The former such as noodles, rice, jiaozi, all kinds of cooking and so on; The latter is like pickles and stinky tofu.
China people abide by tradition and culture.
Americans eat, to put it bluntly, there is only one way to eat: whether it is cooked or not, it can be heated with fire.
Like the most famous steak!
Americans admire science and innovation.
To put it bluntly, Japanese people don't eat it: A few years ago, a kind of "golden rice" was popular in Japan, which was to select some young girls, feed them with special bait, and then take out the excrement such as donkey excrement and eggs they left behind, maybe add some oil and salt like China people, add some peppers, stir them in a frying pan, or put them directly in the microwave oven like Americans. After that, it was popular to drink "boy urine"; Then there is "overcrowding" ...
What do the Japanese abide by?
Who knows!