Topic: news Trying to Understand The Reasons Why Some Foreigners Hate Chinese Food

This is a very interesting article. It shows us that we tend to generalize and make a statement that seems to sound derogatory towards a group of people. Your opening sentence tries to lessen the blow by saying that 'sometimes we're afraid of it'. We should be honest but specific; for example, I could never imagine myself eating pork trotters instead of saying I am afraid of eating Chinese or German foods. I guess I do not have to remind you that pork trotters are delicacy to some Germans as well as it is to Chinese. Just say that we do not like pork trotters or chicken head or monkey brain or any kind of blood. Chinese cuisine, like cuisine from all over the world is a product of evolution and integration with cuisines from other parts of the world. I do not know the name of the spice but it is commonly used in Beijing cuisine; to me, it smells like a whiff from the armpit of a person that has been working hard for the last ten hours. I encountered this spice again when I was eating a Mid-Eastern dish. Later, I found out that the spice is the same and it seemed to have been brought from the Mid-East via silk road. Also, we must understand that China is a large countries with many ethnic groups and some are appealing and some are not to certain individual. May be I can say that most of the non-Chinese did not have the chance to try out even a half of Chinese food that they are not qualified to make judgement on Chinese food. North American Brother Cui forgets to mention that his wife also eats vegetables, fried rice, steamed rice, Chinese perogies, steamed buns, roasted pork, and roasted beef as well. I am a Chinese, I don't like chicken feet it grosses me out. But I like fish head; the Chef at my favorite Japanese restaurant whips it out for me sometimes...after I finish eating the gelatin, sweet meat, eyeballs, and whatever is in there, all you see is a neat pile of bones. I even like it better when he gives me Basashi; it's horse meat sashimi. One of my friend from California told me that if he did not know me, I might have punched me for eating horse. I hate Carp...so many bones and sometimes it tastes muddy and the meat is so soft it feels like eating mush. I like Big Mac, Wendy's Classic, Burger King, and Triple O at White Spot. I can't stand pizzas from Pizza Hut, Dominoes, and Shakey's...but my Chinese, Japanese, and SE Asian friends of mine love them. I hear none of them saying that they do not like of are afraid of American food. The only Chinese that I know of that say they do not like Western food are those who tried out their first Western food in a small crappy 'Western' Restaurants in China. So unless you've eaten at least 80% of all Chinese cuisine, please don't say that you do not like Chinese food or you are afraid of it. We don't say that about cuisine from your land.