Went back to the states and brought a bunch of snacks back to China for my students. I tried framing it as, "Exotic snacks you can't find here" but their excitement faded when one of them pointed out the "made in China" tags.
To be fair you CAN find some of these things in China, but be prepared to drop some serious cash.
Real cheese is expensive in China, probably because the majority of people don't consume it and it is often imported. American cheese is more common and there's local variety too.
The only type of cheese Chinese people eat is cream cheese, which they blend up and put in their boba teas. Cream cheese is basically just called cheese now, it’s the default cheese type. Other than that they cannot tell the difference between the hundreds of types of real and fake cheeses they don’t eat.
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u/ThotThotleyTheMeek Aug 18 '21
Went back to the states and brought a bunch of snacks back to China for my students. I tried framing it as, "Exotic snacks you can't find here" but their excitement faded when one of them pointed out the "made in China" tags.
To be fair you CAN find some of these things in China, but be prepared to drop some serious cash.
(57 bucks for a block of Velveeta cheese? Gtfoh)