach in the seaside, I still prefer to sit together with my lover to eat Tang Hulu, it is not only eat the flavor of acid or sweet but more the flavor of happiness.
It’s actually quite simple form, [...]

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Many people prefer light food during the summer. However, you may also take tonic in the hot days Ducks’ meat, which contains rich
proteins and some other necessary nutrients, may be served as an excellent tonic. According to the basic principle of traditional Chinese medicine, ducks’ meat is good for people who suffer from internal fever, [...]

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Eating tomato soup may serve two purposes: Providing nourishment and replenishing water. Tomatoes can effectively prevent cancer of the prostate gland (cancer of the organ in the male body that produces a liquid in which sperm is carried) and protect the heart.

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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 [...]

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Materials:
400g pork shoulder with the skin
100g garlic bolt
25g broad beans
10g sweet fermented flour sauce
Preparations

Rinse the pork, stew till the meat is tender and the skin is soft, cool and slice.
Cut the garlic bolt into sections.
Stir-fry pork slices in 6-fold hot oil till slightly curled.
Drop in finely chopped broad beans, stir-fry till brown. [...]

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Fried rice (Simplified Chinese: 炒饭, Traditional Chinese: 炒飯; pinyin: chǎofàn) is a popular component of Chinese cuisine. It originated as a home dish from China around 4000 BC, made from cold leftover rice fried with other leftover ingredients. It is often served as the penultimate dish in Chinese banquets (just before dessert).
There are dozens of [...]

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Fukien (or Fujian) fried rice - (Not actually from Fujian), a Cantonese dish of fried rice typically served “wet”, with sauce or gravy on top.
Singapore fried rice - Not actually from Singapore, a Cantonese dish of fried rice fried with yellow curry powder. Ironically, the fried rice which is served in Singapore itself runs the [...]

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Chop suey (Simplified Chinese: 杂碎, Traditional Chinese: 雜碎; pinyin: zásuì; Jyutping: zaap6 seoi3; Cantonese Yale: jaāhp seui) literally means mixed pieces. Roughly, it means chopped up odds and ends, alluding to “leftovers”. Its origin is contested. Exactly what it consists of varies from place to place, but its [...]

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