Food and culture: food in different places with different table manners

Food and culture: food in different places with different table manners

Food and culture are always relative in our society. Food in every country is usually different from any other ones with the different ways of eating food and the tools for eating standing for the history and the culture of the country. People in different countries have different traditional food so they prefer different favors and tastes of food, so is China. China is one of the countries in the world which has the longest history of more than 5,000 years so the food history and culture are plentiful enough to get Chinese special characteristics.

As we know, China is a big country with large land area and huge population. People divided the country into several provinces and all the provinces have their own special taste of dishes. The food in different two provinces taste like two opposite favors even sometimes they are close to each other. However, we can get the food from other provinces without travelling: there are a large number of restaurant which provide the food from other cities in China. Because of the huge population, we can see Chinese and Chinese restaurant almost everywhere. In Denver, there are so many Chinese restaurants there that remind people of the delicious Chinese food with the food culture. But most of the American people just think all of the Chinese restaurants are the same. Actually, food in different restaurants which were set up by different people from different provinces in China is in different styles. For example, Golden Shanghai, my favorite Chinese restaurant in Denver, has the Shanghai favor and style of food. Because of the location of my hometown, Suzhou, a modern city with the newest technology of development which is really close to Shanghai, so the food there can always remind me of the food in my hometown.

Food and taste can always represent the culture of an area just like the location, history and the development of it. As an economy center of China, the culture of Shanghai is getting from the traditional old Shanghai into a new Shanghai with the combination of the characteristics all round the world. This can be expressed perfectly on the food: Shanghai food is changed into the style of a combination of the food across the whole China. I think Shanghai food is like the traditional Jiangnan food which is like the one in my hometown, Suzhou with the food such as the steamed fish without the heavy taste. In the traditional way of cooking, people cook the whole fish after some cleaning and only add some salt and wine to keep the natural favor and taste of the fish. This is kind of the original cooking method which lasts for a long period of time. In my memory, I was told that Suzhou has a long history of over 2,500 years so the people just keep using this method of cooking fish even now. However, after eating it, you can get the taste in your mouth and get the feeling clearly, that could be a reason why people insist using this method of cooking. Fish is always popular in Shanghai because Shanghai lies near the Huangpu River, people can get fresh fish and shrimps easily that eating fish becomes a habit on table that Shanghai people always prepare some fish for big meals. However, people in other parts of China cooking other kinds of fish with the same material, for example, the people in Sichuan province enjoy hot and spicy favor so they put a lot of chili while cooking the fish. They cut the fish into several middle-sized pieces instead of steam the whole fish. And then, they boiled these pieces of fish in a big pot with the spicy soup and the chili in it. Not only fish, but also other dishes like the chicken potatoes and the meat are also spicy and hot there. The reasons of eating spicy food are probably two causes. Firstly, I think this place is always humid and cool, so eating hot and spicy can keep people warm in cold days. The second reason may be about the traditional habit and some story of the ancient people makes the local people enjoy hot and spicy food. In Shanghai, all these spicy Sichuan food is easy to find in the city but there is still some difference between the Sichuan restaurant in Shanghai and the real Sichuan food. I believe the food in local families and restaurants is the best and the food from a long distance, for example, the Chinese food in the US is like the fake one compared the real Chinese food. Since the development of technology and economy of Shanghai, a large number of immigrants from other parts of China become new citizens in Shanghai. These people are mostly looking for jobs or going to work in Shanghai but some of them are like the chance catcher for making money such as running a restaurant. These people just want to make money so they may cook for tasks: they don’t really take care of their food and don’t have enough passion and patient while cooking which makes the quality of food is not good as the traditional food. Also, by staying in another city for a long time, they won’t remember everything about the food in their memory; this becomes a big problem which leads the taste of these restaurants getting worse. That means the quality of the same type of food can also represent the emotion and the effort of the cook.

