6. Hopefully you don't mind sharing food.
One of the biggest surprises for me was the "family style" meal in China. Rather than ordering your own plate of food at a restaurant, generally your table will be loaded with dishes that everyone shares. If you're that person who always got mad at others for "double dipping", you'd better get over that fast.
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Foreign staffs are having dinner during the Lunar Chinese New Year Eve of 2003, Haikou, Hainan province. [Photo/IC] |