Category: Food
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Why is Shaxian Delicacies Everywhere in China?
Main points of this post: In the early days of China’s reform and opening up, KFC and McDonald’s successively entered the Chinese mainland market. In the decades that followed, the two Western fast-food chains opened more than 10,000 stores in this oriental country. While being loved by Chinese consumers, “chain brands like KFC or McDonald’s” have…
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The Rise of Chinese style Instant Foods
For overseas diners, this means you can eat Chinese Cuisine even if you don’t have to travel to China. Including the foods you have seen in LiZiqi’s video or a bite of China.
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Maybe you’ll see “condoms” on the table in Chinese restaurants
Over the past few years, disguising some cutlery as condoms has become an odd marketing ploy for some Chinese restaurants. This is not a real condom, but if you don’t like it, please give it a bad review.
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Alcohol is popular in the milk tea menu this season
In our previous articles, we have introduced that the milk tea, an outdated junk food, is making a comeback in Asia due to the emergence of new types of milk tea, such as HeyTea and NaiXue. In the past two years, milk tea with real fruit cuts (very big ones) has been impressively popular among…
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In China, KFC is basically a Chinese restaurant
Imagine that if you travel or work in China for the first time, you are looking forward to eating the most authentic Chinese food. However, you are not ready– maybe just got off the plane — in order not to bring nightmares to your first Chinese food experience due to lack of knowledge, you decide…
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7 Kinds of Pot Cuisine that You Shouldn’t Call Hot Pot
To foreign gormandizer, all Chinese dishes that require food to be cooked in a boiling hot pot are often mistaken for hot pot. Hotpot is one of the most iconic Chinese cuisines, and there are many different types of hotpots in different parts of China that do not have the same flavor. But in fact,…
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8 Free Chinese Food Documentaries with English Subtitles
Listen to the Chinese food stories told by the Chinese themselves.
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Why is Lao Gan Ma no longer *hot* in China?
Whether in China or overseas, Lao Gan Ma is undoubtedly one of the most famous Chinese sauces. If you only talk about the chili sauce field, Lao Gan Ma’s popularity must be number one. As a Chinese seasoning that has never focused on overseas markets, Lao Gan Ma(in Chinese this brand means your Godmother) has gained…
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The De-Colonization of Chinese Drink
In the 2019 Single’s Day (China’s online version of Black Friday) sales ranking, a brand called “Genki Forest” beat Coca-Cola and Pepsi to rank second in beverage category. Genki Forest(Yuanqi Senlin), a Chinese beverage company disguised as a Japanese brand, has grown rapidly into a large beverage company valued at 4 billion in the past…