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What is Chinese food?
Chinese food refers to China-style meals. Among them, there are Guangdong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Hunan cuisine and Anhui cuisine.

Besides the "Eight Major Cuisine", there are some influential cuisines in China, such as Northeast Cuisine, Hebei Cuisine, Henan Cuisine, Hubei Cuisine, Benbang Cuisine, Hakka Cuisine, Jiangxi Cuisine, Beijing Cuisine and Qingzhen Cuisine.

China is a big country in catering culture. For a long time, due to the influence of geographical environment, climatic products, cultural traditions and national customs, the catering categories with East Asian characteristics have been formed in a certain area.

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Characteristics of Chinese food

1, in the selection of materials, because most people in our country are less bound by religious taboos in their diet, and people like to be curious in their diet, and pay attention to the scarcity of things, so the selection of materials for Chinese food is very extensive, almost flying, diving, moving and planting, and eating everything.

2. In the processing of raw materials, Chinese chefs are very particular about knife work, and can process raw materials into fine silk, diced, sliced and shredded edges.

3. In cooking, the round-bottomed pots and open fire stoves commonly used in Chinese cooking are very suitable for cooking, so there are many cooking methods for Chinese cooking.

4. In terms of taste, most Chinese dishes have obvious salty taste and are rich in variety. Most dishes are completely cooked before eating.

5, staple food, Chinese food has a clear concept of main and non-staple food, staple food has rice, noodles and other products.

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