Reading and thinking too, the first paragraph has a quote, you are what you eat in pairs. Discuss what you think this same means, then read the article to see if you share the same ideas as the author. culture and cuisine, the french author gene and hm brilliant salon once wrote, tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Put more simply, this means you are what you eat. Most people today relate this thing to healthy eating. However, billet sevren was actually referring to our personality, character and culture. Certainly, in many ways, this seems to be true. Chinese cuisine is a case in point. Prior to coming to china, my only experience with chinese cooking was in amErica with chinese food that had been changed to the american tastes. For example, america's most popular chinese dish is general those chicken, which consists of fried chicken covered in a sweet sauce flavored with hot red peppers. This is probably not an authentic chinese recipe, however, so I cannot tell us much about the chinese. On the other hand, IT does tell us a lot about americans. IT tells us, for example, that americans love bold, simple flavors. And since the dish was also invented recently, IT tells us that americans are not afraid to try new foods. Later, I had a chance to experience authentic chinese food by coming to china. When my family and I had just arrived in china, we went looking for a good place to eat. In beijing, a situation restaurant had been recommended to us by a friend, and finally we found IT tired, hungry, and not knowing a word of chinese, we had no idea how to order, so the chef just began filling our table with the best food we had ever written. With this, we had the pleasure of experiencing an entirely new taste situation, pepper corns. The food was wonderful and different, but what was even more important was the friendship offered us. We soon move to shandong province in the eastern part of north china. My favorite dish there was boil dumping served with vinegar. I observe that family is important to the people there. IT has become a favorite traditional dish of the people in north china, where making dumplings has always been a family affair with everyone from the Youngest to oldest joining to help. Later, I learned that the most famous food in shanghai is pancake roll stuff ed with slice chinese Green onions. Then we move to northern chin jang. Some of our friends were kozak and inner. These groups traditionally wondered the open range on horses. As a result, their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fire, usually boiled or roasted meat, such as lam cup. Bob, our travels then took us to south china and then onto central china. In each place we went, we experienced wonderful local dishes from one dance, elegant dim sum, small servings of food in bamboo steamers, to the exceptional stood noodles in hang everywhere. The food was as varied as the people. However, one thing is always true through food. Chinese people everywhere show friendship and kindness. At a minimum, the kinds of food local people consume tell us what they grow in their region, what kinds of lives they lead, and what they like can do not like. Could we also say, for example, that those who like bold flavors are bold themselves, or that those who like spicy food tend to have a hot temper? Maybe, maybe not. What we can say, however, is that culture and cuisine go hand in hand, and if you do not experience one, you can never really know the other.