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Mr Orange and I are completely food compatible and one of our biggest passion is food as well

We looove trying new restaurants and cuisines together… In fact, our vacations are centered around culinary experiences. We pick out where we want to eat first, and then plan our sightseeing around the restaurant’s location.. haha

Our favorite foods: Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Malaysian, Steaks & Burgers, Thai, French, Jamaican, Spanish tapas, Southern soul food, Fusion, New American, Experimental (a la WD-50)… We have very adventurous taste buds!!

We both agree that a good meal beats everything else, that different foods should be explored, and that a memorable dish is worth any price. I don’t know if I could be with a partner that didn’t feel the same way about food…!!

Mr. Bluebell is such a foodie, and I am too to a lesser extent, so we both really enjoy trying different restaurants and cooking all sorts of things. I’m a vegetarian though and he isn’t, but it is virtually never a problem. If we order in or eat out, we just get our respective dishes, and he happily cooks and eats vegetarian at home, and enjoys experimenting with making all sorts of new vegetarian dishes. Since we both care so much about the collective act of eating, we never eat separate meals and always eat together and always the same thing if one of us is cooking. He was born and partially grew up in China, so his home diet was pretty much exclusively Chinese food, but by college he was already branching out a ton, so we probably eat Chinese only about once a week (when his Mom stocks us up with leftovers and frozen dumplings). He also pours hot sauce on EVERYTHING, which I hate, but it allows him to eat his food spicy without contaminating mine so it’s a perfect compromise for us.

Yay for us vegetarian fruits, Miss Kiwi! lol

I agree that sausage is *disgusting* but since I stopped eating meat when I was 12, I do remember when I ate it, and how I thought it was sorta yummy. But I’m not one of those anti-meat vegetarians, mostly just an “I don’t like meat and think it’s gross” vegetarians. I don’t mind fixing it for anyone else

On the “high end” of things, we are very compatible–love cheeses, delicious pastas, all kinds of fine dining, etc.

On the everyday part, it’s a bit of a struggle. I grew up eating Chinese food and if there’s not a vegetable on my plate, I think it’s strange. I love Korean, Thai, Mexican–I just love food in general and like to try new things. FI on the other hand grew up eating pizza, fruit punch and…pizza. He can eat pizza 5X a week and doesn’t like fruits or vegetables. He has some food allergies and he is reluctant to try new foods. He didn’t even eat rice before he met me! I don’t know how it happened–but his sister is even pickier, so perhaps his family just didn’t emphasize food the way mine did.

Since I’m the one who cooks, though, he’ll eat what I make (heh heh) and while he’ll never stop loving pizza, I’m hoping someday he’ll accept and maybe look for more variety in his food life.

I’ve made it clear, though, that I really want our kids to eat healthy and be more adventurous (though you can’t always help the second part, hopefully I can set a good example). We’ll see!

fi has a medical condition that prevents him from eating spicy foods (which earned him a tongue-click from mom — hee!), so most korean food is out. i have to order for both of us and keep him away from the spicy banchan.

i am the more adventurous eater, but we can always find something to eat on every menu. eating rich food makes me queasy, so i normally order two appetizers rather than an entree.

We both like eating whatever (we’re the anti-picky!), and I was very happy when I found out that FH isn’t really a meat & potatoes kind of guy. We try to eat veggie products most of the time, and meat and fast food occasionally.

And we both like spicy foods and stinky cheese, which is just awesome!

People thinks its strange but my fi and I have lived together for 3 years and we just make separate meals.

Part of it is that I am trying to lose weight, but in general we have different tastes. So we eat together, but cook separate things most days.

But neither of us are real cooks, so its mostly microwaving anyway.

completely unrelated to the post, i have a question for the beehive. on a preemptive side note, i am single, but i read weddingbee religiously.

so i am a fairly tall girl and i love to wear ridiculously high heels (3 to 4 inches) and i like to date taller guys. but for the most part, i’ve always dated guys exactly my height, which is a bit of a sore point with me because i like to feel “womanly” and all that jazz. so in a roundabout way, my question would be what do the weddinbee ladies and readers think about the height issue? how many of ur men are shorter or of equal height with you?

We’re pretty compatible for the most part. There are little things that I don’t like to eat (tomatoes, bananas, etc) and things he doesn’t like to eat (VERY FEW!), but its easy to get around those and have a meal that we both like. We LOVE fine dining, too. When Santana Row first opened, we made it a point to try all of the restaurants out.

I think our largest incompatibility food wise is that I LOVE spicy foods and have an amazing tolerance for them. FI loves spice, but he definitely can’t handle as much as I can. I can eat a spoonful of habanero sauce and think “YUM!” If FI dabbed is tongue on a little bit of that same sauce he’d be dying!