為何日料不如中餐受歡迎呢？

Why is Japanese food not as popular as Chinese food?

2024-09-09 圖書館院長 10471 65 20 收藏糾錯&舉報

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網(wǎng)友：我在都柏林工作，我們辦公室里面日料和中餐都很受青睞。然而，在這兒日本和中國的食品都存在著一個完全相同的問題——大多數(shù)人在腦海中已然形成了對“日本食品”和“中國食品”的既定印象......

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Why is Japanese food not as popular as Chinese food?

為何日料不如中餐受歡迎呢？

Here at my office in Dublin, both Japanese and Chinese food are quite popular.

我在都柏林工作，我們辦公室里面日料和中餐都很受青睞。

However, Japanese food shares exactly the same problem as Chinese food here - most people already have a predefined image in their minds of what “Japanese food” and “Chinese food” look like.

然而，在這兒日本和中國的食品都存在著一個完全相同的問題——大多數(shù)人在腦海中已然形成了對“日本食品”和“中國食品”的既定印象。

Clue: It’s pretty different compared to the image in my mind.(I don’t own all the images below) When I tell my colleagues that I am going to prepare a Japanese meal for myself… What they think I’m preparing:

當(dāng)我告知同事我要為自己準(zhǔn)備一頓日本料理時…… 他們認(rèn)為我要做的：

實際上我做的日料：

When I tell my colleagues that I am going to prepare a Chinese a meal for myself:

當(dāng)我告知同事我要為自己準(zhǔn)備一頓中餐時…… 他們認(rèn)為我要做的：

What I’m actually preparing:

實際上我做的中餐：
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評論翻譯

Bill Chen：Chinese cuisine is extremely diverse. This country is truly enormous. Is that acorn jelly? That's some sophisticated Japanese taste. First pic? That’s just konnyaku. I can get it at most Asian grocery stores here.

中餐種類極為豐富。這個國家實在是太地大物博了。另外第一張圖日料里面你做的那是橡子果凍嗎？真是頗具精致感的日本風(fēng)味呢。
（回復(fù)）那只是魔芋而已。我在本地的大多數(shù)亞洲商店都能買到它。

Lugh Summerson：The first Chinese restaurants in Dublin opened in the mid-20th century. Initially, they couldn't obtain all Asian ingredients, so they adjusted their recipes according to what was available. They further adapted to suit the local palate and ended up with a limited but popular menu. First, how many types of Japanese food can you recall? I only remember sushi and some noodle soups. Not many at all. But Chinese cuisine, you know there's Cantonese cuisine, Hokkien cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, dumplings, and so on. The varieties are diverse. And this is only because China has a much larger land area compared to Japan.Second, China has ......, Tajik, Russian, Han, Thai Chinese, and multiple ethnic groups. Japan only has two main ethnic groups. For your information, foreigners are not counted. Each ethnic group has its own cuisine.Various types of cuisine can meet various demands. So, of course, Chinese food is more popular.

都柏林的第一家中餐館于20世紀(jì)中葉開業(yè)。起初，他們沒辦法弄到所有的亞洲食材，于是就根據(jù)現(xiàn)有食材來調(diào)整菜譜。在一步步調(diào)整以適應(yīng)當(dāng)?shù)厝说目谖逗?，最終推出了品類有限但頗受歡迎的菜單。
提起日料你能想起多少種類呢？我只記得壽司和一些湯面之類的。數(shù)量相當(dāng)少。但中餐呢，你知道有粵菜、閩南菜、川菜、餃子等等。種類繁多。而這僅僅是因為與日本相比，中國的國土面積要大得多。再者說中國有WWE族、塔吉克族、俄羅斯族、漢族、泰族等多個民族。而日本只有兩個主要民族（外國人不算在內(nèi)）。而每個民族都有自己的特色美食。不同種類的菜系可以滿足不同的需求。所以，中餐自然更受歡迎。

Nuwa Jerry
So surprised that you can make Japanese food so well…we use that menu for breakfast at home and sometimes I do make this to give breakfast to my kids.

真的很驚訝你能把日本料理做得這么好……我們在家里會用這個菜單做早餐，有時我也會做這些給孩子們當(dāng)早餐。

Brian Dong：I’ve seen Chinese restaurants in the UK sell nothing but deep-fried foods like spare ribs and even Samosas (for some reason). People in Europe have even less inclination for authentic Chinese food than people in America. At least people here have some appreciation for spicy foods like Sichuan cuisine.

