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We often forget that people in other countries eat different things from us. Rice, for example, is the staple food of more than half the world’s population. In other words, it is a basic and important part of their diets. In many Western countries, such as Britain and America, bread made from wheat is the most important item of food. In many African countries a kind of corn called maize is the staple food.
Most countries have dishes that were first created there. In China such dishes as shark’s fin soup and fried rice are very common. In Thailand and India people eat many different curries. They like their food hot and spicy. In England, a favourite dish is roast beef. The Italians eat pasta, which is a kind of noodle made from wheat. French food is very famous everywhere. It is often very rich.
In recent years fast food – sometimes called “junk food” – has become very popular all over the world. It was invented in the USA and the first fast food was the hamburger, which is usually made from minced beef. Today there are restaurants and take-away places selling hamburgers in most cities of the world.
Perhaps the most international food is Chinese. There probably isn’t a city anywhere that does not have at least one Chinese restaurant. This is because there are so many different dishes from so many different parts of China that there is something for everyone, whatever their favourite kind of food.
