First, the concept of food is different, for example, Westerners focus on nutrition, Chinese people focus on flavor.

Secondly, there are differences in the way we eat, such as Westerners focusing on socializing and Chinese focusing on atmosphere and pleasure.

Three, different eating habits, such as Westerners are accustomed to using knives and forks, the Chinese are accustomed to using chopsticks

Four, different food environment, such as Westerners focus on the exquisite, the Chinese focus on the rehearsal

Five, different dietary tastes, such as the Westerners eat sweets, the Chinese people are mostly salty.

Catering products due to regional characteristics, climate and environment, customs and other factors, there will be in the raw materials, flavors, cooking methods, eating habits of different degrees of difference. It is because of these differences, food and beverage products have a strong regional nature. Differences between Chinese and Western cultures create differences between Chinese and Western food culture, and this difference comes from the different ways of thinking and philosophies of the world. The Chinese focus on the "unity of mankind", while the Westerners focus on the "people-oriented".

Here is a brief discussion of the differences in food culture between China and the West from the following three aspects.

One, two different dietary concepts

Contrasting with the Chinese diet, which focuses on "taste", the West is a rational dietary concept. Regardless of the color, aroma, taste and shape of the food, nutrition must be guaranteed, and how many calories, vitamins, proteins and so on must be consumed in a day. Even if the taste is uniform, it must be eaten - because it is nutritious. This concept of diet is compatible with the entire philosophical system of the West. Metaphysics is the main characteristic of Western philosophy. The object of study in Western philosophy is the theory of things, and the theory of things is often the theory of metaphysics, and the theory of metaphysics is coherent with each other, and then it is formed into the philosophy of metaphysics. This philosophy has brought vitality to Western culture, which has realized a rapid development in natural science, psychology, and methodology. However, in some other aspects, this philosophical proposition has greatly hindered, such as food culture. In the banquet, you can pay attention to tableware, pay attention to materials, pay attention to service, pay attention to the shape of the raw materials of the dish, the color of the collocation; but no matter how luxurious and high-grade, from Los Angeles to New York, steak is only a flavor, no art. As a dish, chicken is chicken, steak is steak, even if there is a match, it is also in the plate, a plate of "French lamb chops", one side of the mashed potatoes, leaning on the side of the lamb chops, the other side of the boiled green beans, with a few slices of tomato will become. Contrasting colors, but in terms of taste, the various raw materials are not related to each other, reconcile, each is its own taste, simple and clear.

The Chinese people attach great importance to "food", and the proverb "food is heaven" shows that we regard food as important as heaven. Because our nation has been in a low level of productivity for thousands of years, people always have not enough to eat, so there will be a unique food culture that puts food above all else, I think, this is probably out of a need to survive. If a culture to eat as the first thing, then there will be two phenomena: on the one hand, the function of eating will be played to the extreme, not only to maintain survival, but also to use it to maintain health, which is the cultural basis of the "medicine is not as good as dietary supplements"; on the other hand, the over-emphasis on eating, will make people promote the pursuit of delicious.

In Chinese cooking, the pursuit of flavor is almost so extreme that when Chinese people go overseas to make a living, they open restaurants as a business, and it has become the foundation of our lives around the world! Unfortunately, while we have made the pursuit of deliciousness our first requirement, we have neglected the most fundamental nutritional value of food. Many of our traditional foods are subjected to hot deep-frying and prolonged cooking over a gentle fire, which destroys the nutrients of the dishes, and many of the nutrients are lost in the processing. Thus, when it comes to nutrition, it actually touches on the biggest weakness of Chinese food culture. There is a folk saying: "Food is the sky, food is flavor first". It is this pursuit of flavor that has caused us to lose sight of the true meaning of eating.

Chinese people in the tasting dishes, often say that this dish "delicious", that dish "is not good"; however, if you want to further ask what is called "delicious", why "good", "good", "good", "good", "good", "good", "good", "good", "good", "good", "good", "good", "good", "good", "good". Why "delicious", "delicious" where, I'm afraid it is not easy to say clearly. This shows that the Chinese people on the pursuit of food is a kind of unspeakable "mood", that is, the use of what is usually called "color, aroma, taste, shape, ware" to the specificity of this "realm"!

Chinese food has its unique charm, the key lies in its flavor. And the production of delicious, lies in the harmonization, to make the original flavor of the food, after heating the cooked flavor, plus the flavor of the ingredients and auxiliary materials and seasonings and flavor, interweaving and fusion and coordination together, so that they complement each other, mutual assistance, penetration, water and milk blend, you have me, I have you. Chinese cooking emphasizes the beauty of harmony, which is the essence of Chinese culinary art. The shape and color of the dishes is something external, but the taste is something internal, heavy internal and not deliberately modify the appearance, heavy dishes taste but not overly show the shape and color of the dishes, which is the most important manifestation of the Chinese beauty of the concept of food.

In China, the pursuit of beauty in food clearly overrides reason, and this view of food is also consistent with traditional Chinese philosophical thought. As a representative of Eastern philosophy, Chinese philosophy is notable for its macroscopic, intuitive, fuzzy and inscrutable features. Chinese cuisine is prepared in a way that harmonizes and combines, ultimately to produce a beautiful taste. This preoccupation is about proportion, about the overall fit. It contains a rich Chinese philosophy of dialectic thinking, all the taste of the dish is good, harmony for the degree, the degree within the ever-changing decision of the Chinese cuisine is rich and varied, determines the characteristics of the Chinese cuisine cuisine and even the characteristics of each chef.