Ahn and Nicholson

Roy Ahn, a Korean-American, he believes that food is a big important part of one country’s culture. He wrote his own experience in the article “My Journey Back to Korean Food”. I think he has this idea mostly because he came from Asia. In my mind, no matter Japanese, Korean or Chinese people are all very proud of their food. As a Chinese people, I think China has the greatest food culture in the world. I really agree with the Ahn. I believe that you can get to know one country and its people through eating their food and food is the biggest and obviously connection for an immigrant to their homeland. If one person even doesn’t want to eat their homeland’s food, how can he have interest to learn its language and words?  But in my mind, the problem is that it is very hard to find traditional food in the foreign country. For example, I think there is rarely people often in China eat spring rolls, but when I come into America, it becomes a big part of Chinese food. It is very hard to find a restaurant to cook like real Chinese restaurant, because the original materials are even very different. So in my mind, if a person wants to know a countries culture or keep connection with it, he or she must go to that place to taste the local food. Ahn writes the cultural significance attached to food, his family using eating Korean food to remember they are Korean- American.  Nicholson shows the personal significance attach to food. He shows it by describing his mothers’ eating habit— like eating withe food. His mother likes to make all food white by using withe sauce, and she even has an impression that with food meant a withe soul. I think this situation is very common. Although most people don’t have a color prefer for food, they also have a flavor or shape. For example, I have a friend very likes spice food, because she comes from Sichan province. Every meal, she must eat spice food, and she thinks it is very comfortable. Though a person’s flavor and preference was mostly affected by the region and status, the characters are still different from each other.   

Some Korean food

Some Chinese food