/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17644428
I find this fascinating that they stock up so much and then waste a lot of it. I always assumed Asians were pretty conservative as someone who lived in Japan on base and saw the culture and people's. Wasn't the leader of China having a campaign against being wasteful with food? As someone who visited China before they became a super power and have seen the effects after, it is strange. I remember most of China was nothing but slums that were akin to a North Korean dystopia, buildings rotting, with poor almost peasant like people's in cloths almost out of another time period trying to sell handmade toys and nick nacks to the tourists. I remembered the tourist bathrooms didn't work, and they had multiple signs reading "Please do not shit in the sinks", the literal word "shit" in English. Mind you this was back in the mid to late 90's, I remember going to the Great Wall of China and protestors came out with banners written in English protesting the government and asking for help, then a government black van that tailed our tour bus, came up with AK's and put black masks over their heads and took them away, our tour guide said "Don't take pictures, don't take pictures or they will take you away too", I doubt some pre-super-power Chinese soldiers wanted the headache of arresting US Naval Officers on vacation from Japan while touring China's most prized national landmark being arrested for taking a photo. Very strange days back then and now strange days triple'y so. But strange to see China struggling, to now almost becoming proto-Americanized with food waste when in their history not so long ago with the famines and cultural revolutions took so many of their own. Seems Western influence had a net-positive effect. As for the food in China at the time, it was okayish, strangest was scorpion and tarantula, the best was the Peking duck, best I've ever had. Scuse' me if I ranted.