Chapter 24 (1/2)

Chapter 24: Hate Cultural Differences the Most

Xu Wei Yu’s funny moment from studying abroad no. 1

Because Westerners don’t eat chicken feet, it’s sold cheaply in Western supermarkets. Once, he bought a big bag of them back to the dorms to stew them. A Westerner friend saw it and curiously asked what it was.

At the time, Wei Yu had just gone overseas and his English wasn’t very good. He couldn’t find the right word to use so he said, “This is finger“, immediately scaring the Westerner off. Wei Yu told me at the time, he really looked down on them, “Their KFC and Mcdonalds are pretty much chicken feasts but yet they don’t allow Chinese people to only eat chicken feet huh.”

I thought about it, KFC and Mcdonalds really didn’t sell chicken feet.

I asked: “Are there really no Westerners who eat chicken feet?” Since chicken feet taste so good.

Wei Yu: “None from the people I know. However, after I finish cooking it, they all say that it smells good! Then I eat it while asking them ‘smell good, smell good?’ hehehe.”

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Xu Wei Yu’s funny moment from studying abroad no. 2

Once, when eating oranges, Wei Yu was using an orange peeler. However, a foreigner watched as he moved his hand and the orange skin peeled off as if he was watching a monster. Wei Yu introduced his cla.s.smate to this device and his cla.s.smate expressed that Chinese people were too scary. Cla.s.smate Wei Yu felt very gratified.

Xu Wei Yu’s funny moment from studying abroad no. 3

The University of Oxford has a very cheap buffet style dining hall. The food was very good and the prices were cheap but they required you to dress formally. What is meant by formal wear is to add a cloak to your suit.

Once, when Wei Yu went to that school to play with a friend, he was brought to this dining hall to eat.

Xu Wei Yu: “At the time, I nearly thought I had time travelled to the world of Harry Potter!”

Then he said that his friend was also extremely depressed over the dress rules, often, for the sake of not being dressed so embarra.s.singly, he wouldn’t go eat. Xu Wei Yu was very sympathetic, “Luckily I don’t go to Oxford.”