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Our article explains what Chinese people eat. Some ingredients can be obtained at your local supermarket, while others can only be found at a Chinese/Asian supermarket. Staple Foods Rice. Rice is a major staple food in China. It is mainly grown in southern China. Chinese people eat rice almost every day for meals.
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- Chaofan. As discussed above, Rice is a staple food for the Chinese. Chinese fried rice or chaofan as it is called is a complete meal for the entire family.
- Baozi. These fantastic warm, steamed, soft and fluffy baozi are basically steamed buns. They are often filled with veggies and meat such as barbecued pork.
- Peking Duck. Peking Duck can be traced all the way back to the imperial days of China. It was deemed a royal dish, served to the emperor during the Yuan dynasty.
- Cong You Bing. Cong you bing is a green onion flatbread, also known as Scallion Pancakes. The dough is made from wheat flour and water. Once the dough is formed, it is rolled out into a rectangular shape and topped with green onions or scallions.
- Peking Duck. Name in Chinese: 北京烤鸭（běi jīng kǎo yā） Peking Duck is a renowned Beijing dish with a worldwide reputation. The high-quality duck meat, roasted using wood charcoal, looks reddish, with crisp skin and tender meat, and is known as “one of heaven’s delicacies”.
- Sweet and Sour Pork. Name in Chinese: 糖醋里脊 tángcù lǐjǐ. Sweet and Sour Pork is one of the classics of Chinese cuisine. No one can reject its sweet and sour mix flavor and bright appearance.
- Kung Pao Chicken. Name in Chin ese: 宫保鸡丁 gōng bào jī dīng. What comes to your mind when ordering Chinese food in a restaurant? I bet your answer would be “Kung Pao Chicken”.
- Ma Po Tofu. Name in Chinese: 麻婆豆腐 Mápó dòufǔ. In 1862, Chengdu had a small restaurant operated by Chen Ma Po. The tofu she cooked was tasty and good-looking.
- Dumplings. Chinese Name: 饺子 jiǎo zi. Flavor: salty. Time of Origin: Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220 AD) Dumpling is the most famous traditional Chinese food, which was invented by medical sage Zhang Zhongjing more than 1,800 years ago.
- Chinese Noodles. Noodles. Chinese Name: 面条 miàn tiáo. Flavor: salty, spicy, sour, umami… Time of Origin: more than 4,000 years ago. Noodles are one of the oldest traditional Chinese foods.
- Steamed Stuffed Bun. Chinese Name: 包子 bāo zi. Flavor: salty generally, spicy. Time of Origin: Three Kingdoms Period (220 - 280 AD) Steamed stuffed bun is a flour dough wrapper with stuffing, which is a kind of Chinese traditional food.
- Glutinous Rice Balls. Chinese Name: 汤圆 tāng yuán. Flavor: sweet. Time of Origin: Song Dynasty (960 - 1279 AD) Glutinous Rice Balls are a traditional Chinese food as well as the festival food of Lantern Festival and Winter Solstice.
Find out what Chinese dishes to try in China (customer favorites): sweet and sour pork, kung pao chicken, fried noodles... See expert intros with pictures.
Chinese food staples such as rice, soy sauce, noodles, tea, chili oil, and tofu, and utensils such as chopsticks and the wok, can now be found worldwide. The world's earliest eating establishments recognizable as restaurants in the modern sense first emerged in Song dynasty China during the 11th and 12th centuries.
