One time I was invited to a dinner in a famous restaurant in Tianjin. Its menu was based on seafood. I was still relatively new to the concept (概念) that your fish would be brought live to your table. In Canada you are never introduced to your meal before hand. Something we don’t like is considering what our food looks before the actual consumption.

　　However, having been in China for one year, I went along and helped point out some of the selections for the evening’s meal. I hesitated at the scorpions(蝎子), but swallowed my distaste and indeed found later that they were tasty.

　　The meal was winding its way(蜿蜒向前) along without any problems. Then they brought out the lobster(龙虾). I looked at it and then looked at it again and noticed that it was still moving! It had been brought out live to show that our raw lobster was indeed very fresh.

　　At that point, I nearly lost it. It took all my composure(镇定) for me to stay seated at the table and hurl(冲进) myself in the bathroom and bring up the contents of the previous dishes.

　　Now the interesting thing is that when I tell that story to a foreigner, the reaction is always the same: Horror, sympathy, shock. When I tell the same story to Chinese, they don’t understand my point of view. In fact, I often think that they believe that there is something truly wrong with me and not with the fact a lobster had been served live at the table.

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