Dennis M. Reed "Califa" - Cooking - Chinese Regional Cuisines

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Different reference sources describe different areas and numbers of Chinese regional cuisines. As time allows, this page may expand and include characteristics of each cuisine and the names/descriptions of typical dishes.

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CHINESE REGIONAL CUISINES (note: reference 7 is assumed for all entries with additional references indicated by superscript numbers)
TWO CUISINES or REGIONS⁶	FOUR CUSINES or REGIONS most common division	EIGHT CUISINES⁸ or REGIONS common division	Eight Major Cuisines¹⁰ and FOUR¹⁰ GRAND CUISINES	TWENTY SEVEN CUISINES⁸	Province⁸ AUTONONOMOUS REGION⁸ MUNICIPALITY⁸ Special Administrative Regions (People's Republic of China)⁸	CITY * = capital	CUISINE CHARACTERISTICS
ALL OTHER	EASTERN	Jiangsu	HUAIYANG and Huaiyang relates to Yangzhou	Jiangsu	Jiangsu	*Nanjing
						Suzhou³ (Soochow)
						Yangzhou
				Shanghai	Shanghai^1,3,4
		Zhejiang (Chekiang)	Zhe	Zhejiang (Chekiang)	Zhejiang³ (Chekiang)	*Hangzhou^1,3,4
		Anhui	Hui	Anhui	Anhui	*Hefei³
				Jiangxi	Jiangxi	*Nanchang
		Fujian (Fukien)	Min	Fujian (Fukien)	Fujian (Fukien)	*Fuzhou (Foochow)
						Wuyishan
						Xiamen (Amoy^1,2,3,4)
	WESTERN or EAST CENTRAL⁵	Sichuan (Szechuan)	SICHUAN Chuan	Sichuan (Szechuan)	Sichuan (Szechuan)	*Chengdu^1,3,4
						Hanyuan
						Zoige
		Hunan	Xiang	Hunan	Hunan	*Changsha^3,4
						Shaoshan
						Zhuzhou
				Hubei	Hubei	*Wuhan
				Guizhou	Guizhou	*Guiyang¹
				Yunnan	Yunnan
				Yunnan	Yunnan	*Kunming
					Chongqing
	NORTHERN commonly called Peking Cusine⁰⁵			Beijing(Peking)	Beijing^1,2,3,4(Peking)
				Tianjin	Tianjih
					Heilongjiang	*Harbin
					Jilin	*Changchun
				Liaoning	Liaoning	*Shenyang
					Hebei	*Shijiazhuang^2,3
				Henan (Honan)	Henan (Honan)	*Zhengzhou
				Gansu	Gansu	*Lanzhou
				Qinghai	Qinghai	*Xining
					NINGXIA HUI	*Yinchuan
		Shandong (Shantung)	LU Lu	Shandong (Shantung)	Shandong (Shantung)	*Jinan⁴
				Shanxi	Shanxi	*Taiyuan
				Shaanxi	Shaanxi	*Xi'an
SOUTHERN	SOUTHERN	Guangdong (Kwantung) (Canton)	YUE	Guangdong (Kwantung) (Canton)	Guangdong (Kwantung) (Canton)	*Guangzhou^2,4(Canton)
						Toisan (Taishan⁵)see chop suey link
						Chaozhou
				Guangzi	GUANGZI ZHUANG	*Nanning
				Hainan	Hainan	*Haikou
	Autononomous Regions			Xinjiang	ZINJIANG UYGHUR	*Urumqi
						Kashgar
						Khotan
				Tibet (Zizang)	TIBET (ZIZANG)	*Lhasa
				Inner Mongolia (Nei Mongol 内蒙古⁸)	Inner Mongolia (Nei Mongol 内蒙古⁸)	*Hohhot
	Special Administrative Regions⁸			Hong Kong 香港	Hong Kong 香港
	Special Administrative Regions⁸				Macau/Macao 澳门
	TAIWAN not currently part of China but has distinct Chinese cuisines				Taiwan	*Taipei

Reference sources:

Kan, Johnny - Eight Immortal Flavors
Ouei, Mimie - The Art of Chinese Cooking
Lin, Florence - Florence Lin's Chinese Regional Cookbook
Eight Cuisines of China ( http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/cuisine_drink/cuisine/eight_cuisines.htm)
Note: many links to great recipes!
Chen, Pearl Kong & Chen, Tien Chi & Tseng, Rose Y.L. - Everything You Wanted to Know about Chinese Cooking
Anderson, E. N. - The Food of China
Dunlop, Fushia - Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper - A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China (especially the map of China)
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Administrative_Region_(People%27s_Republic_of_China)
Newman, Jacqueline M. - Cooking From China's Fujian Province
Cuisines of China - http://kaleidoscope.cultural-china.com/en/133Kaleidoscope134.html

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