Chinese food is predominantly rich and spicy and often has a soft texture and not all beverages will go well with it. Some drinks can even make or break or Chinese food experience, so you need to be very careful while choosing the drink to accompany your meal. Bars in Franklin Park NJ offers a plethora of drink options to pick from to pair with your food.
To enjoy the full flavor of Chinese food you need to make sure that you choose the right wine or beer to go with it. Here are some ideas to pair your Chinese food with the right drink option.
Wine Pairings
For Delicate Dishes And Stir-Fried Veggies
Delicate dishes like Dimsums, both steamed or fried, pair best with Champagne and other sparkling wines. Sparkling wines also go well with steamed or stir-fried vegetables, fish, and other super delicate Cantonese flavors.
If you are going for the delicate seafood dishes then you can select a more citrusy wine variety like Sauvignon Blanc. Dry Rieslings from Germany, Alsace, or Austria also go well with Chinese seafood dishes.
Duck Dishes
Chinese love duck and you can see a variety of duck dishes adorning a Chinese food menu. This is probably the most wine-friendliest dish on the entire Chinese menu and goes well with a couple of different wines. Light red wines like Beaujolais, Australian Tarrango, or Pinot Noir work great with duck. If you want a more intense flavor then you can opt for Merlots, Merlot-dominated blends from the Bordeaux region, or Australian Shiraz. Gewurztraminer is also a great pair for Duck dishes.
Rich Dishes With Sticky Sauces
If you go for dishes like glazed ribs or crabs dipped in black bean sauce then fruity red wines are the ideal choice. Full-bodied but without excessive tannins, Mourvedre or Grenache is a good choice for thick sauce dishes. Hot, spicy, and rich dishes like Szechuan Beef, etc call for a very fruity red. The richer the dish, the more fruity the wine should be.
If you want to pair white wine with your food then go for a Pinot Gris from New Zealand, Oregon, or Alsace. These wines have a certain waxy quality that somehow perfectly matches the rich and spicy flavors of Chinese dishes.
Sweet-Sour Dishes
Sweet-sour flavors are very prominent in many Chinese dishes and dry wines and fruity rose wines go really well with these dishes. White Zinfandel is a good choice for such dishes as it naturally enhances the flavor of the food. Apart from this, you can also go for aromatic wines like Pinot Gris, Riesling, Austrian Gruner Veltliner, and Argentinian Torrontes. Also, champagnes like Roederer’s and Veuve Clicquot pair especially well with sweet Chinese food in Franklin Park.
Beer
Certain beer varieties also work great with Chinese food items. Saison beer is also known as farmhouse ale with its dry profile and citrus and peppery flavors, a particularly good match for spicy and garlicky Sichuan food varieties.
Berliner Weisse with its mildly acidic and soft creamy texture is a good option to cut down the heat of the spicy dishes.
Try Pepe Naro, which is manufactured with peppercorn and is a great counter for chili oils. This beer has higher carbonation and a light body that works great with chilis and slightly oily dishes.
Light wheat beers like Bavarian Weissbiers and Witbiers combine best with lighter Chinese snacks like dumplings or spring rolls. You can also match them with sweet-sour dishes.
Duck goes well with wines but you can also try Belgian Brune beers with them.
Pair brown ale and Belgian tripel beer with dishes like Beef in black bean sauce or glazed ribs.
Tea
Tea is super popular in Chinese cuisine and Chinese people are big tea lovers. Green tea varieties like Jasmine tea or Dragonwell go well with lighter Chinese food. For fried dishes opt for Puerh tea and for dishes with thick sauces are best paired with Great Red Cloak or Oolong tea.
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