Dining Etiquette: Facing Unfamiliar Food

Paula Gorz (Paula Golz), now in the international market, tells us about a commercial lunch she experienced at a Hongkong restaurant. Her Chinese hostess advised her to taste a brown gel food and tell her that the food was good for her skin. After eating, she knew she was eating chicken blood coagulated.

One thing is certain: the more you walk outside, the more mysterious and indescribable meals you may have at your table.

In your mind - only in the dreadful illustrated book of cooking. Like live fish, bear paw soup, chocolate grasshopper, seaweed, shark fin soup, reindeer tongue, even cooked scorpion and so on. But not only that, but even worse, as an honorable guest, you may still eat sheep's eyes (Middle East), or even monkey brain (Southeast Asia).

Naturally, your first reaction may be to seek help, push the food aside, or worse, your stomach may not be able to bear it and begin to vomit. Before this happens, you may consider the following two suggestions:

1. you are honorable.

The host may invite you to eat the delicious food of their country, and if you refuse, it may be regarded as an insult.

2. people in this country have been eating this special food for many centuries without being punished.

Some of the foods that North Americans like very much are unintelligible. Some of the foods that North Americans like very much are likely to be disgusting foods for international friends: roast turkey, gravy, peanut butter, alcohol free beverages (safflower oil, spiced green wine), sauce (ketchup, etc.), corn flour, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, half cooked steak, popcorn, many fast food and even hot dogs. In some parts of the Far East, people there have the custom of eating dog meat, which makes a visitor from the Far East stare at an American hot dog with strange eyes and say, "we also eat dog meat..." and remember that international visitors will encounter similar problems when they come to North American countries. For many foreigners, many of the dishes we love are also with us.

But it's not like this. "

What do you do when you face foods that are disgusting and disgusting? Here are some ways to protect you from harm.

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It means that you can cook cooked grasshoppers as a cracker and treat them as cereals for breakfast.

Just swallow it - don't think about the animal you eat when you are alive.

Tear it into small pieces and eat it quickly.