First and foremost, welcome to e mandarin learning by skype. Today I would like to introduce another special snack to you. The yummy snack is chestnuts roasted with sugar, tang2 chao3 li4 zi5 (糖炒栗子in Chinese). As we all known, chestnuts are eaten boiled, quick-braised, braised or roasted. They are used in soups, stuffings and salads. Sometimes, they are also canned whole, peeled, plain or in syrup, candied in sugar, steeped in alcohol, cooked into jam or a sweetened or unsweetened. But today I will introduce chestnuts roasted with sugar to you. You can learn more about it through learning Chinese from Chinese teachers.
Chestnuts roasted with sugar, tang2 chao3 li4 zi5 (糖炒栗子in Chinese), also called marrons glaces, is a popular snack in autumn and winter in China. As a local flavor, today’s snack wins the most popularity in Beijing and Tianjin. It is said that the snack originated from the Song Dynasty (960 A.D.-1279 A.D.). The cooking method is to choose fresh chestnuts and pour them into a pot with coarse sand and syrup, then stir-fly them continuously till well-done. If you can control the fire in the process successfully, the roasted chestnuts will taste dark brown, glossy, crispy, sweet and fragrant. Continue reading on Chinese lessons tutoring video online.
Moreover, chestnut is titled as “the King of nuts”, and was called the “ginseng fruit” by foreigners. It not only contains a large amount of starch but also provides us with nutrition like protein, fat, Vitamin-B. Hence, chestnut is no more than a delicious snack but an effective medicine for some diseases. It can nourish human body as ginseng, ren2 shen1 (人参in Chinese), astragali radix, huang2 qi2 (黄芪in Chinese) and Chinese angelica, dang4 gui1 (当归in Chinese). For the medical characteristic of chestnut, it also can nourish the stomach, tonify spleen and kidney, strengthen waist and muscle, invigorate the circulation of blood, subsidence of a swelling and so on. More about it on echinese learning toggle.
Chestnuts roasted with sugar, tang2 chao3 li4 zi5 (糖炒栗子in Chinese), also called marrons glaces, is a popular snack in autumn and winter in China. As a local flavor, today’s snack wins the most popularity in Beijing and Tianjin. It is said that the snack originated from the Song Dynasty (960 A.D.-1279 A.D.). The cooking method is to choose fresh chestnuts and pour them into a pot with coarse sand and syrup, then stir-fly them continuously till well-done. If you can control the fire in the process successfully, the roasted chestnuts will taste dark brown, glossy, crispy, sweet and fragrant. Continue reading on Chinese lessons tutoring video online.
Moreover, chestnut is titled as “the King of nuts”, and was called the “ginseng fruit” by foreigners. It not only contains a large amount of starch but also provides us with nutrition like protein, fat, Vitamin-B. Hence, chestnut is no more than a delicious snack but an effective medicine for some diseases. It can nourish human body as ginseng, ren2 shen1 (人参in Chinese), astragali radix, huang2 qi2 (黄芪in Chinese) and Chinese angelica, dang4 gui1 (当归in Chinese). For the medical characteristic of chestnut, it also can nourish the stomach, tonify spleen and kidney, strengthen waist and muscle, invigorate the circulation of blood, subsidence of a swelling and so on. More about it on echinese learning toggle.
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