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Comparison of Table Culture between Kazak and Han Nationality

Kazakh people's daily food is mainly pasta, cattle, sheep, horse meat, cream, ghee, milk bumps, milk tofu, fermented milk and so on. Usually, I like to make flour into "Balsac, scones, oil cakes, noodles, noodle soup, Na Ren, Jayne, etc.", or make meat, ghee, milk, rice and flour into various foods. Drinks mainly include milk, goat's milk and horse's milk, especially horse's milk, which is a high-grade beverage made from horse's milk by fermentation. Tea has a special position in the diet of Kazak people, mainly drinking brick tea, followed by Fuzhen tea. If milk is added to tea, it is called milk tea. Typical foods mostly come from animal husbandry, such as winter meat, horse milk, milk bumps and so on.

The Han nationality is dominated by agriculture, with wheat, corn and rice as staple foods, supplemented by vegetables, bean products and non-staple foods such as chicken, fish, pigs, cattle and mutton. Tea and wine are traditional drinks. People who live on rice are used to making rice into different foods such as rice, porridge or rice noodles, rice cakes, glutinous rice balls, zongzi and rice cakes. People who live on wheat are used to making steamed bread, noodles, flower rolls, steamed buns, jiaozi, wonton, fried dough sticks, spring rolls, fried cakes, pancakes and so on. Paying attention to and being good at cooking is a major dietary feature of the Han nationality. Through long-term practice, the Han people in different regions have adopted cooking methods such as frying, roasting, frying, steaming, roasting and cold salad, forming different local flavors. Guangdong cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Anhui cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine and Jiangsu cuisine are famous at home and abroad.