Difference between American Food, Chinese Food and Pakistani Food

Cooking has been there for quite a long time as it is a very essential part of our lives because no one can live without eating. These days, cooking has created not only an essential part of our daily life routine but also it is science by itself. There is a difference between Eastern and Western cooking methods and there are numerous huge contrasts in cooking strategies, ingredients, and dietary patterns.

What is an American Food

There are a couple of foods that originate before settlement, and colonization of America attained the appearance of countless cooking styles and ingredients. This variety kept extending splendidly into the nineteenth and twentieth century, corresponding to the convergence of workers from extra foreign countries.

What is Chinese Food

Chinese cooking is an essential piece of Chinese culture, which incorporates foods beginning from the various areas of China. The inclination for flavouring and cooking method. Chinese areas rely upon contrasts in ethnic gatherings historic background. The smell, colour, and taste are the customary perspectives to portray Chinese food, likewise the significance, shape, and nourishment.

What is Pakistani Food

Pakistani food is an important part of their tradition and customs. Their food is a combination of the Indian subcontinent (South Asia), Central Asia, Middle East, and Mughal legacy. There are different and many varieties of food. According to Pakistani provinces, there are so many varieties of food, like the majority of food in the provinces of Sindh and Punjab are spicy and peppery. While the food of other provinces like Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and Gilgit Baltistan are less spicy and peppery but also are delicious.

American Food VS Chinese Food VS Pakistani Food

In this article, we are going to discuss the contrasts between these foods to understand a clear picture of them.

Size

Americans cook their food in huge pieces and serve it with forks and knives for slicing it up.

Chinese cooks in a way that they cleave everything into nibble pieces, in this way individuals don’t need to bother about knives in order to slice it, and simply get their food with help of chopsticks.

Pakistani people usually eat with their hands, like they scoop up food or eat bread which in their national language is known as naan or roti. Many times they also use spoons for eating.

Spices

American cooks their food by utilizing processed flavors like ketchup, pepper powder, and so on. And they used very few species in their food.

Chinese food may include dried or crisp flavors while cooking, similar to spring onion, ginger, pepper, mint, chilies, garlic, and so forth.

Most of Pakistani people love to eat spicy food and add more spices to their food. They use their traditional spices to cook spicy food. They also add flavouring ingredients to their food such as turmeric, cumin, chillies, ginger, garlic, fennel seeds, coriander seed and powder, cinnamon, etc.

Cook Vegetables

American usually doesn’t cook vegetables. They use vegetables as salads or simply boil them in water.

Chinese dependably love to cook vegetables that include stewing, frying, steaming, and boiling. In some cases, they cook vegetables with soy sauce, garlic, and ginger.

In Pakistan, there are plenty of traditional vegetable recipes that are popular. For example baingan ka bhurtha (it is a dish which is made from minced eggplant), lauki (calabash), aloo (potatoes are cooked in many ways like fried potatoes or you can eat them with other vegetables or mashed potatoes for breakfast), aloo gobi (when potatoes are cooked with cauliflower), aloo mutter (potatoes are cooked with peas), karela (bitter gourd), bhindi (ladyfingers), saag (this is a popular traditional dish of Pakistan made with green leafy vegetable), etc. Many vegetables are grown seasonally in Pakistan. You can eat vegetables for lunch, dinner and even for breakfast.

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Meat or vegetables

In American food, there are more meat and starchy food and fewer vegetables. Vegetables like Chinese eggplant, bok choy, soy bean sprout, and Chinese cabbage are unknown for Americans.

In Chinese food, there are more vegetables as compare to meat

The meat dishes in Pakistan include nihari, chicken karahi, sajji, aloo gosht, chargah, etc. Grind meat is used for qeema and kababs like seekh kabab, shami kabab, gola kabab, chapli kabab, etc. Meat can be cooked with pulses, vegetables, and legumes. Meat is also cooked with rice (biryani) a very well known dish in Pakistan.

Oil

American foods are usually prepared in animals-made oils and there are more fats in it.

Chinese foods are usually prepared in vegetable oil like soya bean which contains less fat.

Pakistani use vegetable oils.

Fresh or frozen

Americans love to use frozen foods in cooking as they buy ingredients and put it in the refrigerator so that they can use it for almost one week.

Chinese love to use fresh vegetables and ingredients so they purchase the vegetables on a daily basis. And avoiding using preserved and canned food.

Pakistani also use fresh vegetables and ingredients and avoid using frozen material.

Salt or syrup

American usually uses less amount of salt in their food. Instead of salt, they use syrups and sugar in their food like corn syrup.

In Chinese food, salt and seasoning play an important role.

In Pakistan, people use table salt for cooking food. Some of the Pakistani people also use Himalayan salt (pink salt) for cooking. Himalayan salt is minded near the Himalayas in Pakistan. It is more healthy than table salt.

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Deserts

Sweet dishes are served after dinner in America

Chinese have tea or fresh fruit as a dessert.

Pakistan’s most popular sweet dish is halwa. There are different types of halwa on the basis of their ingredients such as gajar ka halwa, sooji ka halwa, daal ka halwa, atay ka halwa, etc. Other popular sweet dishes of Pakistan are kheer, sheer khurma, doodh jalebi, etc. Sweet is served after meals in Pakistan.

Conclusion

From the above article, we can conclude that the main differences between these foods are spices, flavors, ingredients, cooking techniques, and patterns. And all the three areas have their own taste. Which food do you like the most?

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