The Alphabet Game: Dishes using Za'atar

[buckytom]

China's a big country with a remarkable culinary legacy. How about Chinese food, in all it's forms?

 

[Morning Glory]

OK - if someone come up with an A, that is! I'm stuck already...

 

[Yorky]

OK - if someone come up with an A, that is! I'm stuck already...

Ants Climbing Trees (or Ants Climbing a Tree).

Ma Yi Shang Shu (蚂蚁上树)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...bing-a-tree/&usg=AOvVaw29vqJZapEzoW-mMHHUEWhG

 

[Morning Glory]

Ants Climbing Trees (or Ants Climbing a Tree).

Bravo!

And in keeping: Buddha jumps over the wall

“Buddha jumps over the wall” is a Chinese dish originated in the period of Emperor Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty and has a history of 200 years. This dish contains 18 kinds of main Ingredients and more than 10 kinds of minor integration. Its raw materials are chickens, ducks, pork tripe, hooves, tendons, ham, chicken’s and duck’s gizzard, the shark fin, sea cucumber, abalone, scallops, fish belly, pigeon eggs, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, solen, etc.

https://chinesecuisinestories.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/origin-of-buddha-jumps-over-the-wall/

 

[buckytom]

Char siu

 

[Morning Glory]

Dim Sum

 

[buckytom]

Egg roll

 

[Morning Glory]

Five Spice Powder

 

[Yorky]

Gung Pao.

 

[Yorky]

And, sorry, I must post one of my favourites:

Hainanese Chicken Rice.

I'll shut up now.

 

[Morning Glory]

I've searched high and low and can find nothing. Best I can come up with is...

Instant Noodles

 

[Yorky]

Jiaozi dumplings.

 

[Morning Glory]

Kai kou xiao (fried sesame cake)

 

[Morning Glory]

'L' is next.... anyone?

 

[Yorky]

Lice?

No, seriously - lotus stem soup (popular here also).