dairy produce in japanese/chinese food

There are many lactose intolerant Japanese.

Milk cows and sheep need a lot of flattish pasture for grazing or large swathes of relative flat, clear land for raising silage for pen feeding. Japan and a lot of other volcanic island nations don't really have that.

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then why does the waitress at the japanese place keep bringing us complementary green tea icecream that i CAN'T EAT ;_;

I don't know. One sushi place here makes green tea tiramisu, which is tasty but sort of wrong.

My friend married a woman he met while working in China and if prompted she'll totally go off on how cheese is the most disgusting and vile foodstuff she's ever encountered in her life and she can't believe how ubiquitous it is in the US. It's like an elaborate joke to her.

chinese ppl are the most disgusting savages in all the world imo

There is plenty of dairy produce in the average Japanese diet. I have no idea what you are talking about.

I also have no idea why you are clumping together Chinese and Japanese food. That's like comparing English and Spanish food. (Not saying anything about the caliber of any cuisine, just saying they are different cuisines that happen to come from the same part of the world and have some things in common but are fundamentally different).

Why are there so few soy based foods in Spanish/English food?

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Thursday, July 24, 2003

INDUSTRY TRENDS
MILKMAN MAKING A COMEBACK
Got milk delivery? Doorstep service doubles in last 10 years

By TAIGA URANAKA
Staff writer
Although once destined to share the same road to oblivion as black and white TVs and rotary telephones, doorstep milk deliveries have been staging a solid comeback.

A man loads a milk crate onto a motor scooter at Meiji Milk Station in Arakawa Ward, Tokyo.
Industry officials said their fortunes have turned around in the past 10 years, a period termed by many others as the lost decade.

While milk companies say there was no single miracle that saved the time-honored practice from extinction, its recovery may provide a valuable lesson for many businesses struggling amid the prolonged slump.

"Home deliveries have been growing every year since 1993," said Masao Hino, manager of Meiji Dairies Corp.'s home delivery section.

The country's largest dairy firm said 2.6 million households received its milk delivery service last year, more than double the figure 10 years ago, when the business hit bottom. The firm aims to deliver to 3 million homes in the next two years, rivaling the peak logged nearly three decades ago.

Have you guys not had Rubing cheese, the pride of Yunnan Province? Is good.

according to wikipedia, 93% of chinese people are lactose intolerant, compared to 5% of whites of no. european/scandinavian descent

Chinese and Japanese populations typically lose between 80 and 90 percent of their ability to digest lactose within three to four years of weaning. Most Japanese can consume 200 ml (8 fl oz) of milk without severe symptoms (McGee 2004; Swagerty et al, 2002).[9]

However, cultures such as that of Japan, where dairy consumption has been on the increase, demonstrate a lower prevalence of lactose intolerance in spite of a genetic predisposition[9].

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1234085

according to wikipedia, 93% of chinese people are lactose intolerant, compared to 5% of whites of no. european/scandinavian descent

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what about us jews

can you ask wikipedia that?

wikihebia

68.8% of north american jews

Ashkenazi Jews can keep 20 - 30 percent of their ability to digest lactose for many years.[27] [29][30] Of the 10% of the Northern European population that develops lactose intolerance, the development of lactose intolerance is a gradual process spread out over as many as 20 years.[31]

In east Asia, historical sources also attest that the Chinese did not consume milk, whereas the nomads that lived on the borders did. Again, this reflects modern distributions of intolerance. China is particularly notable as a place of poor tolerance, whereas in Mongolia and the Asian steppes horse milk is drunk regularly. This tolerance is thought to be advantageous as the nomads do not settle down long enough to process mature cheese. Given that their prime source of income is generated through horses, to ignore their milk as a source of calories would be greatly detrimental. The nomads also make an alcoholic beverage, called Kumis, from horse milk, although the fermentation process reduces the amount of lactose present.

"modern distributions of intolerance"? jesus, some ppl see racism everywhere.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8199281.stm

"I cannot accept the smell," the 20-year old says in sheepish broken English. "I think maybe Asian people don't like it because it has a big smell."

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"I think maybe Asian people don't like it because it has a big smell."

loool so wrong

stinky tofu >_<