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> Evolved people eat cooked food, or so the saying goes.

However, they don't cook their vegetables too much.

Westerners eat raw vegetables, Asians prefer them cooked (even fruits)...

Yes I know. But when Westerners cook vegetables, they are often (too) throroughly cooked.

And in a proper Chinese hotel, even orange juice in the breakfast table is hot.

>And in a proper Chinese hotel, even orange juice in the breakfast table is hot.

I believe that is due to a cultural aversion to cold drinks.