Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table. – Amanda Burnett in the Wall Street Journal (1983)
Category: Food For Thought
ELV’s Thought(s) for the Day
If there is anything the Chinese are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food. – Lin Yutang, My Country and My People (1935)
The Chinese do not draw a distinction between food and medicine. – Lin Yutang , The Importance of Living (1937)
ELV’s Thought for the Day
Nowadays, (Chinese) people tend to eat too much. Besides feeding themselves, they like to look at a lot of food. How can it please them to lounge about all day for the sake of some delicacies, soiling their mouths with roasts and smoked meats? – Anonymous (c. 350 A.D.)