Chinese Culture+Pork+ Awkward Moments

Hello everyone!

I haven't wrote in my "I'm Hungry" blog where I post up random thoughts about food.

I have been dating a Chinese guy for over a year and have learned how Pork is deeply embedded in the Chinese Culture.

You can easily say that most of the Chinese population are not vegetarian and are meat lover and they worship pork.

When I told Danny's parent's, "I don't eat Pork by choice." His Father and Mother freaked out and they started bursting out with the "Why Not?" ," Why can't you eat Pork?" So I informed them due to religious reasons and the way I was raised, I don't eat pork by choice. 

I have eaten pork accidentally a few times and to be polite. I don't want to make a scene at times. You have no idea how much attention it draws when you reject a dish. All eyes on you! Then comes the questions!

I think I may have even offended Danny's parent to some level. They are always trying to encourage me to consume pork. Sometimes, their methods of trying to get me to eat pork can be sneaky.

I know whenever we visit the Very Fair Chinese Restaurant, usually, the appetizer soup is this Pork Bone Soup.

They always pour me a bowl but I gently decline.

I have a cousin who married a Polish guy and she shared stories of how she visited his parents place and they really wished my cousin to taste the mother's home-cooked meals. My cousin felt really awful to push away what was offered to her and she ate it despite of her values, beliefs and religion.

Have you guys were ever placed in the spot light to eat something you didn't want to eat but you didn't want to offend anyone? It could have been due to religious reason like me or you just didn't want to eat whatever that was offered to you? 

Anime Related to Food

I'm currently watching Cooking Master Boy (52 episodes in total) and Yakitate Japan (69 Episodes in total).

Cooking Master Boy is this ancient old anime which portrays a story of a young teenager Chinese boy who travels around China learning about culinary arts and food. All sorts of things happen to this during this journey to be a top chef. Watching some of Cooking Master Boy had given me some new ideas about cooking and it makes me so hungry watching it sometimes. The people's reaction when they taste the boy's food is so exaggerated.

But Yakitate Japan is even worse. People's reaction to the main character's food/bread is like 25 times more exaggerated. I mean like people seems like their getting .. lack of words to describe these scenes... but appears to be high.. floating in outer space.. and being plain objective K.O, fainting, and there was one scene where the judge of the bread contest was stripping his clothes off. Lol, such randomness. Yakitate Japan also makes me very hungry when I watch it. My boyfriend teases not to get to caught up because he think I'm going to create another flop dish where I am inspired by some random fictional dish.