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Cantonese Cuisine

Cantonese cuisine is considered bland cuisine with the use of very mild and simple spices in combination. Ginger, spring onion, sugar, salt, soy sauce, rice wine, corn starch and oil are a few ingredients for most Cantonese cooking. Garlic is used heavily in dishes especially with internal organs that have unpleasant odors, such as entrails. Five-spice powder, white pepper powder and many other spices are used in Cantonese dishes, but usually very lightly. Spicy hot dishes are extremely rare in Cantonese cuisine.

Popular Dishes: Dim Sum, Stir-fried Vegetables, Soya Sauce Chicken, Roast Suckling Pig

Szechuan Cuisine

Szechuan cuisine, Szechwan cuisine, or Sichuan cuisine is a style of Chinese cuisine originating in the Sichuan Province of southern China. Szechuan dishes have a reputation for being hot and numbing, because of the common ingredient Sichuan peppercorn. The Szechuan style cooked at Tangerine do not use Sichuan peppercorn and therefore not hot and numbing.

Popular Dishes: Kung Pao Chicken, Ma Po Tofu

Hakka Cuisine

Hakka cuisine is the cooking style of the Hakka, and originally came from southeastern China (Guangdong and Fujian). Hakka people are migratory tribes of ethnic Han people originated from central China. Their ancestors exiled themselves from foreign rulers such as the Mongols during the Yuan Dynasty. Due to their late migration to the southern areas of China, they found that all of the best land had been settled long before. The Hakka people were forced to settle in the sparsely settled hill country. As a result, fresh produce was at a premium, forcing the Hakkas to heavily utilize dried and preserved ingredients, such as various kinds of fermented tofu, preserved lime and much use of onion.

Hakka means "Guest". The Hakka people in Toronto are first and second generation of Hakka settler from India. The Hakka food is infused with many common ingredients of Indian spices such as red chillies, green chillies, red chilli powder, tandoori masala, cumin and coriander. Together with the Indian and Chinese ingredients, many of the Hakka food is more flavourful than other Chinese cuisine one has experienced.

Popular Dishes Traditional Hakka		Ngiong Tew Foo (steamed stuffed Tofu cubes with minced pork with herbs) Beef Ball Soup (very simple clear broth with lettuce and beef balls) Lemon Fish (cooked with preserved lime that has aged for many years in salt)

Popular Dishes Indian Hakka		Chilli Chicken (boneless chicken cooked with onions in dark brown sauce) Bombay Tiger Prawns (Tiger Prawns cooked with coriander, onions and spices) Mango Chicken (sliced mango, dry red chilli cooked with boneless chicken)