Rice is the staple diet for the Cantonese. Cantonese cuisine is not only abundant with variety, but it is also colorful and unique.
Cantonese chefs take pride in their cooking.
Fresh ingredients are used daily to retain the unique flavor and texture of each dish, which is only lightly cooked. Often eaten at breakfast or lunch, dim sum are savory dumplings stuffed with prawns, beef, pork, and other surprises the chefs can think of. Cantonese people would often hound the restaurants or coffeeshops early in the morning for their daily dim sum meal. Trolleys laden with steaming dim sum are wheeled through dining rooms so that you can glimpse and choose. Some restaurants have a menu for dim sum.