China culinary tour
You might not have thought to tour China, nor do you know much about China, but you surely must have tasted some kind of Chinese delicacies at least once in your life. Eating Chinese food on occasion is always kind of an adventure but believing that you may have a clue what Chinese food is all about certainly can’t be surmised from eating out at your neighborhood Chinese restaurant.
Fact is that the real Chinese food is entirely different from what we have come to associate with the kind of dishes found at your typical Panda or Wok outlet on a corner in most American cities. To experience the real Chinese cuisine we must indeed venture to China, and travel around its diverse parts in order to discover the numerous regional cuisines and styles of cooking native to China.
It is difficult to establish how many truly unique regional cuisines there are in China, but if you’d like to learn more about at least couple of those that are known as the most prominent ones, then you have to visit China’s most opposite corners, Beijing and Chengdu, and the best way to do this is to take a China culinary tour.
On one such a tour you can enjoy learning how to cook the regional specialties of two cuisines, that of Beijing and of western province of Sichuan as well as have a chance to visit some of China’s most well-liked landmarks.
In Beijing, the capital, you will certainly walk the well-known Tianmen Square as well as the Forbidden City, the finest preserved imperial palace in China and also the largest ancient palatial structure in the world, before venturing to a local culinary school for getting familiar with the Chinese cooking utensils and start learning how to prepare some of the tasty Beijing recopies.
Having sampled the best of Beijing food and sites, including the famous Beijing Duck and the renowned Great Wall, you will greatly appreciate the different dishes as well as sites you will find on your next stop, in Chengdu, Sichuan.
In Chengdu is awaiting you the experience of another cooking school, where senior Chinese chefs will immerse you in the fundamentals of a sumptuous Sichuan banquet, an eye opener into the nature of Sichuan cooking. And where else to get better familiar with the depth of Sichuan culinary art than at a traditional Chinese medicinal herbal banquet.
Sure, you will visit the well-known Panda Reserve to see these lovely animals being reared in wooded surroundings reminiscent of their natural habitat. And you will also travel to Leshan to take the steep staircase down the mountain into which was carved the remarkable Grand Buddha, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
But after the sightseeing you will get back to learning how to prepare more Sichuan dishes, from simple snacks to the truly spicy and downright legendary Sichuan Hot Pot, which will be the pinnacle of your culinary tour of Beijing and Sichuan in western China.
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