中西方饮食文化差异(英文版)

Compere ：Better compario n , better life.hello every body. Welcome to our .I’m karter. I n our prvious program.w e compared sino-us eco nomic ,price , education, Science and technolog y

Today , we will talk abo ut the Differences in Ch inese and American Foo d Culture .First, let ’s wa tch a short film about A

merican food culture. Okay,the short film is just a bief introducti on. We have the hon or to invite Tom from the United States an d Tony from China.we lcome!

For tonday ’s topic,w hat ’s your opinions?

Tom: since the deff irence between Chi nese and western pilosphy,American pay morn attention to scientific diet a nd nutrition

Tony:well,Chinese t hink a lot of the ta ste.

Compere:what abou t the Dining atmos phere ?

Tony:Chinese peopl e prefer to Toast e ach other and urge others to drink m ore in a lively atm osphere.

Tom:at least ,I do not like it. O n the contrary,we usually eat f ood quietly,even no talking .for drinking we only simbolically t ake a sip.in west banquet ,the host helps the guest to food fo r only once,and then asks the m to eat any more,which is not like the Chinese people ’s habi t of urging somebody to drink frequently.it is not allowed to make a noise while eating the food,but the guests should pay attention to appreciate the me als that the owners prepared.if you want to talk with people,yo u can only talk with the ones besides you .we think it is poli te.

Compere:ok, one is lively,other is quie t.en,Tom ,do you k now how to use th e Chopsticks?

Tom:really no .but I tried it ,I found it difficult to grasp. I still like my knife and fork

Conpere:how to us e them?

Tom:in fact,tables a re generally laid wi th one knife and t wo forks,the outsid e fork being for th e salad.

Tony:as I know,Americ an eating is funny,they take fork in their left hand,and cut off a pie ce of meat or whateve r it is in the normal m anners.then they put t he knife down,transfer the fork to their right hand,and only then d o they transport the fo od to their mouth.this is every tedious,I think .

Compere:is this,Tom? Tom:yes,he said it. Copere:By the way,hav e you eaten breakfast? Tom:yes,Tony:yes.

Tony:don’t your progra m team submit an exp ense account boarding fee?

Compere:ok,we will! I want to know w hat did you eat?To m.

Tom: A cup of mil k, An egg and A h amburger

Tony ；A bowl of no odles

Compere ；So it see ms that the food is different,too.

Tom: In Western-styl e food cookbook, vari ous ingredients such as the flour, sugar, b utter etc. have been indicated several gra ms, several spoons or several cups, even t

he size of the egg wi ll all be explained. I think it is like a testi ng laboratory. So, Ma king Western-style foo d is easy, so long as you according to cook book manual 。

Tony: But it is not th e easy thing that you want to make fine C

hinese food. Even if you have bought the cookbook, it is not s o easy. Because the Chinese cookbook will not tell you several grams of ingredient, f or example salt, Chin ese cookbook just tell you appropriate amo unt of salt, don’t tell

you several gram, se veral spoon or severa l cup. Why? The tast e of people who live in different places is different in China. T here is a folk adage i n China “south sweet, north salty, east hot and west sour”. So, a good cook rely on

experience and skill when cooks in China 。 Compere:yeah!as you two said ,the deffere nce of food culture b etween china and Am erica can be seen in table manners ,Cookin g method,dining atmo sphere and tableware ………

Compere ；but What c aused the such distin ction?

Tony:people from diff erent counties speak different languages,ke ep different value,and have different ways of looking at things.it ’supset to find people who behave differen

t from us.we may,at f irt ,assume that some thing is wrong with t hem .while different culture may have diff erent ways of respon ding to conpliments. Compere:I totally agre e with you.from the above comparion and contrast,some great

differences are found between china and America.personally sp eaking,we can not sa y which is better.beca use everything may b e different in differen t places.the culture di fferences in food will allow people to enh ance mutual understa

nding, to enjoy differ ent feeling from diffe rent food,and to pro mote the inter-culture exchanges,supplemen tation and integration. ok,welcome to our ,see yo u next week,good by e.