In addition to the production process, there are many kinds of Chinese food flavors: salty, salty, sweet, spicy, spiced, sauce-flavored, garlic-flavored, hot and sour, sesame sauce, pepper hemp, watercress, fish sauce, ginger juice ... It is not a simple matter to list all the flavors. Even Mr. Wang Zengqi lamented that "China has a mixed population and dares to say that it is the world's.

In terms of flavor types, different cuisines have similarities and different emphases. From the comparison of the main tastes of major cuisines, it can be seen that the mainstream taste of China cuisines is "salty taste", ranking first in every cuisine, with the lowest accounting for 44% (Northeast cuisine) and the highest reaching 70% (Jiangsu cuisine).

However, the tastes of different cuisines ranked second are different, such as Yunnan-Guizhou cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine and Shandong cuisine, which are all spicy; Anhui cuisine and Zhejiang cuisine are sweet; Other cuisines are home-cooked dishes. Compared with other flavors, the flavor of "home-cooked dishes" may be vague in concept. In fact, it is one of the three original flavors in Sichuan. The main ingredients are watercress, salt and soy sauce. Douchi, pepper and cooking wine can also be added due to different dishes. Sichuan-style meat, home-cooked tofu, Taibai chicken and other dishes all belong to home-cooked flavor (Analysis on the Classification and Allocation of China Cuisine). However, the concept of home-cooked flavor may be used to define home-cooked flavor when users upload recipes, resulting in a high proportion of home-cooked flavor in other non-Sichuan cuisines.

Of course, the taste differences of different cuisines are closely related to the climate and topography between different regions. Generally speaking, places with humid climate, such as Sichuan and Hunan, prefer to eat spicy food because they can get rid of dampness, while Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang produce more sugar cane, so the proportion of sugar beets will be higher.

Having said that, maybe China people are really as greedy as Mr. Liang Shiqiu said. Not only can you eat, but you can also eat. You can use different seasonings and techniques to satisfy your taste buds.

The combination of different ingredients, seasonings and techniques forms the characteristics of different cuisines and creates different styles of dishes. I don't know, if you want to try all these countless dishes, will your life be enough?