You think the tables are bad - you should examine the floors and having lived in the South for a while I can honestly say the table manners in the far North are much much worse.
Every table is provided wth an ashtray - the floor is used at all times..
In some of the cheaper restaurants you'll find human excrement under the tables (beware of a family with young child under 5) they wear crotchless pants - so they can just p**s and s**t wherever they feel the need, though a bathroom and washing facilities are provided - the floor is used..
If you slip in something its usually one or all of these things - p**s, puke and beer..
As for the food being spicy here - not true as a rule - they do like a lot of spicy fish - but I'm sure that's just to disguise the pollution the fish have absorbed in the Songhau river..
Spicy food - you need Sichuan for that.
True there's lots of meat dishes here, but it's usually if not always fried in fish oil first, never boiled except in dumplings..
I can thorougly reccommend the Donkey Dumplings however, they're wonderful but a tad pricy.
Yep, table manners up there may be worse, but the floors are still used as toilets here. In fact young kids p*** and s*** in front of WALMART (right in front) of all things, and also merrily all over the "gardens" in the apartment complex where I live (which is supposed to be upscale) ... and this is condoned by security at both places.
As for spicy, yep, Sichuan and Hunan have spicy food ... I've never had any spicy fish down here though. But then, I tend to stay away from fish here ... I HATE picking bones out one by one. And I'm not a great fish eater anyway.
Last but not least - Meat fried in fish oil ???
Not only fried in it, but the whole dish comes swimming in it! they do make great mashed potatoes here (probably influenced by the Russians) but you can only order that dish once and never again.. yep, you guessed it, too cheap to use butter so they improvise with..... yep.... bl**dy fish oil again...
Ugh, if there's one thing I hate it's s*** swimming in fish oil ...
Chinese table manners is an oxymoron, in the same vein as American military intelligence and Australian culture.
Add British cuisine to your list, too.
Australia has a rich cultural heritage and a long history. Nowadays, our sportsmen, winemakers, writers and and film makers are establishing Australia as a cultural hub. Comments like that are just baseless and I assume it was just a weak joke. _________________ Wer tanzen will, muss die Musik bezahlen
Chinese table manners is an oxymoron, in the same vein as American military intelligence and Australian culture.
Add British cuisine to your list, too.
Australia has a rich cultural heritage and a long history. Nowadays, our sportsmen, winemakers, writers and and film makers are establishing Australia as a cultural hub. Comments like that are just baseless and I assume it was just a weak joke.
You know Hewer, I thought of posting the SAME thing myself yesterday!! (British cuisine) - but then figured it would be better to let you do it.
Let alone cuisine, British FOOD in itself should be an oxymoron.
Chinese table manners is an oxymoron, in the same vein as American military intelligence and Australian culture.
Austalian Culture?
Hadn't herard that one before
I think it's unfair to brand the Australians for having no culture. True, the country may have started out as we know it, but this doesnt mean modern day Australians have no culture ... Arjuna Ranatunga (Sri Lankan captain) once publicly made the same statement, and I must say he was totally out of line (he got dropped as captain later though).
If Australia was indeed such an uncivilized and uncultured place, why would immigrants be trying to move there in droves
I personally quite like the "working man no nonsense" culture in Aussieland (Hewer, if I am describing it the wrong way, please correct me). I must also add that the British idea of having a "Queen" (or king for that matter) as symbolic head of the state is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard of. _________________ Dongguan Expat - Your online Community!
Australia has a rich cultural heritage and a long history. Nowadays, our sportsmen, winemakers, writers and and film makers are establishing Australia as a cultural hub. Comments like that are just baseless and I assume it was just a weak joke.
My dear boy, you can't create a culture by planting a few vines, writing the occasional book and winning a few test matches. Culture arises through the infusion of art, politics, architectue, shared traditions, drama and poetry. This process takes centuries.
The 'long history' you refer to is more the realm of anthropologists.
Chinese table manners is an oxymoron, in the same vein as American military intelligence and Australian culture.
Add British cuisine to your list, too.
Australia has a rich cultural heritage and a long history. Nowadays, our sportsmen, winemakers, writers and and film makers are establishing Australia as a cultural hub. Comments like that are just baseless and I assume it was just a weak joke.
You know Hewer, I thought of posting the SAME thing myself yesterday!! (British cuisine) - but then figured it would be better to let you do it.
Let alone cuisine, British FOOD in itself should be an oxymoron.
As should British common sense ...
Cheap shot man - please, don't tar us all with the same brush, we're not all static thinkers
As for my fellow countryman, Mr. Quimble I have some culture for you -
"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real". George Bernard Shaw.
Chinese table manners is an oxymoron, in the same vein as American military intelligence and Australian culture.
Add British cuisine to your list, too.
Australia has a rich cultural heritage and a long history. Nowadays, our sportsmen, winemakers, writers and and film makers are establishing Australia as a cultural hub. Comments like that are just baseless and I assume it was just a weak joke.
You know Hewer, I thought of posting the SAME thing myself yesterday!! (British cuisine) - but then figured it would be better to let you do it.
Let alone cuisine, British FOOD in itself should be an oxymoron.
As should British common sense ...
Cheap shot man - please, don't tar us all with the same brush, we're not all static thinkers
As for my fellow countryman, Mr. Quimble I have some culture for you -
"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real". George Bernard Shaw.
Sorry Simon!!! That comment wasn't a flame against you at all ...
I agree that all Britishers don't think the same way. It's only a few idiots like Quibble who act like buffoons and a$$ backwards retards.
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and having lived in the South for a while I can honestly say the table manners in the far North are much much worse.
they do make great mashed potatoes here (probably influenced by the Russians) but you can only order that dish once and never again.. yep, you guessed it, too cheap to use butter so they improvise with..... yep.... bl**dy fish oil again... 
As should British common sense ...
