Chinese food museum

It's here once again, another new year starts here. Happy Chinese New Year to all that celebrates! When you mention Chinese, it takes only about 3 seconds before your brain reminds you of food. Food is a big part of he Chinese culture. And over 5000 years, this civilization has certainly came up with quite a few recipes. From street food to technically challenging dishes that are fit for emperors, there is a very rich variety indeed.

It is therefore quite an interesting idea to try and preserve this very unique cultural heritage and archive all these recipes in a museum so that our future generations can continue to promote these distinct cooking styles and taste the same dishes that we enjoy in restaurants today. It would definitely be an interesting museum to visit (if organized properly). Imagine spending all day exploring different dishes from different dynasties that you have not heard about before, and perhaps get to try them in a nearby restaurant. I don't know if this is how they do it, but I like my idea :)

Adding to that, what is stopping you to scale this up to archive other food heritage from other cultures? That would be quite an achievement in our human history if someone manages to archive all recipes known to man (or woman).

There are a growing number of cuisine museums in Hangzhou, China. 

Perhaps it would be interesting to visit some time to see what they have in display.

The original BBC news report is here.

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