Know about the differences between countries and nations diet culture will conducive to promoting cultural exchanges between them, and intercultural communication. There are many differences in the food culture of China and Western countries, for the concept of diet, banquet etiquette and the way of eating . Comparison and understanding these differences, it will provide the basis for the future cross cultural communication in China and the West.  

II. Differences in the Execution of Chinese and Western Food

2.1 Differences in Concepts

   2.1.1 Perceptual and Rational

   Chinese dietetic pay attention to taste﹑colour﹑appetizing﹑shape，emphasis on visual relatively, gustatory sensenand so on. Pay attention to the form beauty, perceptual beauty, texture beauty, emphasizes the beauty of the diet.As the proverb goes”People take food as their first need ,and Food to taste first”. Make real taste and after heating cook spices and taste and ingredients reconcile the taste mix up, which is on the basis of attaches great importance to the cooking materials natural flavour , Chinese food cooks know “Five reconcile” important, and to know “and different” truth. In a status of “you have me, and I in you”. The results of the harmonic is perfectly to taste, the person praise highly of delicious pursuit. We ignore the real meaning of dinner. A lot of food for cooking way is not scientific, and actually result in  nutrition loss. This is the biggest weakness of the Chinese diet. You will probably tell the difference in quality, ingredients and styles between the food prepared in China with those prepared at Chinese restaurants in your countries. When being asked why, you maybe make no answer. The pursuit of diet is a kind of artistic conception, which cannot be verbalised to its embodiment.

   Western cooking pay attention to nutrition and ignore the taste experience, at least，not to taste for the primary purpose. They prefer cold drinks when you eat, also add ice cold cold wine, but across the surface of the tongue taste nerve is chilled, losing the sensation of taste is greatly, the sensitivity of the gradually cannot discern the taste. Those who have the blood steak and boiled big white fish, white meat, raw vegetables, white boiled beans, boiled potatoes, don't know what flavor to speak of, these diet reflects the westerners to taste. They refused to use aginomoto, more enough to prove that westerners diet does not pay attention to taste of feeling.