2. The cuisine with a long history and the greatest influence from foreign food culture is
Cantonese cuisine, also known as Cantonese cuisine, is unique among China cuisines. Its food raw materials, cooking technology and seasoning application are very different from other regions (especially the Central Plains). Guangdong is located in Lingnan, with its back facing the mountains and the sea, and has been isolated from the Central Plains for a long time. Baiyue people lived in ancient times, and there were a large number of Central Plains residents in Qin and Han Dynasties. Therefore, many ancient Yue people and food customs between Qin and Han dynasties have been preserved in Guangdong food culture. For example, eating snakes is the custom of Yue people. "Huainanzi * Spiritual Practice" says: "The Yue people gnaw snakes and think that food is useless, but China has to give it up." Guangdong is located in the southern coast of China, with numerous mountainous plains, criss-crossing rivers and lakes, mild climate, abundant rainfall and abundant food sources for animals and plants. At the same time, Guangzhou is a trading port city with a long history. Overseas Chinese sent their cooking skills from Europe, America and Southeast Asia back to their hometown, which made Cantonese cuisine absorb the advantages of foreign cooking, especially western cooking, and finally matured. Guangdong is the earliest open city in China. Cantonese people are tolerant, generous and adventurous. The same is true of food. They eat everything. There are many kinds of ingredients in Cantonese cuisine, and birds, animals, snakes and mice are all delicious dishes. Their cooking methods are also the strengths of many experts, no matter the techniques of various cuisines in China or the western cooking methods. Cantonese cuisine is light in summer and autumn and rich in winter and spring. For example, the sweet lotus wax gourd cup with eight treasures is stewed with fresh lotus wax gourd, a summer specialty, frog, fresh shrimp, night fragrant flowers and other raw materials, which is light and delicious. Another example is the famous Dragon, Tiger and Phoenix Festival, where three tender snakes in autumn are selected and stewed with leopards, raccoons and hens, which is rich in flavor and nourishing. There are many kinds of dim sum in Cantonese cuisine, and they are new. There are so many kinds of dim sum in Guangdong that it is rare in other places. If there are long-term snacks, weekly snacks, four-season snacks, table snacks, holiday snacks, tourist snacks, morning snacks, midnight Chinese and western snacks, original table snacks, exquisite snacks, banquet snacks, etc. Many names, exquisite and elegant, always new in style, delicious and timely.