What's the difference between western food and Chinese food?

the so-called western food generally refers to the western cooking culture represented by Italian food and French food in western Europe. Italy, France, Austria, Belgium and other western catering cultures have their own characteristics, but they all have distinct similarities. If we want to understand the difference between Chinese and western catering culture, we must grasp its uniqueness and ignore its characteristics. The author has lived in Europe for many years, and has been deeply impressed by these two catering cultures, but he has always been stubborn. One day, I suddenly became enlightened by chatting with a compatriot who often travels between China and Europe. The core difference between Chinese food and western food lies in these points. A, dining table-square table and round table Chinese dining table is a round table (new fast food and snack bar is another matter for the time being), and western dining table is a square table-a round side, highlighting culture. It is an important communication behavior for China people to eat in restaurants. Generally, one person pays for the host, and everyone gathers around a round table to talk about heaven and earth, which is convenient for communication and communication. Generally, eating and drinking several times is an important basis for measuring the depth of friendship. Round table is obviously the best way to eat for communication, which contributes to this communicative dining culture. Western restaurants are also social occasions, but they focus on one-on-one communication. A square table is only about one meter wide, and the opposite guests can reach it. When talking, the eyes are opposite, sincere and single-minded. By the way, Europeans always stare into each other's eyes when talking, and never get distracted. It is considered disrespectful to talk to the other person while responding to the other person next to you, or to talk to others sideways. The square table just solves this problem. Chinese food, you can know a group of friends at a time, and western food, you may only know one person. China has been a feudal autocracy for thousands of years. No matter whether it is a meeting or an office, it is always a high-ranking official sitting on the stage, making speeches, listening attentively and taking notes carefully, for fear of missing a word. No way, the position is given by the superior, and the future is in the hands of one person. If you show some disrespect, it will not ruin your future. Although there is a difference in position when eating at the round table. But when eating, big people have to be approachable and don't look too ugly, so that big people themselves have an appetite! Little people can also dare to say something that doesn't hurt or itch. The distance between superiors and subordinates seems to have narrowed a lot, although there are still primary and secondary ones. Western countries pay attention to democracy, and meetings are basically round tables. The chief position is not the chief executive, but the moderator. In this way, everyone can speak freely and fully embody democracy in form. When eating, no matter how big or small the official is, two people are equal and opposite at close range, which is precisely the continuation of equality and respect! China used to have a square table. In the past, when the emperors or generals of China gave a big banquet for guests and friends, the chairman was on the high platform of the hall and took charge of the overall situation. The guests are one head lower and one person at a table. The middle field is empty, and the emperor gives you a song and dance performance. Respect and inferiority, expensive and practice, be clear at a glance. You can enjoy delicious food and don't talk nonsense; If there is no drum music and singing and dancing, eating will be depressing! Compared with the past, today's round table has made a big step forward! B, dishes, separate meals and * * * enjoy Chinese food as soon as possible, and enjoy one dish * * *; Western food comes slowly, one for each person. Chinese food embodies a communicative thought of China people: share weal and woe! The concrete embodiment is that one pot eats and one plate eats vegetables. Generally speaking, China people are quick-thinking and quick-moving. After serving three or four dishes, at the command, everyone pushed a cup for a change, and the wind swept away. In the end, I don't know how much vegetables and meat I ate; I remember a few kilograms and bottles of wine clearly. To put it bluntly, the meaning of eating is not eating but drinking, and the meaning of drinking is not drinking but making friends. It doesn't matter how much money you spend and how much wine you drink for a meal. What matters is that everyone is happy, just to make a fuss. Eat and drink if you want, just be happy. You're not drunk. I'm not drunk. He's not drunk. He's always upset! Westerners pay attention to everything seriously. How much meat you eat, how much vegetables you drink and how much wine you drink at a meal should be quantified to everyone to ensure nutrition and health. Even a group banquet, in addition to the buffet, is still a person, a road. In addition to meat, vegetables and other main courses, there are many others such as bread, fruit and snacks. Eat a dinner slowly, eat full, and fill every gap