Having eaten quite a few dishes just now, her stomach was a little full, and Keiko Kobayashi immediately felt that she could have a big bowl of rice with the stewed wild goose in the iron pot.
However, just when Keiko Kobayashi was enjoying her meal, she heard other Japanese people dining around her disparaging the meals prepared by the hotel in a very sarcastic tone.
"Suzuki-kun, look at the Chinese food, it's so crude, just thrown into a pot and stewed.
They actually eat wild birds like geese and chop them into such large pieces. This is totally the way barbarians eat them.”
A tall and thin Japanese man said.
"Yes! Ono-kun, I suddenly miss the sushi, sashimi and ramen from our hometown. They are the real delicacies of the world.
Chinese food is too crude and barbaric."
Another slightly fatter Japanese man echoed.
While mocking, the two men kept picking up the goose meat and putting it into their mouths, eating it with relish.
Keiko Kobayashi is most disgusted by people who say one thing and do another, and their purpose is very clear, which is to deliberately look down on Chinese cuisine.
She immediately couldn't stand it anymore. It happened that she had recently learned some Tang history from a professor at Jilin University. She immediately stood up and started arguing with the representatives of the Japanese delegation.
"Excuse me, if you really think Chinese food is not tasty, why do you still eat so much with gusto?"
Keiko Kobayashi questioned them confidently in very pure Japanese.
Kentaro Suzuki, head of Toyota Motor's overseas technology headquarters, immediately looked displeased when faced with such impolite questions.
He tapped the dish with his chopsticks in contempt and said, "Miss, I think you must have seen it wrong just now.
How can we enjoy eating something so disgusting that it can't even be called a dish?
We were just hungry just now, so we ate a little reluctantly.
You are also a Japanese citizen. How can these things cooked in a pot be compared with our sushi, sashimi and ramen?"
"Suzuki-kun is right. Our Japanese sashimi and ramen are the most delicious food in the world. Chinese dishes cannot compare to them."
Inuko Onodera also echoed the sentiment. He is the head of East Asia Strategy Department of Toyota Motor Corporation. This time he came to Chuncheng First Automobile Manufacturing Plant for inspection with a special mission.
Facing the two's arrogance and slander of Chinese cuisine, Keiko Kobayashi laughed at them jokingly and said:
"You two are really too ignorant and bring shame to the Japanese people.
What you call sashimi or ramen.
These were all learned by Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty.
The Chinese have long stopped eating sashimi and have developed eight major cuisines with even more delicious flavors. There are also countless folk cooking methods, and there are ways to cook all kinds of ingredients. It can be said that it is all-encompassing and all-inclusive.
You slander for the sake of slandering, ignoring the facts and saying that these dishes are not delicious? "
Kobayashi Keiko's voice was so loud that the members of the Japanese delegation immediately gathered around her.
However, her father Lin Tongchun continued to eat the food in the bowl with a smile, and had no intention of stopping his daughter.
Suzuki Kentaro was accused of ignorance by Kobayashi Keiko in person, and he immediately became ashamed and angry, saying: "That was in the past. Now we are stronger in Japan, and China is backward. Chinese food is just unpalatable."
“Blind arrogance can only encourage your arrogance.
Let me tell you some funny historical facts that I just heard recently.
Do you know why most Japanese people have bow legs? That’s right! It’s caused by long-term kneeling.
Do you know that this kneeling posture and habit was also learned by the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty?
Then why don’t Chinese people have bow legs?
Maybe you will say that they are not sitting on their knees now, so that’s why they won’t do that.
But what I want to tell you is that the ancient Chinese would not have bow legs even when they were sitting on their knees.
Because... they don't really sit on their feet like the Japanese do.
Instead, there is a kind of one-legged shoe called a "zhizuo" which is sat on the buttocks. Because it is covered with clothes, it cannot be seen from the outside.
You can kneel like this for a long time without feeling tired, and your legs won’t become bow-legged.
The Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty did not understand this and sent back the incorrect kneeling posture.
Although the stool was also brought back, it was mistakenly used as a serving stool. Yes, it is the stool we use to serve sashimi now.
He can even make mistakes in copying such a simple homework, but instead regards the so-called kneeling as a kind of mental willpower training. Don’t you think it’s ridiculous?
So what qualifications do you have to judge Chinese cuisine?"
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