[Buffalo Head]

"If you were serving to some Chinese guests....wouldn’t you serve Chinese food?"

Absolutely not! The host's own favorite meal should be served or the host country's favorite. Attempting to win favor by serving a counterfeit and probably inferior rendition of the guest's normal food is insulting.

[txhurl]

May be an LBJ thing.

[rxsid]

"If you were serving to some Chinese guests....wouldn’t you serve Chinese food?""

Absolutely not! The host's own favorite meal should be served or the host country's favorite. Attempting to win favor by serving a counterfeit and probably inferior rendition of the guest's normal food is insulting.

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Not only that, but the Chinese diet has steadily evolved since opening up to the west. One example, there are more KFC's in China than in the U.S.