in the gastrointestinal tract. It doesn't matter if you are not hungry after a full meal, and it doesn't matter if you don't eat for two or three meals. Please note that bread is an indispensable staple food for westerners, and it also has another function, which is to clean dishes. Every Italian will wipe off the oil stains on the bottom of the plate with a slice of bread, and make sure the plate shines like it has just been washed. Drinking is only to accompany the meal, and it is generally not mixed. One glass of red wine at a time is enough. After raising a glass once or twice in a group, you will no longer persuade people to drink (Germans will drink more, and they will drink more when they are socializing)! Eat, eat out the respect for nature and the fruits of labor! And respect for the health of yourself and others! People in China eat for pleasure and delicious food. Westerners eat for health! China people like to say after dinner, this restaurant is good, this place is right today, and come again next time! As long as the restaurant is good and the cooking temperature and taste are well grasped, every dish will be authentic. Westerners will say that the mushrooms, steaks, goat meat or snails in this restaurant are delicious after eating western food, because they eat few dishes and can easily remember them clearly. Besides, the oil, salt and vinegar of western food are put on the table. Whether it is delicious or not is your own business! C, paying bills, AA and treating guests AA system, as we all know. In addition to the necessary banquets, westerners will go Dutch at ordinary parties. Who likes what, eat as much as they can. It is also very common for westerners to help each other in life. Regardless of relatives or friends, whether domestic or foreigners, everyone will take the initiative to help others, and no one will not do it. As for things beyond the scope of certain laws and regulations, no one has the privilege, no one can help anyone, and no one can ask for it. It is more pragmatic for everyone to "friends belong to friends and money belongs to money". In fact, China people also pay attention to clear accounts with their brothers. China people's face is a big deal. What does it mean that two people pay for a table of rice? So, just order the food and eat it, and the leftovers will show the atmosphere. The dishes are clean, and the guests have no face! One thing we have overlooked is that China people have been trying to solve the problem of food and clothing for hundreds of years. Now we have not had enough to eat for a few years, and how many people still don't have enough to eat! On the earth, perhaps only Chinese food has such a terrible, cruel and indifferent waste! D, tipping, whether to pay or not is also known to all. In the west, porters in restaurants, taxis and hotels have to pay tips. This is not difficult to understand. In the west, service personnel are respected. Anyone who can do it in person and needs help from others should make up for it by tipping. Therefore, there are basically no two occupations in western countries: inserting leather shoes and bathing workers-the wages are easy to calculate, and the tips cannot be paid. If you don't make trouble, the tip is higher than the salary. From the European point of view, inserting leather shoes is your own business; Taking a bath is a private matter, so how dare you let others do it for you? There is a puzzling phenomenon in Chinese restaurants in Europe: Chinese restaurants do not welcome China people, especially sightseeing groups. The specific performance is that the bosses and waiters look ugly! That means, we'll give you food if you come. If you want to go, go! The reason is that our group or people from mainland China basically don't tip! Think about it, it's the same service. People from European countries, Koreans and Thais in Asia, and even our compatriots in Taiwan Province all pay tips. Only mainland guests shout and leave without saying thank you. If it were you, you would have a good face? What's more, it is cruel to accept such facial muscles every day? Some people have thought about this problem, but on second thought, it doesn't matter if they are all from China. It's just that this idea is terrible: if we go to western restaurants abroad and don't pay when we enter Chinese restaurants, is it disrespectful to China people? We China people don't respect ourselves, who will respect us? I learned a lot about Korean food and Japanese food from Chinese food, and today it is very scientific and standardized. At least it's the same as western food. In terms of history alone, western food can't be compared with China, but it is also reasonable to learn from it. I'm sorry. No, I'm very sorry. Practice has proved that many ancient things with a long history may be advanced in the past and may be backward today. The back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave, and the rookie stands on the top of the wave. If a nation can put down its airs and improve its cultural traditions, it is really the best. As far as Chinese food is concerned, first of all, we must forcefully promote the sharing of meals, drink in moderation, and resolutely put an end to waste. Then we should respect the service and pay tips frequently! Of course, to do this is not simply a matter of promotion and publicity, but the core is a fundamental change in social atmosphere!