Simon: sure, here you are.

W: thanks, I didn’t expect the dish to be so spicy. Are you ok?

S: yeah, I think the food is alright, it’s not too spicy though it’s a little salty for me. But you are Chinese, you should have known better.

W: well, not every Chinese can handle spicy food in the way people from Sichuan and Cuizhou provinces can. Back where I come from, people don’t eat a lot of pepers and chilies.

S: Oh, I see how this food can be really hard for you. I can sympathize with that. I stayed in Sichuan for a year. The food was difficult at the beginning. Every dish was so spicy. After a while, I got used to the taste, and now I won’t consider anything a real dish if it isn’t spicy.

W: yeah, you can increase you tolerance for spicy food, but so far, I haven’t had the need or the opportunity. Every timr I try spicy food, it is a total disaster for my nose and eyes.

S: I completely understand. I didn’t intend on liking spicy food at first either, but when you have no other choicess, you’ve got to adapt.

W: yeah, I guess that’s a typical example of "when in Rome, do as the Romans do."

S: exactly.