Westerners are ignorant. What a shocker.
i enjoy both panda express and authentic chinese cuisine. there are some niche things like drunken shrimp eaten alive, but the vast majority of chinese people don’t eat “weird” foods like it. they eat stuff you’d typically find in a chinese restaurant in the west, which tend to be pretty authentic.
“Chinese people will eat anything that has four legs other than a table, anything that flies other than an airplane, and anything that swims other than a submarine.”
I don’t think westerns have ever thought they don’t have a diverse appetite. The joke has always been that it is too diverse.
westerns have ever thought
Bold of you to assume. In seriousness though, I think it’s likely that a lot of Westerners don’t even think to think about how diverse Chinese food may or may not be, or even if they do, would have difficulty grasping how diverse it truly is.
I think part of that stems from Westerners (at least where I live) struggling to comprehend how large, populous, and diverse China is as a country. It’s presented and taught as a monolith, unless the media/government is trying to push a secessionist movement, then all of a sudden everyone thinks they’re an expert on an ethnic group they only thought of as “Chinese” until influencers told them they’re oppressed.
Although Chinese food is pretty diverse, I don’t want to be that foreigner who travels to that one small village in the middle of bumfuck China where they serve a village delicacy of virgin piss eggs.
virgin piss eggs
I’m genuinely confused what you’re imagining here, but I’m going to guess it’s probably not a real food
I don’t remember the vid title, but there is a video on Bilibili of a Chinese national who does things like food reviews who actually went to this very remote place to investigate and try one of the eggs.
I’ll have to try and either find it, or a yt reupload.
Edit:
Here is a video in Chinese of someone from Hong Kong trying them.
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You can follow Food Ranger on youtube if you want to see a Westerner try all kinds of Chinese food, in China, without political bullshit attached (he goes to Xinjiang as well)
