Happy Food …..The Chinese Way
Since social customs and traditions vary in different countries our Chinese table etiquette is entirely different from that of the West. It is regrettably true that we lack some of the niceties and refinements of Western table manners; still , in the past thousand years the Chinese have developed a multitude of conventions which are concerned with the matter of eating - the Happy Way. The important thing is that the atmosphere should make every body feel happy and at ease,because things are going on as they should .There is an old Chinese saying that goes something like this ; “Eating food is above all Heavenly Laws.” Nobody should deprive another from eating , not even the Heavenly Emperor for that matter.
Dinning in the Chinese way, the dishes are never passed around unlike their Western host. Chinese dishes are best when they are served hot . That is why hot soup , hot noodles , hot congee, etc. are best sucked in with as noisily as possible although this is not a pleasant act in the eyes of our western friends
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