我見過英國的中餐館只賣油炸食品，比如排骨，甚至不知為何還有咖喱角（注：馬來族傳統(tǒng)小吃）。歐洲人對正宗中餐的喜好程度甚至還不如美國人。至少美國人對像四川菜這樣的辛辣料理還是有些能夠欣賞得來的。

Sekiguchi Masanori：When I lived in the US, I noticed that Asian cuisine was mostly arranged for Western palates. To get real Japanese, Chinese, or other Asian food, I had to go to special restaurants that served people from those countries. And even then, very often the food was not authentic. In Japan, we also have a lot of variety, but the food available in America is extremely limited.

當(dāng)我在美國生活時，我注意到亞洲菜大多是為迎合西方人的口味而準(zhǔn)備的。要想吃到真正的日料、中餐或其他亞洲美食，我必須去專門為那些國家的人服務(wù)的特色餐廳。即使這樣，食物也常常不正宗。而在日本，我們也有很多種類的美食，但在美國能吃到的食物卻非常有限。
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Loke Seng Onn：That packet of fried rice and fried unmentionables looks so disgusting and totally un-Chinese food.

那碗炒飯和那些油炸的不知名食物看起來很惡心，跟中餐一毛錢關(guān)系都沒有。

Alex Cao： I have to say, living in the US, Japanese food is MUCH more popular than Chinese food. Most Americans associate Chinese food with “fast food”, while Japanese restaurants are usually more gourmet-like.

我得說，我住在美國，這里日料比中餐受歡迎得多。大多數(shù)美國人把中餐聯(lián)想成“快餐”，而日本餐廳通常更具美食格調(diào)。
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Dante Wong： In both South Korea and Japan, the association that Chinese cuisine is “fast food” is not present. The vast majority, from exposure and experience, are aware that Chinese dishes can be simple and rustic or really high-end, depending. Having lived in the States for only a few years, I do agree with your assessment regarding the reputation of Chinese cuisine in the US.

在韓國和日本，人們不會認(rèn)為中餐是“快餐”。絕大多數(shù)人通過接觸和體驗都知道，中餐可以是簡單質(zhì)樸的，也可以是非常高端的，具體取決于不同情況。雖然我只在美國生活了幾年，但我同意你對美國中餐聲譽的評價。

Steffen Krause： Cool! I'd love to come to your dinner. I got to know Chinese food through my school friend's mother who worked at the East German embassy in Beijing in the late 1970s. Remember, there were no Chinese restaurants in East Berlin in the early 1980s. I was so disappointed by the Chinese restaurants after the wall came down…

看起來太酷了！我好想來參加你家的晚宴。我是通過我同學(xué)的母親了解到中餐的，她20世紀(jì)70年代末在北京的東德大使館工作。要知道，20世紀(jì)80年代初東柏林都還沒有中餐館。柏林墻倒了之后，我對開張的中餐館感到非常失望……
Ed Suguro（埃德·蘇古羅）： Bottom line: taste. Chinese food tastes much better than Japanese food. As a person of Japanese descent, I much prefer Chinese food over Japanese food, and I’ll regale you with some of the comments on Japanese food I heard growing up. You mean people actually eat that stuff? What is that awful smell? It (Japanese food) smelled awful and tasted worse. It’s an acquired taste, but I could never eat enough of it to acquire a taste for it. “It was—well, different.” That’s all a community queen stated about Japanese food after she had been invited to eat at a Japanese restaurant as part of her reign. And so it goes.
料理關(guān)鍵還得在是味道。中餐比日料好吃多了。本人有日本血統(tǒng)，但我還是更喜歡中餐而不是日料，我可以用我成長過程中聽到的一些關(guān)于日料的評論來給你們講段子。例如：1.你是說那些東西是人吃的？2.那刺鼻的氣味是啥玩意？日本料理聞起來很糟糕，味道更糟。雖然都說口味是可以后天培養(yǎng)的，但我永遠(yuǎn)也沒辦法去吃很多日料來培養(yǎng)出對它的喜愛?！斑@真是，額，與眾不同啊?！薄晃煌鈬踉谒y(tǒng)治期間被邀請到一家日本餐館用餐后對日料的全部感受，事情就這樣。

Fionna Chiquita Morgan：True. Maybe it's because of where I grew up. But yes, people here adapt better to Chinese food than to Japanese or Korean food. Complaints about Japanese food mostly stem from the lack of seasoning. Since we are a tropical country, a lot of spices and seasonings are expected. Complaints about Korean food are usually due to the overuse of kimchi. Don't get me wrong. I like both on occasion, but if I'm asked to choose, I'd pick Chinese food over the others.

