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In the eyes of Westerners，the staple food which is closest to Chinese people is rice.For a long time，rice has occupied so important/significant a position in the diet of Chinese that there is a saying/proverb that“even a clever housewife cannot cook a meal without rice”.Rice is grown mostly in the south of China where people usually take rice as their staple food，while it cannot be planted in most parts of North China where the climate is either too cold or too dry for rice to grow.As a result，the main crop in the north is wheat.In China，flour is sometimes the main ingredient for bread but more often used to make steamed buns and noodles.

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