Draft for EE1

Ran Wang 

                                                           Draft for EE1

     In this essay, I would like to establish the relationship between the first Short essay and the third one. The relationship I will explain is as an immigrants or students, living and study in American, their dietary habit will be changed because different country has exact different diet habit, although they always would like to keep their hometown diet habit. To be more specific, if I would like to begin with this part , is a good way to use my SE1. the Beijing specialist food BaoDu as my first part. . As for me, I am from Beijing; also I went to American studying and living since last fall. Actually, different country people has different diet habit is because of they have different food culture background. For example, BaoDu is the Beijing’s specialist dishes; why Beijing citizens and I like BaoDu very much is because of the long tradition. It represents kind of culture connotation of Beijing. Although lots of people who are from other place also think they cannot accept BaoDu anymore, it still is my favorite food because it has become a habit for me.

      Unfortunately, Not only I cannot find my favorite Beijing’s food in American; but also I’ll have to get used to the American way of life. The food culture although is not the most important thing in American people’s eyes. For this phenomenon, as an all immigrants from different countries will be affected and changed by the new cultures in variable ways. I believe using this way to analyze the constant tension between my home food culture background and my new environment is a good way. After do that, I think I also can post some China or Asian specialist food to reflect how deep is the people’s hometown food cultures are .

       Then I can start my argument. The argument is: as an all immigrants from different countries will be affected and changed by the new cultures in variable ways. Seem like the food part; although we also can find the Chinese food in America, it tasty also is totally different because of the “mixed food”. But we will get used to eat the mixing food unknowingly.

        In this part, I would like to use my SE3 to support my argument. The last time when I went to the Korean BBQ restaurant with my friends, after do that I observed and wrote down a food observation, because not only the Korean BBQ restaurant has the Korean food, it also has lots of representative food – The Chinese food and the Asian food. Also, because that restaurant was built in American, so there are lots of American customers come to their and eat their. After analyze all of this observation, I would like to combine with my argument. As the author Roy Ahn said in article Home Run: My Journey Back to Korean Food. “When I went out, I ate all the things my friend did- pizza, hot dogs, enchiladas, and fries with greasy chili that turned the paper wrapper orange. It’s worth nothing that two Korean-American boys were among my circle, but we rarely went out for food from the homeland. Whatever the reason, they were much more comfortable than I was with being Korean-American (13)”. From this quote, we can see the author is a Korean-American. In his article, he suggests that the American cooking and diet culture for an immigrant is irresistible although he always tried to keep his old eating habits. I believe, as time goes on, not only a Korean immigrant will be affected by the food culture of the States, but also all immigrants from different countries will be affected and changed by the new cultures in variable ways. And then analyze myself; find the similar between the author and me. Also I can find the different between the author and me. Such as I can say the author is an immigrant status but I am the student and just study in American. Furthermore, the author was already living in American so many years, but I just went to American studying and living since last fall. So, although the Beijing’s dishes for me still are my favorite, such as BaoDu; the American food for me is fresh rather than boring or disgusting because I just living in American one year.

       But actually we also can find lots of Chinese food in American, although the tasty is totally different with my home food. So Next, I will talk about the mixed food to explain why it is different with my hometown food.

       Seem like the Korean BBQ restaurant built on America, although they want to keep their food originally, using the same cooking way. But actually they cannot do that because firstly, all of food materials are using the American materials, so the tasty is different with their home food. Secondly, they should mix with some American elements and the America people’s diet habit in their Korean food in order to attract more and more customers. Fusing the American food style with the Korean food style is an indispensable part. Then even traditional food becomes the new way of American eating and a mix of food cultures. I think the Panda Express restaurant is a good example to explain and emphasize this idea. Also I can find some outside articles which are talking about this kind of mixing food become an important part in American’s life.

       Also If I can use the second SE, I would like to use the different between American food advertisement and the Chinese food advertisement, the main point is using their different to analyze the different culture background. Such as using the China and America consumer recognition and understanding for foods to analyze the different culture background. In this part, one thing the most important is find the similar between the American and Chinese customers and the food tasty or design to emphasize how important the mixed food is.

       In conclusion, I want to talk a little bit more; Talk about my own experience and personal reflection between the mixed foods and how can I adapt the American food in the future. Finally, if I can keep my own food habit or not in the future, what will happens?