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FOOD Chinese cuisine has a very long history and is renowned all over the world. Cantonese (the style most Westerners are most familiar with) is just one regional style of Chinese cooking. There are eight major schools of Chinese cuisine, named after the places where they were conceived: COFFEE Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan and Tea is the drink of choice, coffee Zhejiang. China's cuisine breaks down into four major regional has become a growing categories: commodity in China. In the 90's PAGE 3 they began developing coffee Northern Cuisine: Population | Time | Visas growing regions, since then they Insurance | History Beijing food has developed from the Shandong school of cuisine. now produce tons of coffee for PAGE 4-6 domestic consumption and have History Specialties: begun exporting product. Peking duck (roasted and eaten in a thin pancake with cucumber and a PAGE 7 sweet plum sauce) Government | Language TEA Mongolian Hotpot (a Chinese version of fondue; it is eaten in a Chinese people are believed to PAGE 8 Climate communal style and consists of simmering soup in a special large round have enjoyed tea drinking for pot into which is dipped a variety of uncooked meats and vegetables, more than 4,000 years. Legend PAGE 9 which are cooked on the spot). has it that Yan Di, one of three The Land | People | Religion rulers in ancient times, tasted all PAGE 10 Shuijiao (pasta-like dough wrapped round pork meat, chives and onions, kinds of herbs to find medical Currency | Credit Cards similar in idea to Italian ravioli; these can be bought by the jin (pound) in cures. One day, as he was being Changing Money | Tipping street markets and small eating houses, and make a good snack) poisoned by some herb he had PAGE 11 ingested; a drop of water from a Etiquette | Health & Vaccinations tea tree dripped into his mouth and he was saved. For a long PAGE 12 Communications | What to Pack time, tea was used as an herbal medicine. PAGE 13 Shopping | Customs During the Western Zhou PAGE 14-15 Dynasty, tea was a religious Food & Drinks offering. During the Spring and Autumn Period, people ate fresh PAGE 16-17 tea leaves as vegetables. With the Culture & The Arts | Religion popularization of Buddhism from the Three Kingdoms to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, tea's refreshing effect made it a favorite among monks in Za-Zen meditation. The tea history of China is a great thing to explore and experience while on your journey. WATER Drink only bottled water or boiled water.