Chapter 10 close to the kitchen

--------------- close to the kitchen --------------- Operation (Figure 4) Closer to the Kitchen - Caramelized Onion Olive Toast Dear R, how are you? Have you eaten something amazing recently? What wonderful food have you invented for everyone to eat? R is a chef, with a chubby crew-cut, Australian, and one can tell at a glance that it is Peter Pan (Peter Pan), who is greedy and fond of food since he was a child and does not want to grow up in the kitchen. When I first met him, he was still in Hong Kong, and he was the chef of a new style western restaurant.Before coming to Hong Kong, he spent a lot of time in London, training in the kitchen of a first-class hotel restaurant.Coming to Hong Kong to change the stage is exciting again—new environment, new working partners, and new ingredients are a challenge for creative chefs.

Interspersed with him in the traditional market in Central, with his limited Cantonese, he has already talked with the sister who sells strawberries at the fruit stand, the mother and daughter who stack the tomatoes like installation art, and the owner of the (also bird) duck stand, They are all very familiar.A big, heavy foreigner running around the market lively and excitedly is really eye-catching. By the chef's side, of course he learns from the master. R is very generous. He personally demonstrated no less than ten special dishes, and even hand-copied a stack of recipes for my reference.As a gossip apprentice, I read and asked, and I didn't forget to pay attention to when R casually sprinkled a handful of spices and a few spoonfuls of sugar. This is where the secret technique lies.

In fact, the small kitchen is a big place, and there are many things to play, try and learn, not to mention a professional kitchen that cannot make mistakes.I've seen R when he's exhausted, but what's more common is his boundless enthusiasm for food and his dedication to cooking. This caramelized onion and olive toast is one of the simple and amazing delicacies that R taught me.The master is now going a step further. He is working as a chef in the official residence of a European consulate. I, an amateur apprentice who used to be close to the kitchen, have been looking forward to asking him why he can roast (the bird) so tender and how to cook it at the same time. Even in the busy schedule, you can still have a vigorous love.