Chinese food system and culture

Chinese people believe that food is the most important thing in the food; so, many of us spend a lot of time on studying how to cook better in our life time. No matter you are rich or not and the material you use is good or not, people in our country will always find a way to make the material to the best dishes.

China is a really big country, and each province in china has its own cooking system. I am come from Beijing, and we also have our own cooking system. However, because Beijing is the capital city of China, so, there are many people who come from other province come to Beijing every year, and the population of these people ia much more than the locals. In order to let people from other province can have their own food in Beijing, so, many restaurant of other cooking system come out in Beijing. So, Beijing’s food system is more like a combination of the whole country. Most of the local Beijingers enjoy this kind of life because they can have the food all over the country but do not need to go to other province.

How do the “old Beijingers” eat?

There is a word “old Beijingers” in our country, it is means a group of people whose family have lived in Beijing hundreds or even thousands of years. They are the real local people of Beijing, they lives in “hutong” which is totally different from the tall building in down town. Because of this, they have they own culture and a food system which is totally different from others. The food that “old Beijingers” eat is really taste strange, which people from other province or even young people who born in Beijing cannot really bear it. “Old Beijingers” have a really simple food system; they eat one kind of food nearly every day. There is a food called “douzhi” that “old Beijingers” have it every breakfast, however, other people cannot even bear the smell of it, actually nearly none of the people around me can eat this.

How do people normally eat?

            For most of people, we have really a lot of choices for what we eat. For breakfast, some people learn the western country to eat eggs, breads and drink milk. However, most of us like to have something make of flour for breakfast like “baozi”, “youtiao” and noodle. People also like to drink porridge in the morning because they believe it is good for our health. All of these are Chinese traditional food.

 People in our country believe that launch is as important as dinner, but there is still some difference between this to meals.

For launch, usually we do not have enough time to have a great meal because we need to go to school and our parents need to go to work. When we are at school, the only thing we can eat for launch is the restaurant around us. Most of them are western restaurant because it is really quick to eat western food. However, the tastes of these restaurants are not the same as what I eat in American, I think these restaurant change their style more fit the locals. At that time, pizza hut is the restaurant which I like most, you can not only have western food like pizza food there, but also you can order some Chinese food like fried rice which really taste like our local food.

Dinner is always the biggest meal in our day, because we have enough time to enjoy this meal. Especially because my mother is a teacher, so, she finishes her work earlier than others and has enough time to prepare this meal for us. I always believes that my mom is a good cook and she can cook different dishes and do not have anything the same for a whole week. In our country, people nearly eat rice or flour every day. Because I like to eat things which are really salty or spicy, so, I need more than a bowl of rice for each meal. I like to eat meat much more than vegetables, especially the lamb, which is really hard to find in America. I really like to eat hot pot, and most of the Chinese like it. In our city, the best restaurant which cook hot pot is called “HAIDILAO”, you need to wit every day since it opens. The food I like most for hot pot is lamb and meatball, and I go there every week. I especially like the sesame sauce there, a good sauce is one of the most important thing for hot pot.

If you want to find something to eat at midnight, the best choice all over the country is the meat string, which all people like it. It is like some small meat piece string together and baked on fire. You can find this everywhere and it really smells and tastes good.

Food is a really important part of China, and it is well connect with our country. In America, people eat turkey in Thanks Giving day to celebrate the holiday. However, in ancient China, in order to find a reason for them to eat something good, poor people found many festivals for this. So, if you want to eat something taste good and special, come to China.