customs on eating
food between china and western countries are totally differentstyles. china has 5000 years history. we probably spend half oftime on food. chinese people choice food very carefully. they onlyuse fresh material to make food. for example they only eat freshfish. chinese have a lot of ideas and techniques for cooking. wecan cook a chicken in over ten ways. that’s why chinese food is sopopular in the world. western country like english or american,they don’t have fresh food because they buy their food fromsupermarket which only sells stored materials. western people wouldalso prefer fast food like burgers and chips. they are unhealthy tohuman body. western people do not have many skills for cooking,mostly they only boil, steam and bake the food. by the way, westernpeople are very good at making desert and chocolate. they can makevery good cake and chocolate. they are very sweet but it’s sort offood which make you become fat quickly.
in china if you invite people for meal, the person who invitedother people would pay for the meal but it’s not the way in westerncountry. in western country people will think you only invited mebut it’s not your responsibility to pay for me. i can afford it.they won’t be happy if you pay for them. people in china wouldalways put dishes into customer’s plate to show their hospitality,but they will think it’s not healthy because your chopsticks havebeen used by you. in western coountry like america not england,people will always give tips to waiter after they finished meal ina restaurant. if you don’t they will not be happy because tips areone of their major income. in china this only happen in some toprestaurants and hotels in large international cities like beijing,shanghai and guangzhou. western people will also think you are rudeif you make sound during the meal. western people do not hold theirbowl up even when they have a bowl of soup.
there is also a huge difference between chinese and western people.chinese people use chopsticks and western people use fork andknife. usually people who use fork and knife will use fork to holdthe meat and cut it by knife and use fork to help to get that pieceof meat into mouse. chinese just use chopstick to pick things andpass it into your mouse.
chinese people only have three meals during a day. but westernpeople will have more, they have afternoon tea. usually they wouldhave fruits, homemade cake, tea (black tea) or biscuit with cheese.if you are a housewife and have a lot of time, you may have morningtea as well.
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飲食習慣
中國和西方國家的飲食風格完全不一樣。中國有五千年的歷史。我們可能花了一半的時間在飲食上。中國人非常細心的選擇飲食。他們僅選擇新鮮的物料做食物。例如，他們只吃新鮮的魚。在做飯上中國人有許多的想法和技巧。我們能用十多種方法做一隻雞，這就是中國食物在全世界如此出名的原因。西方國家像英國或美國，他們沒有新鮮的食物因為他們只能從超市購買儲藏的物品，西方人也喜歡快餐像漢堡包和炸土豆條。他們對人的身體是不健康的，在做食物上西方人沒有太多的技巧。他們大多數僅用沸水煮、蒸汽和烘烤食物。隨便說，西方人擅長做乾燥的食物和朱古力。他們能做許多蛋糕和朱古力，除了其他幾種以外他們喜歡甜食，很快的使他們肥胖。
在中國如果你邀請人去進餐，被邀請的其他人將會支付吃飯的錢但在西方國家不會這樣。在西方國家人們僅僅感謝你邀請我但為我付款不是你的責任，我能支付它。如果你為他們付了他們將會不高興。中國人總是將他們盤子裡的菜夾進客人的盤子去表示他們的好客，但是他們會認為你用過的筷子是不健康的。在西方國家想美國和英格蘭，人們在餐廳進完餐以後總是給服務員小費。如果你不給他們將會不高興因為這是他們最主要的收入之一。在中國這些僅僅發生在一些大國際城市的高級餐廳和酒店像北京，上海，廣州。如果在進餐過程中大聲說話西方人將認為你是無禮的。西方人甚至當他們有一大碗湯時都不會舉起他們的碗。
這就是中國人與西方人一個巨大差別。中國人使用筷子而西方人使用叉和刀，使用叉和刀的人們常常用叉插住食物並用刀去切它再用叉將小塊的食物放進嘴裡。中國人僅僅用筷子將食物夾進嘴裡。
中國人一天僅有三餐。但西方人有更多，他們有午茶，他們常常有水果，家常蛋糕，茶或乳酪餅乾。如果你是一個家庭主婦而且有很多時間，你可能還有早茶。