How to order Foodily in China, Japan and India

She can afford to offer the word ‘contemptible’. No western Foodie would take her up on it. To western Foodies ‘admirable’ goes with everything the Chinese do in the kitchen. In a Chinese home meal there is little meat, but what there is is only slightly cooked. Fish and fresh vegetables feature more prominently than in the Anglo-American meal, and they have very little done to them to alter their essential character. And in a way that relates ordinary Chinese cooking to nouvelle cuisine, cooking times are short, and both fuel and the cook’s energy are conserved.