What ingredients are basically eaten only by China people in the world, and others seldom eat them or even eat them at all?

When I was doing business in Shenzhen ten years ago, I often dealt with some foreigners. Because of the excellent quality of the company's products, I have business dealings with many foreign companies, and from time to time foreigners invite me to do as the Romans do to eat steak. Presumably, in the eyes of foreigners in Europe and America, steak is a relatively high-end atmospheric food.

A medium-rare steak is often eaten inside, and you can see faint blood. As a Sichuanese, my love for food is beyond doubt. I was not used to it when I first ate it, and even thought that the medium-rare steak was a bit difficult to swallow. Later, I got used to it, and I can freely eat my medium-rare steak, but I feel that there is indeed a great difference between Chinese and western food cultures.

For example, there are many delicious foods in China that foreigners can't eat at all.

Braised pork intestines is a very famous local food in our hometown, but foreigners don't like it, not only pork intestines, but also pigs and pig offal in the water.

It is said that not only the pig's internal organs, but also the internal organs of other animals are disliked by foreigners.

But I am particularly curious about why foreigners who don't like viscera like to eat foie gras so much, and even sell it at sky-high prices.

Pig excrement bean root, also known as houttuynia cordata, is a traditional Chinese medicine and a cold dish in Sichuan. People in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan especially like to eat, and the main method is cold salad.

In Guangdong, it is also useful to make soup with broken ears. The main purpose is not to know if there is anything fishy. The ear root itself has a unique smell. Is it anti-poison?

This kind of auricularia auricula root with special taste, we mainly take the most tender tip, which can be cooled and tender after blanching. But let alone foreigners, many foreigners don't like eating.

Preserved eggs are also the favorite food of China people, especially preserved eggs of Songhua, which are very delicious.

However, preserved eggs have a special fishy smell, which is probably the main reason why foreigners can't accept it.

Friends who often watch Tik Tok should know that many foreign students often take out this kind of preserved egg when sharing their hometown food with their classmates abroad. So far, I haven't seen foreigners challenge to eat preserved eggs successfully.

Chicken feet can be said to be a kind of leisure snack in China, which is loved by the whole people. It looks so attractive from the outside that people can't stop after reading it, and their appetite is greatly increased.

Even the young lady who is shopping can't help being reserved, eating and shopping with chicken feet in one hand.

I don't know why foreigners don't like this food.

Looking at such a long hairy tofu, is it starting to drool? Basically, tofu with such long hair is almost enough.

Wrap it in wine and then wrap it in seasoning powder. In my hometown, I will wrap cabbage leaves, marinate them in a glass jar and eat them slowly.

This kind of hairy tofu is actually a fungus, and foreigners will never like it.

Chinese food is extensive and profound, and there are too many delicious foods. As the most populous country in the world, there are countless delicious foods. Real foreigners can only eat a small part of the delicious food, and most of them are not lucky enough to eat it.

Hello, everyone, I'm Lan Ji, winner of Qingyun Project in the food field, and I'll answer your questions.

I read many people's answers. They think that the foods that foreigners don't eat are really varied, but in fact, if we can really understand the world food culture in depth, the foods are actually interlinked, and China people are not alone in eating.

(English stewed pig offal)

When I was in London, England, there was a restaurant that claimed that eating from pig's head to pig's tail would not be wasted at all. As for the pig's large intestine, it is simply pediatrics, and foreigners eat as much as you. Only Americans eat less guts. Live a good life for others, who eats the internal organs if there is meat?

(Spanish crispy pork knuckle)

But what about other countries? Spain and Portugal have eaten flowers from pork, not to mention the large intestine of pigs. They can even find a way to eat pig bladder. Besides, we usually use pig pancreas as soap and seldom eat it, right?

In addition, every city in Germany has its own sausage culture. What's for filling sausages? Isn't it pig intestines? In addition, Italy has stewed sheep liver, Georgia has stewed pig ears, and foreigners eat chop suey as well as us.

(Creole roast pig's trotters in the hinterland of the southern United States)

As for pig's feet, not only Spain and Portugal, but all Latin America is delicious. In recent years, with the influx of model workers into the United States, many Americans began to chew their hooves. How can they not eat?

(Japanese-style roasted chicken feet)

Don't think that foreign countries are the United States or western developed countries. The world is vast. Where there is wealth, there is poverty. Rich places eat chicken, and poor places swallow chicken feathers.