Not only the food itself can represent the culture but also the ways of eating is a symbol of the culture. For example, table manners. In western countries, people use knives and forks to cut the meat into small pieces and eat. They think eating a big piece of food which is even bigger that the mouth is a kind of impoliteness on the table. In China, people all use chopsticks to eat instead of knives and forks and they can get the food easily even some small round pieces like the peanuts. In my memory, I can use chopsticks easily when I was a young child and I cannot even remember that I have ever got a hard training of using chopsticks. The Chinese name for chopsticks has changed over time. It is believed the first chopsticks were developed over 5000 years ago in China. Early Asian man would retrieve his food from the fire using sticks or branches broken from trees. Later, as the population grew and resources became scarce, people would cut food into smaller pieces to save fuel because the smaller portions cooked faster. This eliminated the need for knives, and chopsticks became the utensil of choice. It is also showed that a pair of chopsticks is a symbol of Chinese history and culture because of its position in China: “Originally known as jia (to hold), the utensil assumed the name zhu around the Qin–Han period (221 BCE–220 CE). Zhu, however, is homophonous (having the same pronunciation) as stop or bore (by insects). The Chinese, especially those who boated in the south, considered the word unlucky and replaced it with a word sounding like kuai, a homophone of quick, sometime during the Qing Dynasty” in the Chinese long history. Moreover, my families told me that while eating but not using the chopstick, for example, while drinking the soup, we cannot insert the chopsticks into the bowl of rice but we have to put the chopsticks beside the bowl or lying on the bowl.

However, only a pair of chopsticks is not enough to get all the food. Sometimes people have to get the liquid soups or the very soft food like Tofu, they still use spoons. However, we never use forks and knives and even plates in the traditional Chinese meal. We can get the food by chopsticks on the table easily instead of forks and it is fine to hold a big piece of food with your hand while eating especially for the big piece of meat with bones. We have bowls full of rice and people put the food on the bowl instead of a plate. While drinks a bowl of soup, we just use a big spoon to get some soup from the big pot into our own bowl and start enjoying the soup. People have two ways of drinks soup: with a spoon or just hold the bowl and drink it. Both of them are fine in China and Chinese always think that males should eat a lot. If males eat too smoothly, they will be thought about being womanish and this really a bad impression of a man in China. Chinese like sharing food, and parents always ask their children to eat with their families. Family meal is a significant part of Chinese people’s life. Usually, the seats are in ordered so people should sit in order with their ages and positions in the family. On the table, People sit around a round desk and they eat the same food. When sometimes, more than ten people eat together on the table, they may use a big table with a piece of moveable glasses on it so people do not have to worry about the distance between his body and the dishes. Furthermore, Chinese food is always in order. Because of not having the mode of fast food, not only the food is complicated but also the eating steps are complex. People have cold dishes at the very beginning and then have some meat and vegetables. At last, they may have a big pot of soup and eating the rice.

To sum up, as can be seen from the article, food is relative to the culture because it can kind of represent the culture. In China, the tastes of the food made from the same materials are usually different because people there use different method of cooking. The different favor they prefer shows the Geographical Conditions of the cities. The location of some city leads the cold climate so they may eat hot and spicy food, on the other hand, like Shanghai, as being the center of the economy with the development of technology, more and more people move to this place and bring their culture there. A lot of culture from different place mix together which shows that you can get almost any styles of food in Shanghai. Eating ways and steps are also an importance part of food culture. People in China eat with chopsticks instead of forks and knives. They always sit around a big round table in their traditional meals and share the food from large pot or plate. People eating with complicated that is really opposite to the American fast food style and they prefer the males eat a lot. All the characteristics about eating just like the chopsticks are symbols of Chinese culture and can remind people of Chinese long history. Also, it makes me miss my hometown so much.

Work Cited:

"Chopsticks." Berkshire Encyclopedia of China: Modern and Historic Views of the World's Newest and Oldest Global Power. Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2009. Credo Reference. Web. 01 May 2012.

