Suodiu, one of the dishes in Hubei, made a comeback this summer someway. The dish, 【小题1】 real rock dish, is literally rocks. It’s low in calories and 100% eco-friendly. Since its comeback, many street vendors (小贩) 【小题2】 (make) sudden profits by the suodiu craze.

Previously, on the coasts of Hubei Province, fishers would 【小题3】 (stick) on fishing boats long waiting for their turn to dock. With their food 【小题4】 (run) out, they came up with the creative and 【小题5】 (conventional) idea of cooking smooth river rocks to kill the time. The rocks were cleaned, boiled and then stir-fried with oil, garlic, ginger and a 【小题6】 (vary) of sauces. They never ate the rocks actually but just suck on them for the flavour and spat them out.

Hence, the name suo means sucking, and diu means getting rid of. 【小题7】 (essential), it all comes down to the secret sauce recipe.

Since the only thing eatable in suodiu is the sauce, every street vendor has 【小题8】 (they) own secret recipe. But the main ingredients are the same — ginger, lots of garlic and spicy chili, 【小题9】 will have you reaching for your ice-cold beer or bottle of wine.

It was the perfect drinking snack for bored fishers to pass the time while at sea. Now it’s still enjoyed 【小题10】 a drinking snack.

Fancy a Snack? Have Some Potato Chips

There are a couple of tales about the origins of potato chips. The first is credited to George Crum, 【小题1】 in 1853 was cooking in a restaurant, Moon’s Lake House. A customer requested Crum’s famous fried potatoes. However, when the dish 【小题2】 (serve), the customer found the potatoes too thick for his liking. Crum sliced them thinner, but still they weren’t thin enough for the guest. The dish was sent back and forth several times. 【小题3】 (anger), Crum eventually cut the potatoes paper-thin, deep-fried them, and spread a lot of salt on them. His idea was 【小题4】 (make) the potatoes uneatable, but instead he invented a tasty treat completely by accident.

However, there is a recipe that came out before Crum’s invention. An 1822 cookbook The Cook’s Secrets 【小题5】 William Kitchiner, outlines how to make “Potatoes Fried in Slices”. It calls for cutting potatoes into thin slices and frying them in oil. There are two other similar recipes from 1824 and 1832, 【小题6】 of which mention Kitchiner.

Then there is the great fried vs baked debate. Fried potato chips contain a lot more oil and fat. Baked chips, however, are cooked in an oven or air fryer rather than being fried in oil. So, they’re considered the 【小题7】 (healthy) option. Today, a lot of health-conscious chip manufacturers love to say their chips are baked, not fried, to appeal to people who are concerned about 【小题8】healthy their food is.

Speaking of health-conscious people, they probably want to stay away from “Royce” chips, which are chips 【小题9】 (dip) in chocolate. The mix of salty and sweet is to die for, but far from healthy. 【小题10】 kind of flavor you prefer, there’s definitely a chip somewhere out there that has your name on it.

Tea is native to China. There are fifteen major tea-producing provinces in the Chinese Mainland, and Taiwan also produces tea. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recently released a document from Chinese experts 【小题1】 (classify) tea into six types.

The basic tea types are black and green tea, white tea, oolong tea, dark tea and yellow tea, according to the new standard 【小题2】 (establish) by Anhui Agricultural University in Hefei, Anhui province. The standardization work 【小题3】 (lead) by Wan Xiaochun, professor and director of the State key laboratory of tea plant biology and utilization at the university.

Chen Chuan, a pioneer in tea science, put forward 【小题4】 has been regarded as the classification standard as early as in 1979. It has been 【小题5】 (wide) adopted since then but had not become an international standard until March, when the document was released, Wan said during a news briefing earlier this week.

The preparation of tea is based 【小题6】 processing fresh tea 【小题7】 (leaf) and aeration. The six tea types can be further processed or reprocessed 【小题8】 (create) products such as scented tea, compressed tea and instant tea, the ISO document said. The classification will allow consumers, world tea traders and governments to have 【小题9】 clear understanding of the different type of tea through 【小题10】 (they) processing techniques.