Cantonese cuisine
Overview
 
Cantonese cuisine comes from Guangdong Province in southern China
China
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 and is one of 8 superdivisions of Chinese cuisine
Chinese cuisine
Chinese cuisine is any of several styles originating in the regions of China, some of which have become highly popular in other parts of the world – from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa...

. Its prominence outside China is due to the great numbers of early emigrants from Guangdong. Cantonese chefs are highly sought after throughout the country. Cantonese food is best known in western world; when people in the West speak of Chinese food, they usually mean Cantonese food.
Canton has long been a trading port and many imported foods and ingredients are used in Cantonese cuisine.
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