Chinese cuisine (Chinese: 中國菜) originated from the various regions of China and has become widespread in many other parts of the world — from East Asia to North America, Australia and Western Europe.Regional cultural differences vary greatly amongst the different regions of China, giving rise to the different styles of food. There are eight main regional cuisines: Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Szechuan, and Zhejiang. There are also featured Buddhist and Muslim sub-cuisines within the greater Chinese cuisine.

Thursday is Chinese New Year and I thought I would give you a couple of recipes for making your own little Chinese banquet. Food symbolism is important for the Chinese New Year and noodles suggest a long life. Today we have a noodle recipe and tomorrow I will give you a bean curd recipe.

Fish is nutritious and easy to cook. Chinese, especially, must have a fish dish during special occasion meals, such as reunion dinner during the Chinese New Year. Fish, in Chinese is pronounced as "Yu", which means "abundance".

Siopao is a favorite Filipino snack, consisting of a meat filling inside a steamed rice-flour bun, a larger version of Chinese dumplings. It is usually sold as part of dim sum by Chinese-style restaurants.

This is a simple recipe on how to cook lamb soup. You can easily cook this carrot lamb soup using simple ingredients such as carrot and chinese herb.

This article describes favorite Chinese New Year snack foods including my recipe for deep-fried wontons and some sources for good recipes.