Mr. Lin Yutang once dreamed of living in an English house, taking a German car, wearing French clothes, marrying a Japanese wife and eating China rice. Mr. Lin really knows life. For example, Chinese food has been recognized as a delicacy by most people at home and abroad. I stayed in the national food forest and always said, "In the afterlife, I am from China!" "

It sounds a bit like "I want to be husband and wife forever". I dare not boast that I am loyal to national integrity, but it shows that my China stomach has a special liking for China's diet.

Indeed, my stomach is never half-hearted, never worships foreign things and flatters foreign countries. In the past two years, I have often eaten western food for work and entertainment. I also know that western food pays more attention to nutrition and hygiene than Chinese food. However, those bloody steaks, raw fish, greasy butter, and salads mixed with lettuce leaves always make my stomach churn and remind me of words like "eat birds and eat blood".

In view of my diet, a person who is proficient in diet recently helped me compare Chinese food and western food calmly and fairly. I have to reluctantly admit that what he said is reasonable. Chinese food has its disadvantages, while western food has its advantages.

For example, steak in western food. When ordering steak, the waiter will definitely ask: grilled or fried? What do you want? Fifty percent? Eighty percent? Well done? The chef fried and baked it completely according to the requirements of the diners, without adding seasoning. Seasoning should be added by the diners themselves after the steak is served. How much salt or pepper is sprinkled and how much lemon or tomato juice is poured depends on the taste of the diners. Of course, western food also has some rules, such as American breakfast, which is usually a hot drink, a glass of juice, a portion of meat, two eggs and bread. But it still leaves more freedom for diners, such as whether the hot drink is coffee, milk or black tea, coffee or black tea, and whether to add sugar or condensed milk is up to the diners themselves; Fruit juices include peach juice, tomato juice, orange juice and watermelon juice. There are many kinds of meat and bread to choose from. You can spread butter and jam on the bread, or you can leave it alone, as you like, and you can ask for it after eating. Eggs can be boiled, fried, spread, spread, cooked, fried on one side or fried on both sides and so on. , are free choices of diners.

There are ready-made recipes when eating Chinese food, and waiters generally don't ask customers what they want. How to cook a dish, whether it is fried or fried, whether it is boiled or steamed, whether it is cooked or tender, whether to put pepper, whether to pour vinegar or not, how much oil to add and how much salt to sprinkle depends entirely on the will of the chef. No matter who eats it, no matter what the taste of the person who eats it is, the chef of the same dish will always cook the same, so it will always taste the same. Whether the diners like it or not, the chef doesn't care. Besides, people in China eat together. Everyone is sitting around the table. Generally speaking, there are still some rules about seniority. Even if you don't obey the rules, everyone eats at the same table, eating more and eating less, and eating this and that will also contain each other. It is impossible for everyone to eat whatever they want. If it is a feast, there are many rules. What kind of wine to drink, how much you can drink, and whether you want to drink it or not are generally not your decision. Western food is divided into meals, and everyone washes the dishes themselves, regardless of the soup in other people's bowls. West Renye Fang voluntarily drinks brandy, whisky and cocktails, and drinks as much as you like.

When it comes to eating, it should be personal behavior. Only you know what that feels like. Western food respects individual wishes, while Chinese food emphasizes commonness. To say that China has a good diet means that the chef is good at cooking, but the concept of diet is not so advanced. In contrast, western food embodies a much more reasonable concept of diet.

This may be the reason why China people choose hot pot. Because in Chinese food, it seems that only hot pot can make people choose ingredients at will, master the heat and mix ingredients at will. In the hot pot, China people found the freedom to eat.