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Yes! We’re there

Wait, we have to go to Ancient China

Luckily, I have a time machine

Now, we are hereWelcome to Ancient China

I’m hungry let’s stop for some food

Where is there eat?

RiceDonalds

Millet Jr.

Peet’s Rice Wine

Tea Bell

Spicy Cucumber Salad

• Chinese salads can be cold or even warm! The spicy cucumber salad has cooked cucumbers and vinegar and that’s it! Some people also add gingerroot just for taste.

http://chinesefood.about.com/od/vegetablesrecipes/r/cucumbersalad.htm

Have you ever heard of a potato salad?

• Potato salad -- An appetizer made with potatoes, vinegar, soy sauce, and many more sauces.

http://chinesefood.about.com/od/salads/r/spicypotatosald.htm

What is all this junk?

• Rice was the first grain ever farmed in China. Its use dates back to 5000 B.C.

• Millet was most used in Northern China because its dry and cold climate could not grow rice

• Rice Wine is a Chinese Delicacy

• Starting in 3000 B.C. tea became one of China’s most popular drinks

EEW! AREN’T THERE ANY

NORMAL RESTAURANTS?!

Well, actually, by 5500 B.C., Chinese people were eating chicken from

Thailand and pork, which is native to China.

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/food/ & http://news.tootoo.com/China_Window/HOT/20080121/65261.html

What you’re eating is tofu. It was a vegetarian protein source for Buddhists, created around 1000 A.D.http://ezinearticles.com/?Ancient-Chinese-Food&id=1143459

Wait a minute!

This doesn’t taste like chicken!

Change Throughout Dynasties

• Different dynasties brought new foods to the cuisine of China

• China’s food reached it’s peak during the Qing Dyansty

•Man Han Quan Xi: dinner that combines all of the flavors of the Man and the Han

http://www.china.org.cn/english/imperial/25995.htm

--We use chopsticks!

Finally, a good

restaurant, but where

are the forks?!

Chopsticks!Just two sticks can help you pick up and eat virtually any food you can

think of!

Chopsticks determine the way Chinese

food is presented at

the table!Did you know

that chopsticks are considered an art in itself?

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/cuisine_drink/cuisine/#voice

You can also eat Chinese foods without chopsticks!

Zong Zi- traditional Chinese food, a glutinous rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves

All you have to do is grab and bite!

Have You Tried Chinese Desserts?

Check This Out!

• Ice Cream was brought throughout China but they have a special kind. Baobing is a pile of shaved ice with sweet syrup. It is some times served with fruit.

• Candy is known as Tang in China. Have you heard of cotton candy. That was said to be invented 2000 yeas ago by China.

• Rice Cakes are sticky, sweet rice balls. They are soft and chewy. This was one of the Chinese favorites!

What this is not going to be good.

I WANT SOME GOOD FOOD!

You just Wait!!!

•China has the best desserts you can ever get. They are sweet and they are tasty.

•Trust me! You will love this stuff!

I have got a bad feeling about

this.

Don’t Worry!

•Chinese desserts used to be the best foods. Many people ate them and thought they were delicious. Haven't you heard of the Fortune Cookie.

•Trust me you will love those!

Ok… I’ll buy some.

Cool You were right!I really liked the

Chinese Popcorn. Did know that it started

during the Sung Dynasty.

I also liked the Aiwowo. That is a

traditional snack made with sticky rice!

1 hour later…

Told You!

•To add on, China had many great foods and were one of the first to make that. If it was not for them, we would be stuck. NO SWEETS?

http://kaleidoscope.cultural-china.com/en/8Kaleidoscope5550.html

Ok, time to move on. Now that you have learned some info know a few websites, you can now explore more about Ancient Chinese

foods.•How did Ancient Chinese foods change from

Dynasty to Dynasty?• What are the three types of tea?

• Learn about more deserts•How does the geography affect Ancient Chinese

food?• Learn more about rice and millet

Here’s another website to check out:http://library.thinkquest.org/C005446/text_version/English/china.html

Now go!

Bibliography

• Carr, Karen. Http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/food/. Kidipede. Web. <http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/food/>. 

• 2. Chinese Desserts - China Culture. Cultural China. Web. <http://kaleidoscope.cultural-china.com/en/8Kaleidoscope5550.html>. 

• 3. Chinese Food, Meal, Eight Cuisine, Feast, Banquet. Travel China Guide. Web. <http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/cuisine_drink/cuisine/#voice>.

• 4. Food of Ancient China: 200 Bc - 200 AD. Web. <http://library.thinkquest.org/C005446/text_version/English/china.html>. 

• The History of Chinese Imperial Food. China Internet Information Center. Web. <http://www.china.org.cn/english/imperial/25995.htm>. 

• Ancient Chinese Food. Web. <http://ezinearticles.com/?Ancient-Chinese-Food&id=1143459>. 

• Potato Salad Recipe- a Recipe for Spicy Potato Salad With Asian Seasonings. Web. <http://chinesefood.about.com/od/salads/r/spicypotatosald.htm>. 

• 8. Cucumber Salad Recipe- Chinese Cucumber Salad. Web. <http://chinesefood.about.com/od/vegetablesrecipes/r/cucumbersalad.htm>.