16. Food and Meals as a Cultural Experience

Some of the best orange chicken I have ever had! The whole lazy susan concept of serving food was interesting. I enjoyed trying other peoples choices. This makes the meal more of a sharing expwerience and promoted converastion. I understand why the Chinese do it this way. Rather than sitting there eating your food in silence, you socialize more. I could have done without the chopsticks though. Give me a fork anyday. The menu was in English, so I did not have to randomly guess for food and pray it wasn't some odd animal I would be eating. In realty, none of the food was so exotic that you thought to yourself," how could they serve that?". I guess in this day and age we have accustomed ourselves to a more worldly palate and actively seek new foods.