                                                                              

Food and culture: Table manners and the difference between the same food

Food and culture are always relative in our society. Food in every country is usually different from any other ones and can stand for the history and the culture of the country. People in different countries have different traditional food so they prefer different favors and tastes of food, so is China. China is one of the countries in the world which has the longest history for more than 5,000 years so the food history and culture are plentiful enough to get Chinese special characteristics.

As we know, China is a big country with large land area and huge population. People divided the country into several provinces and all the provinces have their own special taste of dishes. The food in different two provinces taste like two opposite favors even sometimes they are close to each other. However, we can get the food from other provinces without travelling: there are a large number of restaurant which provide the food from other cities in China. Because of the huge population, we can see Chinese and Chinese restaurant almost everywhere. In Denver, there are so many Chinese restaurants there that remind people of the delicious Chinese food and the food culture. But most of the American people just think all of the Chinese restaurants are the same. Actually, food in different restaurants which were set up by different people from different provinces in China is in different styles. For example, Golden Shanghai, my favorite Chinese restaurant in Denver, has the Shanghai favor and style of food. Because of the location of my hometown, Suzhou, a modern city with the newest technology of development which is really close to Shanghai, so the food there can always remind me of the food in my hometown.

Food and taste can always represent the culture of an area just like the location, history and the development of it. As an economy center of China, the culture of Shanghai is getting from the traditional old Shanghai into a new Shanghai with the combination of the characteristics all round the world. This can be expressed perfectly on the food: Shanghai food is changed into the style of a combination of the food across the whole China. I think Shanghai food is like the traditional Jiangnan food which is like the one in my hometown, Suzhou such as the steamed fish without the heavy taste. In the traditional way of cooking, people cook the whole fish after some cleaning and only add some salt and wine to keep the natural favor and taste of the fish. This is kind of the original cooking method which lasts for a long period of time. In my memory, I was told that Suzhou has a long history of over 2,500 years so the people just keep using this method of cooking fish even now. However, after eating it, you can get the taste in your mouth and get the feeling clearly, that could be a reason why people insist using this method of cooking. Fish is always popular in Shanghai because Shanghai lies near the Huangpu River, people can get fresh fish and shrimps easily that eating fish becomes a habit on table that Shanghai people always prepare some fish for big meals. However, people in other parts of China cooking other kinds of fish with the same material, for example, the people in Sichuan province enjoy hot and spicy favor so they put a lot of chili while cooking the fish. They cut the fish into several middle-sized pieces instead of steam the whole fish. And then, they boiled these pieces of fish in a big pot with the spicy soup and the chili in it. Not only fish, but also other dishes like the chicken potatoes and the meat are also spicy and hot there. The reasons of eating spicy food are probably two causes. Firstly, I think this place is always humid and cool, so eating hot and spicy can keep people warm in cold days. The second reason may be about the traditional habit and some story of the ancient people makes the local people enjoy hot and spicy food. In Shanghai, all these spicy Sichuan food is easy to find in the city but there is still some difference between the Sichuan restaurant in Shanghai and the real Sichuan food. I believe the food in local families and restaurants is the best and the food from a long distance, for example, the Chinese food in the US is like the fake one compared the real Chinese food. Since the development of technology and economy of Shanghai, a large number of immigrants from other parts of China become new citizens in Shanghai. These people are mostly looking for jobs or going to work in Shanghai but some of them are like the chance catcher for making money such as running a restaurant. These people just want to make money so they may cook for tasks: they don’t really take care of their food and don’t have enough passion and patient while cooking which makes the quality of food is not good as the traditional food. Also, by staying in another city for a long time, they won’t remember everything about the food in their memory; this becomes a big problem which leads the taste of these restaurants getting worse. That means the quality of the same type of food can also represent the emotion and the effort of the cook.

