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Lantern Festival (元宵)
emointhekitchen Tangyuan balls (汤圆) are traditionally eaten during the Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, which is the first full moon. The festival falls on a February day in the international calendar every year. People eat the balls for luck and in the hope of filling their lives with sweetness and joy. During the Lantern Festival, glutinous rice balls must be eaten, which means that the whole family will be reunited. There is no such atmosphere abroad, so I decided to make our sticky rice balls. Sticky rice balls, freshly fried peanuts, bean paste, and sesame with a little…
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Chinese New Year Vegetable Dumplings
emointhekitchen During the Spring Festival, almost every family will eat dumplings that are shaped like ingots, which means “attract wealth”. Judging by ancient customs, dumplings are a dish eaten after New Year’s sacrifices. Dumplings are one of the traditional dishes. In the old days, there were only wontons. Later, wontons were made into a crescent shape to become dumplings. The custom of eating dumplings spread to remote areas of the country during the Tang Dynasty (618–690, 705–907). Chinese culture is vast and deep, and folk customs also have their characteristics. Some people eat dumplings on New Year’s Eve, some people eat dumplings on the first day of the new year,…
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Laba congee
emointhekitchen So, on December 30, 2022, the days fly by so, fast and in the blink of an eye, Laba Festival is here again. Porridge is indispensable, it adds all kinds of beans and rice to the boil, which is fragrant! Laba Festival, commonly known as “Laba”, is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The ancients had a tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods and praying for a good harvest. In some areas, there was a custom of drinking Laba porridge. According to legend, this day is also the day when the Buddha Sakyamuni became enlightened. It is called the “Dharma Treasure Festival” and is one…
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Autumn lotus root soup
emointhekitchen The autumn hoarfrost ends (shuangjing, from October 23 to 24). The street roots of lotus flower glutinous rice began to be sold everywhere, and the sweet fragrance wafted far, far, even adding a touch of sweetness to the air… I also have a dream about China. Every time this season, I like to make glutinous rice root lotus at home and steam it. The cooked lotus root is soft and sticky and the rice is sweet. I feel warm and cosy whenever I take a sip of the soup. I’m going to enjoy them! You will need: glutinous rice lotus root red dates apple sugar Procedure: Wash the glutinous…
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Stinky Tofu with Green&Red Peppers
emointhekitchen “Smells stinky and tastes good” as China’s most distinctive “traditional snack”, stinky tofu is not only well-known for its unique taste but also integrates with local delicacies, deeply imprinting local characteristics. This dish is intimidating to a lot of people just because of the smell it has an intense smell and is often described as rotten having a smell. Similar to Olomouc curd cheese. It is difficult to find a more typical folk dish. Plus it tastes better than it smells. Tofu is pickled with various Chinese herbs and other ingredients. Everyone has their own recipe. When it is pickled, it begins to ferment, which gives tofu its characteristic…
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Autumn pear paste
emointhekitchen Love this life and take care of your family! For a person who is not well and the whole family is sleeping and eating, try to cook this autumn pear paste to relieve these unpleasant symptoms. Autumn pear paste used to be a special medicine in the court, and it only spread among the people after the imperial physician left the court during the Qing Dynasty. Because made from autumn pears in the suburbs and sold in Beijing, it has become a traditional Beijing speciality. “Compendium of Materia Medica” defines the function of duck pear (or snowflake pear, Chinese pear, nashi pear) as: “Heat of six intestines alive and…
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Beverages for summer well-being and health…
emointhekitchen Herbal tea is mostly composed of various traditional Chinese medicines, and its functions, indications and appropriate groups differ according to the various medicines used. Traditional Chinese medicine has the four qi “warm heat, cold and cold” and also has the healing principle of “hot is cold, cold is hot”. In response to the heat and humidity of a hot summer, herbal teas are usually made from cold and cooling products. In summer, yang is prosperous, and drinking herbal tea for one or two months to cool down the heat has little effect on the human body. However, after the beginning of autumn, the weather cools down and the yang…
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Herbal Tea Recipes
emointhekitchen Summer has arrived, the temperature rises sharply, the heat is unbearable and it is easy to get heatstroke. Medicinal tea has a good preventive effect on heatstroke, is cheap, simple and convenient to produce, and is deeply loved by people. Make herbal teas to clear coughs and relieve the summer heat, from which everyone can choose. Chrysanthemum tea 10 grams of chrysanthemum tea. Pour boiling water, and soak for 10 minutes before drinking. Put a pinch of chrysanthemum flowers in a glass and water with boiling water. Suitable to drink 2-3 times a day. This tea drink acts as a soothing wind and dispels heat, cleanses the liver and…
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Buddha’s Rice Soup (“Buddha jumps over a wall”)
emointhekitchen “Buddha jumps over a wall” is a dish that dates back several centuries to the Qing Dynasty. They say the name originates from the saying: “Even a monk jumps over the temple wall because of the delicious smell.” The scent spread to an adjacent Buddhist monastery, where the monks meditated. Although the monks may not eat vegetarian food, one of the monks is tempted to jump over the wall. The food name is an allusion to the dish’s ability to entice the vegetarian Buddhist monks from their temples to partake in the meat-based dish and implies that even the vegetarian Gautama Buddha would try to jump over a wall…
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Sweet vegetable soup with Job’s-tears
emointhekitchen In the Chinese cycles of the seasons and the elements, Earth is often referred to as Indian Summer, or late summer, which is considered a time for slowing down and gathering in. The sweet taste enhances qi. However, this statement only applies to sweet and neutral, warm vegetables, all kinds of cereals, meat, fish, eggs, legumes, fats, nuts and seeds – in other words, it applies to all nutritious foods that have a delicate taste. All of these foods (although some relate to other organs) strengthen the qi of the spleen. Sweet moisturizes. This claim applies to cereals, root vegetables, fruit, dried fruit, fruit juices and sweeteners, such as…
