In the eyes of Westerners, the basic food that is the closest contact with
China is rice. For a long time, rice in Chinese people's diet occupy very
important position that proverb says "make bricks without straw", South China
mostly cultivated rice, people usually take the rice as the staple food; and
most of North China because it is too cold and dry to grow rice, where the main
crop is wheat. In China, some people make bread with flour, but most people make
bread and noodles with flour.