Why do Chinese prefer hot food while Westerners prefer cold food?

In fact, to put it bluntly, foreigners don't care about what they eat (except for France and Italy). In many cases, Westerners don't like cold food, but because it's convenient and they get used to it after eating it for a long time.

When I was a student, I didn't eat cold food except for drinks. And if I ate or drank something cold right after eating, I would get diarrhea. Then went to work, my first job in Germany Huawei work, the company across the street there is a bakery, I almost every day to buy breakfast. After all, once I went to work, I didn't have the time or mood to make breakfast. But the German bakery to buy sandwiches, and sandwiched with a variety of meat bread are cold. When you walk into the store, you order what kind of bread you want, the salesman takes it out of the counter and puts it in a paper bag, then collects the money, and the whole process takes less than a minute. The whole process takes less than a minute.

Since I started working, my daily breakfast has been a cold schnitzel sandwich or meatloaf sandwich. It was really an ordeal when I first started eating it, it was really hard to swallow the stuff cold. But there was nothing I could do about it, I am a meatless person. Six months later, I was so familiar with eating cold meat products that I could blister my mouth on the rare occasions when I ate freshly fried pork chops or grilled chicken thighs at home. Not only my mind, but also my body is getting used to eating cold. Once I was warming up my rice at work, because the microwave oven didn't heat it up enough, I realized halfway through the meal that it was still cold, but I didn't even hesitate, I just kept on eating it, I wasn't happy to reheat it, and it wouldn't kill me to eat it anyway. I just chewed and swallowed the cold sword beans and meatloaf.

After I started working, I didn't have the time or the mood to spend a lot of time cooking, and I started to ask for less and less food. When I was a student, if the kitchen wasn't cleaned for a week, it was like an atomic bomb had been dropped on it. Now that I'm working, sometimes I don't clean the kitchen for a month and it looks like it hasn't been used much. To put it bluntly, I've become less particular about food, and I don't want to fire up the place!

Even I, a native Chinese, can do this, and for Westerners who have grown up eating as a means of survival rather than as part of life, eating cold becomes a matter of course.

But Chinese working in Germany in pairs tend to maintain the habit of eating hot food. After all, either there is someone at home for you to hold on to, or there is someone at home who is holding on to you. When you come home and have a nice meal together, you are still very happy. I'm a lonely soul like you, so I'm going to chew on a pig's foot like Fan Kuai, and I'm going to browse Steam to see if it's on sale again.