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It’s probably not news that Chinese food is more popular in B.C. than in any other Canadian province.

That’s to be expected considering B.C. is home to so many people of Chinese descent and is closer to China than any other province. Proximity to a nation generally means proximity to its cuisine, and when it’s as delicious as Chinese food, proximity becomes proclivity quite quickly.

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More surprising, then, is that B.C. is also Canada’s capital of Mexican food. Considering B.C. has no distinct geographic advantage over other provinces here, Mexico being generally south of the whole bunch, that seems notable.

Both of these facts come courtesy of a new analysis from recipe website Chef’s Pencil, which looked at the most popular cuisines in Canada, both by province and by city. The study, released on Wednesday, uses data from Google Trends to find out how the cuisines of the world rank from coast to coast.