Food Categories
Chinese dishes
Food Ingredients
Dining Etiquette
Food Trivia
100
Pingguo, caomei, xiangjiao, li, and juzi are in this category
What is shuiguo?
100
A dish made with duck and served with scallion, hoisin sauce, and thin pancakes.
What is Beijing Kao Ya?
100
In Chinese, name the 4 ingredients of a ham, cheese, and tomato sandwich.
What is "huotui, rulao, fanqie, mianbao"?
100
A common Chinese toast that means Bottoms Up.
What is "Gan Bei"?
100
This pungent food is said to lower cholesterol and prevent blood clotting in patients with heart disease.
What is "da suan"?
200
Hu luobo, hua cai, qinghua cai and gailan are in this category.
What is shucai?
200
A spicy dish with chicken and peanuts
What is Gong Bao Ji Ding?
200
In Chinese, name the 3 essential ingredients in a chocolate and vanilla ice-cream cone.
What is "qiaokeli bingqilin, xiangcao bingqilin, tiantong".
200
It is considered rude to do this at the dinner table.
What is "playing with your chopsticks, pointing with your chopsticks, or banging your chopsticks against the glass"?
200
This food resembles human hair. It grows in the deserts of Mongolia.
What is "fa cai"?
300
Qishui, guozhi, cha, kafei and pijiu are in this category.
What is yinliao?
300
A seafood dish with a sweet and sour sauce
What is "tian suan yu" or "tang cu yu"?
300
In Chinese, name at least 4 ingredients needed to make a pizza pie.
What is "bisa bing pi, rulao, fanqie jiang, xiangchang, hujiao.
300
The proper place for a guest to be seated.
What is opposite the host, facing the door?
300
This food is often referred to as poor man's protein
What is doufu?
400
Bingqilin, dangao, binggan, and buding are in this category.
What is tiandian or dianxin?
400
A dish named for the flower like pattern created by an egg.
What is "dan hua tang"?
400
In Chinese, name 4 ingredients included in jiaozi xian'r?
What is zhurou, baicai, cong, dasuan, jiang, tang, jidan, zhusun?
400
It is considered un-Chinese if you don't do this at the end of a meal when dining with friends.
What is Fight for the Check?
400
What bird does bird's nest soup come from?
What is a swiftlet?
500
Niunai, rulao, suannai, and huangyou are in this category.
What is ruzhipin or naizhipin?
500
The name for this dish has the words "smells like fish" although there is no seafood in it.
What is "yuxiang rousi"?
500
In Chinese, name 3 essential ingredients needed for preparing gongbao jiding.
What is ji, lajiao, huasheng mi?
500
The Chinese words for "This time I'll treat, next time you treat"
What is "Zhei ci wo qing, xia ci ni qing"?
500
In China what does it mean when you say you are breaking your rice bowl?
What is "you are quitting your job" ?
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