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is there some sort of superstition about eating all white food in asia?
it has happened twice, once in china and once in japan. i was picking myself whatever food i liked and when i sat down on the table someone else pointed out - hey all your food is white. im from europe so i hadn't been paying any attention to it at all, just picked what tastes i liked. but as it happened twice i started thinking maybe there is some superstition or folklore in asia associated with eating white food. nobody in europe has ever pointed anything like that out to me
Same, you just making it up or actually being serious? i understand the idea, for example there would definitely be jokes about it in europe when black man was eating all black/brown foods, or asian eating all yellow foods. i don't really mind if there is any sort of cultural joke behind it but id like to know if its just a coincidence or if there is more to it. superstitions and beliefs can have lots of influence on people, imagine that you are on a business lunch with a very religious muslim and you order pork and wine, not the smartest move right, it could end up influencing your business. i just want to be sure its nothing of that sort
"I'm not aware of any superstition of such thing. My guess is that it's because you ate food that happens to be food of the whites (Western food)"
no it was all local cuisine, rice, sushi, crab stuff like that, white by the color. and the fact that im not local is pretty obvious and well known anyhow. i also don't think it was a joke of any kind, it was just like a plain statement, "look what you are eating". maybe just something that is supposed to bring good/bad luck?
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- Amy DLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'm not aware of any superstition of such thing. My guess is that it's because you ate food that happens to be food of the whites (Western food) that the Asian people became curious and assume that you are not from the country originally. Because of that, they will treat you differently (in business as well). Some Asians are nice enough to be very attentive and help you as much as possible (thinking that you're incapable of fully adapting to the Asian culture) and some carry on as they are, but won't necessarily help you when you have language troubles (instead they will joke about it).
It's definitely not as bad as eating pork and drinking wine in front of a religious Muslim lol
Source(s): British Born Chinese who's been called white-washed by friends in China and Hong Kong because of my smaller Asian palate, and fashion sense - ExcoLv 71 decade ago
I have no idea, it might have been a joke, but there's no such ludicrous tradition in the East, as far as I'm aware.
If I saw you I'd never have noticed about your choice of food in the first place, let alone commenting about it, seems to me a rather pointless comment to me.
