1. Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei
The region's taste is still salty, salty mainly from salt, soy sauce, Beijing sauce (i.e., soy sauce) and so on. Tianjin people taste salty slightly sweet, love to put a little sugar when frying. Like to eat sesame oil and peanut oil, stir-fry vegetables like onions, ginger, garlic chili pot, food must be onions, garlic, no onions and garlic felt tasteless.
Beijing people in general to the noodle-based, dumplings, noodles, pancakes, steamed bread, etc. is the main varieties of noodles. In addition to Hui and other ethnic minorities, other Beijingers generally prefer pork, not accustomed to eating wild rice, beet and other vegetables in the northeast. Early in the morning generally love to eat oil cakes, bakery, soy milk, tofu brain, winter drink noodle tea (i.e., porridge boiled with rice flour, sprinkled with sesame paste and sesame salt) and oil tea (i.e., that is, the white flour with beef bone marrow oil fried to a charred brown and cooled, eaten with cooked sesame seeds, walnuts, sugar, washed with boiling water). Lunch and dinner to have a dish with soup as satisfactory, love to eat hot dishes and hot rice. Beijing people's eating habits are characterized by "fat winter thin summer". Winter like to eat thick food, summer often eat vegetarian food. Sesame noodles, mung bean rice is a common summer food species. Tianjin people's staple food than the Beijing people love to eat rice. Side dishes, Tianjin people love to eat mutton, fish and shrimp and other seafood, there is a "fish and shrimp, Tianjin for the family" said. They like to eat early pulp tofu (i.e., soy milk mixed with tofu), and like to put a few salt flowers in soy milk, drink salty soy milk. People in the area of Hebei Fengrun also have the habit of eating soup first.
2. Shanxi, Inner Mongolia
Taste is characterized by salty with acid. Vinegar is the local people must eat. Like to eat sesame oil, sesame oil. Shanxi mainly produces millet, sorghum, wheat, etc., so the daily food millet and more. Shanxi noodles are nationally renowned, known as "one side of a hundred kinds of food" reputation. Knife-shaved noodles",. Ramen",. Noodles", "cat ears" and other most famous. Most of them love to eat yellow rice noodle cake on New Year's Day, eat pork and mutton, eat more potatoes, radish and cabbage in winter, and eat more fresh vegetables in summer.
3. Northeast
Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang provinces people's tastes are characterized by salty and sour, eat soy sauce, soybean paste, eating soybean oil. Liaoning, Jilin produced rice, therefore. People in these places like to eat rice. Northeastern people every three meals to have vegetables and soup and staple foods, even eat breakfast are so.
4. Northwest
Northwest people's tastes are generally characterized by spicy and sour. Spicy oil (i.e., red chili powder fried in boiling oil and become) must be eaten every day. The people of the region like to eat noodles. Northern Shaanxi people eat noodles in soup like salt flower, red pepper, sour cucumber. Southern Shaanxi people love to eat millet and rice flour skin. Xi'an's mutton braised bun, is the northwest of the flavorful food.
Lanzhou, Gansu people like to eat noodles. And a variety of patterns. Yinchuan, Xining eating habits and Lanzhou, Xi'an is more or less the same.
5. Henan
Henan people taste moderate sour and spicy, eating vegetable oil and peanut oil, do not like eating lard. Yuxi people have a light taste. White flour and grains for the daily staple food of the people of Henan, like to eat fresh rice and fresh noodles. They like to eat clear soup noodles, cold noodles with sesame sauce, fried noodles in summer, and mixed soup noodles in winter (locally called mushy noodles, i.e. noodles cooked in thin millet porridge). Early in the morning or eat thin rice and bun, or eat mutton soup soaked baklava.
6. Hunan
Hunan people in Changsha as a representative of the taste for spicy, three meals a day at once with chili peppers, daily favorite rice, glutinous rice. Three meals a day for breakfast more steamed bread, soup noodles, lunch and dinner eat rice or glutinous rice. The daily pickles almost all the time.
7. South China
South China is represented by the Guangdong people, taste like fresh, sweet, do not like spicy. Guangzhou people to pepper as a good flavor. Peanut oil, lard as the main cooking oil. Like to eat fresh fish and seafood. Guangzhou people pay attention to breakfast, have the habit of eating morning tea. The varieties of breakfast patterns and fine. Like to eat snake meat, with specialized snake meat restaurant.
8. Shandong
Shandong people's taste is characterized by salty and spicy. Coastal areas such as Qingdao, Yantai and other places people taste still into. Shandong people love to eat hairy food, such as steamed bread, buns, hairy cake, pot cake (about 3.3 cm thick hairy hard cake) and so on. Millet pancakes are Shandong people's regular food. Shandong people generally love to eat onions, raw garlic, tofu, small tofu and vermicelli.
9. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai
Jiangsu and Zhejiang people's taste is like sweet food, taste light, Ningbo people still sweet and salty, like canola oil. Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang people's staple food for rice, eating noodles to pay attention to the soup is soup, noodles are noodles. Fresh vegetables are preferred. Early in the morning often eat cakes, doughnuts, siu mai, glutinous rice wrapped in doughnuts and other rice and noodle products. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai people eat more bubble rice in the morning? Lunch and dinner meals eat rice and a variety of fried dishes. Nanjing people like to eat roast duck. Spring and fall to eat salt water duck for the beauty. Plate duck, barrel duck for Nanjing people's winter delicacies.
10. Jiangxi
Jiangxi people in Nanchang as a representative of the staple food rice, rice with lard is very common. Eat noodles only for taste. Like to eat oil fried spicy rice noodles, summer like to eat mung bean rice, more cooled after eating. Three meals a day, more steamed buns, rice, with salted and pickled vegetables. Like to eat pickled soup, black beans, bamboo, noodles, kelp. Like to eat pond fish, river fish. Generally do not like to eat sea food. Avoid eating cold dishes, lettuce, for fear of diarrhea. Cooking oil to tea oil for the United States. Like to eat glutinous rice wine.
11. Fujian
Fujian taste is like salty and fresh. Three meals a day, all the time with rice. Morning and evening to eat thin rice, midday to eat dry rice. Generally prefer to eat sea food, fat meat. Cooking fish dishes can not be separated from the yellow wine, soy sauce and sugar. "Shrimp oil" is a daily condiment for the people of Fuzhou.
12. Sichuan
Sichuan people, its taste is characterized by spicy. Because of the humidity of the region, spicy food can drive away moisture. Vegetable oil is the main cooking oil, Sichuan people generally love to eat rice, pork, beef.
13. Yunnan, Guizhou
Yunnan people taste still sour, spicy, sweet. Eating vegetable oil and lard. Useful lard mixed with rice dietary hobbies. The people of Yunnan are fond of rice, and like to eat fine rice flour, which is called by the local people. Rice noodles". Early in the morning is usually bait block (that is, rice boiled, pounded with a mortar and pestle, and then manipulated into a bread-like, cool, eat can be cut into slices, frying and popping both line) and rice noodles.
Guizhou people taste spicy, eat vegetable oil and lard. They love rice and rarely eat noodles. Rice in addition to steamed rice, but also made of rice flour with beef, mutton to eat. Breakfast is usually noodles, steamed buns, buns, lunch and dinner eat rice, fried vegetables.