文档介绍:The Art of Eating Well
The Chinese understand food. We all need to eat; people share food to e intimate with others, and food fort and nourishes our bodies. Westerners sometimes forget the medicinal value of food but Chinese people understand this well. They gratify themselves by eating but many of my Chinese friends also choose medicinal meals, either through traditional doctors, or via recipes, to focus on maintaining a balanced body.
At the same time, eating is a social activity. Chinese food is famous for being consumed in groups. In the past a lone foreigner sitting in a simple cafe may have found it hard to get a decent meal, as traditional Chinese cuisine was and is culturally designed to be munally. Clearly, regarding food consumption in China, the production and ordering system is based upon serving the group, with banquets at the top of the list.
Chinese e in many forms. The modest range includes small street vendors who have converted iron drums into ovens to bake sweet potatoes, or small stalls where deft cooks pull noodles and boil them in broth before the client’s very eyes, or small, home style cafes, open to the street that specialize in a few regional specialties. In the early 1980s, some of t
hese cafes started offering herbal medicine meals (yao shan). Some of these cafes cater to gender, while others resemble healthy vegetarian cafes that became fad