(Roasted chicken feet in Argentina)

So chicken feet have a good market abroad, such as Mexico, South America, Ireland, Black Sea countries, Turkey and Argentina. Besides, is Southeast Asia a foreign country? Which country eats chicken feet worse than China?

(Turkish cuisine roasted chicken feet)

The combined population of these countries is almost 60% to 70% of that of China, so chicken feet are just a very common food.

Are you kidding? Coriander is imported from foreign countries. How can foreigners not eat? Europe, America, Asia and Australia, I really don't know which country doesn't eat coriander. How funny!

(Tacos with Welissa Gonzaga sauce)

There are two theories about the introduction of coriander, one is the introduction of Zhang Qian into the Western Regions, and the other is the introduction from India. But no matter what kind of statement, it is certain that coriander is an exotic product, and its hometown is in the Middle East now. These people may have never eaten Turkish food, or seldom eat western food. I don't know that coriander and coriander are the most common decorative seasonings in these two cuisines. No less than garlic and chopped green onion.

(traditional Indian Martha sauce with rice cake)

Rapeseed is indispensable for any kind of masala sauce in India. Coriander is indispensable for eating at ordinary times. Southeast Asian Thai food, Burmese food, Vietnamese food, what is less parsley?

(Peruvian pickled fish with lime juice)

Coming across the ocean to South America, whether it's pickled fish in Peru or tacos in Mexico, coriander is a very important ingredient.

(Houttuynia cordata is also found in burritos. )

By the way, South America also eats houttuynia cordata. Especially Mexico, Colombia and Peru. The houttuynia cordata they eat is very similar to our Yunguichuan. They are all chopped, mixed with Chili powder, green peppers and various seasonings and rolled into tortillas or bibimbap. Therefore, Houttuynia cordata Thunb is not a unique edible variety in China.

(Korean Chili bean curd)

China regards tofu as a national food. In fact, tofu is regarded as a national dish in Korea and Japan. According to the latest statistics, the per capita consumption of tofu in South Korea and Japan has surpassed that in China. South Korea and Japan add up to more than 200 million people.

(Tofu in Japanese cuisine)

In fact, tofu has set off a wave of healthy eating all over the world. Whether in Europe, America or third world countries, tofu is a natural and healthy symbolic food. This is mainly because the cuisines of China, Japan and South Korea are blooming all over the world.

In the west, with the rise of vegetarianism, many people eat tofu. Tofu is no longer a patented food in China, Japan and South Korea, and the army that eats tofu will become stronger and stronger in the near future.

There are so many examples above, not to say that I have any superiority. I still want everyone to understand the fact that the world is more and more open now, and any food can find its own foothold. But it's more just that different countries have different dietary customs.

What we need to look for is the difference between Chinese and foreign food customs, not from strangeness, but from curiosity. Starting with his eating habits, this is the right direction.

For example, as we all know, both China people and foreigners eat crabs, and foreigners eat crabs worse than China people. However, people in China have a soft spot for crab roe, which is regarded as the true essence of crab. But foreigners will never touch crab roe, because it looks like shit.

Secondly, people in China like to cook rice porridge with pickles or fried dough sticks, which is very comfortable to eat. But foreigners don't understand this very well. Why not just cook? Why do you cook it so mushy? So except for some countries in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, there will be no porridge in other regions.

There are also, for example, auricularia auricula and tremella. Except China, few people abroad will eat it. Because foreigners think, why do you people in China even eat plastic bags? Actually, it's a fungus. All countries eat mushrooms. This is also the difference in eating habits.

I know an Israeli buddy, and one day he suddenly called me by video. Ask me how to make that devil sandwich. I didn't react at the moment. So he danced with me: China's steamed bread with devil's eggs. I understood in an instant. Say to him, you go to China supermarket to buy some steamed bread, buy some preserved eggs, chop them up, mix them with soy sauce, and then eat them with steamed bread.

You see, foreigners don't eat preserved eggs, they just don't know how to eat this devil's egg. In fact, with soy sauce and sesame oil, his taste is different.

Even in China, only Yunguichuan likes to eat after washing, and other provinces stink, let alone foreigners!

It is normal that foreigners don't eat a lot of food that we think is delicious. It's normal for one side to feed one side, and the food culture in different regions of China is very different, not to mention transnational.

The following are the foods that only China people like to eat:

It should be almost there. Welcome to comment and add!

What ingredients are basically eaten only by China people in the world, and others seldom eat them or even eat them at all?

