The Spring Festival is approaching, and "eating" has become one of the highlights of Chinese New Year for people everywhere. With the diversification and quality of consumer demand, people's favorite food presents new hot spots and new changes.

According to the latest "Year Taste Map" big data published by Meituan Review, traditional New Year dishes representing the taste of hometown are still the first choice on people's dining tables. At the same time, some delicious foods are breaking through the geographical boundaries and flowing on the dining tables of different cities.

We should have a taste of our hometown during the Spring Festival. The local flavor is the nostalgia and memory that we can't give up in our minds. As the Spring Festival approaches, people's preference for food highlights regional characteristics, and the return of traditional dishes has become a typical feature of catering during the Spring Festival.

according to big data, the most popular New Year's dish in North China is jiaozi. Potted dishes with a history of 111 years rank first in the list of annual dishes in South China. In East China, everyone's favorite food has become a sweet eight-treasure rice; Fish cake and bacon are the favorites in central China and western China respectively. In addition, Sixi Baked Bran in Shanghai, Mustard Dun in Beijing, Su jiaozi in Tianjin, and Boiled Chicken in Guangzhou are also among the top local Chinese New Year specialties.

In addition to sticking to traditional tastes, many people begin to try some new tastes to enrich their taste buds. According to the data reviewed by the US Mission, some distinctive cuisines are taking root in different regions. Maoxuewang, which originated in Sichuan and Chongqing, has been on the dining tables all over the country. Guangdong hot pot edge-beating furnace "randomly entered" the top ten hottest dishes in Wuxi.

Meat has become a well-deserved theme on the dinner table in northern China. Northerners pay attention to the word "hard" when eating vegetables. During the Chinese New Year, they should use all kinds of meat to chat with the cold north wind outside, and turn it into elbows and meatballs, or go to a stew with sauerkraut. In the list of Chinese New Year's special dishes, the TOP5 dishes in the north are jiaozi, Four Joy Meetballs, preserved beef, elbow with a handle and pickled white meat.

Southerners' New Year is not so chilly, and they come and go more calmly. Therefore, they spend more time on clever words, baking bran, eight-treasure rice and rice cakes, and putting them on the New Year's table, showing the appearance of a small jasper, which makes a graceful footnote for the South's New Year. TOP5, a southern new year dish, is followed by Sixi Baked Bran, Babao Rice, Bacon, Boiled Chicken and Rice Cake.