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Cotton candy is a soft candy, loose and porous, with certain elasticity and toughness. It's a very traditional Chinese snack. The making process is pour ing the sugar into cotton candy machine to make ​​out of sugar wire , and then wrap sugar wire a round the stick . You always can find the candy sales man in South China area.

Sesame Pumpkin Pie - Pumpkin is a health food which contains vitamins , rich nutritious , and also low in calories and defenses cancer as well. See below recipe to make Sesame Pumpkin Pie. [ Ingredient ] : Pumpkin , flour , honey , sesame seeds , Peanut oil [ To do this: ] 1. Wash the pumpkin , remove the skin and flesh , cut into pieces at the end , and then put into the steamer to steam for 10 minutes.    2. Press into pumpkin mash , add honey , flour tortillas and sesame, and then made ​​the same size , and then stained with bread bran . 3. Flat hot wok , add peanut oil, and then low heat and fry on both sides to slightly golden colour. 4. Ready to Serve. Enjoy! These keep well in the freezer/fridge, and are great microwaved to serve hot.

Beggar Chicken - a traditional dish in China with over hundreds years history. It was said that a beggar got a chicken one day, but he didn't has cookware and seasoning. Finally, he found a way to cook the chicken: wrapping the chicken with soil, and then grilled in the charcaol mill about 3 to 4 hours which made a rare and unique cuisine. Nowadays the modern cooking is wrapped chicken in lotus leaves and encase it in clay, and then grilled or baked.

Chinese Steam Stuffed Bun - a traditional Chinese snack with over 2000 years history. It's made in surface skin, stuffing packets into a food mixed with vegetables, meat or sugar. It's still 100 % hand made and then steam for 5 - 10 mins to serve. Based on the size of the Bun , the minimum can be called dumplings , followed in the Bun, big Bun . The above image is showing the process of making Bun and the bottom images are dumpling (left) and Big Bun (right).

Tofu - A popular health food could be made in black beans, soy beans, white beans, peas or green beans. It was invented in China and have more than 2000 years history. You can steam, fry and put in the soup to cook the Tofu. My favour recipe is steam Tofu with pork meat stuffing populated! The details are as following: 1. Mixed the pork meat with oil, soy source and one raw egg. 2. Make a square hole in the centre of the Tofu. 3. Mixed meat stuffing populate Tofu. 4. Steam the Tofu for 10 - 15 minutes. 5. Ready to serve.