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Friday, March 12, 2010

China: Aspiring Foodies

By Pontus Abelt

The People’s Republic of China’s younger generation has become bored with stir-fries, and chicken dumplings. Although China is a tradition driven culture, the new generation has alternate its long-standing traditions to keep up with the ever-growing demands for western commodities. However, these commodities aren’t just western clothes or cars, thus people’s urge for "exotic" food has become the latest trend for the Chinese. Yet the Chinese traditional kitchen is still their number one choice, although the younger generation is looking for new food options and sushi has become one of these. Thus the new shift in the Chinese culinary world should be considered as healthy for the Chinese and the rest of the world, try to imagine 300 million new foodies searching the world’s food market for new culinary adventures, and considering that 90% of all the oceans large predators are near extinction, another 300 million aspiring foodies may overwhelm the already over exploited oceans and sushi may become the world's last food trend.

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