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used in this project, which is questionnaire. All the data we collected were based on the questionnaire method, which may be not very representative and persuasive.
Secondly, because of difficulties in doing questionnaires with people you do not know in the street, most of respondents of this project are students who are studying in University of Portsmouth, which means the results tend to be the opinions of students.
Thirdly, as Kumar (2005) states that the number of respondents for the questionnaire should be large enough to make sure the data collected is sufficient. However, because of the lack of time, the numbers of the respondents in this project is just a small number of Portsmouth, which means the project can be improved a lot by doing more questionnaires in the future.

Therefore, the results of the questionnaire might not be able to represent all people’s attitude but only can represent the respondents’ attitude.

Chapter Three: Findings

The purpose of this chapter is to present the findings that after collecting the data from the questionnaires which has been finished by respondents.

3.1 Personal data

There were totally 103 respondents who were answering the questionnaire, as it can be seen from figure 1, 60 percent of the respondents were students who were studying in the University of Portsmouth, and the rest 40 percent of them were employee who were working in Portsmouth. Moreover, according to figure 2, 56 percent of respondents were at the age of 20-30, in the rest of respondents, 23 percent were in the age of 31-40, 17 percent of them were in the age above 40, and only 4 percent of them were under age of 20.

3.2 results of questionnaire
Figure 3 presents whether people have eaten Chinese food before, 86 percent of respondents have the experience of having Chinese food before, while the rest 14 percent of respondents expressed they have not.

Figure 3
It can be easily found in Figure 4 that there were 98 percent of the respondents who have eaten Chinese food before, expressed that they like to have Chinese food, while only 2 percent of respondents indicated that they have bad experience of having Chinese food.

Figure 4
The frequency of going to Chinese restaurant for respondents can be seen in figure 5. 19 percent of the respondents go to Chinese restaurant once in a week, about 54 percent of respondents stated that they go to Chinese restaurant more than once in a week, while 22 percent of respondents would have Chinese food once in a month. There were also 5 percent of respondents have different frequency of going Chinese restaurant besides the 4 options.

Figure 5
As it can be seen in figure 6, more than 53 percent of respondents indicated that they usually go to Chinese restaurant in their dinner time. In the meantime, 35 percent of respondents stated that they prefer to have lunch in Chinese restaurant. While there was only 8 percent of respondents would go to Chinese restaurant for afternoon tea. Surprisingly, none of respondents expressed views of having breakfast in Chinese restaurant.

Figure 6
Respondents’ opinion on Chinese food can be found in figure 7, as it was shown in figure 7, 55 percent of respondents considered that Chinese food was tasty. Meanwhile, ther