The list of the top 8 food and drink inventions discovered by Chinese people is given below.

Three Meals. Confucius advocated three meals practice of breakfast, lunch and dinner. And the custom of three meals a day has been in use for more than 20 centuries in China, until the present time.

Salt Production. The Chinese didn’t “invent” salt. They first produced salt by boiling brine water and used it for commercial purposes, which laid the basis as salt as a currency in other parts of the world.

Vegetarian. Buddhists were prohibited from killing animals and began eating vegetarian food.

Tea Production. Tea was first considered a medicinal beverage. It was around 300 BCE when, tea became a daily drink.

Chopsticks. Chopsticks are eating utensils consisting of a set of two tapered sticks.

Ice Cream. The origins of ice cream date back to China’s Tang period (618-906 CE), probably as a dish for the country’s rulers.

Bean curd. Bean curd, also called Tofu, is a food made by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into soft white blocks. Tofu originated in ancient China some 2,000 years ago.

Wine Production. Ancient Chinese were the first to discover wine and invent the technique of making wine and liquor. Judging from the wine vessels in archaeological sites, wine making probably started in the period of the Yangshao culture, about 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.