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Chapter 356 Cultural Differences between Chinese and Western Food
"Thousands of dollars for Chinese food? Are you kidding me? Come on, tell me what kind of Chinese food costs thousands of dollars."

If we talk about Western food, Senran and the others may not understand, but it’s different when it comes to Chinese food.

They haven't eaten pork, but have they seen pigs run?
They really don’t believe that any Chinese meal can cost thousands of dollars per dish, because after all it’s just the same ingredients, how can they be made into something more fancy?
Seeing the three people so confident, Xu Wen said calmly: "I won't bully you by talking about those more expensive ingredients. Have you ever eaten boiled cabbage?"

As soon as Xu Wen said this, the three of them shut up instantly.

Wow, it turns out to be this Chinese food.

Why didn’t you tell me earlier? If you had told me it was Chinese food, the three of them would definitely have kept silent.

Netizens in the live broadcast room also started discussing.

"What is boiled cabbage? Is it delicious?"

"I was lucky enough to eat it once. It's nothing special, except that the soup is quite fresh. Then when the boiling water is poured on it, the cabbage blooms, which looks quite impressive. It's a very famous Sichuan dish."

"What the hell? Sichuan cuisine? Is there any Sichuan cuisine that is not spicy? I remember that Sichuan cuisine always has chili peppers in it. This boiled cabbage is obviously not Sichuan cuisine."

"Dude, there are many kinds of Sichuan cuisine, and there are many schools of thought. Generally speaking, ordinary people can only afford spicy Sichuan cuisine, but not everyone can afford non-spicy Sichuan cuisine, and not everyone can cook it."

It can be seen that many people have heard of the dish of boiled cabbage.

The three Sen Ran brothers were not ignorant people, and they had obviously heard of this dish.

So when Xu Wen said the words "boiled cabbage", the three Sen Ran brothers couldn't hold it in any longer.

"No, Old Xu, you are being a bit shameless. How can you bring up boiled cabbage? If you want to use these things as examples, there are indeed many dishes worth thousands of dollars that we have not eaten."

Xu Wen was happy.

"Why, boiled cabbage is not considered Chinese food? I haven't even told you about dishes like Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. A small bowl of a good Buddha Jumps Over the Wall costs thousands of yuan. You don't really think Chinese food is inferior to Western food, do you?"

Xu Wen has said before that the reason why Western food is expensive is mainly because of the labor and creativity.

What they call labor and creativity is mostly reflected in the presentation of the dish.

This is also a point that many people complain about Western food. It is obviously the same thing, but if you serve it directly in a bowl or if you serve it on a plate with decorations, the price will be two different prices.

So Westerners actually seldom go out to eat in restaurants, as it would make them look stupid.

It's obviously the same thing, but the price is very different.

But Chinese food is different.

If a seemingly ordinary Chinese dish costs you a very high price, it can only mean that either the raw materials of the dish are very expensive and have been used for a long time and are not ordinary ingredients, or the cooking technique of the dish is very advanced and not something that ordinary people can learn, and it also takes a lot of time and effort.

"Okay, anyway, I'll treat you to dinner again when I have the chance. It's getting late today, so you should hurry back." After saying goodbye to Sen Ran and the others, Xu Wen took a taxi and drove to the villa.

Sitting in the car, Zheng Yue couldn't help but ask, "Brother Xu, do you prefer Chinese food or Western food?"

Xu Wen glanced at Zheng Yue and said, "It doesn't matter. In fact, they are all the same to me."

Zheng Yue was stunned.

"How can they be the same? Chinese food and Western food are completely different, and the cooking methods are also very different."

Xu Wen patiently explained: "You think the gap is huge, it's nothing more than a preconceived notion that certain things were invented by the West, or that they only exist in the West."

"Take steak for example. Do you think it was invented in the West? In fact, we have been eating steak for a long time, but we did not regard steak as a separate dish. Instead, we directly classified it as barbecue."

"The reason for this is that we have a lot of ingredients and a lot of cooking methods. We can eat whatever we want and have more choices."

"But Westerners at that time didn't have so many choices. They didn't know how to cook, and their stewing skills were also quite low, mainly because they lacked seasoning. So when they discovered how to eat steak, they immediately separated out the method of frying steak and began to study it. This is not something to be proud of."

Netizens in the live broadcast room also added to the comments.

"That's true. In fact, Western countries have only lived a truly civilized life in the last few hundred years. Before that, their lives were really not that good. Not to mention civilization or culture, they even ate raw meat and drank blood. You see why Westerners often like to eat steaks medium-rare, because their ancestors actually ate them that way."

"Anyone who has lived abroad knows that there is really nothing delicious in the West. The only good food is French and Italian food. But even if you compare the food from these two countries with Chinese food, it is definitely a dimensionality reduction blow."

"I still remember a food show that was very popular abroad. But in one episode, a young man from our country suddenly participated and crushed the show, causing it to be shut down."

Seeing that Zheng Yue seemed quite interested in this topic, Xu Wen continued, "It's not just the dishes themselves, in fact, even our cooking skills are absolutely superior to those of the West."

"If you know Western chefs, you'll find that almost every one of them has his or her own set of tools. These tools are laid out with more than a dozen knives of different sizes, some for cutting vegetables, some for cutting meat, some for picking tendons, and so on."

"If you put it nicely, you can call this rigorous and meticulous, but if you put it bluntly, it's just a poor student with too many stationery. Look at the chefs in our country cooking. Except for some more complicated and special dishes, when have you ever seen these chefs use tools other than kitchen knives? Don't they just use a kitchen knife to process all the ingredients?"

"Just from the way the knife is used, you can tell how far behind other countries' food culture is. So for me, whether it's Chinese food or Western food, it's actually the same, because we are already invincible in this regard, do you understand what I mean?"

Zheng Yue could understand what Xu Wen meant.

The reason why he said they are all the same is because Xu Wen feels that Chinese food has crushed all Western food.

I have all the cooking techniques you have in Western cuisine.

Since I have them all, there’s no point in distinguishing between Chinese and Western, they’re all the same.

(End of this chapter)