❀Peggy's New Life in Van❀: DIfferent cooking culture between China and Canada

In China, cooking is an art. Quite different from Canada cooking whose recipes are followed strictly like laboratory instructions, Chinese cooking always allows for a creative and stylistic touch to it. Besides, a good Chinese dish should be a great combination of taste and apperance. During the long period of development of the eating culture, there formed many things about the eating that foreign visitors may find quite different from what they are used to and even feel weird.Chinese dining etiquette, whether it applies to receiving only a few guests at a single table in one's home or to holding a public banquet involving dozens of guests seated at several tables, we have varies with the character and purpose of the dinner. For example, guests should present themselves to the host upon arrival. This is important since it is the host who determines the seating arrangement, and in order to do this properly, the host needs to know whom among the invited guests actually arrived. In comparison, The canadian food is like American food, its basis of both groups is seasonal, fresh ingredients and preserves. The cuisine includes baked foods, wild game, and gathered foods.The main difference between Chinese and Canadian eating habits is that where everyone has their own plate of food, in China the dishes are placed on the table and everybody shares. If you are being treated by a Chinese host, be prepared for a ton of food. Chinese are very proud of their culture of food and will do their best to give you a taste of many different types of cuisine. Among friends, they will just order enough for the people there. If they are taking somebody out for dinner and the relationship is polite to semi-polite, then they will usually order one more dish than the number of guests If it is a business dinner or a very formal occasion, there is likely to be a huge amount of food that will be impopssible to finish.