Even though China and India are next to each other, but why they create a very totally different food?!

I hope you know that the Himalayas is located right on the boarder between China and India. If Himalayas didn't stop you, traveling across Tibet won't be an easy task. If you travel through the other way, the jungles of Burma would swallow most if not all travelers. If you sail, you must go south and sail through Singapore straight then circle back up north to reach China. If you weren't swallowed by the sea, the pirates probably will. Those waters were infested with pirates.

Before railroads and air planes became widely available, traveling between India and China isn't fun at all.

You are talking about American- Chinese food.

If you go to China, you'll find that even they have different eating habits.

There are Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine and Guangdong cuisine. These styles are distinctive from one another due to factors such as available resources, climate, geography, history, cooking techniques and lifestyle. One style may favour the use of lots of garlic and shallots over lots of chilli and spices, while another may favour preparing seafood over other meats and fowl. Jiangsu cuisine favours cooking techniques such as braising and stewing, while Sichuan cuisine employs baking, scalding, and wrapping, just to name a few. Hairy crab is a highly sought after local delicacy in Shanghai, as it can be found in lakes within the region. Beijing Roast Duck is another popular dish which is well known outside China. Based on the raw materials and ingredients used, the method of preparation, and cultural differences, a variety of foods with different flavours and textures are prepared in different regions of the country. Many traditional regional cuisines rely on basic methods of preservation such as drying, salting, pickling and fermentation .

When you go to India, that's another story.

You are again thinking in terms of American- Indian cuisine.

Most Indian cuisines are related by similiar usage of spices. Often, Indian cooking is distinguished by the use of a larger variety of vegetables than many other well-known cuisines. Within these recognisable similarities, there is an enormous variety of local styles.


As a land that has experienced extensive immigration and intermingling through many millennia, India's cuisine has benefited from numerous food influences. In the north and the west, Kashmiri and Mughlai cuisines show strong central Asian influences. Through the medium of Mughlai food, this influence has propagated into many regional kitchens. To the east, the Bengali and Assamese styles shade off into the cuisines of East Asia.

The cuisine of India is characterized by the use of various spices, herbs and other vegetables grown in India and also for the widespread practice of vegetarianism across many sections of its society. Each family of Indian cuisine is characterized by a wide assortment of dishes and cooking techniques. As a consequence, it varies from region to region, reflecting the varied demographics of the ethnically diverse Indian subcontinent.

Their cultures are very different and so is their food, but they do mix up some of their foods! Manchurian (spelling?) is this delicious Chinese/indian food! also indians have Chinese that has some indian spices in it!
i don't know about china but india deffinatly has some Chinese influence.. =)

Because I think that they have their own cuisines and different speciality. May be is there less different between the food of USA and Canada, because they both eat Western food. But if you compare American/Western food with Mexican food, then I think you have to read my first sentence (again).

Because they are a different race. Different culture. They were brought up on different foods.
Different things grow in India then in China.
You can live in NYC and travel 6 hours to West Virginia and see foods you never saw before!

it's because they are two different countries with different cultures, different people and everything else is different.

Geography, culture, local plants/animals, resources, economy, climate.....

Not sure what you mean.
American food and Mexican food are one and the same.