Full HD 1080
Dolby Digital, Stereo
Language:Cantonese, Mandarin, English
Subtitles : Traditional / Simplified
Chinese,
English
Running time 350 minutes
Synopsis :
A bite of China explores how Chinese food
influences
people's lives in ritual, moral, and interest.
The 7-
episode high definition documentary series
covers 60
locations throughout China,featuring not only a
diversity of special Chinese food and a series
of
elements that form the food with unique Chinese
cultural
temperament, but also learn the delicacy and
the long
standing and well-established Chinese Diet
Culture.
Episode 1 《Gift of Nature》
China is endowed with very rich and varied
natural
landscapes which nurture and preserve widely
different
species of food sources. Traveling through the
four
seasons, we'll discover these abundant gifts
from nature
─ matsutake,bamboo shoots, lotus roots and
much more.
Episode 2 《The Story of Staple Food》
Chinese people living in different areas
enjoy
absolutely different but rich staple food. From
the
south to the north, the diverse staple foods
including
buns, dumplings, noodles and even sweet rice
cakes
provide energy for human bodies and enrich the
lives of
the Chinese.
Episode 3 《Inspiration of Transformation》
With their understanding of food, the
Chinese are
always looking for an inspiration for change.
With
imaginative methods, simple food ingredients
like soy
bean, rice, milk are transformed to dishes with
unimaginable amazing tastes ─ hairy tofu, wine,
milk
curd, soy sauce.
Episode 4 《The Taste of Time》
Time is a friend of food, and also its
enemy.
Traditional Chinese preservative techniques may
create
different, and even tenderer flavours through
salting,
air-drying, stewing or smoking procedures. From
Hong
Kong's famous cured meat & shrimp paste, Miao
ethnic
groups' souse fish to Shanghai's drunken crab
and
Taiwan's mullet roe, time plays the key role in
shaping
the peerless tastes.
Episode 5 《Secrets in Kitchen》
Besides food itself, there is something
more
important:the control of heat, seasonings and
knives.Too
many secrets are there to be discovered in
Chinese
kitchens. The entire whole pig steamed in a
large wooden
cupboard, the hundreds of bean curd shreds
sculptured by
knives ─ even the secret is revealed, there is
no way to
imitate such advanced techniques.
Episode 6 《The Equilibrium of Tastes》
The word “taste” encapsulates infinite
possibilities
─ from gustatory and olfactory experiences to
feelings
incited by things way beyond food.Sweet sugar
onion,
salty sea salt, sour Zhenjiang vinegar, spicy
Sichuan
cuisine, savory flavor from seaweed ─ The
equilibrium of
tastes is the Chinese's philosophy of cooking
and
living.
Episode 7 《Paddy Fields Forever》
Chinese people take great advantage of
every inch of
ground they stand on to create food. In
mountainous
areas, glutinous rice can be grown on terrace
fields;
under the deep water of Yellow Sea, rich marine
life
like sea cucumbers, abalones and sea urchins
can be
raised; on the rooftop of a Beijing apartment,
an
amazing plantation with all sorts of fresh
vegetables
can be cultivated. This wisdom is a product of
the
Chinese's respect towards the heaven sand a
sentimental
attachment to the earth.
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