Guangdong Province has been important in Chinese history as a major international trading center with much foreign influence and presence. It is China's most populous province with and estimated to million people in For tourists, the huge cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen are the main tourist highlights with attractions such as supertall towers and the shopping.
See more on Guangdong Maps. If you are planning a trip to Guangdong and want to know more details, please contact us. Guangdong Province is China's center for commodities manufacturing. Especially in Guangzhou and Shenzhen , inexpensive electronics, clothing, computers, and thousands of other products are on sale in the huge markets and thousands of shops. You will find everything you are interested in, from bustling wholesale markets to luxury malls and from handicraft souvenirs to famous brands of clothing.
See more on Guangzhou shopping and Shenzhen Shopping. It has the characteristics of clearness, freshness, coolness, tenderness, and smoothness. As the majority of Chinese restaurants around the world were opened by Cantonese-speaking Guangdong or Hong Kong chefs, Cantonese cuisine is the most popular Chinese cuisine in the world.
Cantonese cuisine uses a great variety of ingredients including everything from snakes to cats. People jokingly say that in Guangdong, everything that walks, flies, crawls, or swims is edible. Contact us for a cantonese food tour. Cantonese is the third most spoken language in Canada, the third most spoken language in the United States, and the fourth most spoken language in Australia.
It is spoken by an estimated million people worldwide. Contact us to custimize a tour for the Landmark Constructions in Guangzhou, or check out our popular Guangzhou tours. Apart from Mandarin and English that are taught in schools, there are three major language families in Guangdong: Cantonese, the Teochew Chaoshan dialect, and the Hakka dialect.
Cantonese is spoken by around 67 million people in Guangdong. On the one hand, Cantonese inherits and retains some characteristics of ancient Chinese, on the other hand, it also absorbs some southern dialects, these dialects are quite different from Mandarin, Chaoshan dialect and Hakka dialect.
The Chaoshan area dialect is mainly spoken in the southeastern area of Guangdong around Chaozhou and Shantou. Join our 3-Day Chaozhou and Shantou Tour to expirence the special culture in this area.
Compared with Teochew Chaoshan dialect, Hakka, another minority language in Guangdong, is closer to Cantonese, and is concentrated around Meizhou Mei County in the northeast, though the most famous Hakka people live across the border in Fujian. Guangdong has a humid subtropical to tropical climate marked by high temperatures and plentiful rainfall. It has long, hot, wet summers and short, mild, dry winters.
See more on Guangdong Weather. Guangdong Province is in the southeast of China, and Guangzhou, its capital city, serves as the major transportation hub for south China, with Shenzhen an increasingly close second. As one of the most prosperous provinces in China, Guangdong Province is conveniently accessible by air, railway, highway, and water. There are many airports in Guangdong Province.
Guangzhou, the regional capital of Guangdong Province, is the world capital of this style of cooking. In today's program, Liu Yan will introduce you to Cantonese cuisine and other local food varieties in Guangzhou. Surrounded by mountains and facing the sea, favorable geographical conditions have provided abundant resources necessary for the diversified food varieties in Guangdong since ancient times.
The rich varieties of fruit and animal resources from the mountains along with marine and freshwater products contribute to the rich varieties of local food. The most famous food in Guangzhou is, of course, Cantonese cuisine, renowned both inside and outside China. Restaurants that provide authentic Cantonese cuisine as well as other well-known food varieties from around the country can be found throughout Guangzhou. Reputed as China's finest cuisine, it has absorbed the strong points of other cuisines, but is diverse and delicate.
A modern saying has it that "they eat everything with four legs except chairs and everything that flies except airplanes. In fact, Cantonese cuisine includes almost all edible foods in addition to the staples of pork, beef and chicken, snakes, snails, chicken feet and duck tongues. Cantonese menus are long and can often confuse a diner who is trying to select different dishes.
There is a wide variety of dishes made from meats, poultry, fish, seafood, and vegetables from which to choose. They vary with the change of seasons and conform to modern dietetics. An emphasis on preserving the natural flavor of the food is the hallmark of Cantonese cuisine. The Cantonese people are very finicky when it comes to the freshness of their food.
Even the amount of time taken for a live, swimming fish to be placed on a plate is kept to a minimum. As cooking time is short, the flavors and nutritional value of the food are preserved. Vegetable and fish dishes are often steamed without using too much oil.
Fresh live seafood is a specialty of Cantonese cuisine. Seasonings are varied and well- coordinated. Sauces made from ingredients such as ginger, garlic, onion, vinegar, and sugar are paired up with different dishes to enhance their flavor. Somewhat lighter than most other Chinese regional cuisines, Cantonese dishes are prepared carefully and exquisitely.
Quick-fried or stewed, they turn out to be fresh, crisp, tender, slippery but not salty with all flavors and tastes. Another notable Cantonese specialty is slow-cooked soup.
The soup is usually a clear broth prepared by simmering meat and other ingredients under low heat for several hours. Chinese herbs or medicines are often used as ingredients. Slow-cooked soup is a regular dish in Cantonese families as most believe in its ability to heal and strengthens one's health. Chen Fang is a retired government employee and a housewife in Guangzhou. It's a kind of food therapy that we practice in day-to-day situations.
Yum cha, or literally "drinking tea" is the term used to describe the entire dining experience. It is usually served in the mornings until noontime at Chinese restaurants and at specialty dim sum eateries where typical dishes are available throughout the day. Zhao Gang is a tourist from northeast China.
Cantonese cuisine is diversified and delicate. Cantonese dishes are my favorites among all the regional food varieties. Cantonese food is one of my favorites too. It enjoys great prestige among the great varieties of Chinese cuisine. In China, though, it is certainly not everyone's first choice, but no one would say he dislikes Cantonese food with its well-balanced flavors that are never excessively sweet or greasy.
Among them, Guangzhou has already been listed among the first group of famous historical and cultural cities and Star Lake in Zhaoqing has come under state protection. A Land of fish and rice well-known in China, the City of Guangzhou has a history more than two thousand years.
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Every corner seems packed with high-rise buildings, elevated highways, overpasses, vehicles, and lots and lots of people - it feels like a city that is about to explode. National Bureau of Statistics of China. Guangdong province. China Today. Falkenheim, V. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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