Not only the food itself can represent the culture but also the ways of eating is a symbol of the culture. For example, table manners. In western countries, people use knives and forks to cut the meat into small pieces and eat. They think eating a big piece of food which is even bigger that the mouth is a kind of impoliteness on the table. In China, people all use chopsticks to eat and they can get the food easily even some small round pieces like the peanuts. In my memory, I can use chopsticks easily when I was a young child because I cannot even remember that I have ever got a hard training of using chopsticks. However, a pair of chopsticks is not enough to get all the food. Sometimes people have to get the liquid soups or the very soft food like Tofu, they still use spoons. However, we don’t use forks and knives and even plates. We can get the food by chopsticks instead of forks and it is fine to hold a big piece of food with your hand while eating especially for the meat with bones. We have bowls full of rice and people put the food on the bowl instead of a plate. While drinks a bowl of soup, we just use a big spoon to get some soup from the big pot into our own bowl and start enjoying the soup. People have two ways of drinks soup: with a spoon or just hold the bowl and drink it. Both of them are fine in China and Chinese always think that males should eat a lot. If males eat too smoothly, they will be thought about being womanish and this really a bad impression of a man in China. Chinese like sharing food, and parents always ask their children to eat with their families. Family meal is a significant part of Chinese people’s life. Usually, the seats are in ordered so people should sit in order with their ages and positions in the family. On the table, People sit around a round desk and they eat the same food. When sometimes, more than ten people eat together on the table, they may use a big table with a piece of moveable glasses on it so people do not have to worry about the distance between his body and the dishes. Furthermore, Chinese food is always in order. Because of not having the mode of fast food, not only the food is complicated but also the eating steps are complex. People have cold dishes at the very beginning and then have some meat and vegetables. At last, they may have a big pot of soup and eating the rice.

To sum up, as can be seen from the article, food is relative to the culture because it can kind of represent the culture. In China, the tastes of the food made from the same materials are usually different because people there use different method of cooking. The different favor they prefer shows the Geographical Conditions of the cities. The location of some city leads the cold climate so they may eat hot and spicy food, on the other hand, like Shanghai, as being the center of the economy with the development of technology, more and more people move to this place and bring their culture there. A lot of culture from different place mix together which shows that you can get almost any styles of food in Shanghai. Eating ways and steps are also an importance part of food culture. People in China eat with chopsticks instead of forks and knives. They always sit around a big round table in their traditional meals and share the food from large pot or plate. People eating with complicated that is really opposite to the American fast food style and they prefer the males eat a lot. All the characteristics about eating are symbols of Chinese culture and can remind people of Chinese long history. Also, I miss my hometown so much.

Response to Eating at the Edge

In Horwitz’s article, the author pointed out the changes of eating style because of the change in people’s life. Several years ago, people were always chatting with others while eating on the table, but now they eat alone and quickly without talking to others instead. We live in a “timeless time,”(42)This sentence clearly showed the main idea: Eating faster with simple style. The author showed an example of soup to support his idea: the soup was fit in a big bowl in the past but changed into the individual small bowls for per person instead. This shows that people eating together with friends or families so that they share the large size of food together and people on the table get the same food. However, by changing the size to individual small size, people only get their own food and eating alone and this shows the meaning of “Eating at the Edge”. In this process of change, it’s like people have more choices of food because they can go and eat for their want while ordering. Everyone only have to think about himself and order his favorite dishes and favors because they don’t have to eat the same food. On the other hand, because of the individual meal and the eating style, this will lead to the lack of communication and reducing of people’s relationship. In my opinion, having meals is one of the best ways to reduce the distance between people and improve their relationship. It is beneficial not only for making or meeting good friends but also in daily life or business meeting. In China, people used to have their whole family eating together at home for dinner or eating with a lot of friends or partners of working. "Taking time to share food, as part of a daily routine (not a special occasion), is becoming less common in the u.s. as unstructured eating patterns become more familiar and varied."(45)The author shows the fact that american people changed their eating habit into the unstructured style. By the appearance of the fast food specially the food from the US, the people in the working class just get some food there and go because of their busy work. This is like an influence of it and it also make the Chinese eating habit into the same as the American one. Then, even some Chinese fast food restaurant comes up like “the old uncle” and get popular quickly. I think this is a part of the food culture which we should protect them. Even someone thinks the fast food style is really suitable for some people but I believe the existence of the traditional style are more significant even just make a mixture of this kind of food culture, otherwise, the eating style in China, for example, may totally change into the American fast food style in a period of time.

