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Chinese Dishes

China is an ancient country. Chinese culinary arts have a long history. They are famous all over the world.There are Chinese restaurants everywhere around the world . Chinese dishes appeal to the senses through colour, shape, aroma and taste.  

In China , every province has its own special cuisine.  For local styles, Beijing cuisine combines the best features of different regional styles. Shangdong cuisine leads the Northern dishes. Shangdong cooks are good at cooking seafoods. Sichuan cooks specialize in chilies and hot peppers and Sichuan dish is famous for aromatic and spicy sauces. Guangdong cooking makes use of many ingredients. They look for fresh, tender, crisp textures. Huai Yang cuisine stresses the natural flavors. Dishes are strong but not greasy, and light but delicate.

Among them , Cantonese food is one of the most famous and popular   Chinese foods inside and outside China . It is also my favorite cuisine .Cantonese foods are always more colorful, less spicy and   usually stir fried, which preserves both the texture and flavor.

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Here I first introduce "dim sum"  to all of you--- We ( Cantonese get used to have" tea breakfast" {"Tea breakfast" --- have breakfast ("dim sum") and have tea at the same time.}. Some Cantonese( most of them are older people who are retired)  go to restaurants for tea breakfast every morning.  On Sunday, most people go for it with the whole family.  

In fact, so far, not only breakfast, but during lunch time and every night after 8:30pm , all the restaurants serve "dim sum " and tea.   . Most people enjoy  chatting with friends or family during have some "dim sum" and tea after dinner. So it is more and more popular to have "dim sum" at night  for the people who have to go to work.