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Essay for culture behind Chinese food, please help me to have a check Chinese food is wide-spread and popular all over the world. Chinese food is the second popular cuisine in the UK, and when citizen choose take away, 58% of them will choose the Chinese food as their first choice (Deliveroo, 2017). As one of the earliest Chinese restaurant owners, Maoxin Zhang (2016) claimed, “Chinese food is the earliest and most successful contributor to the spread of Chinese culture. For most foreigners, the true feeling of Chinese culture begins with eating Chinese food.” Therefore, using Chinese food to attract audience to convey Chinese culture. The traditional eating and cooking habits are affected by countries’ traditional cultures, such as traditional living conditions, ancient knowledge, social ideology and history. Ancient Chinese Philosophers, Laozi (2018) insisted, “Follow the way of nature.” According to the seasons and weathers, there are special dishes for the 24 solar terms (Figure 1) and according to the locations, we have different cuisines (Figure 2). As the saying goes, ‘A set of water and soil bring up a group of people.’, in old Chinese diet culture, people use the ingredients they could find around their living environments then cooked dishes, which habit is still going on, Chinese people prefer new-cooked food but not ready-made food in their daily life although waiting for dishes outside or cooking by themselves cost a long time.

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Essay for culture behind Chinese food, please help me to have a check

Chinese food is wide-spread and popular all over the world. Chinese food is the second popular cuisine in the UK, and when citizens choose take away, 58% of them will choose Chinese food as their first choice (Deliveroo, 2017). As one of the earliest Chinese restaurant owners, Maoxin Zhang (2016) claimed, “Chinese food is the earliest and most successful contributor to the spread of Chinese culture. For most foreigners, the true feeling of Chinese culture begins with eating Chinese food.” Therefore, using Chinese food to attract an audience is to convey Chinese culture.

The traditional eating and cooking habits are affected by a countries’ traditional cultures, such as traditional living conditions, ancient knowledge, social ideology and history.

The ancient Chinese Philosopher, Laozi (2018), insisted, “Follow the way of nature.” According to the seasons and weathers, there are special dishes for the 24 solar terms (Figure 1) and according to the locations, we have different cuisines (Figure 2). As the saying goes, "A set of water and soil bring up a group of people."* In old Chinese diet culture, people use the ingredients they could find around their living environments then cooked dishes, and this habit is still going on.** Chinese people prefer new-cooked food but not ready-made food in their daily life, although waiting for dishes outside or cooking by themselves costs a long time.

[* Earlier you used double-quotes (") so to be consistent you should also use them here.

** Or: "which as a habit is still going on."]

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