Korean barbeque and food culture: Q Table BBQ Buffet

Q Table BBQ Buffet is a little far away from the campus. It’s a Korean barbeque which is famous for the meat there. I don’t think this is a chain restaurant because I have never heard of its name before I came to Denver. However, I have a lot of friends recommend that barbeque to me so I went and tried last Sunday.

After driving for 40 minutes, we got to the Q Table BBQ Buffet. While coming into the restaurant, there is a waiting room for the consumers. Even though the decoration of this waiting room is not magnificent, this place is still a kind of convenience for having more walking space and giving people a good rest. Mostly, we don’t need to stay in the waiting room because of so many tables there. This barbeque is not a small one so it can fit a large number of consumers even in the weekends. There are two kinds of seats there: two sits tables for people coming alone or business meals, and the four sits tables for families. Most of people coming there are Asian but there are still many American families for trying different styles of food. As can be seen from its name, the barbeque is a buffet restaurant. That is a good choice for teenagers just like the students in DU. Because of the schedule of the class and sometimes too much homework; Students stay up in night and wake up really late in the afternoon, they can get enough food and energy within a buffet meal. Waiters in the restaurant will ask and bring you the drink you want but it in only for soda. If you want to get some extra drink like alcohol, you have to pay for it. The original cost of the meal is about 20 at weekends, but it has a sale of 50% off for children under 12 and free for babies. Even people know that the children and even babies are not able to eat a lot, this is still a point that attract people’s attention and make consumer think that the restaurant is substantial. On the table, there is a stove for cooking. This barbeque only offer the materials for cooking so people have to cook by themselves. There is an exhaust fan above the table which can provide consumers a good environment while cooking and eating in this restaurant. Actually, there are some outdoor tables so they don’t have exhaust fans over there. The main food in that restaurant is meat. They have pork and beef and also squid there. This buffet provides many kinds of side dish there like the chicken wings, oysters, noodles and sushi as well. All the sides there all in order, which means they suggest people to eat these sides in order just like having a soup in the beginning and get some chicken and shrimps with vegetables for solving the hunger before cooking the meat and the final porridge. Children and even teenagers can have fun there because there is a large chocolate fountain and the snacks are so delicious. I like the thick pork the most. As being the main food in this restaurant, this kind of pork is one of the most popular, famous and delicious meat there. Because they are in small pieces, the pork could be cooked quickly and tasted really soft. The pork should be put in the sauce they provided so it can help the meat taste better. However, for some other meat like the steak and squid, there are some sauces on it. Some of them are delicious but the other is like having the strange taste which is not suitable for me at all. I enjoy the service of the waiters as well. After cooking for a lot of meat, the stove is getting dirty with a lot of sauces on it. The waiters are walking around all the time and they will change a new one for you without you calling. They help you refill the drinks as well. However, before paying the bills, if wasting any food, especially the sushi and the meat, they may ask you to pay the fine, and it’s depends on the value of cost.

Comparing to the American barbeque, the Korean barbeque especially the Q Table BBQ Buffet, there are more sides and snacks for them. The meat over there is in small pieces instead of having the whole chicken or steak. The food is more complicated, especially the Q Table, I found a lot of Chinese like some specially noodles and the Japanese food like sushi. So, it means the food in this restaurant across the Asian especially like China and Japan for the famous food. I think it is the most special part of the restaurant which attracts a lot of Asians and even Americans to come.

