Cheap Chinese Food
Oriental cuisine is ancient and diverse, and cheap Chinese food is not the exception. Traditional Chinese food recipes come from one of the eight Chinese culinary traditions, namely Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Szechuan, and Zhejiang. Characteristic ingredients used in this cuisine include rice, beef, noodles, soybeans, wheat, and assorted vegetables and herbs. They are employed to make well known dishes such fried rice, beef noodle soup, ramen, kung pao chicken, Pecking duck, sweet and sour pork, wonton, dim sum, hot and sour soup, congee, Zhangcha duck, mapo dofu, fuqi feipian, twice cooked pork, Zha jiang mian, char siu, west lake fish in vinegar sauce, and many more.While many people are accustomed to Chinese restaurants and of course Chinese takeout, some cheap Chinese food recipes can be recreated at the quiet of comfort of home, and without too much expenditure. Edamame Lo Mein, for instance, is ready in forty minutes and requires a few ingredients such as whole-wheat spaghetti, frozen edamame, scallions, oyster sauce, rice-wine vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, red pepper, canola oil, and carrots. A Chinese pork and vegetable hot pot, on the other hand, takes longer to prepare, but the nutritive value of this cheap food makes it worth the wait.
In general, Chinese food tends to be more affordable, even in restaurants, than other cuisines, like French and Italian. On the other hand, the variety of flavors and ingredients makes it an ever present alternative. A testament to this versatility is the fact that there exist several variations, including American, Canadian, Caribbean, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Pakistani and Peruvian. This is because ingredients are not hard to come by, especially in terms of price, so there really is no wonder that there is cheap Chinese food as far as the eye can see in the cuisine landscape.
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