英语论文(中美饮食文化差异).docVIP

Food Culture Good afternoon, everyone! Today I want to talk something about the food culture in china and western countries. And I hope you will enjoy it. Generally speaking, we Chinese think food is very important to man. People often associate food with important holidays and the chance to meet guests. The Chinese food not only is very delicious and tasty but also very pleasing to your senses and many of dishes have very beautiful and interesting names. We Chinese have the food culture of our own which are quite different from the western counties. In the western countries, people pay more attention to the nutrition of food rather than the looks of it. What’s more, the cuisine and table manners are quite different from ours in a great extent. . Ok, now I will show you some differences between China and western countries. First, it’s about the special way to make greeting in china It is a very common practice we Chinese people say Have you had your meal? when they meet each other around the time before or after meals. Sometimes they even ask this question everywhere even in toilets. In fact, it is a kind of greeting to communicate with each other just like English tend to begin a communication with weather. But foreigners cannot understand that because they think why you ask me this. They tend to think you want to invite them to dinner .However, Chinese think food is very important and essential to people so it shows some care and concern about you. That is why they ask others if they had food yet? Ok, second, what I want to say is everything is eatable in China. It seems that we eat everything and everything can be eatable in Chinese food, whether it comes from land or from the sky or from the sea or whether it is wild or domestic. However, Foreigners cannot imagine we eat the food like snakes, dogs and even frogs. When we sell the meat from the animal and poultry, we normally sell it as a whole or cut it from the whole body. There is an American teac