#halal Chinese food

[sinoheritage]

Shaanxi cuisine 陕西菜, or Qin cuisine 秦菜, is derived from the native cooking styles of Shaanxi province, which has a population of 39 million, and where the capital of several dynasties Chang’an (Xi’an) is.

Shaanxi cuisine is characterized by its noodles, lamb/mutton dishes, and heavy use of garlic, onion and vinegar. The province’s cuisine has many Islamic/halal influences because of the Muslim population there, which dates back centuries ago.

Many different types of meat are used in Shaanxi cuisine such as duck, lamb, chicken, and beef, with many vegetarian dishes.

(examples are: 𰻝𰻝面, 锅盔, 羊肉泡馍, 腊牛羊肉, 水盆羊肉, 肉夹馍, 白吉馍, 菠菜面, 臊子面)

[hugecount]

Chopsticks and Halal Bites: Discovering Edmonton’s Premier Chinese Restaurant | HugeCount

Edmonton, celebrated for its diverse culture and culinary vibrancy, beckons food enthusiasts seeking distinctive and genuine experiences. Nestled in the heart of this lively city is a concealed gem – a Chinese restaurant that embraces Halal practices, seamlessly blending traditional Chinese flavors. This establishment promises a culinary journey like no other. The Emergence of Halal Chinese Restaurants Recent years have witnessed a global surge in the demand for varied dining options, propelling the rise of Halal Chinese restaurants. This phenomenon not only marks a culinary evolution but also communities embracing a medley of cultural influences in their culinary pursuits. Edmonton, […]

Source: https://hugecount.com/food/chopsticks-and-halal-bites-discovering-edmontons-premier-chinese-restaurant/

[oudkee]

im tired of pretending like japanese kawaii/online aesthetics are cringe i think they're fun and cute and whimsical and american/canadian culture doesn't really have an equivalent to that. so. i'm going to enjoy it

[council-of-beetroot]

Hi! Do u think I would qualify for the list? I'm a heta main but have some other stuff on my blog as well lol no hard feelings if not!

Yeah your stuff is great and I've learned a lot from your blog!

[radio-charlie]

My god is lan zhou beef noodles THAT good. gonna have to come back and try sometime

[wokmanchinese]

Best Halal Chinese Food in Blackburn |  Wok Man Chinese

For the Best Halal Chinese Food Blackburn, WokMan is your go-to destination. Our restaurant prides itself on offering a rich selection of halal Chinese cuisine, expertly prepared to provide a memorable dining experience. 

[indo-chinese]

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[foodtravelerinnorthsydney]

North Sydney Restaurant Food

[phoenixyfriend]

Watching an AITA compilation, and in one example, here people got upset because they ate food that had tofu in it and then found out that it also had pork.

Important: The person who made it was not claiming it was vegetarian.

They just made Food that had both tofu and pork. The vegetarians Assumed it was vegetarian and didn't ask. The only person who actually asked was a Muslim who wanted to know if it was halal, and when the chef answered them with no hesitation, that's when everyone else started freaking out, because they had already eaten some under that assumption.

If a Chinese dish is brought by a person who says it's a dish from their childhood (so they themselves are probably Chinese, but it wasn't mentioned in the post iirc) to a potluck, with tofu in it... I think it's safe to day there's a GOOD CHANCE (not a sure thing, but a good chance) that the tofu is there as a Standard Ingredient and not a meat substitute

People can like tofu without being veg. I'm just baffled that a person would, at an unlabeled potluck buffet, not ask about dietary restrictions for dishes that aren't really obviously one thing or another (e.g. you can probably assume a fruit salad or hummus-and-veggies plate is vegetarian).

I bring it up here, because I've shared my own tofu dishes online a few times and always get asked if I'm vegan/vegetarian… and there's usually also ground pork or bacon in it.

And it's just. No. I like tofu. Tofu does not exist solely as a meat substitute!

[infiniteglitterfall]

I think it'd be fun to sort of liveblog looking for countries that haven't abused/exiled Jews

I haven't found a list. So I'm making one.

Let's start with China. China has Jewish communities, and maybe not enough of them to become a target! The perfect amount?

Wow, Jews have lived in China since the 7th century CE. I've heard of the Kaifeng Jews!

Oh, this is ominous: "In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of Jewish refugees escaping from pogroms in the Russian Empire arrived in China. By the time of the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, only a few Jews were known to have maintained the practice of their religion and culture."

