· what should breakfast be
In fact, several years ago, I like to eat breakfast everyday. When I was in primary school, every morning my grandfather sent me to school by bus, we would get off the bus one station earlier, and eat breakfast in a breakfast bar. I usually ordered a bowl of noodle, Steamed Buns or wonton soup. Talking about wonton soup, I have a question that I can still not figure out in these 3 years. Why American people call chicken noodles soup when Chinese people call it “chicken soup noodles”, and call wonton soup when Chinese people only call it “wonton”? When you hear chicken noodle soup, you must think it is a kind of soup, and the core of this dish is soup, right? But the real chicken soup noodles is focusing on noodles. Chinese people eat chicken soup noodles on their birthday and call it longevity noodle, but not “longevity soup”. The same theory as wonton, when you eat wonton soup, the first thing come up in your mind is eating the wonton or drink the soup? Then why people call it wonton soup? If you only boil the big size wonton, the “soup” of boiling the wonton will taste like nothing, will you still call it wonton soup?
In fact, several years ago, I like to eat breakfast everyday. When I was in primary school, every morning my grandfather sent me to school by bus, we would get off the bus one station earlier, and eat breakfast in a breakfast bar. I usually ordered a bowl of noodle, Steamed Buns or wonton soup. Talking about wonton soup, I have a question that I can still not figure out in these 3 years. Why American people call chicken noodles soup when Chinese people call it “chicken soup noodles”, and call wonton soup when Chinese people only call it “wonton”? When you hear chicken noodle soup, you must think it is a kind of soup, and the core of this dish is soup, right? But the real chicken soup noodles is focusing on noodles. Chinese people eat chicken soup noodles on their birthday and call it longevity noodle, but not “longevity soup”. The same theory as wonton, when you eat wonton soup, the first thing come up in your mind is eating the wonton or drink the soup? Then why people call it wonton soup? If you only boil the big size wonton, the “soup” of boiling the wonton will taste like nothing, will you still call it wonton soup?
A good breakfast can always give people the power to work for the whole morning. When you are in the class, the breakfast you just ate coming out in your mind is a basket steaming hot buns, you will feel satisfied and then put your effort into the works; if the breakfast coming out was a plate of scrambled eggs,then you must feel exhausted and suddenly lose all of your energy to work. I guess that is why I always feel sleepy all of the time. Although the main problem must be the age, if I want to get my energy back as I was in primary school, I must look for a good breakfast. There is no delicious noodles or buns anymore, and what I eat every day is potatoes and eggs without new meaning.
I am a normal high school student,but not an ancient emperor, why I become such captious? I just read an article about American’s catering compare with other countries. In this field, Americans show the world their biggest weakness: the food culture in American is too simple and dull. When I first year come to America, in American Culture class Ms Lazarus taught us American is a melting pot. At the first I could not understand why it is called melting pot, is it relate to food? Now I realize it is! American absorb the food culture from a lot of countries, but almost lose the key point of every countries’ dishes. Fortunately there are a lot of people come from other countries. If you want to eat some good food, you must go to avoid to eat thing cooked by American chief.
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