For having a Korean buffet BBQ with the food across the whole Asia, Q Table BBQ Buffet attracts more and more people’s attention. For having the combination of food in Asia, this restaurant is like a mixture of the culture and food of Asia which can make a new understanding of Asian food for the Americans. Also, by having the food from other parts of Asia, other Asians like the Chinese and Japanese may become a significant part of their consumers and friends. It is also a good choice for Americans to change their diet of simple food or fast food style into a complex one because there are a lot of types to choose. I think the Q Table is a successful business of restaurant and it will make a bigger success in the future.

american bbq link

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spirit and food

In Cate’s article, the author showed the life and diet in a San Francisco Country Jail, the food is very simple there without any extra meals night even their dinner starts very early in the afternoon. All the people there are having the same food and just eat for survival. They learn to cook for themselves and share food with each other. They have leader there and saved food for people who need. This kind of mind and behavior becomes a spirit and had a beneficial influence on the further development like the economy and the society.
In O’Donnell’s article, I found that the author pointed out the differences of the requirement of food between different groups of people. Because of talking about the food in Shenzhen, a city near the sea, some people like eating fish instead of meat. Also, the author mentioned a kind of spirit in this city, the spirit of the old Shenzheners. As one of the developed city in China, Shenzhen was set as one of the center of business and economy. It attracts people’s attention to work in Shenzhen because as developing, the environment of working is getting better. By the appearance of the immigration, the citizens are grouped into two classes, the old citizens and the immigrants. The old Shenzheners prefer the atmosphere of the spirit of the old Shenzhen; they paid more attention to the tradition which can remember their feeling and their effort of work in the past. But the immigrants don’t, the only care about the best restaurants and go for the enjoyable food and service. In Suzhou, they are also a lot of immigrants and they did not pay any attention to the local traditional food at all. Instead, the just go for the newest or the most famous place to eat.

Reading Ran's post

Ran's post In my two advertisement, I talked about the same points and the differences about the green tea and drinks. I analysis the difference and the advantages for the tea and the drinks. However, for Ran, he gets his two advertisements from the Chinese and American food. He picked two of his favorite sauces. He mentioned the classes and the audiences from the favor, price and the long history of the brand while talking about the Chinese sauce called Lao Gan Ma. On the other hand, while talking about the american one, he mentioned some words like "Only 4.9% fat" which can attract people's attention and compared with the first as well. By writing about the audiences and some details on the packaging of the advertisement, it is easy to get the advantages of the advertisement like how can this kind of advertisement attract people's attention and make consumers keep buying their products.

Developing the culture: The green tea and the green tea drinks

       Green Tea is a very common but healthy drink. In china, it has been popular for thousands of years because of the Chinese long history. There are some many kinds of Chinese green tea like “Longjing” and “Biluochun” which is expensive but popular that my parents enjoying drinking it the whole time. So there comes a lot of bottle drinks but not really made from the tea leaves of the fantastic green tea leaves.

       There is a kind of green tea drink in China. As I said before, it is a kind of green tea drink which is not the same as the green tea itself. Firstly, it was made by a company which is called Tongyi. This company is famous by making food and drinks especially in China. It has made a lot of noodles and drinks like ice tea. All the products it makes are popular in China and people in China always go for brands.

They think the famous brand can represent good stuffs with the good quality and people’s interest. Therefore, the brand of “Tongyi” makes a large number of consumers to buy the goods just like the green tea. Secondly, this green tea drinks has the favor of the Jasmine Flowers. There are some words like “close to the nature” on the paper covering the bottle shows the green tea is made from natural material. Although it is only a drink which is not so healthy for people’s need, the showing of the natural making material is also a good way of attract people’s attention. People may feel time drink is less harmful to their bodies compared the other green tea drinks without a label of natural material on the bottle. Thirdly, the whole bottle is green including the bottle cap at the very top of it. The paper covering the bottle has the theme of green and nature as well. It looks so suitable for this drink and consumers may have a feel of harmony while looking at it. By making the consumers comfortable, the packaging could have more people buying and drinking more green tea drinks. I love this drink and always bring some with me; the smell and taste are pure and fresh. I enjoy drinking after meals, not only the taste is great but also it helps me a lot about solving the thirsty after having the salty food.

