The Status of China Food in the World

Generally speaking, the international status of Chinese food is a bit one-sided. In Japan, Chinese food is the third largest food after French food and Turkish food, while in Italy, Chinese food is the third largest food after French food and Italian food. Generally speaking, foreigners eat Chinese food much less frequently than Japanese food, Indian food and Thai food. In the declaration of intangible cultural heritage, even Korean kimchi was selected, while China's food culture is profound, including Sichuan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Northwest cuisine and so on. The list goes on and on. It is precisely because of this universality that it is a difficult problem which kind of cuisine can stand for election.

Since we want to mention the international status of Chinese food, we have to mention the internationalization of Chinese food. The largest Chinese food chain in America is a restaurant called Panda Restaurant.

Although the set meal of fried noodles in Panda Restaurant looks good, in fact, the taste of this kind of fried noodles is quite monotonous, and there is basically no second taste.

Chicken with dried tangerine peel, a delicious food that hardly exists in China, is sweet and sour. It's Chinese food specially made for Americans, and foreigners like it very much.

Although the spiced shrimp is called spiced, it is actually much lighter than the seasoning in xinjiang cuisine.

Chicken breast with green beans is also stir-fried and tastes as sweet as ever. Americans really like sugar.

Kung pao chicken, which is the common sense of Chinese and foreign foodies, is famous for its sour, spicy and sweet taste, and it is also one of the earliest Chinese foods with English names.

Roast chicken, this is obviously westernized. Dicos has this rice set meal, which is also sweet. For China people, it's really not pure Chinese food.

China fried rice is quite light and tastes sweet and sour. Yangzhou fried rice is too famous to occupy space.

Chicken pot stickers, this kind of pot stickers will not have a market in the pot, and it looks really bad.

There is Zuo Tang Zong Chicken, which is a dish created by Chiang Kai-shek's chef in the United States. It is quite famous in the United States, but it can't be found in China at all.

Foreigners claim to eat spicy food, but they can't eat spicy food. The spicy taste in Chinese food is thus excluded. Have you ever eaten spicy hamburgers from KFC and McDonald's? This is a spicy taste recognized by foreigners.

Pay attention to the fish's "cold eyes"

Foreigners are afraid to eat many dishes, but the taste is second, mainly because they can't accept the shape, such as the head of any animal, which few foreigners can accept except the British "looking up at the stars" ... This is a wonderful work.

Besides, there are some other cuisines that we think are very small, such as Thai cuisine, which has a high status in the world. For example, to sum up, the reasons for the low status of Chinese food in the world are as follows:

Legacy of European and American colonial culture: After all, Europeans ruled more than half of the world in those years, and many dietary habits have been integrated into the differences in dietary concepts in local cultures: some countries have a strong sweet and sour taste, some countries have a strong spicy and salty taste, and some countries prefer light food.

Chinese food has been transformed internationally: Chinese food has been transformed into dishes suitable for local tastes all over the world, making local people think that Chinese food is what they eat.

China's food culture is too abstruse to tell: Seriously, how many foreigners can you tell whether they are Cantonese or China?

The world food culture is more extensive and profound, and it is difficult for everyone to adjust: China's food is delicious, but there are many delicious dishes in the world, so we may not overestimate the taste of China's food, but underestimate the splendor of the world food culture.