Yue is also named Cantonese cuisine, originally from Lingnan and developed from Guangzhou cuisine, Chaozhou cuisine and Gongjiang local cuisine. Yue has a large influence in Chinese food outside due to the great numbers of early immigrants from Guangdong.

Yue cuisine incorporates all edible meats, including offal, chicken feet, duck’s tongue, snakes, etc. Many cooking methods are used, such as steaming, stir frying, shallow frying, deep frying, etc. For many traditional Yue cuisine, the flavors of a finished dish should be well balanced and not greasy.