Comments on: Chinese Food VS Western-style Food

By: thomas

thomas — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:39:21 +0000

it is true that the Chinese cuisine is all about art and innovation as compared to western cuisine whereby there is stipulated method of doing it. the way to win a man’s heart is through the stomach and the Chinese have conquered in this area. thanks.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:47:22 +0000

Chinese style cooking is my dream..i wan’t to learn more techniques in chinese style cooking..Because i’m a chef already

By: ABC

ABC — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:09:36 +0000

Quick note about the “violent cooking” mentioned in the article. You’d probably never see people slaughtering ducks or fish any “Western”-style kitchens–in the U.S., the major supermarket chains don’t often stock live food, but Asian supermarkets in the U.S. will usually have a selection of live fish & other seafood (and rarely, fowl, too). You can buy the fish, take it home, and slaughter it yourself.

The author of this article was probably thinking of TV cooking, where each ingredient is neatly chopped and placed in bowls ready to be added in defined parts, as Western. I agree, this type of cooking is atypical of most Western kitchens.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:07:50 +0000

I’m chinese. I’m now in high school (SCC Sinor Canadian Class). I think both Chinese Food and Western-style Food are good, depends on your taste. But I think Chinese food is healthier.

By: markrobsob

markrobsob — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:22:00 +0000

the OP of article just dont make a sense, he has repeated same sentence over and over again.

He hasnt mentioned a single chinese food

He mentioned wether chinese food should be slow cooked or hot cooked to finish like italian.

By: Buccccck

Buccccck — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:32:30 +0000

While many Western restaurants focus on atmosphere, most focus on taste, and if you ask anybody but Chinese people in the world, “who conquers in taste” you probably will not be answered with “China.” Also, Marco Polo didn’t bring noodles from China, I’m pretty sure they wore adapted from the middle east between 5th-7th centuries. I love Chinese food, and it is interesting to learn more about the food I am eating in China, but I really don’t think the author has much experience in western restaurants

By: claudia

claudia — Sun, 08 May 2011 13:00:21 +0000

见仁见智

By: JBrown

JBrown — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:42:27 +0000

This is typical Chinese “We are better than the West no matter what” thinking. The next time you try to criticize “the West” and America, make sure you know what you are talking about and learn how to correctly write in English. I help tons of Chinese kids with their papers and this is a common topic. To bad they never took the time to actually try to cook our food or to actually eat it. They say they hate American food, but when I ask them what they have eaten, they can’t give me a straight answer.

By: Dennis Hodgson

Dennis Hodgson — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:08:04 +0000

I find this post to be full of inaccuracies and unjustified generalizations:

“Western-style food is simple; but Chinese food is complicated.”

A lot of Western dishes are extremely complex, while a lot of Chinese dishes are very simple.

“south sweet, north salty, east hot and west sour.”

Again a generalization. Shanghainese food is considerably saltier than Pekingese, and vinegar is used a lot too, while if by “west” you mean Sichuan then it isn’t sour, it’s hot. Hunanese is also hot, but Hunan is more south than west. As for south/sweet, I eat Cantonese food all the time, and there are very few dishes (”sweet and sour”) that are sweet.
There is only one essential difference between Chinese and Western food and this is that almost all Chinese food is prepared in bite-sized individual pieces, while Western dishes require further preparation at the table before being eaten [i.e. cut into smaller pieces].

Finally, I think that you do China a huge disservice by referring to it as “mysterious”. There is nothing mysterious about China. It is merely different.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:04:02 +0000

I agree with your article but apparently some “westerners ” didn’t like it so much…..It depends on where you born….Chinese people will say Chinese food is better and French people will say French food is better…easy..