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PART 01.  FOOD NAME

肉（ròu） Meat

主食 （Zhǔshí） Main dashes

海鲜 （hǎixiān）Seafood

饮品（Yǐnpǐn）Drinks

PART 02.  TASTE

油腻（yóunì）oily

清淡（qīngdàn）light

PART 03. FAMOUS DELICIOUS CHINESE FOOD

PART 04.  USEFUL EXPRESSIONS  

我最喜欢吃海鲜。

Wǒ zuì xǐhuan chī hǎixiān.

I like seafood best.

你有什么忌口的吗？

Nǐ yǒu shénme jìkǒu de ma ?

Is there anything you don’t eat ?

TIP: China is a very large country with different dietary habits across the land, which is summarized as“South Sweet,North salty, East Sour and West Spicy".The eight famous styles of cooking are Lu（Shandong）Cuisine, Chuan（Sichuan）Cuisine, Yue （Guangdong）Cuisine, Min（Fujian）Cuisine, Su（Jiangsu）Cuisine, Zhe（Zhejiang）Cuisine, Hui（Anhui）Cuisine and Xiang（Hunan）Cuisine.

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