An Interview

There is always a close relationship between food pattern and cultural identity and this relationship is so deep that people often experience a feeling of alienation from their cultural identity whenever they experience a void in the indigenous food pattern with which they are familiar. Conducting an interview of Mr. Bao Chuang, a Chinese businessman who has eventually settled in the United States to gain financial prosperity, I have come to realize how societies like the Chinese society is infused with a unique food culture and how this culture embodies Chinese beliefs, Chinese philosophy, Chinese way of life, and how a person belonging to a different society with a different food culture can feel difficulties in coping with the food culture and social culture of the United...