Some foods are very popular at home and abroad, such as potatoes, but some foods are very popular in China, but foreigners seldom eat or don't eat them except us China people abroad. Here are a few simple examples to illustrate.

1. Viscera, yes, all kinds of viscera. Maybe many people in China like to eat internal organs, especially pork intestines, duck gizzards and chicken gizzards. They are very delicious and not cheap, so they can be eaten with wine. But for foreigners, they may not understand these foods, and they don't understand why we eat food like internal organs.

Chicken feet and duck feet, chicken feet and duck feet are very common in our daily life. It can be soaked, pickled and fried. When I was a child, I often blushed because I ate chicken feet and duck feet, which shows its popularity, but for foreigners, they don't eat these.

3. Preserved eggs, I think of a program that Belle participated in. I dare to eat anything in it, except preserved eggs. But for us in China, preserved eggs are also delicious, which can be eaten directly or cold.

Perhaps different regions have created different eating habits among people, and there are also foods that foreigners like to eat but we dare not eat or don't like, so we can understand what they dare not eat.

China's food culture has a long history. It is said that "there is no food that China people don't eat". Of course, this is not absolute, just like saying that foreigners can't get used to China food, but it takes a process to accept it.

The flounder summed up that the ingredients that foreigners can't accept, on the one hand, taste strange, on the other hand, are more troublesome to eat.

Many people who don't eat coriander will describe the taste of coriander as a little smelly, soapy and musty. I have to say that these people have a really keen sense of smell. No wonder foreigners can't accept it.

As the name implies, Houttuynia cordata has a fishy smell, and we are trying to get rid of this fishy smell when cooking fish. It is common sense that it is unacceptable.

Bitter gourd is a kind of food that can clear away heat and reduce fire. But bitter gourd eats in your mouth and goes straight to your forehead, sometimes you can't help shivering. Of course, foreign friends don't want to "ask for it".

The color of preserved eggs is dark brown at first, and foreigners have very different impressions of eggs. In addition, after cutting, the yolk inside becomes sticky and dark gray because of pickling, which looks like chicken excrement. Finally, it tastes a bit like rotten food. So these three points are hard for foreigners to accept.

The strong smell of stinky tofu is not allowed to be carried in public, and acceptable foreigners also need great courage.

Eating melon seeds is a patient thing. It seems that foreigners are not good at it. They think that melon seeds have shells and they can't start.

Foreigners think that chicken feet are always trampled on the ground, which is very unclean, and there are more bones and less meat, which is troublesome to eat and has low nutritional value.

China's diet is extensive and profound, and there are many things that foreigners can't understand! Many foreigners are afraid to try delicious food, or have no way to start. China people, on the other hand, are "handy" in cooking and like to eat.

First of all, chicken feet

Because chicken feet have less meat, foreigners' cooking methods are too single. If they bake or fry chicken feet, they will be more unpalatable, so foreigners generally don't eat chicken feet! Basically, they are exported to China and made into many popular snacks by domestic food processing enterprises.

Because there are imported cheap chicken feet, so there are so many processed chicken feet with pickled peppers and braised chicken feet on the market. In fact, this is a good thing for China to eat goods!

Second, bones

You should find that even pork is so expensive today. Many canteen bones are eaten casually, and there is no price increase or closing.

Because these businesses choose imported, low-priced frozen bones, and there is really a lot of meat on these bones. Maybe foreigners can't even chew the meat on the bones.

Third, fish head

With the popularity of fish heads with chopped peppers, some fish heads in China are in short supply. Then add imported sole head, which was very cheap at first, but now it is more expensive because of our contribution!

I remember when foreign trade enterprises used to export aquatic products. Not only fish heads, but also fish skins and fishbones are basically left by-products of processing, and the price can be said to be very cheap. Actually, these are all delicious.

Four. internal organs

You may find a strange phenomenon, why the cooked mutton offal and beef offal sold in the market are so cheap. But some fresh mutton offal and beef offal in China are very expensive. In fact, most of these cheap cooked internal organs are not eaten by foreigners.

The most obvious ones are pig's large intestine and pig's trotters, which rarely appear in foreign recipes because they don't have our "perfect" cooking technology. So these foods can only enter the mouth of China people.

Our vast land is rich in natural resources, and one fifth of the population on this planet lives here, so if we want to compare with food, we really have no rivals, so we have many foods that people in other places rarely eat, or even have never eaten or seen.

The reason why these foods are only eaten by us and rarely eaten by people in other places is basically the following four categories. Let's summarize and share it.

