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Q: Why do they prepare food on the floor?
Cutting boards on the floor. Bowls of meat or veggies on the floor. I mean when there is a perfectly good counter space available why squat down on the floor and proceed with the prep? It seems inconvenient and unsanitary to me in the very least.
Derek, squatting may be inconvenient for you, but for Chinese it is not. As for the rest, when you grow up seen one thing, it becomes customary and accepted by you. Maybe it comes from the country side and lack of counter space there, and carried to the city by migration.
At her home, my GF does "floor cooking" and preparations, at my home, she has learned not to do so, because I do move everything I see on the floor to a counter space.
In the village you do not have a kitchen as such, more of a corner with a gas burner. The concept of kitchens is foreign to the villager, you can also see a lot of the newly built apartments have very small kitchens compared to the size of the apartment
Adds flavour. And why wear out the counter top when there is some good floor space right before you.
The worst part is some of the restaurants in Zhangjiajie, where there is a man-made, nearly-perfect tunnel-hole thing coming out from the ground that flows from the bathroom, to the kitchen.
Oh, and they prepare all the food on the kitchen floor.
And to think I ate there 3 times. Not a lot you can do about monkeys. This is WHY you need your typhoid shots before coming here.
