Research - Chinese cuisine

Chinese food is widely recognised as being among the world's most well-known and well-loved cuisines. It is also an inseparable part of the Malaysian melting pot of culinary cultures, ever since Chinese merchants sailed across the South China Sea to trade in Malacca more than a century ago.
The mass migration from China to Malaya began in the early 1800s with the discovery of tin, which brought about an abundance of job opportunities. Chinese immigrants to Penang brought with them the cooking styles of their homeland, which were mostly from the southern provinces of Kwantung and Fukien.....

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