American & ChineseEating Culture
Dawn
3 Meals A day
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Supper
• When to eat
• What to eat
• How to eat
• Etiquette
When to Eat
Supper: 18:00-20:00
Same time
between American and Chinese
Breakfast: 7:00- 8:30
Lunch: 11:30- 13:00
What to Eat
• Differences between American and Chinese
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Supper
• After supper
• Specials
Breakfast
American
Bread, MilkEggs, Bacons
Etc.
Chinese
Porridge, EggsDough fitter
Etc.
Lunch American
Sandwiches Hamburgers
Hot dogs Chips
Etc.
Chinese Rice Noodles
Vegetables Meat
SupperAmerican
Steak, Fried meat
Vegetables
Chinese
Rice, chicken, pork,
vegetables
After supper
American
Coffee
Cold Drink
Dessert
Chinese
Hot Tea
Soup
Fruits
Specials
American
Sauce
Ketchup
French
Ranch
Sauce Chinese
Soy sauce
Seafood sauce
Chilli sauce
Specials
• American likes:
• Raw vegetables
• Chicken breast
• cheese
• Chinese likes:
• Cooked vegetables
• Chicken legs
• Animal viscera
How To Eat
Tools For eating:
American Plate, fork, spoon
and knife
ChineseBowl, spoon and
chopsticks
Tools for Cooking
AmericanMicroware
Oven
Tools for Cooking
Chinese: cooker
Pan
Ways to cook
American
Fry
Decoct
Ways to cook
ChineseBraise
Stir-fry
Feature of Eating
AmericanFastconvenient
ChineseGood-lookingTasty
Etiquette
Once American Take what ever you want
Chinese • One piece whenever you need
American
Fork and knife can
be used together
Chinese
Cannot use spoon
and chopsticks
together
• AmericanLady first
• Chinese Elder first
When getting into the restaurant,sitting at the dining-table or starting eating
When eating
• American
• Speak quietly
• Seldom drink wine
• Chinese
• In a heated
discussion
• Toasting drunk
Summary
Different country has different eating
culture. We should respect each other. If we
are in a foreign, we`d better to follow their
customs.
Thank you!
Source Pictures from slideshow 4, 8 (hamburger), 9 (vegetables), 11 (dessert and fruit), 12(Ranch and French), 13, 15, 21, 24, 27 are taken by my own.
Pictures from slideshow 5(Gloria) ~6 are taken by Gloria.
Picture from slideshow 9 (Meat) is taken by Stacy.
Other pictures from the slideshow are from Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007