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China / Vegetarian Food

It is important component of Chinese food with a long history. Chinese vegetarian food has been popular since the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and it was greatly developed in the Ming and Qing dynasties (368-19111). It is divided into three schools: Monastery Vegetarian Food, Court Vegetarian Food and Folk Vegetarian Food.

The Main features of vegetarian food ate unique style and being beneficial to health. Man materials include green leaf vegetables, fruit, edible mushrooms and beancurd products with vegetable oil as condiment, being delicious in taste, rich in nutrition easy to digest and helpful is preventing cancer. Famous dishes include vegetarian ' chicken", braised vegetarian "meat" with bean sauce, vegetarian "pork tripe", vegetorian 'ham", vegeteble accessories, gluten with Xianggu mushroom, sour and hot beancurd slices, vegetarian 'shrimps", Chinese toon "fish" and small soft vegetarian "pork". All dishes are not really meat but are processed to look and taste like it.

 

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