Chinese sweets 1

Chinese sweets 1

F/34/12112336  Miyoko Matsuzaki

    
       Hello, everyone! My name is Miyoko Matsuzaki. We are group3. We would like to talk about sweets.

       OUTLINE
       1 Asian sweets
       2 European sweets1
       3 Oceanic sweets
       4 European sweets2
       5 American sweets

        This is our outline. We have devided our presentasion into 5 parts.


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Out line

１　Chinese sweets1

２　Chinese sweets2

３   Korean sweets1

４　Korean sweets2

５　Sweets　（China+Korea）

 

 First of all, I would like to talk about Chinese sweets this time. China is growing rapidly. In particular, they are economy, politics, etc. Now, China is not too much to say the center in the world. There is long history in China. So, there is rich gastronomic culture in China. Chinese food is popular in Japan. Chinatown is located in Yokohama. I often have a meal in Chinatown.

   

 

 A Chinese-style almond jelly is famous for Chinese sweets. A Chinese-style almond jelly is arranged variously and sold even in Japan. I can eat a very high quality Chinese-style almond jelly at a convenience store now. So, a Chinese-style almond jelly is delicious, I like it very much.

Apricot kernels are the seeds of an apricot. Although the soybean was not used, since the form resembled tofu, it was named the Chinese-style almond jelly. If it is called tofu, it tends to take in the meaning of decaying beans, but in China, the character "腐" does not mean "It rots”. The character "腐" means "solidifying" and "a soft solid." Therefore, tofu meaning is "the food which hardened beans."

 A Chinese-style almond jelly is medical food with not a mere dessert but the medicinal effect. It is effective in making mind settle down as Chinese medicine. It is used as a throat candy even in Japan.

 In 1644 when agar was invented, all the materials of the present Chinese-style almond jelly gathered. It is thought that the Chinese-style almond jelly by the present agar was made after 1644Moreover, probably the birthplace of a Chinese-style almond jelly is Guangdong.

 

    

 

     The deep fried sesame balls are also famous in China. There are various kinds of "餡". It is wrapped in dough, sesame is sprinkled and it fries in oil. They are the popular sweets eaten as one of the desserts after a meal in China. In China, it is called the "芝麻球”.  It is soft and savory dim sum. Dim sum is a Chinese between-meal snack. This was introduced into Japan in the Muromachi period. The name of "dim sum" has the opinion of having come from Zen words "sukibara（空心）ni syousyoku wo tenn zuru."

 

The explanation about Chinese sweets is finished. The Chinese sweets 2 will be written in the following blog. Thank you for seeing my blog.