China: cup noodle country?

Cup noodle fans should think twice when booking holidays in the Maldives, according to several Chinese travel agencies. Some luxury resorts have stopped providing Chinese guests with hot water to prevent them from skipping meals and room service in favor of cup noodles.
One even allegedly coined a new interpretation for “CN” – the acronym of “China”: cup noodle, as reported by the SCMP.
Another complaint is that Chinese tourists sometimes cook food in the water heaters (including crabs) and ruin the heaters.
Chinese tourists often fail to try out any “foreign food” preferring the (bad) cup noodles. They should learn to eat other food. Just imagine I stay here in Beijing and refuse to eat Chinese “ugly food”, accepting only Belgian fries and steaks, and of course a Camembert. How insulted the Chinese hosts would be. I am now more Chinese than the average Chinese: I love all the different cuisines here, but Chinese stick often to “their” food only and can be so damned fussy (I am from XYZ and we don’t eat rice, spicy food, beef, etc.). Things are changing slowly, as I see the many Chinese now eating out in Western restaurants (and visibly enjoying it). But we still have too many “farmers-eating-noodles-only”. Many Chinese have really closed minds for other cultures.

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