What is the difference between Cantonese, Szechuan, Hunan, and Shanghai style Chinese food?

Question

What is the difference between Cantonese, Szechuan, Hunan, and Shanghai style Chinese food?

Answer 1

Don't you have time to go out? These foods take more than twenty years to figure out just by eating them twice a month or so. Maybe you wanted some-one to copy something from a web-site for you? I bought the Encyclopedia of Chinese Food for basic questions like that...still (after 10 years) not real sure.

Answer 2

Wow... such a complex question.  Cantonese styled foods are more milder than the rest. Shanghai style foods use sugar in their soy sauces, also they like to use vinegar and sesame oil.  I'm not sure about Hunan and Szechuan but I believe that Hunan used quite a lot of shallots and garlic and Szechuan is spicy and hot. I'm more familiar with Taiwanese and Cantonese style Chinese foods so I may not be so much help.