ITAL376 Noodles

This is an episode of a British guy traveling in Beihai, China. Beihai is a city in Guangxi province and it is close to Vietnam. Stu introduced the building in Beihai, which can reflects the Chinese maritime history. Beihai is also the earliest departure port of Silk Road. Stu tried authentic Beihai food such as sand worms, Xiezai noodles, and fried ice! It is a very informative video!

This article cites a study comparing the baking properties of four different cheeses used in making pizzas. The study used software to perform image analysis on these cheeses and quantify certain qualities, determining that mozzarella's properties prove superior for pizza-making. It's always refreshing to see science catch up with something we already knew deep down, isn't it?

This is a long life noodle recipe with pictures showing steps of making it. Hong

This is a good introduction to American Chinese food. Enjoy! Hong

This is the story I mentioned in class. It really highlights the links between noodle dishes and our emotions and how noodles and noodle restaurants evoke memories of moments in our past by triggering all of our senses! Hope you enjoy reading it! Hong

Mooncakes are a traditional food that Chinese eat during the mid-autumn festival. When I was a child, my mom would sell mooncakes when she and my dad were in school. I still remember using our hand cranked grinder and old pressure cooker we used to make the red bean paste. The documentary we watched for Thursday was absolutely right. You never forget the traditional foods your family made when you were a child.

Chinese cuisine enjoys high fame throughout the world. Not only does it have a reputation of being delicious, it is also considered an art form in its own right. Chinese cooking involves looking at the combination of the ingredients as well as paying particular attention to the complex process and equipment involved.

This is a video of a Chinese man making the long life noodles. When I visited China last summer, I saw some locals making these noodles on the street. There was an old man sitting next to the young men making the noodles and he told me that this was the same recipe their family had used in their noodle restaurant for 30 years.

This is beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing! Hong

This is an article about the small country of Taiwan's famous noodle dish, niu rou mian. Get it whenever you can

Looking down the aisles of an Asian market, one thing's clear: there's no shortage of noodles. There's a noodle for every cuisine, country, dish, and texture. Whatever the category, there's a perfect noodle for the job. With that in mind, allow me to introduce a brief taxonomy of Asian noodles.

This article shares some interesting point about Chines eating culture. Read through it and you could learn more about Chinese culture

We started as hunters and gatherers. Now we go through the McDonald's drive-thru. Might still be beef, but the methods of cooking and definitely of obtaining the food have evolved dramatically.

Like how the sentences we say and write are influenced by underlying rules of grammar, so too is the food system influenced by underlying constructs.

I learn best in analogies and infographics so here are a few that i found with regard to the functionalist, structuralist and developmental approaches to the human food system.

I have watched several episodes about a bite of china. It is just a mouth watering show. So I found this link that introduces the aesthetic beauty of the great Chinese documentary, hope you guys enjoy it.

There are seven episodes in this beautiful documentary series named A Bite of China. Episode 2 is assigned.