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Cuisine of China
Eight Great Traditions
Shandong cuisine
Szechuan cuisine
Cantonese cuisine
Fujian cuisine
Jiangsu cuisine
Zhejiang cuisine
Hunan cuisine
Anhui cuisine
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Yunnan cuisine
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Chinese Buddhist cuisine
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China has one of the richest culinary heritages on Earth. Solid Chinese food is eaten with chopsticks and liquid with a wide, flat bottomed spoon (usually ceramic). Chinese consider having a knife at the table as barbaric, so most dishes are prepared in smaller pieces, ready for direct picking and eating. Unlike Western meals where meat protein is the main course of a meal, a source of carbohydrates (rice, steamed buns, noodles) is usually the main ingredient of a Chinese meal.

Because of the large and varied nature of China itself, Chinese cuisine can be broken down into very many different regional styles.

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