I really like those hole-in-the-wall restaurants that claim to have “world famous” food items. They are usually located in tiny towns, somewhere in the middle of nowhere USA.

If you look through Chinese social media, you'll find trending videos and pictures of "white people food" - spare, uncooked lunch meals, often compared to elaborate Chinese cuisine.

I really like those hole-in-the-wall restaurants that claim to have “world famous” food items. They are usually located in tiny towns, somewhere in the middle of nowhere USA.

As a food scholar, Elias says the “white people meals” trend might serve more than just a stereotype – it may actually help challenge other hackneyed cultural beliefs.

Enshrining food as bland versus seasoned, mild versus spicy, white versus...not—this has become a signifier, a shorthand, even a way to perform the very self.

The “white people food” trend apparently stems from a video shared by a Chinese woman on May 28 that shows a European woman in Switzerland making her lunch, ...

A hilarious concept is trending on Chinese social media, with people sharing their recipes for “unenjoyable” and bland “white people food”, dubbed the “lunch of suffering”.

A new trend has been sweeping across China’s social media platforms, with people sharing images of bland, cold foods, all unified by a single hashtag: #whitepeoplemeals.