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Thanks to the Chinese and their gastronomic curiosity, nowadays you find supermarket shelves brimming over with special and exotic goods. They come adorned in words that you don’t always understand, ready to popped into the microwave and in wacky science fiction type shapes. There are many different culinary traditions in China. They have a broad diet. They’ll eat anything and, they have also applied special attention to the presentation of served food since times of the emperors. Not only are they masters in the art of preparing food, but they have always shown a special ability at displaying, conserving and packaging food.
Lots of different foods and the different ways to preserve them that are considered by us as icons of modernity have existed in China for eons. Surimi, originally Chinese, is an example of what I’m on about: when fishermen had fish left over, they boiled them and made little balls to keep the fish meat from going off.
The Chinese are the kings of transforming and recycling food. They come up with many different dishes with the same ingredients. The end product is always worth savouring in the mouth. Unfortunately the same can’t be said about what happens to the stomach. The price to be paid, perhaps, for the copious use of flavour enhancers...