Despite this, many ancient dishes remain ... using clay pots to boil food in water, which gave rise to various famous dishes throughout history, such as claypot rice and claypot chicken.

Now, using new data collected samples of ancient, carbonized rice, a team of Japanese and Chinese scientists have successfully determined DNA sequences to make the first comparisons between modern ...

Even though I don’t cook Chinese food all the time, I can hardly step into my kitchen without encountering ingredients, equipment and cooking methods that can be traced back to China.

This suggests that rice was a major food source for the ancient ... These fungi are often used in traditional Chinese brewing methods, suggesting that the ancient people made fermented drinks.

The shape of the Jiaozi dumplings is said to resemble that of ancient Chinese gold ingots ... Traditional Vietnamese banh chung is made with glutinous rice, mung beans and pork.

Food from ancient, and not-so-ancient, times, has seen cuisine from across China appear on tables at home and abroad to this ...