Talk:Shandong cuisine

Where did they get peanuts and corn?
I'm curious that this area's cuisine is known for peanuts and corn, both of those crops having originated in South America AFAIK. Was there contact between say Portuguese sailors and this area, as it lies on the coast? Historian932 (talk) 14:40, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Portuguese missionary brought seeds in early 16th century. Boiling is basic for cooking, and plicking is also widely use. Chinese don't have oven, the boil or stream corn and peanut. Because they have a large output on given field. Especially, we use peanut to produce vegetable oil for daily cooking, although I prefer the flavor of Dongbei soybean oil. Why peanut>corn? It's cheap and have many ways to fill in a dish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.64.37.95 (talk) 13:15, 16 August 2009 (UTC)


 * China was an integral part of the Columbian exchange. New World crops were partly responsible for its massive population growth (100 million to 400 million) during the Qing dynasty. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10887-016-9125-8
 * Dutch, not Portuguese sailors were the main facilitator. See http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/chinawh/web/s5/s5_4b.html
 * Specifically, maize and peanuts were both introduced in the 16th to 17th centuries, and cultivation became widespread in the 18th century. Maize is currently cultivated in a belt from the Southwest to the Northeast, see figure 2.2 here. https://repository.cimmyt.org/bitstream/handle/10883/792/89356.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
 * Removing your dubious tag. 2601:184:497F:6B60:9155:54AF:42E8:D7BD (talk) 01:23, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Things to do
Someone who knows what's going on should edit the ingredients section! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.33.26.81 (talk) 00:36, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Agreed. This looks like it was written in a foreign language and translated to English via Google Translate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.244.82.153 (talk) 00:12, 12 May 2011 (UTC)