China has a vast territory and abundant natural resources, so there are many exotic vegetables that are rare or even absent in other places. Some of them, not to mention foreigners, are not enjoyed by many of us. The following focuses on two kinds.

① Folding ear root

Osmunda japonica , also known as Houttuynia cordata. It is more common in the south of the Yangtze River, because it likes fertile sand and humus. It is especially popular in Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan. It can be called "stinky tofu in the dish". The more people you like, the more fragrant you are. People who don't like it may be unbearable, so don't say foreigners, not even ourselves.

② leek

Leek, also known as "Qiyangcao" and "Pingcai", is a characteristic vegetable with fresh and tender taste but extremely strong smell. For many of us, leek is a delicious food with unique taste. It is the seed player of the "king of vegetarian dishes" in barbecue stalls, a popular choice among traditional steamed buns and jiaozi, and even the ultimate delicious way to eat leek boxes. However, although leek is not as unique as broken ears, its strong fragrance is enough to convince a large number of people.

There are many kinds of expensive food, some are nutritious, some are expensive, some are delicious, and some are expensive because they are rare or "too high", just like diamonds (actually diamonds are not rare). Here are two examples.

① shark fin

Shark fin, also known as golden thread dish, is filamentous cartilage in the pectoral fin, caudal fin and dorsal fin of sharks. It has no taste in itself, and tastes a bit like vermicelli. Its nutrition is not as good as the flesh and blood on the barbecue stall. In ancient times, it became one of the top treasures because of its rarity and difficulty in obtaining. However, with the improvement of people's knowledge about environmental protection and food nutrition, refusing to eat shark fin has become a kind of knowledge.

② Bird's nest

Bird's Nest should be regarded as a strange existence among all ingredients, and its essence is the saliva mixture of Swift and Jin Siyan. However, the label of "rare" and "precious" is expensive. In fact, sialic acid (bird's nest acid) in bird's nest is not precious, because our human body naturally exists and does not need to be supplemented; Epidermal factor and colony stimulating factor can't affect us through diet, just like the embarrassing situation of collagen.

In our kitchen in China, it can be said that there are almost no ingredients that will be wasted, such as by-products of various meat animals. In many countries, these parts may be discarded directly, and we can cook them even better than meat. Here are two examples.

① Chicken feet, pig feet, etc.

Chicken feet and trotters are my favorite ingredients. Whether it's marinated, roasted or cold, it's delicious. Almost only we can cook them so delicious. The famous German trotters actually only use elbows instead of trotters. In fact, chicken feet and pig feet are not made, and by-products such as duck intestines, pork bellies and fat intestines are also special foods that almost only we know how to eat.

② Fish head, fish glue, etc.

We should be the only people in the world who specialize in eating fish heads and fish glue. These things that are not delicious or edible in the eyes of others are even more delicious and popular than the fish itself. In some restaurants, fish heads can be a specialty to attract guests.

There is a saying that "many hands make light work", so natural wisdom is greater when there are many people. In this long history of food, we have created many amazing foods. Here are two examples. You can also comment and share the strange food in your hometown. ① preserved eggs

Preserved eggs, also known as preserved eggs, are one of our most famous "dark delicacies". The principle of preserved eggs is that some alkaline chemicals combine with amino acids that make up protein through the eggshell, which will form crystalline amino acid salts, so there will be beautiful "pine blossoms" on the surface of preserved eggs. However, ammonia gas will be produced in this process, and preserved eggs will also contain alkaline substances, so it is most suitable to eat with aged vinegar, which not only has a refreshing taste, but also neutralizes alkalinity.

② Tofu

Tofu is one of the greatest inventions of our food, and it can be said that there is none. The appearance of bean products, such as tofu, directly changed the embarrassing position of soybean, especially in ancient times when there was not enough meat, which gave people a brand-new source of protein and changed eating soybean from "bitter" to delicious. It can be said that the elegance, taste, tolerance and implication of tofu represent the dietary philosophy of China people to some extent!

So the above is "only China people eat, others seldom eat or even eat ingredients". If you know any qualified ingredients, please comment and share with us!

Nowadays, the traffic is relatively developed, and food from all over the world circulates with each other. Many foods in China are very popular in foreign countries, such as spicy strips, Laoganma sauce, roast duck and steamed buns. However, due to different cultural backgrounds, many foods, such as mandarin fish, preserved eggs, crayfish, carp, chicken feet, pig feet and chicken wings, are not eaten. Today I will share the reasons why foreigners don't eat these foods.

1: smelly fish