In addition to the production technology, the variety of Chinese food flavors is staggering: salty, salty, sweet, spicy, spiced, sauced, garlic, hot and sour, sesame sauce, pepper and hemp, watercress, fish sauce and 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 dare to say 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, we can see that the mainstream taste of China cuisines is "salty flavor", which ranks first in every cuisine, with the lowest accounting for 44% (Northeast cuisine) and the highest reaching 70% (Jiangsu cuisine).

However, the taste of different cuisines ranked second is different, for example, Yunnan-Guizhou cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine and Shandong cuisine are spicy; Anhui cuisine and Zhejiang cuisine are sweet; The other cuisines are all home-cooked Compared with other flavors, the flavor of "home-cooked flavor" may be vague in concept. In fact, it is one of the three major flavors pioneered in Sichuan. The main ingredients are douban, salt and soy sauce. Due to different dishes, lobster sauce, pepper and cooking wine can also be added. Dishes such as "Sichuan style meat", "home-cooked tofu" and "Taibai chicken" all belong to home-cooked flavor ("Analysis of the classification and deployment of China dishes" However, netizens uploading recipes may define homely taste with the broad concept of homely taste, which leads to a high proportion of homely dishes 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 it can get rid of dampness, while Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang produce more sugar cane, so the proportion of sweet dishes will be higher.

Having said that, perhaps China people are really greedy when it comes to eating, as Mr. Liang Shiqiu said. You can not only eat, but also eat. You can satisfy your taste buds with different seasonings and techniques.

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