Perhaps the biggest difference between Chinese and Westerners is not what we eat, but
w we eat it. I’ve noticed that Chinese seem to eat the same food any time of day. To a westerner, this is     I could never eat rice or noodles in the morning.
Westerners also eat dessert after dinner and it is usually s sweet like cakes, ice cream, or fruit pies. Dessert is often my favorite part of the meal, but u it is not served in Chinese.
 difference I have noticed is that in Chinese restaurants, everybody at the same table eats the same food. This practice is actually more common around the world, in India and the Middle East for example, t in the west where people order a different meal each. I quite like the Chinese way where the meal is s . My only problem is with the chopsticks—more of the food ends up on the table than in my m .
One thing that surprised me the first time I went to a restaurant in China was the size of the personal plates—they are so . It makes sense, though. Chinese don’t need large plates because the food is served in bite-sized pieces that can go straight from the serving dish into your mouth. Westerners have very large plates because there needs to be r for all the food to put in at once.