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Each clan has different foods that are associated with traditional meals in those lands. These variations will work their way into formal feasts.
- Crab - Crab cooking specializes in plentiful and hearty fare, especially fried foods and sturdy noodle dishes. A longer growing season means fresh vegetables year round. Crab chopsticks are of bamboo.
- Crane - Crane concern themselves with freshness and balance of flavor above all things. They eat thin noodles as well as fish and rice from their abundant lands. Crane chopsticks are made of fine woods, often different pairs for different seasons. Plum for winter, Cherry for spring, Kaya (a golden wood) for summer, and Maple for fall.
- Dragon - The Dragon have lands ill-suited for growing and long winters. They are famed for their pickled vegetables, and infamous for the "mountain tuna" or goat, which is scandalously eaten, but not referred to in polite company. The Dragon prefer plumwood chopsticks.
- Lion - Lion eat more noodles, poultry, and tofu than fish and rice, which is harder to procure. Kaya, white oak, and plum chopsticks are preferred.
- Phoenix - Most meals similar to the Crane, but their large forests have given rise to dishes where the food is wrapped in leaves and roasted during cooking. The Phoenix have fine chopsticks inlaid with different kinds of contrasting woods.
- Scorpion - Similar to the Lion in diet. They are inclined to use more spices to season their food, to disguise any off flavors that might have gotten into the meat. The Scorpion favor black or red lacquered chopsticks.
- Unicorn - The Unicorn are unafraid to eat red meat, including beef and pork. They will grill thin strips of meat on skewers and eat them with flatbreads over a fire, or boil it in broth hot pots. They enjoy fiery sauces. Eating red meat regularly does alter a human's body odor, making Unicorn engaging in their home cooking smell distasteful to those not used to it. In court, the Unicorn would abstain. The Unicorn enjoy chopsticks of exotic hardwoods if they can get them.