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Chapter 8 Cai Lan talks about eating-8

Cai Lan talks about eating 蔡澜 1636Words 2018-03-18
There was a party where I was asked to give a speech, and a handout was specified, and the theme was eating.I have always been on stage without a draft, and I feel troubled.Think about it later, it’s okay, write an article, and someone will invite you in the future Please hand in the manuscript and let others read it.ladies and gentlemen: Eating is a very personal act.What is the best food. Mom's food is the best.Definitely. What you have eaten since childhood, this impression will be deeply branded in your mind, it will always be the best, and it will never be found again. There is a big tree in front of my hometown.Go back and look at it when you grow up, isn't it so tall, the reason is the same.

Of course, the current food is artificially cultivated, which is also related. No matter how unpalatable it is, when an oriental traveler travels abroad and eats Western food for a week, he also wants to go to a crappy Chinese restaurant to have a bowl of plain rice.Foreigners come to our place, eat abalone wings every day, and finally find them hiding in fast food restaurants eating bread. Sometimes, what we eat is not food, but a habit and nostalgia. Whether a person knows how to eat is also innate. If their genetics determine that they have no interest in eating, then everything is just feed to feed them.I have seen a couple living on instant noodles every day.

People who like to eat basically have a kind of curiosity.I want to try everything, and gradually become a person who knows how to appreciate food. Likes and dislikes of food are different for everyone, but have you tried something you don’t want to eat? Is it delicious or not? Only after you have tried it can you be qualified to judge. How do you know it is not delicious if you haven’t eaten it? Eating is also a kind of knowledge. This sentence is too hot, said, very abstract. People who love to read, in addition to "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and "Water Margin", will also be exposed to Greek mythology, Byron's poems, and Shakespeare's plays.

Those of us who love to eat must of course try the cuisines of Asia, Europe, India, the Middle East and Africa. Eating culture is the best weapon to make friends. When you talk about crab paste, yellow mud snails, and stinky wax gourd with Ningbo people, they are very excited.When you talk about wanton noodles with overseas Hong Kong people, they must know which one is the best.The topic between you and Taiwanese, also Can not do without oyster noodles, braised pork rice and tribute balls.As soon as the ham was mentioned, the Spaniard clasped his fingers with both hands, put them on his mouth and kissed them deeply, and shouted: .

Shunde people love to talk and eat.When you chat with them, no matter where you are, you always talk about food, saying that their mother's fish skin dumplings are the best in the world. You have tasted everything in the world, which one is the best? joke.How can I taste it all? Looking at the map, there are so many small towns, and there is no way for a person to go through them in three lifetimes.Some dish names, I have never heard of it. For this kind of question, I mostly answer: "The food eaten with my girlfriend is the best. Indeed, a partner is very important, mood affects everything, and physical condition can even determine whether the food in front of you can be swallowed or not.Eating with girlfriends is the best, definitely not perfunctory.

When it comes to eating, drinking is inseparable.Drinking is also very personal.The baijiu favored by northerners, such as Erguotou Wuliangye, has that taste.After drinking it, it stays in the body for a long time.I'm most afraid of what they say about brandy whiskey. I only know a little bit about the food and wine that foreigners love. Anyway, good or bad, according to my own feelings, absolutely don't pretend to be an expert.Sooner or later, she will show her feet.Jackie Chan just likes to deceive people by putting bad wine in famous brand wine bottles.Shaoxing wine should be the best. I just came back from Shaoxing and drank a bottle of "Tai Diao" for 8 yuan on the street, which is far better than eight or ten or thirty years.But the best and the best is the "Tianxiang Building" in Hong Kong.What's good about it? The good thing is that they know how to blend old wine with new wine, a technique that the mainland has not yet learned, even though they have a lot of old Shaoxing wine.

I helped the owner of the most famous winery in France to try Shaoxing from "Tianxianglou". All I can say is: "I've had better." However, my so-called "better" is seen by the real gourmets, and no one else laughs at me.thank you all. I sigh that the East also has such mellow wine, which is why they have never drunk it before. There must be a reason for the survival of old stores. Some ingredients are sold in the West. If you pass by, you must go in and buy something. Like Milan's sausage and olive oil, Paris' bag and foie gras, London's & jam and black tea, Brussels' chocolate and so on.

Iranian caviar is better than Russian caviar, because after catching a sturgeon, you have to open the stomach and take out the caviar within 20 minutes.Add salt, too much salty, too little will spoil, this kind of technique, only a few old craftsmen in Iran can do it. But it’s not necessarily the most expensive food that tastes the best. Bean sprouts and fried beans are still at a very high level.Italians might say a pancake.I also tried it in Naples, there is nothing on it, just a little tomato sauce and cheese, it is delicious as hell. Some things have changed from the most unpalatable to the most delicious, such as the so-called Chinese cuisine in Japan, stir-fried pork liver with leeks, which was thought to be something that could not be swallowed. Now when I return to Tokyo, I often look for it to eat.

I like to eat, but my mouth is never tricky.If I can find a better one by walking a few more steps, of course I will spend the effort.There is a fast food restaurant nearby that ignores the appetite of customers, so I would rather skip this meal than starve to death. You really know how to eat! My friend said. No.I don't know how to eat, I can only compare.
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