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Q: Chinese taste buds

Being a minority in China, I sometimes question my taste buds. Did your tastes for things change or become acquired?

Pastries and foods that are too oily for me, flavours that just taste wrong like in cashews, peanuts, flavoured potato chips, eating things that you would normally throw away. Many packaged products I bought just went straight into the garbage, so I didn't try many others. Do Chinese have better taste buds than we do?

11 years 29 weeks ago in  Food  - China

 
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My taste didn't change since I am in China. I still dislike too much fat and oil as before. I don't like sweet food too much either. Chinese use sugar everywhere.

 

How can taste buds be better? It can be different, but not better or worse.

 

Taste detecting is also connected with saliva, and Chinese must have someting different in that part, hence all the spitting they perform.

TedDBayer:

Many things are acquired tastes, beer , wine etc. I'm used to things I grew up eating, so many things in China taste off to me, but am I wrong or the Chinese? I like spicey hot food, but many Chinese dishes make me cough and choke.

11 years 29 weeks ago
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While, I guess their beer tastes different than Western beers. Budwiser is very 'watery' comparable to majority of North European beers.

Chinese salt is stronger than European or USA salt.

 

Milk in China tastes same as in USA or EU. Chinese yogurt has added sugar, and it doesn't taste same as EU or USA yogurt. Chinese butter is mixed with margarine, so it is not good. But, there is good, imported butter (UK, NZ, Aus) available.

 

Hongcha and Puercha are much better than any Western cha I drunk before.

You can tell, I didn't acquire or change much of my taste.

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Sir, you need to tickle your taste buds, the sooner you do it the more you like Chinese food.

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