What's the typical food in China?
By youless
@youless (112496)
Guangzhou, China
November 22, 2012 12:58am CST
When people talk about pizza, they will relate it with Italy. When people talk about sushi, it is related to Japan. So I wonder what's the typical food in China? I can't decide which food can present my country since there are quite a lot of food here.
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14 responses
@lynboobsy11 (11343)
• Philippines
22 Nov 12
Most chinese restaurant here in my country serves noodles,siopai and dimsun. Steam vegetables normally with oyster sauce
and special.spicies from china. That's what I know about chinese foods.
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@lynboobsy11 (11343)
• Philippines
23 Nov 12
Yes I did next to our food that's the second one I love specially dimsum.
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@hoseasmate (720)
• United States
25 Nov 12
Fried rice, of course! My only association with Chinese food is the Chinese restaurants in the United States. The problem is, I don't know how closely those dishes resemble something that might be served and eaten in China! For example: I have Mexican friends and they say that the mexican restaurants don't really serve true Mexican foods but a 'Tex-Mex' version that most Americans call mexican food. There are authentic mexican restaurants that my friend took me to, but unless she had told me, I never would have realized a difference!
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
23 Dec 12
hji youless oh I have not had any Chinese food for ages bu we used to go
to our favorite Chinese restaurant and order moo goo gai pan,not sure of my spelling but it was delicious also chow mein and lo mein too oh and my own
favorite egg rolls really loved them so much.
egg rolls really loved them so much.1 person likes this
@humairaku (2038)
• Indonesia
22 Nov 12
it's not wondering vos China has the most populated country in the world so China has plenty cultures: clothes, language and food are included. just like my country, I ndonesia, which is also one of the most populated country in the world, i also have difficulty in stating which food has closest meaning with Indonesia cos every part of Indonesia has tgeir own special food. we have Javanese food, Sumatran food or Papua food. all of them are Indonesian food. lol. I think noodle and meatball is special food which reminds me about China. 'mantau' is also reminds me about China. it is special bread originated from China, isnt it? is the name mantau? whag do you say it in Chinese?
what about Indonesia, what food can remind you about my country? :)
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@humairaku (2038)
• Indonesia
30 Nov 12
thanks fir the best response..:)
i never tried mantou before. it is sold at stores actually, but the price quite high. im almost sure that it is imported. beside i dont know how to consume mantou. is it cooked first or not or fried or baked. i really dont have idea. or is it just eaten like anothet common bread? i really wanna try it someday. i saw mantau on chinese movie. but the most impressive for me is mantou in Shaolin Soccer. we know that Vicky Zao played as a mantou maker. i really wanna try mantou after watching that movie. lol.
yup, indonesia is famous with the coffee. indonesia has maybe the most expensive coffee in the world called 'kopi luwak' means luwak coffee. have you ever heard about this coffee? or maybe you ever tried it at Sturbucks? lol..
@natliegleb (5175)
• India
8 Mar 13
There are many,i feel the typical is pizza and also the yuang chicken and even kung pao chicken marinated with dry rice
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
22 Nov 12
Whenever I think of China, I think of chinese food my favourite! Especially sweet and sour dishes and crispy fried duck, maybe you can present crispy duck? My mouth is watering talking about chinese food and how I haven't had chinese food for months now. Or crispy seaweed not sure if that is a unique chinese dish?
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
22 Nov 12
I haven't been really to china and i am not very aware of what their staple food is, though i think it may vary from region to region. All i know is that people will actually relate a lot of dimsum dishes to China... but then they are also available in hongkong and in singapore. :D Perhaps... We can relate take out boxes to China?! :D hehe
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@watchamacallitz (1171)
• Philippines
22 Nov 12
When you say food in China, the first few things that come to my mind would be: jiazi or dimsum, chaomian or fried noodles and baozi or steamed buns with variety of fillings. For me, those would be the top three food, you can choose from those if you'd like.
@skyandgrassplot (1497)
• China
22 Nov 12
Due to China is such a big country then there are so many famous and delicious foods in different provinces,we Chinese really can proud of that.We have Eight cuisines and every cuisine is special.
But if you really want to pick up one as a typical food then I think may be dumpling can be the one.
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@Logiboy (9)
• Philippines
22 Nov 12
To list down, typical food in China would be noodles although the food types are somehow divided by culture in that country. But when you visit China you would find it extremely hard to resist the Pecking duck, pork and the Cantonese dimsum. Now I'm hungry
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