What is a typical meal for people in China?

Question

hi there, im doing a project on chinese cuisine and so i need to know what a typical meal would look like in china. So i need to know an example of a main dish, and some dishes that would accompany the main one.

Cheers

Answer 1

dogs and rice.

Answer 2

rice.

Answer 3

Chinese food:)

Rice, noodles, lots of veggies, some meat, soup

Answer 4

I'm not sure.. I havnt been to china.. but i grew up around asians..

I hate it when people say racist things.. like someone already did above.. its just plain stupid..

They eat healthy alot i guess.. most of them probably do..

Answer 5

Different china province have different typical meal. Some staple meal is rice and some is noodle

I think this site will have the infomation you want.

http://www.sallys-place.com/food/cuisine...

Good luck on your project

Answer 6

Soup, rice & dogs

Answer 7

Traditionally, most Chinese family meals feature four dishes and a soup, which is drunk throughout the meal and between mouthfuls of the other dishes.

Flavors should be based on the yin and yang concept of contrasts. For example, a typical meal might include deep-fried chicken (which is succulent), steamed fish (light), sweet and sour pork (rich and soft) and some water chestnuts (crisp). Dishes are shared, and the ideal menu would feature one dish per person, normally of chicken, fish, pork and a vegetable, generally accompanied by rice or noodles.

Starters are not usually a part of the traditional Chinese meal. If you do want a starter, select something light such as the Hot and Sour Soup. It lends itself to considerable variations, although the basic seasoning remains much the same. It can be left as a light, spicy vegetable-based soup, or you can add some pieces of chicken, pork or seafood to make it heartier.

Answer 8

Rice is actually the "main dish" and everything else are the "side dishes" (called 餸菜 in Chinese).  And we don't eat much "deep fried" anything, including the battered & fried "Sweet & Sour" dishes.  How many side dishes a family eats depends on their household income:  poor people, who reside in villages, can afford about 2-3 side dishes per meal, most middle class families in big cities can afford 3-4 dishes, and upper middle class to affluent families can afford 1 side dish per family member.  

Breakfast:

Regardless of provinces, we mostly eat rice porridge (called 粥 in Cantonese and 稀飯 in Mandarin) with or without "sides," such as preserved black eggs, salty duck eggs, or 油條 (a type of deep-fried bread made out of flour, sugar and salt). There is a different style of porridge for almost every province, varying in the "type" of rice used and how thick or thin the consistency and the different "sides." Some people drink milk, while others prefer soymilk (豆奶). The local "side stands" have more variety, as people pick up "to go" plain crepe rolls (粉腸), which is quite plain in taste, so there are different sauces to put on top of the rolls.

Lunch:

We eat rice with stir fry "side dishes," mostly pork (cheaper than all other meats) with vegetables. There are also "noodle bowl" options (wonton noodle bowls for the south and dumpling noodle bowls for north).

Dinner:

It's more rice with stir fry side dishes. Since pork is the cheapest of all meat, it is the most popular form of meat dish. Then the "grade" (per one's wallet capacity) goes up to chicken and fish and other seafood, for the more affluent families. The ideal "family meal" always include a healthy soup. As my grandmother used to always say, "A meal is never complete without a soup." It's just something the elders passed down from generation to generation. So we always cook some kind of soup that is taylored for maintaining our family members' health, such as vegetable soups for cleansing our digestive systems, cleansing the lungs from inhaling so much pollution, cleansing the liver, clearing acne for teens or for treating colds and flu. There's a soup for pretty much everything. We try to cook a different soup every day. The general rule includes meat (could be pork, chicken, or scrambled eggs, depending upon one's budget), vegetables, more vegetables, and a big bowl of soup (2 small rice-bowls per person). Eat lots and lots of rice to fill your stomach instead of eating so much "sides." If you have extra money, you can buy more meat and other "side dishes."

That's pretty much all we can afford from the poor to middle class families. Upper class families habitually dine with abalone, sea cucumbers, crab, fish, and even the renowned "bird's nest" soup for lunch and dinner (yet even they still eat rice porridge for breakfast, that's just tradition).

haven't been to an "open market" (街市 = "street markets," which resembles a flea market, with side stands for meats and vegetables) since my family migrated to the U.S., but people over there shop in these "open markets" daily instead of the supermarkets. The produce, vegetables and everything are fresher AND cheaper than supermarkets. So stay-at-home mothers or housewives just take a "vegetable basket" (a reusable plastic sack called 菜籃) out to the market every morning and buy just enough groceries for last for all 3 meals for the day. Then the next morning, the menu changes and we go "shopping" again. Although it doesn't have the best "smell" and the environment is super loud, at these "open markets," you can literally shop "price comparisons" and even haggle the prices down to what you're willing to pay. The thing I love----and miss----the most is the convenience of being able to buy everything "fresh" daily instead of storing so much food in the fridge, especially the vegetables.