中西饮食文化异同(英语课前演讲).ppt

The Differences Between Chinese and Western Dietary Cultures Concepts Chinese diet is a sense of beauty diet and pays attention to the color, flavor, taste regardless of the nutrition . targets In China ,all diet cannot be done without vegetables. The word dish is for the sound, and it always has something to do with the plants . Chinese food can be roughly divided into eight regional cuisines ： Shandong Cuisine 山东菜系 Sichuan Cuisine 四川菜系 Cantonese food 广东菜系 Fujian Cuisine 福建菜系 Jiangsu Cuisine 江苏菜系 ZheJiang Cuisine 浙江菜系 Hunan cuisine 湖南菜系 Anhui Cuisine 安徽菜系 Cooking techniques fry(炒) boiling( 煮), broiling(烤),steaming(蒸), braising(炖), and so on. Meat soft and tender Moisture and delicious Quick-fry Dry-fry Boiling Process is simple but healthy Broiling good in color, flavor, and taste stimulate ones appetite Braising Bone marrow outflow in the process of stew so is very nutrient. Western care nutrition The way of western cook stew fried burned roast Western cooking style, mainly with burned, roast, stew，fried and sweet taste seasoning mix food, cold drink table Etiquette Dietary Cultures Dinner Etiquette tableware table setting the dining atmosphere Difference in dinning etiquette An old saying “Chinese people trend the eating as the biggest thing”. It shows that we are pay more attention to food than anything. Chinese cuisine considering about the color, fragrance, taste, shape and the nutrition and delicious. The western diet is just on the contrary . The think more about absorbing nutrition and never care the color or taste. Westerns are eating to survive and health. It’s seems they just eat rather than enjoy dinner. Difference in tableware Chopsticks, knife and fork is the most representative tableware in china and west. Difference in table setting In west, people pay more attention to women’s position.“ ladies first” is one of the basic etiquette