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Most young, Chinese I have met quite like cheese, but most have only eaten the type found on pizzahut pizzas or subway sandwiches (not real cheese in my opinion). Then anyone who I have asked about blue cheese shrug their nose and don't even want to try it. They say it smells too strong and looks disgusting. But they are the inventors of smelly tofu and other strange foods so their attitude doesn't make much sense!
You are on the spot
But, don't know, what is in their mind/nose. I love the blue cheese, And have find it here once ... but just once :(
icnif77:
Try 'Metro'. Last year, I got Italian 'Gorgonzola' & French 'Rochefort' in Dalian Metro. Supply was in for some 6 months.
Rin:
Which city are you in? Carrefour and metro here have many kinds of cheese. Failing that taobao. I bought blue cheese many times from taobao.
Nessquick:
Am in Shanghai. I know, Carefour, where I am going, have sometimes, really sometimes. Metro, I was thinking, but I am affraid to go there. You know, when you have a family and soso salary, than pay 60rmb for piece is a bit too much, when all the things are triple the common western price :( take basic, 1 loaf of bread, 200gr of butter, and some 100gr of cheap salami, lowest possible price is over 10Euros. how much you can buy back home for this ?
Nessquick:
And no way buy food on internet here. I am not ready for it :D
"It's foreign, it's bad."
the exception to that rule is of course. "It's foreign, shiny and something one can parade around, it's good. "
As far as I can tell what Pizza Hut calls cheese is in fact not cheese. Same goes for most other places that claim to use cheese.
Most Chinese are now experimenting with western foods such as cheese but they are still way behind in their tastebuds to allow for something like blue cheese. My wife is an exception, she LOVES cheese and we often buy different varieties but it is so damn expensive here, luckily she often has business trips to France and comes back with a bunch of different kinds for about 1/3 the price of China.
Most Chinese are now experimenting with western foods such as cheese but they are still way behind in their tastebuds to allow for something like blue cheese. My wife is an exception, she LOVES cheese and we often buy different varieties but it is so damn expensive here, luckily she often has business trips to France and comes back with a bunch of different kinds for about 1/3 the price of China.
Mr_spoon:
Just in case, if you haven't tried it yet, tell her to bring you some Reblochon. It's the best of the best, especially in a good old Tartiflette.
hiddenjelly:
I'll tell her to, she goes again next week. :-)
Her current favourite in Emmantel. How does it compare to that?
It's biological. The Asian digestive system cannot tolerate many lactic products because Asians lack a certain enzyme that breaks down whatever diary products contain. In the same manner, the Caucasian digestive system has difficulty with certain Asian foods.
If you do a little independent research, you may find answers to your question. And when you do, would you mind sharing your findings with the rest of us?
Don't be so damn lazy. Research!
Scandinavian:
actually lactose intolerance is a cultural phenomena. If you feed your baby cows milk from small to grown up, there is almost zero chance of lactose intolerance regardless of the gene-pool.
Bad parenting /stoopid prejudice = lactose intolerance
Red_Fox:
@scando: There is scientific evidence that lactose intolerance is endemic amongst Asian populations. Milk is milk whether it's cow, goat, sheep or any other mammal.
What about being used to it from an early age on? Most foreigners in China skip the smelly tofu (it was introduced to me as 'stinky tofu') and even Chinese people have to get used to it before they appreciate it. There's more stuff around that we avoid eating. Back home, not everybody likes to eat all kinds of cheese. Some Chinese don't even like foreign chocolate. I think their attitude makes perfect sense. The gap is huge and works both ways.
cuz blue-cheez sux balls ? from a friggin' cheese-lover (proper Cheddar or a yummy Camenbart) who quite agrees that 'commercialized fast-food cheese is not actually cheese. (they say it is some sort of weird product made from hmmmm.... something or other.... but it is not cheese).
Most Chinese I've met that have tried never liked cheese at all, let alone blue cheese that is usually an acquired taste.
Blue cheese is disgusting.
I've yet to meet Chinese who actually like Cheese. Most of 'em hate it.
Scandinavian:
I beg to differ. Who would ever want to live in a world where pizza with gorgonzola and pepperoni doesn't exist. And seriously, of all people, a green dude like you should not discard a whole family of cheeses just because of its blueness.
Sweet dreams are made of cheese
Who am I to diss a brie
Lactose intolerance. Western Chinese minorities do like cheese. Also there is some good homemade cheese in Nepal and India that IMO is better than the 30-40kuai packaged blue cheese they have in Carrefour here.
I've never even met a Chinese person who has the faintest clue as to what cheese is!
Last year I bought some vintage cheddar cheese made in Ireland while I was visiting Urumqi and I thought it was Christmas!
I bet most people who like cheese such as stinky bishop or St Agur simultaneously hate the smell of stinky tofu (I know I am one of those people). I suppose in the nature vs nurture debate, when it comes to stinky foods nurture wins. It is what you grew up with. I grew up with my parents taking me to France and then having to drive back in car full of Cheese.