网友热议：为什么中国游客旅游时仍然吃中国菜而不尝试当地美食？

Martin Bayer
I live in Hawaii, USA. My home town, Honolulu, is a tourist destination for people from all over Asia, especially China. One thing I have noticed is that Chinese tourists usually come in groups and they do everything together, including dine.

我住在美国夏威夷。我的家乡檀香山是一个亚洲游客的旅游目的地，尤其是来自中国的游客。我注意到的一件事是，中国游客通常成群结队，一切都一起做，包括用餐。

American restaurants aren’t friendly to large groups of people. We like small groups so that we can fill lots of tables and turn them over quickly. That’s how we make money and that’s how most Americans eat. A couple or two goes out, eats and leaves.

美国餐馆对大群人并不友好。他们喜欢小团体，这样他们可以填满很多桌子，并迅速翻台。这是他们赚钱的方式，也是大多数美国人用餐的方式。一对夫妇出去，吃饭然后离开。

As I said, dining is a large scale social affair for many Chinese tourists. They go out in groups and spend a long time in the restaurant eating and talking. American restaurants aren’t conducive to this type of behavior, but Chinese restaurants are.

正如我所说，对许多中国游客来说，用餐是一场大规模的社交活动。他们成群结队地外出，在餐馆里花很长时间吃饭和交谈。美国餐馆并不适合这种行为，但中餐馆可以。

There is a very popular Chinese restaurant near me called Fook Yuen Seafood Restaurant. It is always packed with Chinese tourists doing exactly what I described.

在我附近有一家非常受欢迎的中餐馆，叫做福源海鲜酒家。它总是挤满了正在做我这样成群结队的中国游客。

Fook Yuen is always packed and I know they clean up.

福源餐馆总是爆满，我知道他们生意红火。

People congregate where they are most comfortable. It’s human nature.

人们会聚在他们最舒适的地方。这是人类的本性。

Talvi Lai
Because I'm (expletive dexed) poor.

因为我特么穷。

Usually when I have the materials and time, it is much cheaper to prepare food myself — and I only trust myself to cook Chinese.

通常情况下，如果我有材料和时间，自己做饭要便宜得多——而且我只放心我自己做中餐。

Lund, Sweden: typical Cantonese dish, made with European ingredients

瑞典隆德：用欧洲食材制作的典型粤菜。

If I don't have time, then it's fine to try local cuisines … or something else. I have done Italian in Poland, Turkish in Germany, Japanese in Austria.

如果我没时间，那么尝试当地美食或其他的也可以。我在波兰尝试过意大利菜，在德国尝试过土耳其菜，在奥地利尝试过日本菜。

A second reason:

第二个原因：

Brno, Czechia: A typical Czech fast food dish. The Czech dude sitting next to me was eating Chinese in the same food court. Imagine this: a Chinese person eating Czech and a Czech person eating Chinese sitting next to each other.

布尔诺，捷克：一道典型的捷克快餐。坐在我旁边的捷克小伙正在同一美食广场吃中餐。想象一下：一位中国人吃捷克菜，一位捷克人吃中餐，他们挨着坐。

‘Cos why not?

为什么不呢？

In some countries, even their own people don't like their own cuisines. Czech farmer-cuisine, low in vegetables and heavy in gravy, is one of them (at least, according to Wikivoyage). I quite like the Czech bread dumplings, though.

在一些国家，甚至他们自己的人都不喜欢自己的美食。捷克农民菜，蔬菜少而油腻，是其中之一（至少根据Wikivoyage的说法来说是这样的）。不过，我还是挺喜欢捷克面包饺子的。
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Dante Wong
I prefer not to speculate on the reasons why other people behave the way they do, so I will be using my father as an example in examining the veracity of the assumption in the question.

我不愿猜测其他人行为的原因，所以我将以我父亲为例，检验问题中假设的真实性。

Firstly, I don’t think my dad always only eats Chinese food when traveling.

首先，我认为我爸爸在旅行时并不总是只吃中餐。

It depends where he’s traveling.

这取决于他旅行的地方。
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Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam?

