Western Food Culture

In recent years, with more and more frequent exchanges and communications between China and western countries, their different rites is involved in each other. As a consequence, there has a common phenomenon that China imported various kinds of western food, known as the “KFC” “McDonald”, these mark a new western food culture exchanges and infiltration. And there is a question: whether Chinese or Western food will you choose?

The differences between Chinese and Western food culture and derived from the differences in their ways of thinking and philosophy of life, ever since the ancient times, Chinese and Western food culture’s collision and exchange have largely promoted the progress and development of human society to some degree, making the

A person with good manners is always agreeable companion. Speaking of table manners, every country has its own characteristic.”（Zhang Yangzi）

“In China, as the Confucius said, we can know some manners also use it in the modern society, table manners in people’s life occupy a very important position. If you talk at table, your food will be spouted to the dishes or the body or other people. ”（Liu Zhihui）Also, people in ancient China use chopsticks because there are many trees in northern China and many bamboos in southern China. “All that to say, from the ancient to today, we like to enjoy singing and dancing when we have a dinner. We have a idiom that say sing and dance to extol the good times – put on a show of peace and prosperity.”（Liu

In ancient times in western, people always take sword in daily life and cut down cooked meat then to eat. Around 15th century, in order to improve dining posture, people start to use double sharp fork. To the 18th century, people begin to use four sharp fork. ”（Jing Jianping）In addition, the biggest difference between Chinese and Westerners is that the details of table manners can clearly explain what can accurately give people the correct reference. “First, the western-style food official drinks the soup posture request to enter in advanced the soup with the ladle to oneself far that one side, then to leaves the direction which oneself goes far away to delimit lightly abundantly. Secondly, when dines in process, if you need to put down the knife, the edge faces oneself assumes in the plate as 10 o’clock shape. The tool bit is the hand of a clock, the hilt is the minute hand. Lastly, when eats bread, must tear down the bread may by an entrance scrap. The butter should in before you put in the mouth. Do not wipe beforehand the entire bread the full butter.”（Zhang