This article analyses how Mieke Bal's essay "Food, Form, and Visibility:Glub and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life" practices "traveling concepts" that Bal has been working on in cultural analysis.By touching upon the foreign daily habit of eating seeds in the field of urban aesthetics, diaspora and immigration, and cultural translation, Bal's essay transforms the negative meanings inherent in immigration and diaspora into positive and significant cultural signs, thus critically subverting the long-standing opposition between the west and the east, and presenting a mutually complementary and beneficial relation.