日本、韩国、泰国、马来西亚、新加坡、越南？

He has absolute ZERO problems eating the local cuisines (although his tolerance for spicy food is very low, so he’ll stay away from most spicy food)

他在吃当地美食方面完全没有问题（尽管他对辛辣食物的耐受性很低，所以他会远离大多数辛辣食物）。

But when you bring him to Europe….

但是当你带他去欧洲时……

You know, he and my mom met when they were studying in London, so you’d think that he’d be okay with eating “Western” and European food, right?

你知道，他和我妈妈是在伦敦读书时认识的，所以你可能会认为他吃“西餐”和欧洲食物没问题，对吧？

But when he and my mother visited me when I was in Munich, I secretly wondered how long he would hold out before mentioning Chinese food.

但是当他和我妈妈在我在慕尼黑的时候来看我，我心里暗自想，他会坚持多久才会提到中餐。

The answer: Until the third day.

答案是：直到第三天。

First two days, not a word from him.

前两天，他一言不发。

He was fine with eating German food.
No complaints.
No comparisons to Chinese food.
Nothing.
Silence on the radar.
Not a sound, not a beep.

他吃德国食物很好。
没有抱怨。
没有和中餐比较。
什么都没有。
雷达上的寂静。
没有声音，没有蜂鸣声。
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And then on the third day, he was like “Can we go somewhere for Chinese food? Or at least Asian food?”

然后在第三天，他说：“我们能去吃点中餐吗？或者至少是亚洲食物？”

So he managed to hold out until the third day.

所以他竟然坚持到了第三天。

We walked into this hole-in-the-wall place in the city that looked as it could barely fit 30 people in it.

我们走进了这座城市里的一个小餐馆，看起来勉强能容纳30个人。

It wasn’t even a Chinese restaurant.
It was one of those “Asian” restaurants.

这甚至不是一家中餐馆。
它是那种“亚洲”餐馆之一。

You know what I mean - you look at the menu and you see Chinese dishes nestled next to Japanese dishes nestled next to Vietnamese dishes nestled next to Malaysian dishes.
Sushi perching next to pho perching next to nasi lemak perching next to spring rolls.

你知道我是什么意思——你看菜单，看到中餐、日本餐、越南餐、马来西亚餐都挤在一起。
寿司旁边是越南河粉，旁边是马来椰浆饭，旁边是春卷。

The waiter was pretty rude and gave my dad a bollocking when my dad had the effrontery to ask for hot tap water.

服务员相当粗鲁，当我爸爸大胆地要求热开水时，服务员拒绝了他。

And the food wasn’t even that great.
My dad ordered some noodles and the portion was small and looked pretty much like:

甚至食物都不是很好。
我爸爸点了一些面条，份量很小，看起来差不多是这样的：

But my dad didn’t care.

但我爸爸不在乎。

He wolfed it all down with a satisfied smile tugging at the corners of his lips.

他满意地吃掉了所有的食物，嘴角挂着满足的微笑。
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When he was eating, his entire mien underwent a radical shift.

他吃饭时，整个神态发生了彻底的变化。

It was as if we had all stepped into a frozen moment of peace and serenity after a harrowing excursion into the heart of Mordor itself.

仿佛我们都踏入了魔多之心令人痛苦的冒险后的冰冻时刻，充满了宁静与宁静。

Beams of sunlight from the vast Heavens bent and tugged until they crowned his head with a glowing halo. Birds chirped merrily as they danced on the boughs of evergreen trees. Somewhere in the distance, you could pick out the soft susurrus of a waterfall and the splish and splash of a magnificent koi as it reached out for the Heavens before rejoining its brethren back in a calm and placid koi pond.

天空辽阔，阳光的光芒弯曲拉扯，直至为他的头顶戴上了一顶辉煌的光环。鸟儿在常青树的树枝上欢快地跳舞。在远处，你可以听到瀑布柔和的低语声，以及壮丽的锦鲤拍打水面的声音，它在伸向天空之前与同伴重聚在宁静而宁和的锦鲤池塘中。

My mother would have held out for longer. But eventually, she would say something along the lines of “I just want to have a quiet Chinese/Japanese meal” and we would then go hunting for another Chinese or Japanese restaurant, or failing to find any that met my mother’s approval, probably head back to their rented apartment and whip something up ourselves.

