Date Created: 31 September 2017
From clothing to furniture, our daily and household items may consist of 99% Chinese blood, but how much do you really know about China beyond that? Can we see the Chinese culture through our thoughtfully manufactured and assembled Apple or faux fur coat or bedside table?
Western ideas of Chinese culture are perfected and often blurred into other south eastern asian culture due to lack of understanding and distance.
In London, it is possible to dine in high profile and enjoy an authentic Chinese cuisine in $$$ restaurants on OpenTable. However, we see takeaway places often serve Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese all at once. It is even less known that different geographical locations in China caused a hugely varied style in the food we eat.
Fortune cookies are hard to buy in China, Kong Pao Chicken and Sweet and Sour aren't the go-to's on a meal out. Salt and Pepper is only known to be street food. What else do we not know about the real China?
"Made in China"
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