American writer Craig Claiborne he felt there are two differences 1.The differences on etiqutte, Chinese tend to be stirring and would urge each other to drink and let vegetables at the table while westerners tend to be quiet around the table and cut their ownfood in their plate quietly although they are stirring in daily life 2.The differences on cooking way, Chinese pay more attention to duration and degree of heating with no control of time but westerner is some kind of normalized cooking. 

I think the main differences of Chinese and Western in diet reflected in these aspects; 1.In dietary concepts 2.In the nature 3.In cooking patterns 4.In the order of serving dishe