FOOD, FOOD, FOOD!!!

Hi everybody, I'm back to talk about foooood!!!

That's something so important in the daily life but as you may know I'm not really problematic with food, and in fact I got used to it really soon. And I really like it... I mean I always thought that it would not be a kind of cuisine to which I could get used eating everyday, but actually it is quite tasty, not too heavy and all together they have a great variety (a part of course for the rice that is everywhere).

Of course one thing that was quite strange for me is the habit of eating with the chopsticks... it is definitly quite hard at the beginning, but you get used to it quite soon, especially because they don't have a great eating style. I mean, here is normal to take a steak from the plate, bite it and just put it back... just imagine an italian doing that!!! Or for example, to eat rice, some people do it like in the cartoons: get the bowl near their mouth and just start trowing the food inside... first time I've seen it I was still in the airport and I started laughing, by myself... but now it happens to me too... I suppose that once I come back to Italy I'll have to spend one week locked in the house to get back the proper Italian eating style... eheheh A second thing that I wanna point out is the culture of food they have, that even if the food is different it really remembers me of ITALY. Like us, they are able to spend hours for a meal, and they really enjoy food. They order tons, and, that's different from us, they share it!! Usually you go to the restaurant and you get so many dishes that the first time I couldn't believe it. I thing they bought around 20 different courses, all mixed between vegetable, meat, noodles, fish... and it was just 8 of us sitting at the table... but even if it felt like they were bringing tons of food, at the end, there were almost no leftovers... it was really incredible!

A third thing is that here there are no halfways with the food... nothing is sour or salty, nothing is really sweet. It is really strange, you never know what are you eating. Maye the soup is gonna be sweet, or maybe the meat... but you can almost be sure that the cakes are not gonna be sweet, they are always half way. They told me that this is because here adults don't like sweet, is children food, so at the end the market is small, and a part from international chocolates and stuff, is hard to find typical cakes. A strange thing is that beverages, on the other end, are quite sweet, but in reality you can always pick as much sugar as you prefer, and that is quitye good, they have a scale of 5 opportunity for the sugar and it's quite usefull.

Well this is enough now to talk about food, but I'll definitely come back to talk about some typical dishes... they have many and they are often related to some festival or to some celebration... I already heard some interesting things about X-mas eating habits, but I definitely save them for later ;) Keep in touch guys, I hope to hear from all of you soon!