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

Secondly, the way of eating is different, for example, Westerners focus on friendship, Chinese people focus on the atmosphere and pleasure.

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

Fourth, different dietary environment, such as Westerners focus on the exquisite, the Chinese focus on the rehearsal

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

The above is just a generalization, you can expand on it.

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A brief discussion of the differences between Chinese and Western food cultures

Catering products due to the influence of 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, catering products have a strong regional nature.

The difference between Chinese and Western cultures creates the difference between Chinese and Western food cultures, and this difference comes from the different ways of thinking and philosophies of China and the West.

The Chinese emphasize the "unity of heaven and mankind", while the Westerners focus on the "people-oriented".

Here is a brief discussion of the differences between Chinese and Western food culture from the following three aspects.

First, two different dietary concepts

In contrast to the Chinese diet, which emphasizes "taste", the West is a rational dietary concept.

Regardless of the color, aroma, taste, and shape of the food, nutrition must be guaranteed, and it is important to know how many calories, vitamins, proteins, and so on, should 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 feature 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 given life to Western culture, which has realized a rapid development in natural science, psychology, and methodology.

But there are other areas where this philosophy has been a major hindrance, such as food culture.

At a banquet, you can talk about the tableware, the ingredients, the service, and the shape and color of the raw materials; but no matter how luxurious and upscale it is, from Los Angeles to New York, the steak has only one flavor, and there is no art to it.

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 be.

Contrasting colors, but in terms of taste, the various ingredients are not related to each other, reconcile, each is its own taste, simple and clear.

The Chinese attach great importance to food, and the proverb "Food is the God of the people" 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 is a unique food culture that puts food above everything else, and I think this is probably out of a need to survive.

If a culture puts eating 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 "medicine is not as good as food"; on the other hand, the over-attention to eating, will make people push the pursuit of deliciousness. The pursuit.

In Chinese cooking, the pursuit of deliciousness is almost so extreme that when Chinese people go overseas to make a living, they open a restaurant as a business, and it has become the foundation of our lives around the world! Unfortunately, when we take the pursuit of deliciousness as the first requirement, we have neglected the most fundamental nutritional value of food. Many of our traditional foods have to be fried in hot oil and cooked for a long time over a gentle fire, so that the nutrients of the dishes are destroyed, and many of the nutrients are lost in the processing.

Thus, when it comes to nutrition, it actually touches the biggest weakness of Chinese food culture.

There is a popular saying that "food is the first thing to be eaten, and flavor is the first thing to be tasted".

It is this pursuit of flavor that makes us 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". However, if you want to further ask what "delicious", why "delicious", "delicious" where, I am afraid it is not easy to say clearly.

This shows that the Chinese people on the diet of the pursuit of a kind of ineffable "realm", that is, the use of people usually say "color, aroma, taste, shape, ware" to this "realm" to concretize, I am afraid that is still the case. "I'm afraid it's still very difficult to cover.

The reason why 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, as well as seasonings and flavors, intertwined and fusion and coordination together, so that they complement each other, mutual help penetration, water *** fusion, you have me, I have you.

The beauty of harmony in Chinese cooking 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 concept of Chinese beauty diet.

In China, the pursuit of beauty in food clearly overrides rationality, and this view of food is also consistent with traditional Chinese philosophical thinking.

Chinese philosophy, as a representative of Eastern philosophy, is characterized by its macroscopic, intuitive, fuzzy and inscrutable features.

Chinese cuisine is prepared by mixing and balancing, which ultimately results in a beautiful flavor.

This is all about proportion, about the overall fit.

It contains the rich dialectical ideas of Chinese philosophy, everything to the taste of the dish for the degree of goodness, harmony, the degree of the degree of change within the decision of the Chinese cuisine is rich and rich in change, determines the characteristics of the Chinese cuisine cuisine and even the characteristics of each chef.

Second, the difference between Chinese and Western dietary objects

Westerners believe that the dishes are hungry, so specializing in eating large pieces of meat, whole pieces of chicken and other "hard vegetables".

And Chinese cuisine is "eating flavor", so Chinese cooking in the material also shows a great deal of arbitrariness: many Westerners regarded as a discarded thing, in China are excellent raw materials, foreign chefs can not deal with things, to the hands of the Chinese chef, can be transformed into a miracle.

It is clear that the Chinese food in the material of the arbitrariness of the broad.

According to Western botanists, Chinese people eat more than 600 kinds of vegetables, six times more than in the West.

In fact, in the Chinese cuisine, vegetarian food is the usual food, meat only in the holidays or a higher standard of living, only to enter the usual dietary structure, so since ancient times there has been a "vegetable food", vegetable food in the usual dietary structure of the dominant.

The plant-based diet of the Chinese is inextricably linked to the advocacy of the Buddhists.

They regarded animals as "living beings" and plants as "spiritless", and therefore advocated vegetarianism.

Westerners in the introduction of their own country's dietary characteristics, feel more than China to pay more attention to the rational mix of nutrition, there is a more developed food industry, such as canned food, fast food, etc., although the taste of a thousand and one, but to save time, and nutritional good, so their country's people are generally more robust than the Chinese: tall, long legs, broad shoulders, developed muscles; and the Chinese people appear to have a thin body, shoulders, legs, narrow, yellow and weak.

Some people based on the obvious difference between Chinese and Western diet objects this feature, the Chinese people called the plant character, Westerners called animal character.

Third, the difference in the way of eating

The way of eating in China and the West is very different, and this difference also has an impact on the national character.

In China, any feast, whatever its purpose, takes only one form, that of a group of people sitting together in a circle and *** enjoying a seat.

The fact that the feast is to be served at a round table creates an atmosphere of unity, politeness, and **** interest in the form.

The delicacies are placed in the center of a table, which is both the object of appreciation and tasting, and the medium of exchange of feelings.

People toast each other, let each other dishes, persuade dishes, in front of the beautiful things, reflecting the mutual respect between people, the virtue of courtesy.

Although there are obvious shortcomings in this way of eating from the point of view of hygiene, it is in line with the general mentality of our nation of "reunion", reflecting the influence of the category of "and" in classical Chinese philosophy on the thinking of future generations, and facilitating collective emotional communication. It facilitates the exchange of collective emotions, and is therefore difficult to reform to this day.

At Western-style banquets, the food and wine, though very important, are in fact a sideshow.

The core of the banquet is fellowship, through the conversation with the neighboring guests, to achieve the purpose of fellowship.

If you compare the fellowship of the banquet with the dance, then it can be said that the Chinese banquet is like a collective dance, while the Western banquet is like a male and female ballroom dance.

It can be seen that Chinese banquets and Western banquets are very obvious purpose of fellowship, but Chinese banquets are more reflected in the fellowship of the whole table, while Western banquets are more reflected in the fellowship between neighboring guests.

The difference with the Chinese way of eating is more obvious is the Western popular buffet.

This method is: all the food is displayed one by one, everyone takes what they need, do not have to be fixed in the seat to eat, walk around freely, this way to facilitate the exchange of emotions between individuals, do not have to put all the words on the table, but also shows the Western respect for individuality, for the self.

But each eat each, do not disturb each other, missing some Chinese chat happy **** happy mood.

So it boils down to a difference between sensibility and rationality.

But this difference seems to be blurring with the development of science.

More and more Chinese people are paying less attention to the color, aroma, and taste of their food, and more attention to its hygiene and nutrition.

Especially after the SARS outbreak.

Also, people are getting busier and busier, and find Chinese food too much trouble to cook, so it's easier to get a hamburger, etc.

This makes it easier to get a hamburger.

In this way, the differences in diet are not so clear.