Cantonese Dumplings  (Wuntun雲吞) As Cantonese people are extremely demanding about their foods, they have always tried to innovate and re-create the foods that are introduced from other places in order to suit their tastes. One prime example is the dumpling soup. As the local history of Canton has it, that dumpling soup was a dish that was introduced from the northern part of China in... »

Flour Ribbons Flour ribbons are typical and vernacular foods in Canton, which started to become popular in the city since 1920s. At first, people who sold flour ribbons carried loads of rattan containers in which flour ribbons were stored; as late as 1930s, small restaurants which specialised on making flour ribbons appeared on the streets of Canton. It was not until the 1940s when flour... »

Liwan is formally called the Bay of Lichee, which locates at the western end of the downtown of Guangzhou, at the bank of Pearl River. For two thousand years, a typical Cantonese fruit with red and rough skin but juicy, half-transparent and sweet fresh, lichee, have been widely flourishing at both banks of the river, which becomes the reason for associating the name of this place with such... »

In 1984, just nine hundred metres away from the harbour of the Swedish city Goetheborg, people discovered a shipwreck, heavily loaded with Chinese porcelains and some huge boxes, inside which, archaeologists found packages of tea leaves. The patterns on the porcelain containers were obviously Chinese-styled after the mud on them was removed. The shipwreck later was identified as the... »

Traditionally, keeping flowers at home is the typical Cantonese way to celebrate the Spring Festival. Because Canton is one of the warmest cities in China, its climate at the end of winter is always warm enough to keep flowers and the variety is great enough to combine each kind of flower in many ways. Customarily, Cantonese people like choosing the flowers with warm colours or those with the... »

  When Canton was the major destiny of the Over-sea Silk Way, there was an Islamic missionary who arrived in Canton and built a mosque in the year 627 A.D., with financial supports of the them Arabian immigrants in the city. In the mosque, there was a tower which also functioned as a light-house for the sailing shops coming into the Pearl River. Nowadays, people can only see that the tower is... »