Chinese Food Include Eight Regional Cuisines Cantonese Fujian Anhui Zhejiang Hunan Sichuan Shandong

The origination of Chinese food took place in the different regions of China and is now popular in all the various parts of the world like in Southern Africa, Western Europe and Australia.

The different kinds of food in China is a result of the cultural differences. There exists eight important regional cuisines called as Eight Great Traditions namely Cantonese, Fujian, Anhui, Zhejiang as well as Hunan. The standouts of Chinese food are Sichuan, Shandong, Cantonese and Huaiyang cuisine, which are regarded as the Four Great Traditions. A large number of dishes that forms part of Chinese cuisine are in the form of food cut into bite-sized pieces that are easily picked up and consumed.

Chinese culture holds the traditional belief of putting to use knives and forks at the table as they are considered as weapons. Moreover they also found it against their courtesy to let people cut their own food. They mostly cooked the fish and people pulled pieces from the fish with the application of chopsticks. The whole fish is given out as they find it as highlighting the wholeness of things as this animal starts and ends in the perfect manner. The other famous Chinese food is chicken and even it is cut into smaller pieces and then served along with gizzards and head for displaying wholeness.

The person dining in a Chinese meal is provided with a bowl of rice and the other dishes are given out in communal plates so that they can be shared by all the people who are sitting there to dine. Pork is included in Chinese food in comparison to beef on considerations of economic and aesthetic factors. Vegetarianism is also popular in China and the Chinese vegetarians are mostly Buddhists.

The Chinese vegetarian food are comprised of different kinds of vegetables like sprouts, corn, bok choy, shiitake mushroom as well as little amount of imitation meat. The Chinese do not prefer to consume cold beverages as they are considered to be bad for the purpose of digesting the hot food and hence they serve soup and hot tea or hot water. However inspite of this fact beer as well as soft drinks are served with Chinese food. Chinese food