Wow, fun fact:

According to an oral tradition dictated by Xu Xin, Director of the Centre for Judaic Studies at Nanjing University, in his book Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, the Kaifeng Jews called Judaism Yīcìlèyè jiào (一賜樂業教), lit. the religion of Israel. Yīcìlèyè is a transliteration and partial translation of "Israel".

Surprising and cool:

Famous Venetian traveler Marco Polo, who visited China, then under the Yuan dynasty, in the late 13th century, described the prominence of Jewish traders in Beijing.

Neither surprising nor cool:

Genghis Khan called both Jews and Muslims Huihui when he forbade Jews and Muslims from practicing kosher and halal preparation of their food, calling both of them "slaves" and forcing them to eat Mongol food, and banned them from practicing circumcision.

In the late 1800s a lot of Jews emigrated from India and Iraq to China; they "took a considerable part in developing trade in China, and several served on the municipal councils."

In the early 1900s, 20,000 Jewish refugees from Russian pogroms emigrated to Harbin, in northeast China and "and played a key role in the shaping of local politics, economy and international trade."

Surprisingly:

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China, admired the Jewish people and Zionism, and he also saw parallels between the persecution of Jews and the domination of China by the Western powers. He stated, "Though their country was destroyed, the Jewish nation has existed to this day ... [Zionism] is one of the greatest movements of the present time. All lovers of democracy cannot help but support wholeheartedly and welcome with enthusiasm the movement to restore your wonderful and historic nation, which has contributed so much to the civilization of the world and which rightfully deserve [sic] an honorable place in the family of nations."

Wow. It really doesn't go into any more detail about the SMALL gap between "40,000 Jews moved to China from 1845-1945," and "most of these Jews emigrated to Israel or the West... by the time of the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, only a few Jews were known to have maintained the practice of their religion and culture."

That's four years.

Let's look at other sources.

At first, life in Shanghai was peaceful for its newest residents. The Jewish refugees were welcomed by Shanghai residents and they created a strong community with schools and a vibrant social scene. Some refugees began working as dentists and doctors, while others set up shops, cafes and clubs in the neighbourhood.

What the refugees couldn't foresee was they would travel across the globe only to fall into the clutches of the Nazis' most powerful ally. In 1941, Japan seized Shanghai. Acting under instruction from the Nazis, Japanese troops rounded up all of the city's Jews and confined them in Tilanqiao. Shanghai's Jewish ghetto had been born....

According to [historian Dvir] Bar-Gal, even prior to the Japanese invasion, many Jewish refugees in Tilanqiao lived in poverty compared to their comfortable lifestyles back in Europe. Conditions worsened greatly after Japanese soldiers gathered Jews from across Shanghai and forced them to all live within the borders of this newly formed ghetto. Jews were banned from leaving the area, even for work, unless they received permission from Japanese officers, which rarely happened.

Disease and malnutrition plagued the many heinously overcrowded group homes. "It went from a poor neighbourhood to an extremely poor neighbourhood," Bar-Gal said. "Many people had no jobs and lived in communal housing with many other beds and common bathrooms and kitchens. They had zero privacy and almost no food."

Yet, while six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, and up to 14 million Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed during their nation's war with Japan from 1937 to 1945, the majority of Shanghai's Jewish refugees survived. This remarkable feat was described by Holocaust historian David Kranzler as the "Miracle of Shanghai", and according to Bar-Gal, they survived because Jews weren't a primary target of the Japanese forces.

In 1945, when World War Two ended with the defeat of Japan and Nazi Germany, Japanese troops retreated and most of Shanghai's Jews quickly left, relocating to places like the US, Australia and Canada. But had Shanghai not taken these refugees in, many of these more-than-20,000 Jews may have never survived the Nazi death squads....

The first structure I came across was the imposing old Tilanqiao Prison. During World War Two, the Japanese incarcerated dozens of Jewish refugees and Chinese dissidents behind its thick stone walls. The brutality of the Japanese gave the Jews and the Chinese a common enemy and a shared experience. This connection remains strong, according to Tian.

That still leaves at least another 20,000, though? (I would say almost 20,000, but for the ones who already lived in China.)

