0 1. Many ethnic groups in China have the habit of eating halal food. There are quite a few ethnic groups in China who have the habit of eating halal food, such as Hui, Uygur and Kazak. Especially the Hui people, the number of Hui people is really large, spread all over many places. I don't know about other places. Anyway, there are quite a few in the three northeastern provinces. Many streets have noodle restaurants run by Hui people, such as Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou. I don't know if it's genuine. Anyway, both the boss and the chef wear small white hats and don't speak Mandarin. There are many places selling halal steamed dumplings, only beef and mutton, and braised pork is also beef.
There are differences between halal food and our diet. Muslim food is still very different from most people's food. For example, we eat pork most of the time, but they don't. Especially in universities, most canteens cook pork. During this period, most of the price increase of pork turned into chicken, but before that, it was quite difficult for Hui students to find some beef and mutton.
Therefore, all schools have opened Muslim canteens. Of course, ordinary students can go in and eat, but most of them are Hui students. There is also a large-scale chicken specially opened by Xinjiang people near the school. A large part of them are Hui and Xinjiang people, or students from Xinjiang. But all Buddhist vegetarians can eat it, and there are many vegetarians in the canteen, so there is no need to open a canteen specially.
Maybe it's for the sake of harmony between people. I think it's also for people to live in harmony, because if we don't provide them with special food, they will get angry and think we are unfair to them, and it's easy to argue.