       However, my mother always asks me to drink real green tea instead of this kind of green tea. Comparing with the drinks, the green tea is healthier because the composition of the tea is really beneficial for people to keep fit. Tea can not only solve people from being thirsty but also refresh people about having a good mental state. As we know, people drink coffee and tea to help them wake up in the morning and they don’t drink too much at night or they will not be able to fall in sleep easily. Because it can make people keep fit, a lot of people around me like drink green tea especially the old and the middle-aged people. One of the most popular green tea in China is called “Biluochun”. As can be seen from the second advertisement, the picture was found in a tea celling website. The tea is packaged in a can and putted in a box with golden silk. In such big box, there are only two cans which mean the tea is not cheap at all. Actually, in Suzhou, the tea is so popular that all the people go to buy it while it appears on the market. The farmers plant the tea carefully and a lot of workers are hurt every year while firing the tea. People give the tea to others as a present while meeting some relatives or the important partners while working.

Compared with the drink, the Biluochun is like a symbol of the traditional and expensive green tea. It is for the adults while meeting other people or enjoying at home. All the steps of making tea having careful study so that some people have experience about making the tea smells well with fantastic taste. The green tea is the natural products so it has a lot of nutrition and benefit for our daily need. However, even the green tea drinks have some labels of natural materials, but they are actually the combination of the water, tea, sugar and some additive. So, they don’t help people’s health at all. On the other hand, the tea drinks in not expensive at all. Since most of the drinks are cold drinks packaging in the bottles, they are welcome for the teenagers. Moreover, bottle drinks are convenient that the students and the workers can just buy one and drink while working or having class. It can help people solving thirsty quickly. Recently, I found the green tea is helpful to our eyesight. Since having poor eyesight, there are a lot of inconveniences happening in my life. I hope that this condition could be changed so I keep drinking green tea or even this kind of drinks every day.

China is a big country with long history even about drinking tea. The traditional green tea like Biluochun keeps being popular for thousands of years and the new products like the tea drinks are also sold well because of the teenagers. They are beneficial to the development tea culture in China even the drinks can remind young people of the long history of tea in China.

Work Cited:

Green tea drinks: http://www.nipic.com/show/4/79/20faac3ef41ada24.html

Biluochun Green tea: http://www.0512tea.com/html/baozhuang_67_64.html

Study of tea: http://www.ivsky.com/Photo/284/74070.html

The analysis of the chip advertisement

In the article “Authenticity in America”, written by Freedman and Jurafsky about the advertisement on potato chips. The authors mainly thought of the main factors and divide them into several groups like High-Falutin, Health, Distinction and Authenticity. I found the most interesting in the first part of the analysis: High-Falutin. For example, in the first group of analysis, the author talked about the relationship between classes and health. “Education and health are two factors that have been strongly associated with differences in socioeconomic status for a long time.”(2) This sentence shows that health is so important while consumer shopping for goods, so the factor of education is. It also gives the audience a clear view of that not only the health has a relationship with classes but also education may have some influence about it. The authors pointed out that for different classes, the requirement of goods are different so the same advertisement can’t attract their interest and attention all the time. There are two examples that the authors showed about the advertisement for different price level: Inexpensive: “What gives our chips their exceptional great taste? It’s no secret. It’s the way they’re made!” Expensive: “We use totally natural ingredients, hand-rake every batch and test chips at every stage of preparation to ensure quality and taste.”(2) As can be seen from these examples, the people in the inexpensive class are attracted by the great taste of the chips but the expensive class cares more about the resource that made the chips which is natural and healthier. The authors also mentioned that people should focus on the words for the advertising for different classes. It’s on the both part of word account and the word usage on the advertisement. Moreover, in other parts of analysis, there are still some convincing reasons like, in the Health, the authors said that chips are not healthy food at all but the use of MSG and gluten could make it worse. Also, it is relative to the class level that the expensive class need healthier food without too much MSG and gluten but use other material instead.

