Editing Kitchen (section)

===China===
[[File:20090518 Shanghai Shikumen Museum 6860.jpg|thumb|250px|A traditional 1920s [[Shanghai]]nese ''[[shikumen]]'' style kitchen, [[Shikumen Open House Museum]]]]
Kitchens in China are called {{lang|zh|chúfáng(厨房)}}. More than 3000 years ago, the ancient Chinese used the [[Ding (vessel)|ding]] for cooking food.  The ding was developed into the [[wok]] and pot used today. In Chinese spiritual tradition, a [[Kitchen God]] watches over the kitchen for the family and reports to the [[Jade Emperor]] annually about the family's behavior. On Chinese New Year's Eve, families would gather to pray for the kitchen god to give a good report to heaven and wish him to bring back good news on the fifth day of the New Year. 
  
The most common cooking equipment in Chinese family kitchens and restaurant kitchens are woks, steamer baskets and pots. The fuel or heating resource was also an important technique to practice the cooking skills. Traditionally  Chinese were using wood or straw as the fuel to cook food. A Chinese chef had to master flaming and heat radiation to reliably prepare traditional recipes. Chinese cooking will use a pot or wok for pan-frying, stir-frying, deep frying or boiling.