Orange chicken, salt and pepper chips, fried rice... Max Burns lists several typical Western-style Chinese dishes that disappoint him. For Burns who 1 his childhood in China, those cuisines are far from genuine. They are invented to 2 Western preferences.
Actually, many Westerners regard that, 3 type of dishes as the whole of Chinese cuisine. The average Westerners are not as 4 and educated as they could be. That is why Burns 5 trying to show Chinese food by vlogging about making Chinese dishes at home.
The food adventure has 6 Burns grow into an influencer with over three million subscribers worldwide today and helped shift some people's ideas about Chinese food. His friends told him they were shocked by the 7 of Chinese cuisine and it took them a long time to figure out different categories of Chinese cuisine.
8 , when Burns first started vlogging in 2016 after returning to England, cooking Chinese food at home was a then "stupid idea", because he was never 9 of cooking. At the time, most of his 10 centered more on explaining aspects of Chinese culture. However, later, when Burns couldn't 11 outside, he had to learn to cook. The moment he tried to learn Chinese cooking, he 12 fell in love with it. "The more I learned about Chinese cooking, the 13 I got into it," he recalls.
The cooking journey also serves to 14 his connection with China, even though he has left China for years. Burns appreciates the experiences of living in China, 15 him to teach about Chinese cuisine and build a cross-cultural bridge between the East and the West.
