A: Pardon me. Could you please pass me the tissue?

B: 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.

B: Sure, here you are.

A: Well, not every Chinese can handle spicy food in the way people from Sichuan and Guizhou provinces can. Back where I come from, people don't eat a lot of peppers and chillies.

A: Thanks, I didn't expect the dish to be so spicy. Are you ok?

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

B: 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 though, I got used to the taste, and now I won't consider anything a real dish if it isn't spicy.

A: Yeah, I guess that's a typical example of 'when in Rome, do as the Romans do.'

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

B: Exactly.