The special place of chinese food in a world of varied cuisine

Chinese food is a very popular foreign cuisine in England as there are an enormous variety of dishes and flavours. The food is usually not spicy hot like Indian nor plainish like Italian. China's politics have played a fair part in shaping their food. This is mainly due to the fact that for a long-time many of the Chinese were very poor and therefore had to eat whatever they could to survive. The people worked …

…use soups as a "hot wash" to rinse the food down instead of water Chinese sauces are commonly used, but do not hold as higher prestige as French sauces are not set recipes. Chinese sauces contrast dishes for example, with a fish dish an egg sauce could be used unlike in France where a fish dish would have a fish sauce. The Chinese do not use many cold sauce as their food is always hot.