The Chinese cuisine is eaten all around the world but most people don’t know where the food they are eating comes from or how it originated. Chinese food that most people eat around the world was the food eaten by the poor thousands of years ago. Modern Chinese food is often made with small strips of meat in rice. People in ancient China did this because there was often a shortage of wood. This meant ancient Chinese people weren’t able to cook food for long amounts of time and smaller strips of meat took less time to cook. This was also done because meat in ancient China was very expensive and 9 days out of 10 the average person couldn’t afford it. Another way the ancient Chinese got the most of out of their food was when they cooked it with rice to get more flavor out of it.