英语四级写作：Customs on eating

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　　Food between China and Western countries are totally different styles.
China has 5000 years history. We probably spend half of time on food. Chinese
people choice food very carefully. They only use fresh material to make food.
For example they only eat fresh fish. Chinese have a lot of ideas and techniques
for cooking. We can cook a chicken in over ten ways. That why Chinese food is so
popular in the world. Western country like English or American,they don have
fresh food because they buy their food from supermarket which only sells stored
materials. Western people would also prefer fast food like burgers and chips.
They are unhealthy to human body. Western people do not have many skills for
cooking,mostly they only boil, steam and bake the food. By the way,western
people are very good at making desert and chocolate. They can make very good
cake and chocolate. They are very sweet but its sort of food which make you
become fat quickly.
        　　In china if you invite people for meal,the person who invited other people
would pay for the meal but its not the way in Western country. In western
country people will think you only invited me but its not your responsibility to
pay for me. I can afford it. They won't be happy if you pay for them. People in
China would always put dishes into customers plate to show their hospitality,but
they will think its not healthy because your chopsticks have been used by you.
In western country like America not England,people will always give tips to
waiter after they finished meal in a restaurant. If you dont they will not be
happy because tips are one of their major income. In china this only happen in
some top restaurants and hotels in large international cities like
Beijing,Shanghai and Guangzhou. Western people will also think you are rude if
you make sound during the meal. Western people do not hold their bowl up even
when they have a bowl of soup.
        　　There is also a huge difference between Chinese and Western people. Chinese
people use chopsticks and western people use fork and knife. Usually people who
use fork and knife will use fork to hold the meat and cut it by knife and use
fork to help to get that piece of meat into mouse. Chinese just use chopstick to
pick things and pass it into your mouse.