Anglický čtenář v Doubravníku [19]

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About Chinese way of eating with the chopsticks.

As the word about us is always getting nearer to us, we may happen to be in the Chinese restaurant some day. For the case like that it may be of some use to learn how to eat using the Chinese chopsticks. These eating utensils are applied because the use of it is very comfortable to eat the Chinese foodstuffs which are always sliced or cubed. At the same time you will get to know the terminology about the way how to prepare Chinese dishes.

Chinese cooking uses most meats, poultry, fish and vegetables known to the Western palate but also include some exotic ingredients. Due to varying weather conditions, environment, tastes and products, there are about 56 regional styles of food in China. There are also numerous methods of cooking such as baking, boiling, braising, deep-frying, double-boiling, poaching, sautéing, scalding, shallow-frying, simmering, smoking, steaming, stir-frying, barbecuing and blanching that produce many varieties of mouth-watering dishes.

How to Use Chopsticks?

(A) Rest one chopstick on the 3rd and 4th fingers with thumb on top of the middle part of the chopstick

(B) Hold the other chopstick on the index and middle fingers, by using the tip of the thumb to keep the chopstick in place.

(C) Level Chopsticks, pick up food with movement of the upper chopstick, keep the lower chopstick stationary at all times

Good luck and good appetite!

rubriku vede: PhDr.Tomášek Pavel CSc.