Eating Out

[4getmenot]

When I was out having a meal Saturday night the table next to me had a Chinese couple on. Now I was very confused when they ordered and a knickerbocker glory and a sticky toffee pudding arrived. I thought bit weird just coming in for a dessert but hey they might only want dessert. But then after that their main arrived, so now I am curious is this just something this couple do or is this because they are Chinese, if so why do they eat backwards?

[gary baldy]

Because the Chinese read their written script backwards perhaps the accidentally read the menu back to front and thought the sweets were starters.
Did they have a prawn cocktail and soup for their pudding?

Or perhaps they just fancied it that way round. There are no rules about this sort of thing you know?
I'm sure, like me, we have all been known to eat cornflakes for supper and had last night's pizza for breakfast.

[4getmenot]

That made me giggle gary :-) you're right it might just be what they fancied as I said but just wondered if its part of their culture somehow. They had starter after sweet then a pizza in middle of table. God I'm nosey :-)

[redcrx]

gary,
i once put cornflakes on a pizza, along with rice pudding. It saves time you know :)

[Champagne]

Hahahahahaha! Good one Gary!!

I've often ordered starters as my main meal. And t'other week my boyfriend ordered a spaghetti bolognaise for a starter, and then had penne arrabiatta for a main course. I was half expecting him to have tagliatelle carbonara for dessert. :o\

[Octavius]

Chinese cuisine do not have desserts in the way that western meals typically end with a dessert. Instead, sweet foods are often eaten on its own as a snack or are introduced during the course of the meal with no firm distinction made.

Often in China, a meal is finished with a soup which can either be savoury or sweet. But western influences are changing this gradually.

[4getmenot]

Thank you octavious. and yes champagne I sometimes have a starter as a main but a pudding as a starter?!

[Octavius]

4geetmeenoot I often wonder why you take extra time to type my id, and then take even more time to add an extra o.....?

Do you imagine that I deserve an extra o, or is it just wishful thinking and one o isn't enough?!

[4getmenot]

It was an O thank you :-)

[wonder years]

i know that is strange as we were allways taught savories first , that was on a sunday at home when all we wanted to eat was the birds triffle but had to have our sarnies first lol

[redcrx]

oooh birds trifle yum. They dont taste as nice now do they though

[Pippa68]

I remember sharing a hospital ward with a few Asian (Indian) women when I was having my first baby. They ate their puddings before their dinners...maybe it is an Eastern thing?

[4getmenot]

maybe us british are the wrird ones and pudding should be eaten first

[rojash]

You thought it was weird they had pudding first, but not that they were sitting on the table?

[4getmenot]

Oooh get you rojash

[lankeela]

Must admit, when I read the first line of your post, I thought you were going to ask why English go to Chinese Restaurants and Chinese go to English ones! Shows how wrong you can be!