http://appetiteforchina.com/100-chinese-foods-to-try-before-you-die

  • Almond milk
  • Ants Climbing a Tree (poetic, not literal, name)
  • Asian pear
  • Baby bok choy
  • Baijiu
  • Beef brisket
  • Beggar's Chicken
  • Bingtang hulu
  • Bitter melon
  • Bubble tea
  • Buddha's Delight
  • Cantonese roast duck
  • Century egg, or thousand-year egg
  • Cha siu (Cantonese roast pork)
  • Char kway teow
  • Chicken feet
  • Chinese sausage
  • Chow mein
  • Chrysanthemum tea
  • Claypot rice
  • Congee
  • Conpoy (dried scallops)
  • Crab rangoon
  • Dan Dan noodles
  • Dragonfruit
  • Dragon's Beard candy
  • Dried cuttlefish
  • Drunken chicken
  • Dry-fried green beans
  • Egg drop soup
  • Egg rolls
  • Egg tart, Cantonese or Macanese
  • Fresh bamboo shoots
  • Fortune cookies
  • Fried milk
  • Fried rice
  • Gai lan (Chinese broccoli)
  • General Tso's Chicken
  • Gobi Manchurian
  • Goji berries (Chinese wolfberries)
  • Grass jelly
  • Hainan chicken rice
  • Hand-pulled noodles
  • Har gau (steamed shrimp dumplings in translucent wrappers)
  • Haw flakes
  • Hibiscus tea
  • Hong Kong-style Milk Tea
  • Hot and sour soup
  • Hot Coca-Cola with Ginger
  • Hot Pot
  • Iron Goddess tea (Tieguanyin)
  • Jellyfish
  • Kosher Chinese food
  • Kung Pao Chicken
  • Lamb skewers (yangrou chua'r)
  • Lion's Head meatballs
  • Lomo Saltado
  • Longan fruit
  • Lychee
  • Macaroni in soup with Spam
  • Malatang
  • Mantou, especially if fried and dipped in sweetened condensed milk
  • Mapo Tofu
  • Mock meat
  • Mooncake (bonus points for the snow-skin variety)
  • Nor mai gai (chicken and sticky rice in lotus leaf)
  • Pan-fried jiaozi
  • Peking duck
  • Pineapple bun
  • Prawn crackers
  • Pu'er tea
  • Rambutan
  • Red bean in dessert form
  • Red bayberry
  • Red cooked pork
  • Roast pigeon
  • Rose tea
  • Roujiamo
  • Scallion pancake
  • Shaved ice dessert
  • Sesame chicken
  • Sichuan pepper in any dish
  • Sichuan preserved vegetable (zhacai)
  • Silken tofu
  • Soy milk, freshly made
  • Steamed egg custard
  • Stinky tofu
  • Sugar cane juice
  • Sweet and sour pork, chicken, or shrimp
  • Taro
  • Tea eggs
  • Tea-smoked duck
  • Turnip cake (law bok gau)
  • Twice-cooked pork
  • Water chestnut cake (mati gau)
  • Wonton noodle soup
  • Wood ear
  • Xiaolongbao (soup dumplings)
  • Yuanyang (half coffee, half tea, Hong Kong style)
  • Yunnan goat cheese
dec 1 2010 ∞
dec 10 2015 +