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What’s for dessert?

Most people prefer to call "tapas" "appetizers", "appetizers" or "appetizers". In fact, many things eaten before a meal are not necessarily vegetables, but can also be fruits, snacks, soups, wine or drinks. Because "tapas" means just eating a little bit at will, 1 point is enough, 6 points are reserved for the main meal, and only 7 points are eaten until full.

Many Westerners’ “tapas” are bread with raw vegetables dipped in sauce. The most common meat products in Western tapas include caviar, foie gras, smoked salmon, Cocktail shrimp, baked snails, melon ham, etc.; vegetables are mainly parsley, carrots, bell peppers, cauliflower, corn, green beans, etc. There are many types of tapas, both cold and hot. If you want to eat both hot and cold tapas during your meal, you should eat the cold ones first and then the hot ones. Most sophisticated Western restaurants use iced snacks for cold tapas. The hot tapas must be served on warmed plates. The purpose of this is to keep the temperature or ice of the food and prevent the dishes from becoming too warm too quickly and affecting the taste when tasting.

Chinese “tapas” appetizers include: spicy radish, pickled vegetables (pickled radish, pickled pepper, pickled cabbage, pickled bitter melon, pickled beans, pickled lentils, pickled ginger, pickled garlic sprouts, etc.) , sour beans, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, pickled mustard, mustard mustard, vermicelli, black bean sauce, pickled garlic, seaweed, lotus root, preserved egg tofu, molasses tomatoes, braised vegetable platter, small fried fish, small fried shrimp, stinky tofu, fried pepper (Hubei snacks), etc. etc.; happy foods include: peanuts (peanut kernels), orchid beans, pea rice, corn kernels, pine nuts, pistachios, cashew nuts, etc.; happy drinks include: various teas, red wine, beer, carbonated drinks, (pearl nuts) ) rice wine, etc.

Westerners have the most types of desserts, such as biscuits, cakes, puddings, chocolate, cookies, waffles, muffins, pies, ice cream, etc., each category There are many varieties, such as apple pie, strawberry pie, potato pie and so on. Of course, it’s basically sweets. Chinese people don’t have so many desserts after meals, but they are also very particular about them. Generally, they are sweet soup and sweet porridge, such as eight-treasure porridge, white fungus soup, bird's nest with rock sugar, tofu curd (tofu curd), turtle paste, mung bean paste, red bean paste, sesame paste, peanut paste, sago paste, etc. Japanese desserts include: straw cakes and wagashi.