Make sure you serve other familiar foods - hopefully including at least a veggie he already likes.
There was now a table there, with fairly familiar food on it.
Mom was also a master of thinking up new uses for familiar foods.
He only eats simple familiar foods and will return an order because a vegetable touched his meat.
The best way to make somebody comfortable in a new environment was to give him familiar food.
For an instant he considered familiar food, a shower, and a change of clothes, but it just didn't matter.
And then, near midday, they made a discovery even greater than that of familiar food in unfamiliar sizes.
"Foods you eat raise your set point only when they are familiar foods," he says.
In general, children prefer familiar foods and are reluctant to try strange ones.
It is a complex cuisine, much prized in China and quite different from the more familiar southern food.