Almost all the foreigners I know like Japanese food a lot, such as sushi, sashimi, teppanyaki and so on. I think they eat Japanese food more than Chinese food here. Why is Japanese food so attractive to them? Much tasty than Chinese food? And in Chinese food, which cuisine do you like best? Sichuan, Cantonese, Taiwan or whatever?

Chinese people like Japanese food too. It's popular in China.

I like Dongbei food and Sichuan hotpot. Oh, and Xinjiang food and other goods they offer.

Tanna wrote:Chinese people like Japanese food too. It's popular in China.

I like Dongbei food and Sichuan hotpot. Oh, and Xinjiang food and other goods they offer.

In Chinese food cuisine, I like dongbei, xinjiang, taiwan, HK, but not spicy Sichuan. I can't take it.
Well, yes, actually I like Japanese food too. But it's just weird, no foreigner will say "no" to Japanese food. Never~

Yes I agree, foreigners do like Japanese food. It's nice and healthy, very good for you. I don't really know the reason why though.

I'm not a huge fan of Taiwanese and Hong Kongese food.

Little Sheep is one of my favourite restaurants.

I guess I'm not a traditional foreigner. But like Tanna said, Japanese food tends to be very clean-tasting and healthy, so it appeals to a lot of people. I'm not crazy about Japanese sushi, but I like their noodles and seaweed. For Chinese food, I prefer Shanghainese food, but I could eat Cantonese dim sum all day long. Hunan and Sichuan are way too spicy for me.

Hunan food is like chilly and meat floating in oil. I do like their smoked tofu dish though.

I like eating sheeps too! That's my favorite too

LOL I was talking about Xiao Fei Yang, a hot pot restaurant. I can't type damn Chinese characters on this damn computer.

SLP - ni shi Zhong guo nali ren?

Figured it out.

小肥羊火锅

Yum. That hot pot place is great and pretty clean. I usually don't eat lamb, but for hot pot I will.

Tanna wrote:LOL I was talking about Xiao Fei Yang, a hot pot restaurant. I can't type damn Chinese characters on this damn computer.

SLP - ni shi Zhong guo nali ren?

I'm local, Shanghai ren.
And you? Where are you from?

Tanna wrote:Figured it out.

小肥羊火锅

I like eating it too!

I like eating braised mutton with soy sauce too! Yummy!

SLP, you're local but you didn't list Shanghai cuisine among the types you like?

miesby wrote:SLP, you're local but you didn't list Shanghai cuisine among the types you like?

Well, actually, Shanghai cuisine is not really my type. or maybe I'm tired of it.

I'm from New Zealand.

serena_loves_pasta wrote:

miesby wrote:SLP, you're local but you didn't list Shanghai cuisine among the types you like?

Well, actually, Shanghai cuisine is not really my type. or maybe I'm tired of it.

怎么可能? I'd take red-cooked pork or sanjibo over Japanese food any day.

I love raw salmon and cold cha soba noodles.
Do all foreigners love Japanese food?

Serena have you not already go lots of PM's to be going on with?

serena_loves_pasta wrote:Almost all the foreigners I know like Japanese food a lot, such as sushi, sashimi, teppanyaki and so on. I think they eat Japanese food more than Chinese food here. Why is Japanese food so attractive to them? Much tasty than Chinese food? And in Chinese food, which cuisine do you like best? Sichuan, Cantonese, Taiwan or whatever?

Because it's healthy, looks better, tastes better, and is not full of all kind of poison and substandard ingredients. Quite simple actually.

I've been China for a few years and I've seen enough to always question the quality of everything I see. I know if Chef Zhou can save himself half a yuan om my expense he will. He doesn't really care if my health suffers. Why would the Chinese be any more honest when they prepare your food than they are otherwise. I just trust the Japanese more - that's it.

Japanese food looks cleaner than Chinese one,I consider.

Because it is an excellent cusine with variety - is healthy and not drowned in oil and you can feel pride has gone into coooking it. The Japanese do everything well except maintaining a reliable economy but that's another story.

Just talking about Japanese food makes me long to return again and chow down some roadside ramen. Sure beats eating the rubbish oiled and bone fragment filled local roadside crap here.

That teppanyaki all you can eat and drink is just divine. Such good quality.

Japanese food is great, it looks good, it tastes good....
Its just.....good!

Tanna wrote:That teppanyaki all you can eat and drink is just divine. Such good quality.

I agree but lately I have turned into a Yakiniku fan, of course with free flow of Asahi and Sake

Japanese is definitely NOT my favourite cuisine.

It's not all that healthy either. In fact, Japanese have the world's highest incidence of nasopharyngeal cancer, which is thought to be due to their high consumption of seafood - especially, sharks and other large ocean fish at the top of the food chain, species which tend to accumulate high tissue concentrations of various carcinogens.

For every low-fat Japanese dish, there's another which is totally laden with oil - think tempura.

Japanese people are no slimmer than Chinese, and tend to be shorter. This might well be due to a relatively protein-deficient diet.

So, is Jap food healthier than Chinese? I don't think so. I do believe that both cuisines are probably healthier than most Western food, and especially North American food - which has to be the world's most undesirable cuisine when measured by just about any parameters one cares to apply.

One last point - Jap cuisine gets marked down heavily for those dishes which, regardless of their menu description, arrive on your table looking like an Ebola victim's nasal mucus. I notice that even the most enthusiastic Western fans of Jap food invariably avoid ordering these particular, er, "delicacies".

You can pick out all the unhealthy parts of Japanese food, but what about seaweed, miso soup (a great anti-oxidant), rice, tofu etc? I think they are quite healthy.

If seaweed were meant to be eaten, the man would have created it as something being cut off a cow, and not something crowing in the sea...

Cowweed... meat flavored..

coxaca wrote:Japanese people are no slimmer than Chinese, and tend to be shorter. This might well be due to a relatively protein-deficient diet.

You're probably right. I'm also thinking that it might have something to do with the fact that the Chinese drink more and more milk. First time I was here (late nineties) almost no one drank milk. Now it's pretty common. And who knows what lurks inside the Chinese milk except protein. Could be anything. Growth hormones?

Why foreigners all love Japanese food?

and there is the thrill of near-death with the blowfish fugu



But I hate the wasabi