20 Reasons You Need to Stop Stressing About chinese food sizes
This article was written by an American living in China, who is interested in all things food. He has a keen eye for all things Chinese, including food sizes. He has a good understanding of the chinese concept of cuisine and can speak both English and the language of the dishes. The article gives a good overview of chinese cuisine and explains the different cooking sizes. If you are interested in this topic, you should definitely take a look.
Most people in the west are not aware of the different cooking sizes, but for the Chinese, it’s something of a foreign concept. The Chinese word for small is shiu xiang, which roughly translates to “smaller”. For Westerners, it’s a somewhat confusing word that is often used to describe something that is very small, like a small onion or a very small piece of meat.
The Chinese term for small is also shizi xiang, which roughly translates to smaller. So, if we combine the two and say that the Chinese have a larger, smaller, smaller, etc. word, it is basically saying the same thing.
It is also in English, though we don’t use it that much. English, in general, has a tendency to use very, very small words when talking about something small, like “smaller”, etc.. The Chinese language has a tendency to use larger words when talking about something larger, like “bigger”, etc.. So, its a very clear difference in usage, which also helps us avoid the word-confusion that is often seen in English.
A lot of us have seen the term “small” but have never really thought about it. Now that I have it in words, I can see that the word “small” is actually a very big word in Chinese, because the word for the small size is “da”. This is probably why I keep seeing it when I see English speakers talking about things that are “small”.
So, to sum up, we call chinese food small because the word for the size is da. We also call it large because the word for the size is mui. So, these are really just a few of the many things that are similar in English and Chinese.
I can’t imagine that Chinese food is any more or less small or large based on the word. However, I would say that the Chinese restaurant that I went to in Hong Kong, which had their food in smaller (than what I’d usually order in a normal restaurant) dumplings, was very large. However, they were also very cheap.
If you want to try Chinese food, I would suggest visiting a few different ones for different kinds of food and trying to get the feel of it for yourself. Also, it is always good to try another cuisine that is a bit more foreign to your taste, so that you can compare the two.
If you want to get a taste of what it’s like to eat Chinese food, you can check out the “Top 20 Eating Places in China” by the famous chef Li Bing.