Robert B's Essay

My group for the Junior Urban Adventure was food. Our assignment was to start out by planning where we would be eating our meals all over Boston, and each restaurant a different ethnicity. We planned it out a few days before we left; part of the experience was getting from one part of Boston to the other by subway. It did get very confusing at times but after hoping a few gates we eventually got to where we needed to go. My essential question for the JUA was “Is it true that the food portions are bigger in America then that in other countries, and if so why is this”. I asked this at most of the resultants that we went to and almost every time the answer was yes the portions are bigger. Although the Chinese restaurant we went to on the last day for lunch had a lot of food. It was dim sum which is when the waiter pushes around carts of little plates of food and you can take off what ever you want and eat as much as you want. This is a long standing tradition in china and is still carried on today.
The night before we went to an American restaurant for dessert and the size of the brownie sundaes amazed me. They where the biggest brownies I have ever seen and four of them could have fed our whole group. I learned a lot on this trip that I didn't know before and saw a lot of really cool and different things. One of the coolest things I saw and learned about on this trip was the Chinese culture. Although I didn't agree with a lot of the stuff they eat its amazing that they are known for loving the longest in the world. We went into China town and saw them selling fried ducks hanging in every other window and live chickens in some others. We also went into a market and saw that they eat pig liver, cow stomach, chicken tongue, chicken feet and every fish and seafood you can imagine.