Chinese food is different from Western food, and the closest Western food to Chinese food is pasta. So what makes Chinese food different from Western food? It can be said that Chinese food and Western food can be distinguished at a glance.

A foreigner on the American version of the know-how also asked "Why is Chinese food so different from Western food?". In fact, this foreigner's question is completely meaningless from our point of view, because we believe that the most delicious food is Chinese food. But from the foreigner's point of view, "Chinese food is so strange, the cooking style, the type of food, the food culture and so on are all different from Western food."

Just as many foreigners don't understand the process of stir-frying in Chinese cooking, when a foreigner commented on Chinese food, he said, "Stir-frying makes the food dry and hard, so Chinese people don't grill more than a pound of food."

Standing in the Chinese cooking way to look at the different perspectives, including stir-frying, are the difference between Western food usually cooking frying, grilling, deep-frying, boiling. And Chinese food cooking there are far beyond the western food these four ways of cooking more than a variety of cooking techniques, through these ways to cook out of Chinese food will not be the same as western food at all.

So does it mean that Chinese food made by frying, grilling, deep-frying and boiling is the same as Western food? Not at all! This is another difference in food culture. Western food is influenced by the food culture of foreigners in terms of frying, grilling, deep-frying and boiling.

For example, if you grill, there are a lot of obvious differences between Chinese and Western food. A foreigner may grill a steak and some vegetables, while Chinese food is grilled, not only the beef is grilled, we will also grill some foreigners won't eat the food, such as meat pigeon, pork rinds, and so on, in fact, all of these are the reasons why Chinese food is different from Western food.

In the taste of Chinese food there are sweet and sour, bitter, spicy and salty, while Western food is mainly sweet and sour and the original flavor, as well as the pursuit of food tenderness effect. Like the food they eat is either a few minutes cooked or completely raw, such as steak lamb chops are a few minutes cooked, vegetable salad is completely raw food. In Chinese food we like to eat cooked food, including meat and vegetables.

In terms of the way we eat, foreigners are very particular about the sharing of meals, where each person has a plate, and each person orders his or her own dish, and each person has a share. And in Chinese cuisine, we talk about feelings. Eating is a kind of human and human feelings exchange platform, is a social means, from ancient times to the present we express at the table to say goodbye or welcome the mood, to nowadays eat this thing and psychological massage effect.

Then from the point of view of food culture, Chinese food culture and Western food culture is very different. As we have said before, in the eyes of many foreigners, there is a "poor food", such as mussels, pork, crayfish, snake meat and so on. There is also the term "food trimmings", like the pig's feet we eat, chicken claws, heart, liver and lungs, foreigners are very disliked.

That is to say, many foreigners look at the food is with glasses, while in Chinese cuisine, our understanding of food is completely no difference, as long as it is possible to eat the food, we will be the same into the dish, there is no nobility and grade points.

And the reason for this difference may be different from our perception of food, within Chinese food we would choose everything under the sun for my way, but in the food culture of foreigners they would choose the food outside of Bible can not be eaten.

This says that there are no relative constraints in Chinese food cooking, so we can play around and study the characteristics of food, what can and can't be eaten, in a foreigner's evaluation of Chinese food said, "Chinese food does not have more constraints, that's why they are able to cook so many different Western food." Image courtesy of the internet.