Food changes relationship: the salty food and the natural taste food

“You eat too salty, try some vegetables here.” I still remembered that my mum always complained that father eats too salty while talking with my grandparents. In my family now, only my father enjoy salty food but others prefer the natural taste. Mum doesn’t like putting too much salt and she never uses monosodium glutamate while cooking. Dad doesn’t like the food without strong taste and he said this kind of food can’t help him eating more rice at all. They have argued for several times about the taste of food and asked me for idea. I stand for my mother now even I prefer staying with my father when I was young.

Fathers are usually busy men. So my dad is. In my mind, he almost never went home for dinner even weekends. Dad is a business man now and he has his own company about construction. As being the boss of the company, he has too much work to do and a lot of people to meet. Although they meet in the experience and magnificent restaurants and hotels, the food is not as good as the one we eat at home. Cooks put a lot of monosodium glutamates to make the food delicious and they use the heavy ways to cook the food into hot, salty and spicy taste. It is not good news at all, because in some place, the cooks use bad materials to cook in this way. Since the taste is very heavy, some food which may go bad can’t be tasted easily. Even all the restaurants that they go to are prefect but eating monosodium glutamates or too much salt is not good for the health either. In my mum’s word, “why not eating more food instead of salt and monosodium glutamates?” It seems like a joke but I think she is right. Dad’s taste is becoming a bad habit which may reduce the ability of taste in some other food. For example, after eating some mangos, you may found oranges are not sweet at all but very sour. It’s like the tongue is comparing with the things that you have already eaten. While eating too much salty food, it’s getting harder for a tongue to feel some delicious taste which is not so strong but feels good. Possibly, it’s a kind of failure of the function of a tongue. The food that dad outside is usually magnificent with a lot of meat and fish because dad needs to meet others so that they can help them going on some programmers on the business. The lack of the vegetable is a big problem in his daily life. Dad was told that he had some illness like hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Most of the problem is the carelessness of the diet and some details in daily life just like the taste.

I also enjoyed the spicy and strong state food in the past especially when I was a young boy. I didn’t eating the food cooked by mum every day because she has to work until 6 pm in evening so there is no time for mum to cook. I stayed in my grandparent’s home instead. Grandma is a good cook but not as good as mum in my mind. Working for government is a tough work without a high payment. However, I can go to eat in the dining hall with my father. Moreover, dad also took me to some restaurant even eating fast food like McDonalds and Pizza Hut. When I was eleven, something unlucky happened; mum was hurt in a car accident. Fortunately, my mum is still alive but she needed a long period of time to recover. During this period of time, dad usually brought me outside to eat and my taste was totally changed. I was going to be the man eating different kinds of salty things just like my father now. In the first days after my mum came back, I first thought her food was so tasteless and it hurt my mum’s heart. Later on, I just fit the taste and getting comfortable with that. Because of the work, dad still needs to eat outside and getting worse after starting his own business.

Now, even eating a bowl of rice, dad needs some special spicy sauce for him but mum and I just eating with some dishes. In my hometown Suzhou, there are too much delicious food like the lake crabs, white shrimps and white fish. We have our special cooking methods making special tastes. Even a bowl of noodle, it is quite different from the noodles in any other city in China. After studying abroad, I missed Chinese food so much so that I went to a lot of Chinese restaurants here. However, it is not the real Chinese food; Chinese students can taste the difference clearly. They used monosodium glutamate and too much salt in cooking and can’t get the real delicious taste from the food. After eating, it’s easy to feel thirsty because of the wrong way of cooking. Salt can absorb the water, so the reason of getting thirsty is too much salt. Moreover, the best point that my mum’s food has is never getting thirsty.