The Cantonese school of cooking, which came about by incorporating the fine elements of miscellaneous culinary styles, is known and appreciated for its extensive range of choice of materials. Freshwater food and seafood are its forte, but it is dishes made of fowls and snakes that make Cantonese cuisine so special and exotic. Major dished include snakes cooked with cat, stewed chicken and snake, stir-fried shrimps, eight-treasure glutinous rice with lotus seeds, fresh mushrooms in oyster sauce, pot-cooked soft-shelled turtle, and crisp skin suckling pig. |
