My Christmas Dining Experience

During this Christmas vacation, I came back to my home town, Shanghai to share time with my parents. Neither a southern or northern city, the Shanghainese dishes combine both the sweetness from the south and the salty from the north, forming one of the eight main types of dishes flavours of China.

The dish that I am introducing today is my favourite dish among all the Shanghainese dishes——Sweet and Sour Ribs. As its names says, it contains both sweetness and sourness, and a little bit salty. Usually, it is made as a cold dish in restaurants; however, most families eat them when it is still hot.

Here is a Sweet and Sour Ribs recipe that I found online:

1. Cut pork ribs into pieces with the length of 5 to 6 centimetres.
2. Make a pot of water boiled, and put the ribs into water for several minutes, in order to get the impurities of the ribs out.
3. Take the ribs out of water, and out them into a pan.
4. Add a little bit cooking wine, ginger, green onion, and garlic into the pan and cook for 15 minutes.
5. Take the ribs out of the pan into another pan with hot oil, and then pour some cooking wine into the pan.
6. Add light soy sauce, rice vinegar, rock candy into the pan, and mix them with the ribs.
7. Turn the fire to the smallest level, and put on the pot cover for 5 to 8 minutes.
8. Add dark soy sauce into the pan to give ribs a dark red color.
9. The dish will be ready when the soup becomes thick.

I really enjoyed my vacation with all kinds of Shanghainese food, and hope you can go to Shanghai and try its food. ^~^