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Treating yourself to Chinese Food?

Chinese food is famous worldwide for its delicious taste and variety. It is perfect as a food because of its nutrition, colour, shape and appearance. Rice wine is the most popular dish in China. China is also the home of tea.

Vegetarian dishes

 Asparagus and Mushrooms with Black Bean Sauce, Deep fried Bean Curd (tofu), Fried Bamboo shoots, Marinated Carrot Shreds, Stuffed Apples, Vegetarian Cabbage Rolls, Vegetarian Chow Mein, Vegetarian Ham, Vegetarian Eight Treasures, Vegetarian Wontons, Fried Rice

Chicken Dishes

Bang Bang Chicken, Bourbon Chicken, Creamy Curried Chicken, Chicken Chow Mein, Chicken with Broccoli, Garlic Chicken, Steamed Chicken, Spicy Szechuan Chicken, Sesame Chicken, Moo Goo Gai Pan (Fresh Mushrooms with Sliced Chicken)

Beef Dishes

Beef Chop Suey, Beef Stew, Beef with Broccoli, Beef with Satin Eggs, Boiled Beef,  Braised Beef with Bamboo Shoots, Deep Fried Beef or Mutton Rolls, Ginger Beef, Pepper Steak, Sauteed Beef Strips, Stewed Beef Strips, Sesame Beef Filet

Egg Dishes

Egg Dumplings, Egg Pancake, Egg Rolls, Pancake with Egg Filling, Stir-Fried Egg Floss, Steamed Egg Custard

Noodles Dishes

Crossing the Bridge Noodles, Noodles with Fried Bean-Pasta Sauce, Shrimp Noodles, Lo Mein, Peddler’s hot and Spicy Noodles (Dandan Noodles) 

Snacks

Chicken Wings, Boiled Dumplings, Crab Rangoon, Chinese New Year Cakes, Egg Bubble Soup, Five Spice Flavoured Spareribs, Hot and Sour Soup, Spring Roll, Stir-fried Milk, Sweet and Sour Spareribs, Sweetened Dough Twists, white-Boiled Pork with Mashed Garlic

Drinks

Chilled Berry Tea, Bubble Tea, China Girl, China White-1, China White-2, China Village Mai Tai, Chinese Cocktail, Chinese Mary, Double Berry Martini, Hot Tea Mix, Iced Apple Tea, Iced Tea, Wong Tong Cocktail, Salty Soyabean Milk Soup

Sauces

Brown Sauce, Chilli Sauce, Chinese Dry Sauce, Chinese BBQ Sauce, Hoisin Dipping Sauce, Hot Garlic Sauce, Lobster Sauce, Oyster Sauce, Peanut sauce, Plum Sauce, Sesame Vinegary, Spiced Pepper Salt Sauce, Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce with Brown Sugar, Sweet and Sour Sauce with Black Rice Vinegar, Szechuan Chilli Sauce

Soups and Stew

Chinese Cabbage Soup with Dried Shrimps, Egg Drop Soup, Stewed Beef Soup, Sparerib Soup, Stewed Chicken drumsticks, White Fungus Soup, West Lake Watercress Soup, Vegetarian Country stew, White Gourd Soup with Dried Shrimps

Chinese Dessert

Almond Cookies, Chinese Steamed Cake, Mandarin Orange Pudding, Sago Pudding with Red Bean, Bow Ties, Chop Suey Cake, Chinese New Year Cakes| Nian Gao

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Going out for Chinese ?

Culture of China

Chinese Culture is one of the world’s oldest and intricate civilizations with an ancient history of over 5,000 years. It covers a huge geographical area with traditional changes between cities, towns and countries and each sections sometimes divided into individual sub-cultures. The Culture of China is broadly denotes the common cultural foundation.

People of China

In China, many ethnic groups have existed but Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group. These groups have been incorporated within their neighboring ethnicities and many groups with the identity of Han have kept an individual linguistic and regional cultural tradition. Zhonghua Minzu is a Chinese term that is used to explain the view of Chinese nationalism in general and the traditional cultural identity within the community is recognized by the family name.

