"Foodways"

Through my life I have been assimilated many times when dealing with the way I eat or my food ways. This may have something to do with the different family changes in my life dealing with divorce, moving, family members moving out, etc. So mainly for me the way my family works has a significant part of the way I eat. When my family was still together my family was very big on eating traditional chinese dinners with occasions of eating different foods and going out to eat and having "dim sums" which are chinese equivalent to tea time which was extremely big with my whole chinese family including grandparents, aunts and uncles. Real chinese food that I use to eat in Hong Kong was extremely different then the fake chinese food here in America. In Hong Kong there is no such thing as chicken and broccoli or sesame chicken and most of the foods are more freshly made. When I moved to New York when I was ten years old my eating habits changed completely. I no longer eat dinners or any meals at the dining table, there were no more dim sums and my family was pretty separated most of the time. This was the time I was living with my father for the first time and my father mostly eat out, I eat in front of the television, and my brother eat his meals while hiding in his room playing warcrafts (which i must state I hate warcrafts and anyone who plays that mine sucking game is a looser). I started to indulge on a lot of things because when I moved to America it was my first time eating certain things like McDonalds. There was always a good amount of food in my old apartment that I lived in when I first moved to America. I think this really relates to the mainstream corporate food ways since most Americans eat in front of the television and I never really heard of any other families eating together at a table unless it was when they went out to a restaurant. My present eating habits are pretty much the same but a little different. I do not actually eat full healthy meals that a human is suppose to eat, breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner. Sometimes i eat up to one to two meals a day, this may be because of the fact that I am usually really busy. For example in the morning when I wake up I always try to get ready and rush to school and not be late making no time to eat breakfast. I think this is true for many other Americans as America or New York is a rushing city where everyone is always in a rush. There are many time that there are foods that I am not able to finish and although at times I wrap them up to save in the fridge they end up either staying in the fridge to rot forever or end up being thrown away, I think this definitely show the typical mainstream food ways since most Americans waste hundreds of dollars worth of food a year. American has become a country that cares so much on making money off of anything that people make money off of something people need on a daily bases to survive, food. Since food is processed so much in America and all the different types of foods that people do not really see it as something with a lot of value like gold or luxury items and tend to waste it a lot not thinking of the many people in other countries or the many who are in poverty who can't get the basic foods they need.

At the restaurant that my boyfriend works at, me, my boyfriend and some other friends eating. The restaurant is Italian or supposedly Italian and a little fancy. I stuffed my face that day since food was free. We get free food since my boyfriend works there on weekends.


This was taken in Hong Kong of Summer '08. Me and my friend from Hong Kong met up and eat dinner together. This dish is the real Chinese version of what you can find in Americanized Chinese restaurants as "Pan Friend Noodles". This day we only eat this dish for dinner, which we shared. I do not eat and stuff my face as much when I am in Hong Kong then when I am here in America.