Culture Shock

Culture shock is inevitable. I know that before I came to U.S., but when I face it I found myself completely not ready to adjust to the totally new culture environment. The biggest difficult culture change to me is the food. It is really upset me every time I went to the cafeteria. I do not mean the environment there is bad. The food there is almost unbearable to me. Cold beverage with warm beef, uncooked vegetable, rice with sugar or tomato and bread with wired butter, that's sounds insane if someone have a dinner like that. I admit that there are various foods that I can choose from, but the problem is none of the choices is please to me. I am soooooooo missing my mother's home cook dish and the hot, authentic Chinese food! So I decided to go to a Chinese restaurant to have a change. But when I order some so-called Chinese dish, I totally cannot recognize those are Chinese food if I am not sure that I am sitting in a Chinese restaurant. There is so much sugar in the dish! An American friend told me that “American Chinese food.” Oh, my god! Everything here is attached with an invisiable label writing: “Made in America.”