We often say that the "southern rice and northern noodles" means that people in the south love white rice, and people in the north like noodles. Although the Northeast is a rice production manufacturing industry base, but the Northeast's rice key sales target is not the Northeast people, but instead is exported to other parts of the country. Relative to the noodle, white rice must be accompanied by a few exquisite dishes to take, so some people also known as the northern region with the spectrum of food is mainly tightly around the "eat enough", while the southern region with the spectrum of food

Chinese liquor culture is very colorful and colorful, there are differences between the north and the south. From the point of view of drinking, the northern people are bold, love small bowls of wine, the southern people love to drink slowly, on the whole, the northern people are worth more than the southern people wine strength. However, from the point of view of the origin of the wine, or the southern region is more dominant: the specific origin of China's pure grain wine or in the southern region, such as the well-known Guizhou Moutai, Sichuan Wuliangye, and so on. People in the north and south generally love to drink in the summer, but in the winter, people in the north prefer to drink wine, while the southern region of Jiangsu and Zhejiang prefer to drink yellow wine, such as Shaoxing Daughter Red, Shanghai's water wine, and so on.

China has eight key cuisines: Sichuan, Lu cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Su cuisine, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Lu cuisine. Among them, in addition to Lu Cai is a large northern region of the cuisine, the other are the southern region of the cuisine. This type of difference in the type of cuisine immediately reflects the adequacy of raw materials and their cultural art for "eating"

In addition to the type of cuisine is not the same, there is a difference in the way people in the north and south of the food with the method. In terms of drinking soup, the southerners drink soup as a dish on the dish, such as Guangzhou, Fujian area before the meal, drink soup before drinking, this region is very famous for boiling soup. In China's southern provinces of Guangdong and Hainan, everyone in the meal before and after the main meal will definitely drink soup, only to complete the meal before the soup and its meal after the soup after the program flow, can be considered to have finished a whole meal. The northern people drink soup all year round, more often in winter, and is in the meal drink, but the northern region of the soup is generally not as a dish on the menu.

Southern people's hot pot sauce: a spoonful of soy sauce, vinegar, oil consumption, scallions, fragrant Lai, millet chili, hot sauce, garlic, pepper oil, and then sprinkle some crushed peanuts and sesame seeds, pour two tablespoons of soup, stir a little. Northern people's hot pot sauce: a spoonful of hemp juice, two spoons of hemp juice, three spoons of hemp juice .... Add a bit of chives and tofu milk, more more more and then put some shanai.