Hmm. Here's a paper that says Jews "not only took part in the revolution but had also helped igniting it and then stayed on or joined later. While dealing with this puzzle in my paper, I’ll try to offer a typology of Jewish activists and revolutionaries in China, to explain their motives (by choice or not), and to evaluate their contributions in perspective. It appears that their Jewish identity did not play a direct role in their revolutionary activism, but it did play an indirect role. Included in this study are Grigorii Gershuni, Grigorii Voitinski, Boris Shumiatsky, Michail Borodin, Adolf Joffe, Pavel Mif, David Crook, Sidney Rittenberg, Israel Epstein, Sidney Shapiro, Solomon Adler, Sam Ginsbourg, Michael Shapiro, and more. Their main value to the revolution was mainly writing, translation, communication and publication. Although they were all deeply committed to the Chinese Communist revolution, some of them were jailed – for years – and occasionally more than once. Nonetheless, they continued to believe in, and even to justify, the Chinese Communist Party."

Wait, waaaaait. I was about to try to find the full paper (titled "Combining contradictions: Jewish contributions to the Chinese revolution"), but I ran across this first:

A century ago, the Communist International and the then-Russian Communist Party dispatched several agents to help foment revolution in China, including Russians like Grigori Voitinsky and Vladimir Neiman-Nikolsky and the Dutch Communist Henk Sneevliet. In addition to their shared commitment to Communism, all three were of Jewish heritage.

O rly??

They came with SKILLS!

On the evening of July 30, less than a month after the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), members of the CPC’s First National Congress met for a vote on a new party program. Suddenly, an unfamiliar middle-aged man barged into the meeting hall. “Sorry, I’m in the wrong place,” the man declared before hurrying off.

Sneevliet, well-versed in the techniques used by the police around the world to crack down on revolutionary activities, suggested that the meeting be adjourned and urged members to leave. By the time police arrived 10 minutes later, the building was already cleared out.

If you think that's impressive, try this!

Richard Frey... was an Austrian Jew who fled to Shanghai in the late 1930s. He worked for a hospital in the city until 1941, when he moved to a Communist military base in North China to teach medicine. In 1944, Frey was transferred to the central Communist base in Yan’an in China’s northwest Shaanxi province, where he soon succeeded in producing a crude but much-needed form of penicillin. 

He just. Made up his own penicillin for them.

What the entire fuck.

HERE we go!

International Journal of China Studies, December 2020. "Combining Contradictions: Jewish Contributions to the Chinese Revolution," by Yitzhak Shichor, University of Haifa and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Fun Fact:

Jewish Lithuanian activist Grigory Gershuni emigrated from Russia to China by hiding in a barrel of sauerkraut.

Yeah okay, I think China's number one on the list of Hey, Some Countries Didn't Try That!

Next time: Japan? Or Brazil? Hmmmm.

[skopostheorie]

Something that's been really exciting here is that there's a lot of Muslim presence!

For instance, my university has a canteen, and they have a dedicated 清真 (Chinese word for halal) section. My dad was pleased as seen below.

The rice was 60cents, btw.

While most restaurants are not automatically halal for obvious reasons, openly halal food is easy to come by - this was at a massive shopping centre a couple minutes away from my uni.

And wandering around today I saw this!

It's no Melbourne by any stretch of the imagination, and I have only seen one other visible Muslim while here (though I believe they were in fact Chinese! Or their Chinese was just perfect...?), but it's really cool!? I was expecting stuff to be really hard here.

[sinoheritage]

Chinese-Islamic cuisine 清真菜 qingzhen cai (literally “halal dishes”) from Xinjiang and Gansu provinces.

Muslims in China (approximately 26 milion) have a well-known and established cuisine. Many of their dishes have become stables in northwest China, and spread to other parts of the country. Their cuisine is mostly centered around beef and lamb/mutton, soup noodle dishes, bread/pastries, and the use of many diverse spices.

(examples are: 兰州牛肉面, 三泡台, 串, 牛奶鸡蛋醪糟, 大盘鸡, 馕, 灰豆子, 拉条子, 手抓羊肉)

[tamamita]

Ok but a real ask now. There's this new Chinese restaurant nearby that advertises it's food as Halal. I haven't ordered it yet but the food looks super good, and it got me wondering what defines "halal" in terms of food besides the obvious pork being haram. I could probably google but everyone's sending you asks and I wanna do it too :)

In short, halal assumes that the animal has been treated as humanely as possible before the slaughtering ritual took place. If the animal has been abused psychologically and physically, the meat is rendered haraam. The animal must be allowed to roam free in its own space, given the proper food and water it needs, it should not feel fright, nor should it be hostile or aggressive. When the ritual takes place, it should be done in a space where no other animal is in the vicinity. Compassion must be observed at all times and abusing the animal is a grave sin.

