Differences between Japanese food and China food.

A Japanese mother, if there is a middle school student at home, the first task after getting up is to make a box lunch. In primary school, the school usually provides lunch, but once in middle school, with the diversification of eating habits, students usually bring lunch boxes from home to school. Japanese schools in Beijing are basically the same.

I heard that Japanese middle school students are going to bring lunch boxes to school, and China people will definitely say, Ah, there must be hot meals service in that school. I replied, no, no microwave oven, no steamer, I just eat. This time, Chinese mothers will be great. They were scared to death. On the one hand, pointing to your stomach will hurt your stomach! On the one hand, I was very considerate and blamed, why didn't the school provide lunch and why didn't the family send hot meals?

Eating cold rice and cold dishes seems inconceivable to a China person. In fact, the Japanese are used to it. There is a reason for this. First, Japanese food is not greasy. You can eat it when it is cold. Rice is also sticky Japanese rice, and its taste will not change after cooling. Japanese mothers living in Beijing look for cold rice with the same taste everywhere, and they have a headache every time. I buy the most expensive 2.30 yuan a catty of rice and cook it with a little glutinous rice. Once put, glutinous rice is delicious even if it is cold.

In Japan, there is a kind of food called "food prepared in curtains", which is a kind of box lunch, in which traditional Japanese Shi Huai delicacies such as assorted vegetables, roasted vegetables, boiled vegetables and rice are put in a box divided into several compartments. These boxes can be stacked together because of the cover. For example, after the meeting, when everyone wants to eat quickly, they call the Japanese restaurant and ask them to deliver the ten boxes of lunch in act as soon as possible. "Caught red-handed" is usually eaten cold. Something that doesn't heat up inside. Therefore, I hope that China readers will not get angry when they encounter "behind-the-scenes situations" after going to Japan, and mistakenly think that people are giving you cold meals. Moreover, there are high-end products worth 3,000 yen (about 200 RMB) behind the scenes, so the Japanese have no malice at all.

Japanese and China people still have different tastes about the temperature of drinks. Recently, more and more young people in China began to drink iced drinks in summer, but according to my observation, there are still a few people who drink a lot of cold drinks. My Japanese-Chinese Dictionary translated the Japanese word' cold' into' cold', which is quite different. In Chinese, drinks below room temperature are called cold drinks. If you drink drinks at the same room temperature in winter, domestic friends will remind you that drinking cold drinks is not good for your health, so you should heat them up. In Japanese, room temperature is not' cold' (that is,' cold' in Chinese), but what is put in the refrigerator is called' cold' drink. Moreover, Japanese people like to drink beer and drinks in the refrigerator both in summer and winter. When Japanese expatriates hold a banquet in China, if they want to ice beer and drinks, they must ask the restaurant to put the bottles in the refrigerator in advance, because everyone has learned the painful lesson of drinking beer at room temperature.

Also, in China, the staple food includes jiaozi and noodles, but for the Japanese, the staple food is white rice. Jiaozi is regarded as a dish in Japan, which is eaten with rice. As for noodles, it counts as a meal alone, and it doesn't count as food after eating. Generally speaking, Chinese food has a strong flavor, not just white rice that Japanese people can't eat. Most Japanese restaurants serve white rice on the dishes, not at the end.

Finally, let's talk about the taste of food. Many of my friends in China invited me to dinner at home, and I gradually understood that many people think that Japanese people don't eat spicy food. In fact, almost all modern Japanese like spicy food. What Japanese people can't eat is not salty food. Japanese people must put some salt in their food. The dishes with vinegar and sugar only taste hot and sour, that is, the dishes with vinegar and pepper only can't be eaten by the Japanese. Be sure to have salt or soy sauce. During the dinner, I occasionally tasted steamed bread with condensed milk or sweet fruit, which was really taken aback. Moreover, China porridge does not add salt, and Japanese people are used to adding a pinch of salt before drinking it. Because Japanese porridge must be slightly salty. In other words, sweet porridge does not exist in Japan. Japanese people will be dumbfounded when they see China people putting sugar into porridge. Speaking of sweets, there is nothing but dessert.