Jez's Blog

Comparing the food culture in Taiwan and America, I think the main affection to both of their food cultures was the people of each country. In Taiwan, people seem to have more rules in its food culture. Such as the arrangement of seating on a dinning table, which has to be arranged along the importance of each person. For example, if there's a guest visiting, he or she will be sitting facing the door, as the most important person, and the hosts will be sitting with his or her back facing the door, as the least important person.

Also, Taiwanese dishes are very concerned about the look, taste, and smell. Therefore, Taiwanese cooking requires loads of different cuisines, such as boiling, stewing in soy sauce, and frying...etc, and these cuisines are all requiring a many complicated techniques. Moreover, here is a very obvious difference between Taiwanese food culture and the American food culture, which is that Taiwanese people eat with chopsticks, but the Americans eat with knifes and forks.

However, I don't really know a lot about the American food culture, but I think there aren't as many rules or concerning of either the seating on a dinning table, the look, taste, and smell of the dishes, and the techniques of different cuisines. I guess its because that Taiwanese people are more conservative than the Americans. We keep our traditions and believes in our food culture.


- http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldroutes/festivals.cfm?festival_id=20
[Picture of Taiwanese noodle. Copied by Jez. 19th of Nov. 2008]
- http://www.topnews.in/health/regions/united-kingdom
[Picture of fast food. Copied by Jez. 19th of Nov. 2008]