Fuchsia Dunlop on the Story of Chinese Food
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Chinese Cuisine: Emphasis on Texture and Eating as Unabashed Pleasure
Chinese gastronomy has a unique emphasis on texture, where the appreciation and understanding of different textures are crucial. This allows for enjoying slithery, rubbery, and tasteless foods with interesting textures, which are cooked quickly to maintain crispness and liveliness. Chinese food also emphasizes lightness, reflecting an unabashed pleasure in the physicality of eating compared to other cultures, where making noises while eating and showing exuberant delight in food are perfectly acceptable and enjoyed.
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