We can look at the most common western food of rice, paella. Authentic paella is raw rice for us. We don't like it, but many foreigners like this delicious rice.
In fact, foreigners don't like to eat rice in their eating habits. In nutrition, foreigners think that rice is an empty calorie food, and eating it in large quantities will cause obesity. This is why many foreigners care about a question, "Why do China people eat rice instead of getting fat?" The problem. In many cases, foreigners will think that rice is a kind of "vegetable" rather than our staple food.
In many cases, when foreigners eat Chinese food, white rice is often not their favorite food, and it is often left behind because they are not used to eating rice, a tasteless food. We can look at the rice food that appears abroad, the most famous one is fried rice, which is cooked with a lot of food and sauce. What's the significance of rice in Chinese food? As the foreign netizen said, rice has no obvious taste, but in Chinese food, we don't just eat rice, and rice doesn't appear singly. For example, cooking is the standard of rice, and we are used to cooking with rice. Here, rice is particularly important. It will be even more delicious when paired with food such as stir-fried dishes, which will not make people feel greasy, and it will also make people feel full and will not be hungry soon.