中西方饮食文化差异(英文版)演讲稿.doc

_Next, I will talk about the Differences between Chinese and Western diet Culture. First, Chinese use chopsticks and soup spoons. We use the bowls as the container of rice. While the Western use knifves and folks.They use plates as containers of food and eat food as soon as they cut them. Second, We have different eating habits. Chinese have a saying “Good things for breakfast. Eating a big meal for lunch but eating less at dinner.” Many Americans agree that one should start the day with a good breakfast, but their ideas about lunch and dinner are different. Most Americans only give themselves a short time for lunch. So they eat a small lunch. After work they will have more time to eat a big dinner. Since the differences between Chinese and western philosophy, the concept of diet is quite different. People in western countries pay much attention on the nutrients. They care about how many calories, vitamins and protein should be taken. Even when the taste is the same, it must be eaten because of the nutrition. On the contrary, Chinese cares more about food color, smell, taste, and shape. For table manners, Chinese people prefer to toast each other and urge others to drink more in a lively atmosphere. Very often you can hear people talking and laughing loudly, and they are just having a good time. In America it is not like this. They want a quiet place where they can enjoy a good meal. If someone is talking too loudly, the manager of the restaurant may come out and ask them to be quiet.Finally, lets talk about two details of the differences. First of all, the making method of Chinese food is different from Western-style food. In a Western-style food cookbook, various ingredients have been indicated several grams, several spoons or several cups, even the size of the egg will all be explained. I think it is like doing experiments in the laboratory. So, Making Western-style food is easy, so long as you cook according to the cookbook manual. But it is not an easy thing that you want to make fine Chinese food. Even if you have bought the cookbook. Because the Chinese cookbook will not tell you several grams of ingredient, for example salt, Chinese cookbook just tell you appropriate amount of salt. Why? Because the taste of people who live in different places is different in China. There is a folk adage in China “south sweet, north salty, east hot and west sour”. So, a good cooking relies on experience and skills when cooks in China. The way that Chinese and occidental praise food is different. When praising food Chinese will generally say: “Your dish is cooked excellently, It has caught up with the level of the restaurant”; but occidental will say it just like what the home