Chapter 64 5. I live in New York①

①The original title was "Talking about the Diet and Daily Life in New York". The Chinese wife who lives in New York loves New York and becomes a mystery of the universe.At the beginning, I couldn't understand it, but when I thought hard, I suddenly realized it.There is no problem, the mystery lies in the four characters "you come by yourself", which is called doityyourself in Western languages.The Chinese wife lives in New York, and her life is relatively simple, independent and free.How easy it is to do the laundry yourself.If you want to buy groceries, you do it yourself, how independent you are.If you want to cook and treat guests, you come by yourself, not relying on others, how free you are.If you want to shine shoes, you can do it yourself. How self-reliant you are.I heard people say that this is human equality, "Democracy".

I have lived in New York for thirty years, and I have tasted the material civilization of the West.If you think about it carefully, convenience and comfort are different, and there is a difference between them.Living in the United States is convenient, but not necessarily comfortable.In Far Eastern civilization, there is comfort, but convenience is not always available.Elevators, cars, subway cars, flush toilets, all convenient.Elevators, cars, underground cars, and flush toilets are not necessarily comfortable.Driving for a long distance, the crowd is packed, horses come and go, and snakes grow up, squeezing you in the middle. At this time, you can't have haste, and you can't be slow. How can you be free and easy?If you are not careful, your life is at stake, and you are frightened, how can you be comfortable.

Authentic car, bang and drive, bang and stop.As soon as the car stopped, everyone rushed in and out.People float on their seats, so they stand together.You lean on me, I lean on you, the front is the back of the husband, and the back is the chest of the young lady.Lady's perfume, which can be faintly smelled, and the man's stinky sweat makes his nose feel like vomiting.At this time, the siren is like thunder, and the car is speeding fast. You sway east and west, fall forward and backward, it is really hard to escape between heaven and earth.However, from Forty-second Street to Eighty-sixth Street, it is more than two miles away, and it takes five minutes.

Democracy, there must be freedom and equality, freedom and equality, there must be no servant mothers.Since we are equal, why bother to be a mother?So when cooking, the wife does the cooking by herself, not relying on others, and not being angry with the servants.What a joy, Mrs. New York, to have no servant problems.It is so gratifying to go to the street to buy vegetables and work hard every day, but the skill of cooking is improving day by day.When everyone was seated, Mrs. Zhang complimented Mrs. Li: "Your sea cucumber is so good?"In all fairness, it is better than playing mahjong.At the end of the banquet, the table is withdrawn, and you come by yourself. The guests are also eager to do justice, and everyone comes to help the housewife. How chic it is.Moreover, working hard is good for one's health.

I lead a leash to the most taboo dog, and I don't know why the dog's collar restrains the neck.However, if you go to the countryside to do as the Romans do, you don't want to go through the market in long gowns and gowns, ostentatious to people's eyes and ears.When Brother Zhang Daqian came to New York, he still wore Chinese clothes; when Gandhi visited London, he was still shirtless.Others can, I can't.However, Zhang Daqian has a black beard and a dignified appearance. He has his own appearance, which makes people awe-inspiring.What kind of person am I? Walking a street without anyone knowing me is the most enjoyable thing.Therefore, if you dare not be an official in your life, you should avoid this black tie.When a person wears a black tie, he has nothing to say.The famous rein of the lock is the most harmful, and it is only when you whisper to each other that you are in power.Everything is like this, not surprising.I wear Chinese clothes at home and suits when I go out.As long as everything has a certain place to hang, it can be refitted within three minutes without any difficulty.Three minutes of trouble, easy to count hours of comfort, is still worth it.Men in the East wear clothes and women wear pants; men in the West wear pants and women wear clothes.Today Miss West has changed to wearing trousers. It is inevitable that the East will conquer the West.

There are more and more Chinese restaurants in New York.Rumors of offal, although hateful, millennium preserved eggs are even more absurd.However, the common taste of Chinese offal has definitely surpassed that of the West, so it is not surprising that it is popular.Spring rolls, wontons, and mushroom chicken slices (MooGooGaiPien in Cantonese) are already familiar to Westerners.Only Chinese people eat less flavors from the north and more flavors from Guangdong. If you want to find the real Beijing Dongxinglou's vinegar fish slices, Kung Pao chicken, or Sichuan's Jiuqu ileum and dry fried shredded beef, it is almost impossible to find.So Sichuan and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are confused, and the restaurants in Jiangbei and Jiangnan are the same.What famous dishes survive in name but in reality.The crispy duck is fragrant but not crispy, and the twice-cooked pork goes back and forth.Tianjin restaurant can eat crab shell yellow, and Lingnan spring can be called hot-boiled mutton.I have traveled all over the Western Hemisphere, and I think that only Sao Paulo, Brazil, can still preserve authentic Peking cuisine.

Western newspaper reviews of Chinese cuisine are all flattering, only the "New York Times" food review is not perfunctory and does not buy it.The United States has not paid much attention to the matter of food reviews, but France is not.The reason why this "Guide Michelin" (GuideMichelin) is valuable.This book is published once a year, and the famous dishes and wines of each tavern and teahouse are highly appreciated, and the history can be described in detail, so as to guide the diners.For the rest of the restaurants, the super ones are rated as one star, two stars, and three stars.One star is already rare, there are only seven or eight Samsung companies in France.Because Mi Shilan will never be perfunctory and will not buy it, it has become an authority.Upgrading and downgrading, rewarding and winning.So it's really not easy to list super class.Or if you have already won Samsung, you will be slightly slack, and you will be downgraded immediately next year.

The French pay attention to eating, so this custom is formed. It is not easy to be perfunctory and not buy it.Food is like this, and everything in the world is like this.Who would not want to be famous through the ages and leave a name in history.Xu Jingzong and his ilk in the Tang Dynasty can buy it, not only to shoot Wu Zetian's horse, but also to sell money to mess with historical facts.Confucius didn't buy it.The pen is the pen, and the sharpening is the sharpening. The disciples cannot praise it.So Wu Zi is afraid, and all the chaotic officials and thieves in the world are afraid.

Not perfunctory, not buying it, Confucius is the first person.