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Travelling in China, what to eat is a big concern to Indian travelers. So what can you eat in China? what are best food to eat in China? There are so many delicious food for Indian travelers in China, and you will be greatly satisfied with food in China.
Here we introduce what to eat in China for Indian travelers in detail, and recommended food to eat in China are: Chinese food, Indian food, Muslim food, Vegan food, East Asian food and western food.
For Indians who like to try Chinese food, we highly recommend you best Chinese food. Travelling in China, it is the best chance to eat authentic Chinese food for most of you. Unlike Indian food, Chinese food has no curry in the recipe, but they are also delicious. Here, we list top food to try in China for you.
► Peking Duck
Peking Duck or Beijing Duck is a very famous dish in China, loved by Chinese people and also foreign travelers. Chinese people like to eat roasted duck, and different places have different cooking or eating method. Peking Duck is a dish of roasted duck, and also the most famous one with delicious flavor. Chinese people visiting Beijing would also like to eat Pecking Duck.
How to eat Peking Duck? Duck meat is cut into slices, dip the sauce on a slice of duck meat, and some vegetable, then use a wrapper made by flour to wrap the duck meat and vegetable together.
► Chinese Noodles
Chinese noodles is a kind of staple food in China, popular in the whole nation. China has a variety of noodles, the main three classes are noodles with soup, noodles with no soup, and cold noodles. Among noodles with soup, Lanzhou Beef Noodles is the most well-known one. Lanzhou Beef Noodles is Muslim food, suitable to all people, and it has the aroma of beef, green onion, and coriander, totally teasing your taste buds.
Noodles with no soup has many kinds, including Potato and Beef Noodles, Tomato and Egg Noodles. Famous local noodles are Beijing Zhajiang Noodles, Chongqing Noodles, Sichuan Dan Dan Noodles. Cold noodles is especially made for hot summer days to improve the flavor of noodles.
► Xiao Long Bao
Xiao Long Bao is a national snack and food for breakfast, and also a kind of bun in China with a thin flour-made wrapper and various fillings. Xiao Long Bao is steamed in a bamboo basket, and also served to diners with a bamboo basket. The stuffing or filling could be fresh minced meat, crab meat, vegetable, etc. Please try to eat Xiao Long Bao, you will love it.
► Chinese Hot Pot
Chinese Hot Pot sweeps the nation, and popular to Chinese people and also overseas students in China, especially young people. People eat Chinese Hot Pot in four seasons, and the peak is in winter. Whether you like spicy or not, you could eat Chinese Hot Pot, because it has spicy one and not-spicy one.
Beijing-style Chinese Hot Pot , Chongqing-style Chinese Hot Pot and Sichuan-style Chinese Hot Pot are the most famous ones. Chongqing-style Chinese Hot Pot and Sichuan-style Chinese Hot Pot are almost the same in flavor, and tend to be the spicy one, while Beijing-style Chinese Hot Pot is usually made with no chili, and the meat is mainly mutton.
► Cantonese Cuisine
Cantonese cuisine is a big kind of Chinese cuisine, and you could find it most decent hotel restaurants, cooked by professional chefs, like 4 star hotels and 5 star hotel. Cantonese cuisine is famous for morning tea, snacks and main courses. Cantonese morning tea is to drink cups of tea and eat desserts, and it has a variety of exquisitely made desserts or Cantonese dim sum, such as Cheung Fun, Har Gow(Shrimp Dumpling).
Among the main courses, the top famous Cantonese dishes are Barbequed Pork(Char Siu), White Cut Chicken, Braised Abalone, Winter Melon Soup, Cantonese Wenchang Chicken, Cantonese Sweet and Sour Pork, etc.
► Sichuan Cuisine
Sichuan cuisine is a fashionable cuisine in China, famous for its spicy and heavy flavor, which is usually cooked with seasonings like chili, Sichuan pepper, douban paste, pickled pepper, and pickled ginger.
The most famous Sichuan cuisine is Sichuan Hot Pot, and the top Sichuan dishes as main courses are Twice-cooked Pork(Hui Guo Rou), Kung Pao Chicken, Sliced Beef and Ox Tongue in Chilli Sauce, Mapo Doufu, Sichuan Boiled Beef(Shui Zhui Beef), Bobo Chicken, etc.
► Street Food
Street Food is a big part of modern Chinese dining culture, and Chinese people like to go to food streets and try various delicious food in the evening. As an Indian traveler in China, you should really try street food.
Street food is teemed with street snacks, and Chinese barbeque(Shao Kao). Most famous street food in China are egg tart, Cheung Fun, fried noodles, wonton, streamed dumpling, etc.
For Indians who have special request on eating Indian food, vegan food or halal food, you could go to Indian restaurants in China. In big cities like Beijing, Xian, Chengdu, Guilin, Hangzhou and Shanghai, there are Indian restaurants available. Those Indian restaurants are usually owned by Indian business men, and Indian food is cooked by Indian chefs, therefore you could also eat authentic Indian food in China.
Indian food served in Indian restaurants in China includes rice & biryani, naan(like garlic naan, butter naan), curry( like Mutton curry, beef curry), salad & raita, soup, meat dishes, juice & drinks, Indian desserts. The price of Indian food in China is not expensive, and the average cost of having an Indian meal is from 80 RMB to 200 RMB. The price of naan is from 15 RMB to 30 RMB, and the price of curry would be from 30 RMB to 80 RMB.
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Muslim food and vegan food in China are niche food, and only few people are Muslims or vegans. But you could also have Muslim food and vegan food available in China, especially in cities like Beijing, Xian and Shanghai. Muslim restaurants in China are run by Muslims in China, and offer authentic Muslim food in China. Muslims are living in everywhere in China, though most of them lives in the northern of China, like Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, and Shaanxi.
Vegetarian food is targeted at vegans, and vegetarian restaurants in China grows in fast speed, and you could find many vegetarian restaurants in cities like Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong. Those vegetarian food are great in flavor and beautiful in shape. For Indian travelers in China who are vegans, vegan food won't be a problem.
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In China, there are many restaurants offering western food and East Asian food, like French restaurants, and Thai restaurants. Like Indian food, western food and East Asian food are more common in big cities in China. But for western food, KFC and Mcdonald's are everywhere in China, from city to city , from county to county.
Popular East Asian food in China are Thai food, South Korean food, Japanese food, and Indian food. Thai food also have curries, and vegetable food for vegans, and it could be an alternative to Indian food.
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