some very good translations of Chinese dish from internet:
1.北京烤鴨 roast Beijing duck
2.辣子雞丁 saute diced chicken with hot peppers
3.宮爆雞丁 saute diced chicken with peanuts
4.紅燒鯉魚 braised common carp
5.茄汁蝦仁 saute fish slices with bamboo shoots
6.涮羊肉 instant boiled sliced mutton
7.糖醋里脊 pork fillets with sweet&sour sauce
8.炒木須肉 saute shredded pork with eggs&black fungus
9.榨菜肉絲湯 pork with Sichuan cabbage soup
10.生炒肚片 saute fish maw slices
11.回鍋肉 saute pork in hot sauce
12.糖醋排骨 saute chops with sweet&sour sauce
13.家常豆腐 fride beancurd with sliced pork&pepper
14.醋溜白菜 saute cabbage&pepper in sweet&sour sauce
15.魚香茄子 saute eggplant with fish flavor
16.麻婆豆腐 stwed beancurd with minced pork in pepper sauce
17.韭菜炒蛋 saute leek sprouts&eggs
魚香茄子 saute eggplant with fish flavor
糖醋里脊 pork fillets with sweet&sour sauce
宮爆雞丁 saute diced chicken with peanuts
松仁玉米 Corn with Pine Nuts
燒餅Clay oven rolls
油條Fried bread stick 韭菜盒Fried leek dumplings 水餃Boiled dumplings
蒸餃Steamed dumplings 饅頭Steamed buns 飯團(tuán)Rice and vegetable roll
蛋餅Egg cakes 皮蛋100-year egg 咸鴨蛋Salted duck egg 豆?jié){Soybean milk
飯類 稀飯Rice porridge 白飯Plain white rice 油飯Glutinous oil rice
糯米飯Glutinous rice 鹵肉飯Braised pork rice 蛋炒飯F(tuán)ried rice with egg
地瓜粥Sweet potato congee
面類 混沌面Wonton & noodles 刀削面Sliced noodles 麻辣面Spicy hot noodles
麻醬面Sesame paste noodles 烏龍面Seafood noodles
榨菜肉絲面Pork, pickled mustard green noodles
牡蠣細(xì)面Oyster thin noodles
板條Flat noodles 米粉Rice noodles
炒米粉Fried rice noodles 冬粉Green bean noodle
湯類 魚丸湯Fish ball soup 肉丸湯Meat ball soup 蛋花湯Egg & vegetable soup 蛤蠣湯Clams soup 牡蠣湯Oyster soup 紫菜湯Seaweed soup
酸辣湯Sweet & sour soup 混沌湯Wonton soup 豬腸湯Pork intestine soup
肉羹湯Pork thick soup 魷魚湯Squid soup 花枝羹Squid thick soup
With the Maslows theory of needs. Food is just the basic need of the people. If Chinese reach the highest need of the people: self-actualization, he should focus on science and technology creation rather than food. Science creation is high needs of people, while cuisine development is a low level of need of society. Surely enough, the agriculture is also need science and technology. Why not focus on agriculture sciences or agriculture technology improvement like Yuan Longping did(hybrid rice)? The American Indian's found the potatoes, corn, pepper and so on. The innovation of finding pepper is definitely higher than the innovation of using pepper in a kind of cuisine such as Sichuan Food or Hunan Food that used many pepper. "Chinese food-Sichuan Food- is very delicious", a U.S. friend of mine told me her experience in Chongqing city of Sichuan Province. But if Chinese create the computer rather than a food, I think this creation is more valuable. And if China create potato, the value is higher than changing the name from "hot and sour potato silk" to "hot pepper with sliced potato". On the other hand, Chinese should not show her "creation" by eating snakes of all kinds, bear's foot, monkey's brain while the monkey is still living, pangolins and "create" a Chinese name of a special cuisine which is difficult to translate in English. Do you think cooking a different species is a creation of a new cuisine? Then there are millions of species in the world, and so many species in the world is disappearing just because people eat them, and the Chinese cuisine is famous for this eating style: eat everything. Eat simple rather than eat complicate can lower humankind's burden of the natural biologic chain. The last , if you think Chinese food is so delicious, why Chinese is also famous in the world for her tradition of leftover both for the wealth or poor?
But one thing I think Chinese cuisine is good, eat all parts of the animals. For example, eat the pig: not only the pork, but all the inner organs of the pig, the blood of the pig and so on. The world need to learn it from China.
