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What are the Chinese staple foods

Chinese staple foods include: rice, steamed buns, noodles, rice cakes, and big cakes.

1, rice

Rice, one of the main characters in the daily diet of Chinese people, Chinese staple food. The main ingredient is starch. Rice is a food made by boiling rice with water. Rice is the predominant food in East Asia, including China, Japan and Korea.

2, steamed bread

Steamed bread, also known as "steamed bread", "steamed bun", "steamed bun", one of China's traditional pasta, the legend is that the Three Kingdoms of Shu Han Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, invented. Invented by the prime minister of Shu Han, it is a kind of food steamed with fermented flour. Steamed buns, with wheat flour as the main ingredient, are one of the daily staple foods of Chinese people.

3, noodles

Noodles originated in China, has been more than four thousand years of production and consumption history. Noodles is a simple to make, easy to eat, nutritious, can be used as a staple food and can be used as a fast food health food, has long been accepted and loved by the people of the world.

4, rice cake

Nian gao, Chinese Han traditional food, rice cake is made of rice or glutinous rice, boiled into a meal with beaten or water milled into a powder and then pressed into the cake, in the Spring Festival, many regions of our country have to pay attention to eat rice cake.

5, big cake

Da cake, is a kind of flour, starch or wheat flour through the traditional Chinese handicraft processing made of cakes, and then by local crafts to join the unique ingredients made of cakes. In addition to being eaten as they are, dabe can also be braised with vegetables. It was first named by the Chinese.