Bon Appétit! | Let's Play Genshin Impact

Welcome to my playthrough of the multiplatform sensation that is Genshin Impact! Please follow if you liked what you see Like theorizing? Check out my other topics on Hoyolab ▻▻ https://bit.ly/3ECZPmX Or head over to my Reddit ▻▻ https://bit.ly/3CpWHKU I'm a huge fan of spicy food and while that's definitely not most Chinese cuisine I have to say out of the stuff I tried flavor is a word they could easily claim ownership. So in today's quest we're told about the whole French not liking spicy thing and it's true. I looked it up and French people don't like spicy in general. But what do they like then? Well, I read one fairly defensive comment who said that "unrefined palates would call it bland" and that gave me my answer. I looked up a bunch of what the French consider typical food items and for example the one most people came up with is cassoulet, pretty much beans and meat soup. I've had this. I've added so much table salt to this that people were ready to dial the paramedics on me lol Other things I saw on these lists didn't convince me that my "unrefined palate" is wrong. Bland. So perhaps this is why Japan favors French cuisine as well. Japanese food despite the soy sauce and wasabi is typically bland and Japanese people don't really eat wasabi even with their sushi. They were ready to dial the paramedics when they saw my use of wasabi too. In fact I'd say it's like Cantonese cuisine. But on the flip side French desserts are really sweet. I'd say most Western European snacks and desserts are really sweet. In fact people love to praise Belgian chocolate but that stuff is diabetically sweet to me. This neither Cantonese nor Japanese cuisine has. Japanese chocolate is very smooth and mild. And I think because of the sugary and fattening properties Cantonese people don't tend to appreciate chocolate. I still remember this interview Jackie Chan had and he was like "sure I like ice cream. But you know what you do if you eat ice cream right? More punching, more k