The Supreme Guide to Chinese Food, Drink, and Culture
Understanding a foreign ancient culture is hard. How else to better appreciate an unfamiliar nation than eating its food, drinking its wine, and talking to the locals? Unfamiliar China helps you to do just that. We strive to be the top guide worldwide to illustrate the most authentic modern Chinese food and drink that you will get to experience guided by the locals all across China. Here, we have interesting stories behind the best Chinese dishes, fascinating history of the most popular Chinese wine and beer, and some unfamiliar way of interpreting this unique old country.
All About China
All About China
All About China is probably Unfamiliar China team’s proudest publication. It represents our unique interpretation of modern China, traditional Chinese culture and history, intermixed with some essential lessons and tips from our friends like you around the world. We strive to provide you with some much-needed fundamentals to help you survive in China day to day. However, more importantly, we want to help you understand today’s China, how it came about, and truly integrate with the Chinese community around you either you are an English teacher living in Beijing, a serial traveler to Asia, or an American born second generation Chinese in San Francisco.
The Unfamiliar Perspective of China
The Chinese civilization has traversed through 5,000 years of world history, and Chinese food culture has developed along with it for each millennium. This storied past has not only contributed to China’s world-famous culinary culture, it has also marked Chinese cuisine with the stamp of history.
Chinese Culinary Culture
China’s long history, vast territories, and manifold resources have all contributed to the richness of diversity in its food. “Rice in the North and noodles in the South” formed the backbone of China’s cuisine structure. “Sweet South, savory North, sour East, spicy West” laid out the main key of its flavors. And the Sichuan, Shandong, Huaiyang, and Cantonese culinary systems formed the four main cuisine styles of China.