我妈妈可能能坚持更久。但最终，她会说出类似于“我只想要一顿安静的中餐/日本料理”之类的话，然后我们会寻找另一家中餐馆或日本料理店，或者如果找不到符合我妈妈标准的，可能就会回到他们租住的公寓，自己动手准备一些食物。

See, my dad is quite picky with his food.

你知道，我爸爸对食物挺挑剔的。

He doesn’t like food with dairy products, so no cream, cheese, milk, etc. (except when my mom makes her doria. Now that he’ll happily eat. I guess it’s because my mom made it, although to be fair, her doria is pretty kick-ass)

他不喜欢有奶制品的食物，所以没有奶油、奶酪、牛奶等（除非是我妈妈做的意大利烩饭，那他会很开心地吃。我猜是因为我妈妈做的，虽然公正地说，她做的意大利烩饭确实很好吃）。

He’s not a big meat eater - he’ll always want his green leafy veggies, or at least just veggies in general.

他不是个爱吃肉的人——他总是想要一些绿叶蔬菜，或者至少是一般的蔬菜。
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He loves having Chinese-style soups and broths.

他喜欢中国风格的汤和高汤。

And while he can eat bread and potatoes for a couple of days, if he’s eating only that as his carb-source, he’ll soon develop this ravenous hunger for rice, noodles, and mantou (Chinese bread).

虽然他可以连续几天吃面包和土豆，但如果他只吃这些作为碳水化合物来源，他很快就会对米饭、面条和馒头（中式面包）产生强烈的饥饿感。

No Chinese food around?
Then we go somewhere with Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Malaysian, Singaporean food.

附近没有中餐？
那我们就去找一些日本、韩国、越南、泰国、马来西亚、新加坡食物的地方。

Well, holding out for three days is still pretty impressive for him.
See, I was expecting him to cave on the second day.

嗯，他能坚持三天还是相当不错的。
你知道，我本来以为他会在第二天就妥协的。

Jennie Gerboğa
It’s not just Chinese people.

这不仅仅是中国人的情况。

I’ve traveled overseas on music tours and on bus tours, in addition to traveling independently. On tours, without fail, the bus would stop for a meal and most of the Americans on board would shuffle off in a pack toward Pizza Hut or McDonald’s (“at last! real coffee!”) whereas my husband and I would consult our Rick Steves book, or just follow people who appeared to be locals, and invariably we would end up somewhere quaint, local, authentic. And some of our bus mates would start to tail us, after hearing of our mostly delightful meals. The rest would grumble on the bus about the pizza being “wrong” or the coffees being too small. I wondered why they bothered traveling.

我曾参加音乐巡演和旅行巴士游，除了独自旅行外。在巡演中，总是不失时机地在某个地方停下来吃饭，车上大多数美国人都会成群结队朝着必胜客或麦当劳走去（“终于！真咖啡！”），而我和我丈夫会查阅我们的瑞克·斯蒂夫斯（Rick Steves）指南，或者只是跟随那些看起来像本地人的人，结果总是会来到一些古雅、本地、正宗的地方。我们的一些巴士同伴听说我们的美食后开始跟着我们，剩下的一些人则在巴士上抱怨比萨“不对”或咖啡太小。我纳闷为什么他们还要旅行。
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My favorite of these stories is when we stopped shortly after entering France. The group shuffled off to either McDonald’s or Burger King, I forget which, while we toddled off to a tiny little cafe. We ordered two cafes, which were accompanied (to our great pleasure) by a plate of fresh-from-the-oven croissants. Oh my! A couple of our mates saw us and followed suit, the rest got to hear us yammer on and on about our delightful snack. Turns out that they didn’t care for the tiny cups of strong coffee, their loss.

我最喜欢的故事之一是我们刚进入法国后的那次停留。整个团队都散开去了麦当劳或汉堡王，我忘记了跟我一起的是哪一个，而我们则走向了一家小小的咖啡馆。我们点了两杯咖啡，还有一盘刚出炉的羊角面包，这让我们非常高兴。哦，天哪！一些同伴看到我们点了，纷纷效仿，其他人听着我们不停地聊着美味的小吃。结果他们对那些小杯浓咖啡不感兴趣了，真是他们的损失。