American & ChineseEating Culture

Dawn

3 Meals A day

• Breakfast

• Lunch

• Supper

• When to eat

• What to eat

• How to eat

• Etiquette

When to Eat

Supper: 18:00-20:00

Same time

between American and Chinese

Breakfast: 7:00- 8:30

Lunch: 11:30- 13:00

What to Eat

• Differences between American and Chinese

• Breakfast

• Lunch

• Supper

• After supper

• Specials

Breakfast

American

Bread, MilkEggs, Bacons

Etc.

Chinese

Porridge, EggsDough fitter

Etc.

Lunch American

Sandwiches Hamburgers

Hot dogs Chips

Etc.

Chinese Rice Noodles

Vegetables Meat

SupperAmerican

Steak, Fried meat

Vegetables

Chinese

Rice, chicken, pork,

vegetables

After supper

American

Coffee

Cold Drink

Dessert

Chinese

Hot Tea

Soup

Fruits

Specials

American

Sauce

Ketchup

French

Ranch

Sauce Chinese

Soy sauce

Seafood sauce

Chilli sauce

Specials

• American likes:

• Raw vegetables

• Chicken breast

• cheese

• Chinese likes:

• Cooked vegetables

• Chicken legs

• Animal viscera

How To Eat

Tools For eating:

American Plate, fork, spoon

and knife

ChineseBowl, spoon and

chopsticks

Tools for Cooking

AmericanMicroware

Oven

Tools for Cooking

Chinese: cooker

Pan

Ways to cook

American

Fry

Decoct

Ways to cook

ChineseBraise

Stir-fry

Feature of Eating

AmericanFastconvenient

ChineseGood-lookingTasty

Etiquette

Once American Take what ever you want

Chinese • One piece whenever you need

American

Fork and knife can

be used together

Chinese

Cannot use spoon

and chopsticks

together

• AmericanLady first

• Chinese Elder first

When getting into the restaurant,sitting at the dining-table or starting eating

When eating

• American

• Speak quietly

• Seldom drink wine

• Chinese

• In a heated

discussion

• Toasting drunk

Summary

Different country has different eating

culture. We should respect each other. If we

are in a foreign, we`d better to follow their

customs.

Thank you!

Source Pictures from slideshow 4, 8 (hamburger), 9 (vegetables), 11 (dessert and fruit), 12(Ranch and French), 13, 15, 21, 24, 27 are taken by my own.

Pictures from slideshow 5(Gloria) ~6 are taken by Gloria.

Picture from slideshow 9 (Meat) is taken by Stacy.

Other pictures from the slideshow are from Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007