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Food is something we required every day. More and more food comes together by people sharing the food. It makes people can have food with different styles or even from different nations. I only feel like enjoy Chinese food and this feeling becomes stronger after I came to the United States. As an international student, I don’t always have time to enjoy the food from my hometown, due to the schedule; I have to finish my meal in several minutes sometimes so I must eat fast food to make me full with energy. In my mind, I think most of the Chinese students who lives in the United States will agree with me because I could see Chinese students in every Chinese restaurant I went. Some of them just move out of campus because of the food in the dining hall and eating in Chinese restaurants or cook themselves instead.

I love Chinese food and usually eat a lot in Chinese restaurants compared with eating in the dining hall. First of all, Chinese food is delicious and always has a lot of oil with the dishes. This can make the food smells good and attract my attention of taste. The liquid oil in the food makes my throat get a smooth feeling while eating. It satisfies me a lot. For American food, these is oil inside the fast food, for example, fast food, there is oil with them like French fires and the meat in the burgers. However, the oil in this kind of food is not liquid even when the food is hot. This kind of food like burgers always have pieces of bread covering so it is usually dry and needs drinks to eat with or the throat will feel uncomfortable. Secondary, we have cooked vegetables in Chinese food. There vegetables are always hot with oil and fabulous taste. Also in Chinese food, there are not only broccolis and lettuce but also a lot of other vegetables that most of the Americans have never seen before. After some complicated steps of cooking, they are all delicious but tastes different. The most famous one is green vegetable, which is the most common vegetable that Chinese people eat. I hate eating vegetables when I was young. At that time, I just eat little food but spend all the meal time watching Television instead. Now, especially coming into the United States, I finally realize how good the Chinese cooking vegetables are and I only can get green vegetables in some Chinese restaurants. In American food, most vegetables are in salad which is uncooked and mixed with many kinds of fruits, other foods and some sauce. I found some of them are really sour or sweet and makes me uncomfortable to eat them all. Absolutely, most of the American vegetables are cold just like salad, because of being uncooked.

       Not only the taste of Chinese food is good but also the nutrition of it is beneficial for our bodies. I always find many kinds of food in a dish while eating Chinese food like meat, vegetables and potatoes. (about health and still need Research to support)

       However, Chinese food is expensive here and always complicated. This means that I can’t eat Chinese food for all the meals. Due to the schedule, sometimes I have to finish my meal in 5 minutes because of the short 10 minutes break: I also have to go to another classroom. In this case, I often choose fast food to make myself full and sometimes eat nothing but drink some soda instead. Fast food is efficient enough to be finished in several minutes. Even sometimes you can’t finish it in time; maybe you can have a choice to take the food with you and go, eating while on the road or having a class. Fast food like burgers, French fires and pizzas are mostly prepared so people do not have to wait for these foods. They can hold the food with their hands and just eat without the requirement of other tools like chopsticks while eating Chinese food. It saves a lot of time. ( then go back to chinese food…..)

       In my opinion, a meal is something you should enjoy and make yourself satisfied, not just eat and go; so I always go for my favorite tastes and feelings while choosing food.