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1、Hong Kong Tai Wing Wah Restaurant and a common community identityYuen Long known as the granary of Hong Kong is the birthplace to both Hong Kong Tai Wing Wah Restaurant and Wing Wah Cake Shop Limited. Nowadays, with all this fortune, Yuen Wing Wah Restaurant is still well-known for Iron Chef, Liang

2、Wentao, who is the chief executive officer of Hong Kong Tai Wing Wah Restaurant with his notable traditional village cuisine. However, with an increasing number of external populations moving to Guangdong province, products and sales model of Wing Wah restaurant and Wing Wah cake Shop is not constra

3、ined to the existing traditional village dish. Instead, a large quantity of new elements is introduced.These new elements are divided into several parts in the following paragraph. In the first place, food practices are different from before. For example, traditional Cantonese-style moon cake used t

4、o be made up with heavy weight sugar a pastry must be made up of a lot of syrup and oil for the sake of crispy, soft, and freshly baked taste. Besides, another renowned dish lotus seed paste cannot be fine and smooth without oil , which is relatively easy tired of ; what is worth to mention is that

5、salted egg yolk is added to moon cake as stuffing to neutralize this greasy taste , which is not only the reflection of changing kinds of moon cake, but also reflects a different living standard and eating habits. Since people, especially girls are now paying much attention to their figure and physi

6、que cautious about fat and carbohydrate, they try to avoid to eat food with oil, fat and greasy ingredients. This is a big step of peoples concept of healthy diet. Besides, lard Conquers was once the best-selling dish of Wing Wah restaurant while now there is a decrease in numbers of eating this dis

7、h according to feedback from restaurant assistants and diners in Hong Kong who are both interviewed. A diner in Wing Wah restaurant said that Lard conquer tasted savory, steamed chicken with scallion oil tasted tender, and roosted goose tasted incense, but if I came to this restaurant again, I would

8、 not pick up Lard Conquer again because its greasy full of fat. The assistant working in Wing Wah restaurant stated that the number of ordering Lard Conquers is not as many as before.In line with the changed eating habits and concept of healthy diet, branches of Wing Wah restaurant featured and upda

9、ted itself with new elements in dishes, just as lotus seeds paste listed above and dim and afternoon tea not mentioned which more goes for peoples life style and petit bourgeoisie sentiments. This change has many similarities with McDonalds change in globalization. McDonalds has become the hallmark

10、of globalization, sometimes accused of society McDonaldization of the society. British “Economist magazine” even informally assesses purchasing power parity of these currencies with the Big Mac Index a Big Mac in different parts of the currency price comparison . Because McDonalds is almost equal to

11、 the American culture and way of life, its expansion of international commerce has been referred to the United States and part of the American cultural imperialism. So McDonalds is still the target of protest around the world anti-globalization people.Thomas Fulminate said that the country with a Mc

12、Donalds restaurant have no war with other countries. However, the theory has been refuted, since firstly the United States invaded Panama in 1989 while Panama already has McDonalds restaurants in the late 1970s. In addition, the subsequent war in Kosovo in 1999 overturned the theory as well. Some ob

13、servers recommended that McDonalds should give credit to increase its service standards to enter the market. A group of anthropologists had a study entitled Golden Arches east for the sake of observation of East Asia, in particular the impact of McDonalds in Hong Kong. When McDonalds opened in 1975

14、in Hong Kong, it is Hong Kongs first McDonalds providing a clean toilet restaurant, which makes the customers claim other restaurants of the same kind to offer the same facilities. Meanwhile, McDonald also adjusts itself to satisfy the needs of customers no matter in facilities, tastes and service.A

15、s it is stated above, one can see food in Yuen Long is more about creating a common community identity rather than more about making distinctions and drawing lines. Hong Kong Tai Wing Wah Restaurant specializes in restaurant and hotel business, with its expansion it started food processing industry

16、and became the first to produce lotus seeds moon cake. Except for traditional moon cake and Chinese moon cake, delicate cookies, omelet, almond paste, sesame-seed cakes are produced in succession. Then Wing Wah Cake Shop Limited came into being. Its products are being in great demand in the United S

17、tates, Canada, and Australia and so on and so forth. Branches of Hong Kong Tai Wing Wah Restaurant spread all over Hong Kong, Kowloon, and the new territories and its products also sell well overseas. It has become one of the most-standardized and best-organized cooperation. Obviously, there is a te

18、ndency that Hong Kong Tai Wing Wah Restaurant is creating a common community identity and recognition not only nationally but also internationally. That means Hong Kong Tai Wing Wah Restaurant has made great efforts to arise appreciation and acceptation. If a large group of people all think food in

19、Hong Kong Tai Wing Wah Restaurant is delicious, satisfies peoples tastes, and represents a group of people, it would be easier and fantastic for Yuen long to expand its market.In conclusion, Socialist Claude Fischer in France said: “food is the core of community identity.” Food serves the function o

20、f shaping a common community identity and is the material basis of ethnic group. As English saying goes: “you are what you eat”, food which serves as a carrier of culture is the internalization of a groups attitude towards life, people, and objects and is a representative of their community identity and values.Citations:Comment from Collective Memory and Cultural Identity