User talk:Ang Sun/sandbox

Dongbei hotchpotch also known as harvest food, alternate named "hodgepodge", which is about to be cooked with a variety of vegetables such as green beans, potatoes, eggplant, green peppers, tomatoes or agaric, and stewed with meat. Dongbei hotchpotch is easy to cook, with a good balance of vegetables and meet, rich nutrition and delicious flavor, is a common northeastern home dishes. Different cooking methods can make various flavor. Outsiders are very curious about the origin of the word "hotchpotch", which means stiring pot with ladle, is also called "luandun", a typical word in northeast dialect.Living on a frozen and snow-covered land, in order to resist natural calamities and man-made misfortunes, northeastern people is accustomed to eat food which is heated and stirred with ladle in a pot. A pot of food is served up with steaming, hot in the mouth, body warming up. The pot won't get cold soon. It will still be warm even if people eat for a long time. Northeastern customs are mostly related to ethnics there. Northeastern China is the ancestral home of Mongolia, Daikin, Daliaohe and Manchu, who lead a vagrant life on horseback. With a cauldron on horseback, once encamp, people have to throw vegetables and meat together into the cauldron and stew slowly, which shapes the present Dongbei hotchpotch. Dongbei hotchpotch don't need complex techniques. Cutting all vegetables and meat, throwing them into a pot, stewing slowly on fire when they are boiled, all cooking procedures are done. The vessel is not necessarily delicate. A small pan, pot, or large bowl is enough to serve up. The charicteristics of northeastern people are simple and rough mad, a table of people around a few large reeky stew, chopsticks dancing, warmly toast each other, faces shining with hot sweat, people won't let anyone go until drunk. People's dietary habbit of cooking a dish with vegetables and meat stirring together in a pot also improves relationship of each other. The characteristics of broad-minded, lofty, enthusiasm, and tolerance mix together and perfectly reflect in a pot of food. This is the unique 'hotchpotch' culture of northeastern people. So, back to our topic, let's continue to talk about hotchpotch. Some Dongbei hotchpotchs are quite common such as "Braised Pork with Vermicelli stew, chicken mushroom stew, stewed pork and sauerkraut, ribs stewed beans", "catfish eggplant", "goose stew of potatoes"...... Dongbei hotchpotch is mostly the collection of both vegetables and meat, like the proverb that people always mention 'men and women won't be tired to work together.'