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Is Chinese, a Cantonese is a style of food. I want Cantonese, not Hunan or Szechuan or Mandarin or ?? [/quote]
exactly Hunan - Szechuan are the only ones around here.....
Restaurant types
Typically in the afternoon, dim sum are served during yum cha hour. A few Cantonese dishes may be available. In the evening, various Chinese banquets of Cantonese cuisine are held in the restaurant.
There are two main types of Cantonese restaurant.
chaa lau, literally tea house, is a place serving only tea and dim sum.
jau lau, literally wine house, is a place serving banquets. From the early 20th century, jau lau started providing tea and dim sum like cha lau. Thus only a few chaa lau remain in business.
Others.
Seafood jau ga, are restaurants that specialize in seafood dishes.
Business
Nearly all the Cantonese restaurants provide yum cha, dim sum, dishes, and banquets with their business varying between the hour of the day. Some restaurants try to stand out by becoming more specialised (focusing on hot pot dishes or seafood, for example), while others offer dishes from other Chinese cuisines such as Szechuan, Shanghai, Fujian (Teochew cooking, a regional variation of Guangzhou is similar to that of Fujian), Hakka, and many others.
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