意大利和香港的吃飯文化 有一次，我去朋友的家裏吃飯，朋友的男朋友A及朋友F是意大利人（來香港讀Master），這次之後，我知道了意大利人對餐桌和吃飯頗為講究，挺有趣。 意大利人只是來港8個月，卻很隆重地買了一張漂亮的藍色枱布，鋪在餐桌上，每次吃完飯還要清洗。 可能香港人講求快捷方便，記得小時候，家中都是鋪報紙吃飯的，其實大多數的香港家庭都是這樣，吃飯時鋪報紙，或乾脆什麼都不鋪，吃完飯抺乾淨枱面就是了，乾脆利落。可是久了，餐桌會自然容易變得殘舊一些。不過長大後我自己住，我會習慣用塑膠的墊板代替報紙，這樣我覺得好像比較環保一些。 香港人吃飯，無論枱上有幾多款菜，二款或五款，每人都只會用一隻碗盛載所有的菜。但意大利人卻不一樣，他們會令洗碗的人很煩惱哈哈。 那天晚上我們吃了三款菜(圖中的烤餐包及雞扒)，我們各人就要換三個碟，我和香港的朋友說不用換了，他卻堅持要換碟。所以要洗十多隻碟以上，你說是不是令洗碗的人很煩惱？ 有時我和家人去了某些高級餐廳，侍應不停幫你換碟，一餐飯換了五六個碟以上，我當時心想，洗碗的嬸嬸很可憐，明明可以不用洗那麼多…. 大概是西方人吃飯很講究，不喜歡幾款菜的味道混合在一起的感覺吧！ 說到我們的飲食習慣，也許有些很大的不同。 有一次他們說想吃日本放題，於是我和朋友帶了他們去附近吃放題。 他們有很多東西不吃，不吃雞腳，動物的內臟之類，例如鵝肝。 他們說到意大利人會吃馬肉，但馬肉很貴的，又有一次行山另一個中年的意大利人說覺得兔子很好吃。我們都覺得很噁心，因香港人都不吃兔和馬的，在香港，兔貓狗只是竉物，馬是養來賽跑，給人娛樂賭錢的。 其實，各地的人基於從小到大的飲食習慣，就不過覺得自己食開的有什麼異樣，對於他國的飲食卻甚表驚訝。不過，我也認同不吃雞腳、動物的內臟之類，現在的我是追求比較健康的飲食，所以也儘量不吃了。 Eating culture between Italy and Hong Kong Once I had a dinner with my good friend,My good friend's boyfriend and friend are Italian . (they go to Hong Kong study Master),After this time, I know Italian ‘s dining table and eating habit are quite fastidious, it’s very interesting. They stayed in Hong Kong for eight months, but they were so serious to buy a beautiful blue tablecloth and then spread it on the table, it seems so trouble that they need to clean it after each meal. Hong Kong people may be particular about fast and convenient beat. When I was small, my family always spread newspaper on the table when we had dinner together. In fact, the phenomenon is common in the most of Hong Kong households, spread newspaper on the dining table, or just put the dishes on the table without newspaper. After a long time, the table will naturally tend to become dilapidated. But I get used to replace the newspaper with a plastic plate when l live myself, I feel like it’s more environmental protection. Newspaper should be used to recycle instead of spreading it on the table. While Hong Kong people enjoy their meal, they just use one bowl for all the dishes no matter how many dishes they have.But Italy is so different, they will make the person who washes dishes feel so annoying haha. We had three dishes that night(see the above two pictures-- bread and chicken), each one of us must change three plates,I and my friend said no need to change plate in H.K, he still insisted to change the dishes. So finally we had to wash plates more than a dozen or more. Don't you feel that it's so trouble to wash so many plates? Sometimes my family and I went to the top restaurants, waiters keep helping you switch the plates, over five or six plates for every one, I think dishwashing aunt is very poor to wash lots of plates .... May be westerner is very particular about the meal, do not like the mixed taste of several dishes! When it comes to our eating habits, it has some very different. Once they want to have Japanese food, my friends and I took them to a nearby place.They do not eat lots of food, such as chicken feet, animal organs, foie gras. They said Italian would eat horse meat, but it is very expensive, and once I went a hiking another middle-aged Italian said the rabbit is delicious. We all feel this is very awful, because Hong Kong people do not eat rabbits and horses.In Hong Kong, rabbit ,dogs and cats are pets, horses are raised to the race and giving the entertainment gamble. In fact, people all over the world have different eating habits because of the culture. Once you get used to eat some food, you don’t think it ‘s weird . However, When I grow up I don’t want to eat chicken feet, animal organs . As I am pursuing relatively healthy diet now.
