Email Service Notes 22nd April (Jesse)

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The actual Chinese food is quite different from western food. Chinese people eat some things that foreigners will never eat such as fish head, chicken feet, smelly stuff or any other weird food which is enjoyed by Chinese people. This is because foreigner really don’t like food that you can see which part of the animal it comes from.
In Chinese tradition, people think you eat skin, then you get good skin; you eat heart of animal, then it’s good for your heart; if you get your leg broken, then you need bone soup. However, it sounds ridiculous and unbelievable for western people who think there is no relationship between the food itself and people’s health. What they judge the food is healthy or not is to see if the food contains vitamin, protein or other nutrition. My teacher Jesse is a veteran who dares to try all those strange Chinese food time after time and share his experience with lots of people. Thanks to him.
Moreover , Chinese people don’t like cold water as they think it not good for health. So we always drink warm water all the time expect it was in summer with very high temperature. And I have a colleague who has never drunk cold drinks even when it is in Summer. Once she went to Maldives for honeymoon with her husband which is a very hot island all over the year. The next morning in the dining-room of the hotel after they arrived, she found there was cold milk only and she asked the waiter for a cup of warm milk. But the waiter said no warm milk. So she gave up drinking milk at breakfast and heated warm water by an electric kettle she brought from China. That was really funny, isn’t it?

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Actual Chinese food is quite different from western food. Chinese people eat some things that foreigners will never eat such as fish head, chicken feet, smelly tofu or any other “weird” food which is enjoyed by Chinese people. This is because foreigners really don’t like food that you can see which part of the animal it comes from.
According to Chinese customs / traditions, people think that if you eat skin, then you get good skin; you eat the heart of an animal, then it’s good for your heart; if you break your leg, then you need some bone soup. However, it sounds ridiculous and unbelievable for western people who think there is no relationship between the food itself and people’s health. How they judge whether the food is healthy or not is by seeing if the food contains vitamins, protein or other nutrition. My teacher Jesse is a veteran of eating Chinese food and dares to try all of those strange Chinese foods time after time and shares his experience with lots of people. Thanks to him, we know how westerners feel about Chinese food.
Moreover , Chinese people don’t like cold water as they think it not good for their health / not healthy. So we always drink warm water except during summer when it is very hot. Also, I have a colleague who never drinks cold drinks even when it is Summer. Once she went to Maldives, which is a very hot island during the whole year, for a honeymoon with her husband  The next morning in the dining-room of the hotel after they arrived, she found there was only cold milk and she asked the waiter for a cup of warm milk. However, the waiter said there was no warm milk. So she gave up drinking milk at breakfast and heated up some warm water with an electric kettle she brought from China. How funny is that?