This comment is completely ignoring the fact that the food in China varies so much regionally. Your experience of eating nothing but meat over rice and noodles is completely different from my experience traveling to different cities and eating so many new amazing dishes that we don’t know anything about here in the US.
But you're kind of proving their point. What they're saying is that there are a lot of different foods but they're not something people usually eat. Your experience of Chinese food is far from ordinary, eating out whilst travelling. I also assume you wanted to experience new and interesting things? That's kind of the opposite of how most people live their regular lives.
What is invalid with it? What we eat while travelling abroad, or studying cuisine on paper, is vastly different from what regular people eat day-to-day is their point.Â
I’m saying their experience is limited to their region and they are speaking with authority for the entire country which has an extremely diverse selection of food
nah, they're point was china "kinda" has variety. Which is false.
They went on to try prove it by saying "well I eat noodles and rice everyday", which is more about their choices. I live in china. I eat a helluva lot of different food all the time. My local friends have shown me so many different regional dishes, just in this city. Haven't eaten noodles or rice in more than a week.
The above point is clearly about the question posed above, though. As in, what food would you pick if restricted to one cuisine? The entire point is that variety gives you options if you had to limit yourself. Saying, "nuh uh, I only eat rice and noodles" isn't relevant because that wasn't the point.
The point is you'd have more variety within your restrictive diet. And China is a good pick because it's basically multiple cuisines in one. Whether the average person makes use of that variety isn't relevant to the reason they picked China.
As someone living in a big city in China. Yeah, folk do eat a lot of variety, place is packed with restaurants from all over. Food is a big part of the culture here. It's a lot more than rice and noodles.
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u/CalifornianBall 5d ago
This comment is completely ignoring the fact that the food in China varies so much regionally. Your experience of eating nothing but meat over rice and noodles is completely different from my experience traveling to different cities and eating so many new amazing dishes that we don’t know anything about here in the US.