If none of these requirements are fulfilled, then the slaughtering is void.

[olderthannetfic]

https://olderthannetfic.tumblr.com/post/741872748055396352/as-someone-who-loves-to-cook-very-international-a#notes

One thing I completely forgot to mention. For anyone who eats meat: A GOOD BUTCHER! Too many people really need to find a good butcher, because more than half the "bland" meat based dishes will remedy themselves if you find a good butcher. Especially if you manage to build a line of communication to get cuts of meat as fresh as possible, you'll get fresh and well tasting meat. There's a world of difference between a good butcher's cut piece of meat, and most of what you might find in a supermarket. You know how chicken is considered some of the driest and least flavourful meat? If you get a good butcher who knows some chicken farmers, you might actually be able to get some actual fat and flavourful chicken that gets to eat grass and whatever it can find outside, instead of the mass production farm chicken that get feed with pellets. So much can impact the flavour of meat. You'll also feel much more satisfied eating meat only a few times a week if those cuts actually taste good and filling, which can cut down on your meat consumption, obviously also paired with fresh and flavourful veggies and other sides. And so we don't forget it, same goes for a seafood market. Especially seafood honestly. Some seafood really only tastes good "out of the water, into the pan, onto your plate." If it takes too long, you'll end up with less than stellar tasting meat. You also get fish and seafood that way that hasn't been processed with chemicals and other additives to keep it fresh longer. Flash frozen is also a valid form to get fresh unprocessed fish, so don't be afraid if you hear the fish you're buying was flash frozen. And for vegetables and fruit: A good farmer's market, or at least a list of in-season veggies and fruits. Veggies and fruit will always taste best within their harvesting season. A farmer's market will often have more focus on flavour and actual aroma, rather than how supermarkets some times mostly focus on the looks of the produce. Some vegetables and fruits that you get at the supermarket might be watery and bland, or even dry/woody and stringy, while the farmer's market, mainly/especially for local produce will be a lot more flavourful and aromatic. Having the option to use veggies that actually taste like something really does a world of difference for your diet!

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There's a place in the Bay Area where you can go select your chicken or duck and wait for them to slaughter it. Depressing, maybe, to have to look your dinner in the face before it's killed, but one meets an interesting cross-section of Chinese immigrants, people who want halal food, etc. Last time I was there, a little old lady told me I needed to make chicken soup immediately on returning home and not refrigerate the chicken, wait, or try to do dishes like roast chicken that require more fat because these particular chickens are too lean.

She said most people have never tasted a proper dish made from freshly killed chicken, at least around here.

[trolagygirl2022]

im british, london is very diverse. toronto imo was mainly indians and chinese people

the thing is that indians and chinese people in london have integrated decades ago while in toronto, the immigration has been more recent

plus in london theres a large muslim population so halal food is available everywhere but in toronto finding halal food nearby, as quick as in london, was not possible

ofc the stats might be different but thats what i felt

I see, but there are Indians in Canada that have been here for decades. People only think places like Brampton are full of newcomers when historically a lot of Indians have been there for decades. Also I didn't look through a lot of Toronto but I was wayy more than I did in my old town ahahah.

[indigostudies]

2024.06.27 - 2024.07.11 | SHANGHAI, QINGHAI, GANSU

haven't been active in a while because i've been busy as all get out :') anyway, at the end of june i went up north/west to see family—first qinghai, and then gansu. the last two photos i took from the train to qinghai (fields) and to gansu (desert). it was pretty cool to see the desert—i've never seen a desert like that before! there was also a sandstorm while i was there, which while probably a little dangerous, was also neat to experience (from the safety of the apartment, mostly). the first two photos are of the outside of the mogao caves in dunhuang—we weren't allowed photos inside the actual caves, so i can't show the murals, but they were stunning. the third row of photos are from the historical show in dunhuang, which was a partially interactive show that involved a lot of walking. the other photos are various meals—i've missed the food here so much! it's hard to get ahold of a wide variety of vegetables in the usa, and it's much easier to get ahold of qingzhen/halal food here (and especially in qinghai and gansu), plus a shot from when i went to the pudong public library with my friend (it's a fabulous library—i checked out an interesting text on chinese costume in history). i got back to shanghai on the seventh of july, and started classes on the eighth—they're honestly a little on the easy side for me, but it's still good practice! i'm very excited to see where this all goes :)