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.

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Recently I have seen a numerous food carts that offers this very enticing finger food, the calamares. Initially this food is being served in bars and restos together with some beers. A very good tandem indeed. With the growing popularity of calamares here in the Philippines, we can’t blame our kababayans serving this fried squid in street carts.