Why does steamed fish become the worst food in China voted by foreigners?

In a foreign vote, foreigners confirmed that Chinese steamed fish is a bad Chinese food. On quora, some foreigners asked what kind of China food you have tasted is the worst among ordinary China foods, and many foreigners voted for steamed fish.

Among their reasons for voting, some foreigners spit out that steamed fish eaten by China people are like giant salamander; There are also foreigners who spit out that the steamed fish eaten by China people tastes like the mud at the bottom of the West Lake; There are also foreigners who spit out steamed fish with too many fishbones; Fish skin is too rotten to eat; Fear of eye contact with fish and so on.

Now let's look at the reasons of these foreigners. Judging from the size of fish, China has a vast territory, and besides the long coastline, there are also vast inland areas. There are many rivers here, which is naturally the habitat of river fish. River fish, which are not as big as sea fish, naturally become our easy food resources, such as carp, barracuda, crucian carp, grass carp and so on.

But river fish is not the fish that many foreigners like to eat, because they don't have as many population bases as we do, and the per capita possession is large. In addition, marine resources are abundant, so marine fish become their favorite food. Many times foreigners think that river fish is easy to be polluted because of the limitation of living environment, and there is no sea, so it has its own ecological evolution system.

In eating habits, foreigners eat with knives and forks, and sometimes they touch food directly with their fingers. Unlike marine fish, river fish are not only not as big as marine fish, but also have different structures. River fish have a large number of tiny fishbones, while sea fish only have one main bone, which is also convenient for foreigners to pick up with knives and forks. On the tableware, we eat with chopsticks, which can effectively remove tiny fishbones.

There are differences between Chinese food and western food when cooking fish, but when our river fish is not as big as sea fish, we like to cook the whole fish well, put it on a plate and steam it in a steamer, which may be unacceptable to some foreigners. The cooking method of steamed fish is also unique to Chinese food.