Sauce and sauce products, sauerkraut and pickles are important table foods in Northeast China.
The main eating habits of Hebei people:
Three meals a day, but two meals a day during the slack season. The staple food is mainly flour and miscellaneous grains, and the non-staple food is pigs, cattle, mutton, eggs, poultry, vegetables and fish.
The taste is salty and the heavy oil is not much different from Beijing and Tianjin.
"Miscellaneous" is a remarkable feature of Hebei's diet custom, which has a variety of eating habits.
The main eating habits of Shanxi people:
Three meals a day are basically thick for breakfast, good for lunch and thin for dinner.
Pay more attention to staple food than non-staple food. The staple food is mainly noodles and millet, which is known as "eating all kinds at once". Don't count the dishes in a meal.
Generally, it tastes salty and sour, and vinegar is a common seasoning for Shanxi people.
The main characteristics of people's diet in southern Jiangsu are:
People in southern Jiangsu like light, sweet, salty and refreshing tastes, and generally like to eat fresh and tender food and avoid spicy things. Use less seasonings and auxiliary materials, and pay special attention to maintaining the original flavor of food and dishes, with high quality and low quantity.
The main eating habits of Zhejiang people:
The taste of Zhejiang people is smooth, tender and refreshing, waxy but not greasy, light and pure, followed by hot and sour.
The staple food is mainly rice, supplemented by miscellaneous grains such as corn and sweet potato, and some areas have the habit of eating four meals a day.
Eating habits have local characteristics and diversity. People in Huzhou and Jiaxing like to eat fish, shrimp and eels. Dongyang and other places like to eat nail fish; Haiyan area likes to eat "Dongpo meat"; Jinhua area likes to eat ham and wind meat; Hangzhou area likes to eat Tianmu mountain bamboo shoots and frogs; Wenzhou coastal areas have the habit of eating fresh fish.
The main eating habits of Hunan people:
Hunan people eat rice as the staple food for three meals a day, supplemented by corn and potatoes, and rarely eat pasta.
People in Hunan generally like to eat spicy food and suffer hardships.
Hunan people's tastes are mostly spicy, bitter, sour and salty, and Sichuan and Shandong dishes are more acceptable.
The main eating habits of Jiangxi people:
In most areas of Jiangxi, rice is the main food for three meals a day, supplemented by sweet potatoes and rice noodles. There are many ways to eat sweet potatoes, and the way to eat rice is also very particular. Pastries such as hair cakes, wick cakes and stewed beef moon cakes are Jiangxi people's favorite staple foods.
Jiangxi people like to eat all kinds of aquatic products, chicken, duck, dog meat and bean products. I am used to eating whole chicken, whole duck, whole fish and whole pig's forelegs. The flavor is rich, the sauce is thick, salty and spicy, and the main ingredients are outstanding.
Jiangxi people love to drink tea.
The main eating habits of Guangdong people:
Rice is the staple food, and pasta is only used for seasoning.
"Three meals a day, drinking tea before meals" is a major feature of Guangdong's dietary customs.
I like omnivores and dare to eat almost anything. Non-staple food includes not only pork, beef, mutton, poultry and seafood, but also rats, snakes and insects.
Cantonese people generally like umami, mainly sweet, followed by hot and sour, and pay attention to eating seasonal dishes.