【導讀】munication.

　　

【正文】 the meaning of the cuisine and know what it is. Sometimes, even the name of some restaurants, such as “KFC” (Kentucky Fried Chicken) will reveal the information about the cuisine they serve. Undoubtedly, straightforwardness is much more suitable to the Westerners for their fast pace of cooking and living. Different healthy conceptions in Chinese and western food culture Healthy conception in Chinese food culture Chinese food and drink usually contains little sugar, which will not lead to getting fat. But there are more and more fat people in China while our living standard has improved. China enjoys a good reputation for its plentiful and splendid cuisine. Chinese people have many plex cooking methods, such as braising, boiling, braising with soy sauce, roasting, baking, grilling, scalding, deepfrying, steaming, drying, saltpreserving etc. (燜，煮，紅燒，烤， 烘，扒，燙，炸，蒸，腌 ), and the Chinese cuisine is always exquisite and tastes excellent. But much nutrition is destroyed because of such plex cooking methods. Simultaneously, Chinese people share dishes when they have a meal. Everyone’s chopsticks touch the same dish and that highly increases the probability of hepatitis. Healthy Conception in western food cultures Nutrition and balance are greatly cared for by westerners when they have a meal. An 12 interesting phenomenon in western countries is the nutritional information on the food label, by which people’s concern about nutrition is clearly reflected. A look at information like the number of calories per serving, grams of fat, sodium, fiber and sugar content will make you more knowledgeable in selecting foods to reduce your nutritional health risk. In addition, the balance in diet structure is also essential to Westerners. Nowadays, more and more westerners are starting to worry about their weight for their diet containing too many calories. This is evident in menus in many restaurants offering “l(fā)ow calorie” or “weight watchers” meal. The vegetable and fruit salad served to westerners all year around because they have low calories and high vitamin. In conclusion, it is by the influence of pragmatism that westerners are inclined to take the food into consideration basically from the nutritional perspective. In their eyes, food or eating is just a way to keep health and thus what the westerners care about most is the nutrition contained in food and the balance of the whole structure. When they have a meal, they use separate plates for each other, which usefully guard against the probability infection. 6. Conclusion By parison and analysis we have made so far, one conclusion may be drawn that Chinese and Western food culture reflect each other’s cultures with their own unique features. They are neither superior nor inferior to the other and should deserve the same respect from each other. 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I appreciate the tutor’s concentrated guidance and help not only in the selection of my title, required materials of the thesis, but also in the research writing. I can say that it is very difficult to have pleted the thesis without his guidance. I wish to take this op