Dumpling Essay
This essay explains how Chinese cultural food practices have influenced New Zealand cuisine with the food, dumplings. Here New Zealand dumpling is a common ingredient used in our cooking. Dumplings dish refer to a meal primarily involving some sort of dumplings and are usually served with many sauce. The first reference of dumplings dates to two thousand years ago in China. Traditional Food is loved by the majority of Chinese.
"medical saint" Zhongjing Zhang in Changsha, China, the local prevalence of plague a year, he put the drug on the streets, saving lives. Zhongjing Zhang from the Changsha retired and returned home, went to his hometown river bank, see a lot of poor people suffering from hunger and cold, ears froze rotten. He used lamb, chilli and herbs in the pot to boil, then put the cooked fish out of these things, chopped and made into ear-shaped dumplings, given out the patients.
Second, Dumplings look like gold ingots. People in the New Year eating dumplings take "Good Fortune" sounds, and second, there is stuffing dumplings, people can put all kinds of things to dumplings what they think what represents auspicious to sustenance of people's hope for the new year.
So, dumplings massive spread in China.
China covers a vast area of land, China has a variety of terrain. China can grow many plants and animals. Chinese people can do all sorts of tastes of dumplings.
Usually Chinese eat dumplings with soy sauce, vinegar, crushed spring onions, crushed garlic or just dumplings soup. And other choices are chili oil, peanut sauce, tomato sauce, sesame oil. It divides by individual taste. I’m not sure New Zealanders how to eat dumplings. I think most of New Zealanders will choose boil dumplings. And match soy sauce.
You can buy dumplings in many different flavours and styles now in China. For example is fry dumplings, which are fried in the pan. The stuffing is Pork dumplings with spring onions, multi-amplification onions, very tasty. Is the kind of thick scallion, minced pork than beef taste, because pork is very fragrant, tender pork. Also do not choose pure lean pork, preferably seven points thin. If you select beef dumplings you should put more oil, because beef contains little oil and beef absorb oil, so it’s difficult to eat beef dumplings with less oil. And Chives and eggs, lamb spring onion. Lamb with parsley, chives shrimp eggs, chicken mushrooms are very tasty. There is a kind of dumpling that shrimps dumpling, their skin is Transparent. The skin is made from Wheat flour. But, any kiwi doesn’t touch to dumplings profoundly in Wanganui. They just know it is Chinese traditional food. Because of there aren’t many Chinese restaurants in wanganui. And Chinese restaurants import many ingredients from China. In New Zealand there is a few sorts the Chinese dumplings, because New Zealand is an island country and its environments can’t plant a variety of food, so the substances depend on importing lead to food’s price is very high. And New Zealanders don’t know how to make dumplings. They buy dumplings in the supermarkets in the fridges, such as Countdown, Pakinsave, New World. The food is put into fridges for a long time so that food is stale. However, such as large metropolitan Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and so on. There are many Chinese restaurants, we can eat many kinds of dumplings there.
Here in New Zealand our dumplings are mostly made from flour. Now technology around these days dumplings can be made anywhere in the world, including New Zealand, with machines producing the perfect environment for the dumplings to dry in. This takes away all of its traditional and original qualities. Here in New Zealand we can buy dumplings at all different stages of cooking. Dry, in packages that can last for years when kept in the right conditions. Fresh to boil and can only last for a few days in a refrigerator.
In conclusion, Dumplings have had a huge impact on New Zealand food. Dumplings are rich in carbohydrates. we can not cook a range of dumplings meals in New Zealand with varying flavors. The way we prepare and intake dumplings have taken away a lot of its original traditional qualities and in our country it has lost its meaning as a special dish.
2楼2014-07-01 17:14