Languages Spoken in China

In China, languages mainly belong to the family of Sino-Tibetan, spoken by 29 ethnicities. Spoken Chinese has been compiled from a number of Chinese dialects since long. The most spoken languages are Mandarin(spoken by 70% population), Yue(Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Gan, Min, Xiang and Hakka. Non-Sinitic languages included Zhuang(Thai), Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur(Turkic), Hmong and Korean are widely spoken by ethnic minorities. In the Ming Dynasty standard spoken Chinese was nationalized, but it was until the Republic of China in the 20^th century, that there was any positive result in the idea of promoting a common language in China.

The standard of the written language was Classical Chinese being used for thousands of years in China, although in the ancient times it was reserved for the erudite scholars.

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Indian Culture: A salad bowl of delicacies…

India is an independent nation in South Asia. Its culture has been created through a long history and is the combination of customs and traditions of both migrants and raiders, even while protecting its ancient heritage from the Indus Valley Civilization. Existing for more than five millinnea, its large variety of culture habitual, customs, languages and traditions shows it’s co-mingling. Many religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism have mainly started in India and then spread all over the world. Their culture was influenced by the Parsian, Arabic, Turkish and English cultures.

India’s religions and the multi-coloured traditions were shaped with those mixtures have inspired South East Asia and other countries of the world.

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Namaste India !

Official Name: Republic of India

When to go: All the seasons are good:)

Transportation Details:

By Air

Domestic Airports in India: Palam Airport(New Delhi), Amritsar Airport (Amritsar), Srinagar Airport (Srinagar), Jammu Airport (Jammu), Kullu Manali (Bhuntar, Kullu), Chandigarh Airport(Chandigarh), Sanganer Airport (Jaipur), Agra Civil Enclaves, Kheria (Agra), Amausi Airport(Lucknow), Varanasi Airport (Varanasi), Shimla Airport (Shimla), Jolly Grant Airport(Dehradun), Pant Nagar Airport(Pant Nagar), C.A. Kanpur (Kanpur), Jodhpur Airport (Jodhpur), Santa Cruz Domestic Airport (Mumbai), Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport (Ahmedabad), Goa Airport (Vasco da Gama), C. E. Bhuj (Bhuj), Kandla Airport (Gandhi Dham, Kutch), Jamnagar Airport (Jamnagar), Rajkot Airport(Rajkot), Porbandar Airport (Porbandar), Keshod Airport (Keshod), Bhavnagar Airport(Bhavnagar), Calicut Airport (Vadodara), Aurangabad Airport(Aurangabad), Bombay Airport (Juhu, Bombay), Pune Airport(Pune).

International Airports in India: Indira Gandhi International Airport (New Delhi), Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport (Mumbai), Begumpet Airport (Hyderabad), Calicut International Airport (Calicut), Chennai International Airport(Chennai), Cochin International Airport(Cochin), HAL Airport(Banglore), Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (Kolkata), Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (Ahmedabad), Trivandrum International Airport (Trivandrum), Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport (Nagpur), Amausi Airport (Lucknow), Mangalore International Airport (Mangalore).

Quick Facts

Total area: 3,287,590 sq km

Population (2007 est.): 1,129,866,154

Capital and largest city (2003 est.): New Delhi (capital) and Mumbai (largest city)

Monetary unit/Currency: Indian rupee (INR)

Time zone: IST (UTC+5:30)

Internet country code: .in

Calling code: +91

Geographic coordinates: 20 00N, 77 00 E

Climate: varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north

Business Information:

• Major Industries: chemicals, food processing, textiles, steel, transportation equipment, mining, machinery, petroleum, software
• Exports:
• Natural Resources: coal, chromite, diamonds, iron ore, bauxite, manganese, mica, titanium ore, natural gas, petroleum, limestone, arable land
• Agriculture: cotton, rice, wheat, jute, tea, sugarcane, oilseed, potatoes, cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry, fish

Other Data

President: Pratibha Patil

Independence Day: 15 August (from UK)

Languages: English is the most important language for national, political and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi and Urdu

Religion: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% 

Right to vote: 18years and above.