Believe me, at this moment, northerners want to kill southerners for this more than China haters want to kill China.
I am aware of this and honestly I come from Northern roots too and I feel disgusted with Cantonese people because of these same reasons. But it doesn't matter unless the government passes policies that will destroy these conditions and habits. That's the only way to prevent a virus from this from arising again.
In the North, most people eat meats from large animals like cows, lamb, pigs etc because there is a lot of grazing territory. The strangest thing that would be eaten by some people in Northern China would be donkey meat maybe. But in Southern China which is filled with mountainous territories, rivers and had many tribal groups that were later sinicized in history, they eat all kinds of small animals.
From what I noticed a lot of the Northern dishes have from neighboring regions like Mongolia and Siberia[/QUOTE]
Yeah basically. Northern Chinese food is considered more simple and hardy, and the people are not so obsessed with food as the South. Which isn't a bad thing at least they know their limits and don't try to eat every living thing.