-- The two great cuisines in the world are the Chinese and the French cuisine. The Chinese cuisine is much older in tradition than the French cuisine.
-- To begin with, a dish should not have a strong aroma because it will dominate the other dishes.
-- A banquet should contain dry and sticky dishes as well as crisp and juicy ones . Usually the first dish should be crisp, followed by smooth one. The salt dish is followed by a sweet one.
-- Birds’ nest soup is made from the mucus from the salivary glands of the small salangane. The mucus is collected by boiling the nests of these birds.
-- They are served at the beginnings of a banquet to allow guests to savor the delicate soups made from shark’s fin.