I do not really class myself as a food lover.... In the UK i go out for meals with my friends, explore different restaurants if my pocket allows. However since coming to China things have changed. I got invited to different restaurants everyday at first but now its every week, thank God, all the meat i was digesting was beginning to give me a heart burn. Still I find that i am constantly losing weight, how is this possible? I have been pulled or dragged to Japanese, Brazilian and Chinese restaurants which all have one thing in common. MEAT!! my sister would love this place, the picture shows a variety of dishes like pork, chicken, donkey and duck, these are common dishes in China. This country will spare no Animal or no part of the animal when it comes to enhancing the nutrients in their body.

How much food can these little people eat...A lot!!...the outside world (wai guo ren) should be informed that in China Rice is considered POOR mans food. During lunch time in my school, I am the only one is eating rice, everyone else has a plate filled with assorted meat and vegetable (rich mans food) while i am happy to be eating my starchy rice. 

But Chinese people are very happy when they see foreigners eating different Chinese dishes, so I am encouraged to try everything and by everything i mean everything. I tried hotpot dinner the other day and I tried pigs blood, it was gross but i was glad i tried it, after this I stopped asking about the content of other dishes in order not to upset myself. I also tried cows tongue, it was really sweet and tasted like goat meat (I tried not to think of what the cow ate before it died).

I haven't even mentioned drinks, a 500ml bottle of coke, fanta, sprite is 40p-50p in China, a bottle of water is 10p-20p. The more wine a lady is able to drink, the more praise or fame she receives from hosts or elders around.

This is a step by step explanation of the food culture in China.

The person who invites you to dinner is the person who pays for dinner (so if you invite a Chinese person to dinner you might be expected to pay).

If Chinese people ask you if you want to go for dinner with them, they expect you to say YES!!

In some instances, it is considered rude not to taste the food ordered by your host.

Any quarrel or query is settled over dinner.

In general, the food culture in China is amazing, it is very different from any other country, every Chinese person i meet wants to take me out for lunch or dinner to give me a taste of their amazing food culture. I cant wait to explore more food options and taste more scary stuff.