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Since dining out in China is relatively cheap you should find that you can afford to go to decent restaurants quite frequently. I am not talking about famous or touristy places but anywhere with hospitality lanterns hanging outside. Yes - that's what those red lanterns mean.
How you choose a restaurant is up to you. Try to get recommendations or look out for busy places and take note to return later.
Most places will have only a Chinese menu and you cannot expect any of the staff to speak English. You therefore need to prepare yourself accordingly and to allow a little bit more time for ordering. You should at least have a spattering of Putonghua (Mandarin), a phrasebook or, if you like your food, something a bit more specific.
There should be no need to book ahead unless perhaps you have a large group. Try not to let yourself be taken into a side room - not so much because these do cost extra but more so that you can enjoy the atmosphere in the main area. You may of course prefer a side room particularly if there is lots of smoke but that is becoming less common.
Sit yourselves down and don't feel pressured by the flurry of activity as staff go about their business. One may take coats, others may deliver utensils or pour tea. Your job at this stage is to look around and see what others are enjoying. One girl may be stood waiting to take your order. Don't worry - you want her at hand for when you have decided.
A good Chinese meal is all about balance. Think about the quantity you expect to order then divide that up into meat and vegetable dishes. Then look for variety in the colour, texture and taste of these. Go for some safe options and then experiment a bit with one or two other dishes. How else are you going to learn?
A meal should be accompanied by lots of talk. That's what makes eating out in China such fun. The food always offers a topic if nothing else springs to mind. Try to find out what you can about each dish. There are lots of great stories and interesting facts to learn. If you can't find out at the time then note down the characters and try later. That's how I learnt about Chinese food and how I am still learning. It's a road with no end.
Ian Ford has lived in China for most of the last 7 years. He has prepared a food guide, Eating Out in China, with background information to Chinese food, over 60 recommended dishes and handy reference sheets. The sheets show each dish in English, pinyin and Chinese characters and are for you to take on your travels. Order these dishes, and variations, with ease.
Don't worry about the food in China. Discover how to order the best dishes at any restaurant with ease. Get the Eating Out in China food guide today.
Why Chinese Don't Need Forks and Knives
Chopsticks is used many cultures in Asia and it has been around for thousands of years while the fork is relatively new and only used by Europeans. I wonder what Europeans used before, oh, yes, the hand and fingers. Most of the world still uses hand and fingers to eat.
Chopsticks works like two fingers grabbing food. Forks were only invented after they had good knowledge of metallurgy.
Anyway, imagine when you go camping, you have no fork, and what do you do? Use your hand to pick up your food. But it's too hot, so you grab a stick!
Westerns always feel curious about chopsticks, and find it impossible to eat western food. The food culture difference between east and west explains the large difference with dining tools.
What westerns worries doesn't realise is in Chinese cooking, everything is sliced and diced into smaller pieces before cooking so Chinese people don't need forks and knives. Western cooking dictates chunks of meat or vegetable that has not been diced so that is why most Westerners use forks and knives - because they need to!
It's a cultural thingy. It's the way they serve their food. They actually use chopsticks and spoon. Generally, for a family meal, all the different dishes (meat, fish, vegetable, soup) are placed in the center of the table and each diner will have a bowl of rice. The meat and veggies will have been chopped up into smaller pieces. So they use chopstick to alternatively pick the dishes they want followed by shoveling rice into their mouths.
Westerners generally serve large chunk of meat individually and thus need fork and knife to assist in cutting these into smaller pieces before placing into the mouth.
There are several things to remember when you use chopsticks.
- Don’t dig in the food on a plate but just get the piece which you want to get
- Don’t pick one piece then drop it back in the plate and change to another piece
- Don’t let your chopsticks be covered with food juice or residue
- Don’t use chopsticks to beat any utensils to make any noise
- Don’t wave your chopsticks
- Don’t use chopsticks like forks
- Don’t use chopsticks as toothpicks
- Don’t lick or suck your chopsticks
- Don’t put chopsticks vertically in rice in a bowl since it resembles the incense sticks for the dead
-Particularly after SARS, it is more common these days that people use a pair of common chopsticks for fetching the food on the plates. Don’t forget to swap your own chopsticks with the ones provided when getting the food because of hygiene reasons.
In a Chinese meal, an even number of dishes should be ordered. Odd numbers of dishes would be appropriate only for occasions such as the meal after a funeral.
The best dish should be put in front of the most important person in order to show your respect. Chicken head or duck head on a plate should not point at guests. The big bowl of soup should be placed in the middle.
With chopsticks you can practically pick up anything with them, without a mess and neatly. Chopsticks are easier and quicker for me to use while eating, and also they are more agile. With chopsticks you can pick up many side dishes; mix and stuff in my mouth with ease. Forks break your food because you have to stab it. Forks are for baby. Once you get the hang of chopsticks, you will find it much easier to do things with. Kitchen and dinning tools are all connected to different food culture.
It’s a culture thing, each tableware has its own merits, we can’t say which is good or not. It all depends on totally different food culture between east and west, From a Chinese perspective, chopsticks are more handy. Why not try for your own and decide for yourself.
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