Regarding Chinese food, many of you may simply think it is a single style of food, but actually not. Through a long long history, Chinese food is divided into different branches in terms of a combination of cooking styles, ingredients, seasonings, etc., and it is still developing. China is actually formed by many small countries which were unified by Qin Shi Quang, the first emperor of a unified China. From north to south, the territory of mainland China covers a distance of 5,500 km. The geographical difference and culture shifts are the main cause of the huge food diversities in China. There are eight major cuisines types in China, which are Sichuan Cuisine, Shandong Cuisine, Jiangsu Cuisine, Zhejiang Cuisine, Anhui Cuisine, Guangdong (Cantonese) Cuisine, Fujian (my hometown) Cuisine, and Hunan Cuisine. Those cuisines are classified by the name of the origin area.
Because I come from Fujian Province, I’d like to introduce a dish of Fujian Cuisine today. Fujian province is located on the southeast coast of mainland China. It has an official province abbreviation (every province of China has an official abbreviation), Min. So Fujian Cuisine is normally called Min Cuisine. It is famous for its fresh seafood and the use of a variety of resources, like mountain herbs, seasonings. Even Fujian Cuisine is composed of three cuisines, Min Nan (Southern Fujian) Cuisine, Min Dong (Eastern Fujian) Cuisine, and Fuzhou Cuisine. They all have significant distinctions in taste and flavor. I want to elaborate Min Nan Cuisine a bit more because what we are going to learn today is a dish of Min Nan Cuisine. Min Nan Cuisine usually tastes sweet and values on the smell. So their chefs use a lot of herbs to cook.
The dish I am going to tutor you is the dish I learned from my mom. It doesn’t really have a name, but I want to call it Mommy Stewed Pork Feet. That’s the most popular dish in my family. Some of you may think that it is weird eating pork feet, but I promise that it is the food that you will be addicted to once you try it out!
Let’s go over the ingredients and condiments:

• Pork feet 2lbs (that’s the common weigh of a single pork foot)
• Dried Cinnamon Sticks: two pieces
• Soy Sauce (recommend Chinese seasoned soy sauce)
• Sugar
• Vegetable Oil (recommend peanut oil)

Below is the video tutorial. Enjoy! Don’t forget to tell me what you want to learn in comments.