確實如此。也許是因為我長大這個地方的原因吧，我們這里的人比起日本或韓國食物來說更容易適應(yīng)中餐。對日料的抱怨主要是因為缺乏調(diào)味料。因為我們是一個熱帶國家，人們吃飯還是喜歡加香料和調(diào)味料。而對韓國料理的抱怨通常是因為過度使用泡菜。別誤會我的意思。我偶爾也喜歡日料和韓料，但如果要我選擇，我會選擇中餐而不是其他的。

Mandy Lam：The simplest answer is that Japanese food is often more expensive than Chinese food. Secondly, eating raw fish is still repellent to many people in the world. Even Hong Kong people who are crazy about sushi now had to go through a long period of adaptation several decades ago to grow to love Japanese food. Another reason is that Japanese food exudes an air of pretentiousness while Chinese food is often seen as the comfort food you crave when you just want a casual meal (look at how the two cuisines are portrayed in Hollywood movies).

最簡單的答案是日料通常比中餐貴。其次，吃生魚片對世界上很多人來說仍然是令人反感的。即使是現(xiàn)在對壽司狂熱的香港（特區(qū)）人，也是在幾十年前經(jīng)歷了漫長的適應(yīng)期才逐漸愛上日料的。另一個原因是日料散發(fā)著一種自命不凡的氣息，而中餐通常被視為當(dāng)你只想吃一頓便餐時渴望的舒適食物（可以看看好萊塢電影中是如何刻畫這兩種美食的）。

Yunnie Liong Lestari： I’m Chinese (specifically Cantonese), born and raised in the Fujian community in Indonesia. Even as a Chinese myself, I’m still overwhelmed by the variety of Chinese cuisine. When I reached adulthood, I finally went to my first authentic Cantonese restaurant. It’s nothing like home-cooked meals.

我是中國人（具體來說是廣東裔），在印度尼西亞的福建社區(qū)出生并長大。即使我自己是華人，我仍然對中餐的多樣性感到驚嘆不已。成年后，我終于去了第一家正宗的粵菜館，然后發(fā)現(xiàn)那和家常菜完全不是一碼事。

Fionna Chiquita Morgan： China is so vast that even among Cantonese people, there are differences in their traditional dishes among different families. If you’re Cantonese, I’m curious. Are you familiar with lotus root soup and winter melon soup?

中國幅員遼闊，即使是在廣東人當(dāng)中，不同家庭的傳統(tǒng)菜肴也存在差異。如果你是廣東裔，我很好奇。你熟悉蓮藕湯和冬瓜湯嗎？

Yunnie Liong Lestari： Yes, lotus root soup with peanuts, carrots and pork. I think my mom used to cook winter melon soup, but I’m not a fan. I prefer winter melon tea.

是的，蓮藕湯里有花生、胡蘿卜和豬肉。我想我媽媽以前煮過冬瓜湯，但我不喜歡。我更喜歡冬瓜茶。

Lou Zheng： Lotus root soup and winter melon soup are also a common dish in Fujian! We’re right next to Guangzhou.

藕湯和冬瓜湯在福建也是一道常見的菜！我們福建就在廣州旁邊。

Peta Hawker： I lived in Japan for about 20 years and love your answer. Sushi, which actually refers to a style of rice, and not ‘maki zushi' (rolled sushi), or sashimi, is only a tiny aspect of Japanese cuisine and hardly typical of what one would eat at home for an ‘everyday' meal.

我在日本生活了大約20年，很喜歡你的回答。壽司，實際上指的是一種米飯的做法，而不是“卷壽司”或生魚片，它只是日本料理的一小部分，幾乎不是人們在家日常用餐時會吃的典型食物。

John Joshua Aquino： It’s the same for Italian food. When a layman thinks about Italian food, what they initially think of is probably pizza and pasta.

意大利菜也是如此。當(dāng)一個外行人想起意大利食物時，他們最初想到可能還是比薩和意大利面。

Joey Yu： I can say that as a Chinese, the term “Chinese food” in the West is just food that’s been adapted to the palates of Westerners. In China, you’ll find that the dishes popular in the West are hardly eaten here. It's interesting to note that China is HUGE. There are regional differences and distinct specialty dishes in particular areas.

我可以說，作為一個中國人，西方的“中餐”一詞只是一些適應(yīng)了西方人口味的食物。在中國，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)西方流行的菜肴在這里幾乎吃不到。有趣的是，中國幅員遼闊，存在很多地域差異，每個地區(qū)都有獨特的特色菜肴。

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