Comments on: Chinese Dining Etiquette: Eating, Use Chopsticks, Eating Bones

By: motoko selato letlhogonolo

motoko selato letlhogonolo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:01:18 +0000

this is great especially for first timers like me…m visiting china during my school holiday,atleast i will be able to hold a thing or two with those chopsticks!With what i learnt frm the article i surely will make an impression-on my host family.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:26:51 +0000

Thanks so much for your response. I turned in my paper a few days ago and i just said that if Chinese people could handle eating rice with chopsticks that i’m sure they could handle some cheerios! Of course we aren’t marketing cereal for real in China because it was just a project but who knows, maybe in a few years Chinese people might eat cereal. Personally, I did a lot of research for what they do eat for breakfast, some of the things you mentioned above were in the research i found and it sounds like their breakfasts are a lot tastier than cereal anyway lol. i’d rather have some dim sum any day than cold cereal. :)

By: Robert Thompson

Robert Thompson — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:27:00 +0000

@Sheila:

In my experience, the Chinese don’t really eat cereal. They eat noodles, soup noodles, dumplings, “bao zi” (which is a circular piece of steamed dough with meat or vegetables inside) (it’s hella good btw) a hot soup dish where you dip fried dough in freshly squeezed soy beans (or soy milk), etc.

In the Canton region (Guangzhou and Hong Kong region) they eat dim sum, which you are probably more familiar with as this cuisine is prominent in the US.

Also, milk is not a staple product in China. Some people say that the Chinese are lactose intolerant (which I tend to disagree with, as there are a lot of milk products in China), but most of my Chinese friends just say they don’t like the taste or consistency of milk or cheese.

In larger cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, there is more of a western influence and I’m sure that they are many people who do eat cereal for breakfast. If they did, I’m almost positive they would use a spoon.

Where I live (in Yunnan), cereal is uncommon and I have never seen anyone eat it for breakfast.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:29:18 +0000

I am doing a project for school. We are trying to market cereal in china and I was wondering if you know whether Chinese people use spoons for cereal or if they still use chopsticks? I have found that cereal in China is in smaller packaging inside the cereal box. Is cereal largely considered a dry snack for the Chinese rather than a breakfast food? Any information you know about this will be useful and greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Sincerely,
Sheila Franks
farrah1116@yahoo.com

By: girliegirl

girliegirl — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:15:55 +0000

when you have prepared some rice to eat with dinner don’t put your chopsticks in the rice standing straight up, this symbolizes death.

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