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Many a non-Chinese has come away from a meal cursing the “inscrutable” Chinese for saying nothing but bland, polite phrases, when the meal itself was the message, one perfectly clear to a Chinese.

—E. N. Anderson and Marja L. Anderson, in Food in Chinese Culture, edited by K. C. Chang