In every era, there is always a group of representative young people who have individual appearances, are not satisfied with the constraints of a single occupation and a single identity, continue to enrich themselves in life, light up multiple skills, and become now possessing multiple "Slash youth" of occupation and status. These people have their own unique personalities. They usually use slashes to distinguish their identities when introducing themselves. For example, Zhang San, reporter/actor/photographer, this shows that he has multiple identities.
"Slash Youth" wandering in various occupations, constantly changing in different environments, enjoying an independent, diverse and interesting life.
Among the vast array of Sichuan dishes, there are such a batch of delicious dishes. Their raw materials, production methods, and cooking concepts come from different regions, carry different local characteristics, and contain different food cultures. Finally, they are used by the ingenious Sichuan chefs. Combine it together and become a well-deserved slash Sichuan cuisine. The beginning of the story of
should start with the development of the modern and contemporary Sichuan cuisine industry. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, all walks of life are waiting to be flourished. Sichuan has adopted various measures to develop the catering industry. Respect. You know, in the old society, chefs, along with pedicure and hair shaver, were classified as inferior. After liberation, people's name for chefs gradually became culinary experts, and the status of chefs was greatly improved.
This created the first conditions for the emergence of slash Sichuan cuisine. Sichuan cuisine chefs who have been recognized and respected by the society have never been more motivated to pass on their skills. The older generation of chefs began to pay attention to organizing cooking skills into books while teaching by deeds. In order for the younger generations to learn and research, this move has allowed many traditional Sichuan cuisine skills to be retained, and laid a foundation for a new generation of chefs to explore and innovate on the basis of their predecessors.
In the 1990s, a major turning point was The Sichuan cuisine sector quietly happened. During that time, most of the state-owned famous stores were demolished due to urban construction, and private enterprises had not yet formed their business scale. During this "window period", Cantonese cuisine swept the country with seafood as the pioneer; KFC, McDonald’s fast food, Korean barbecue and other "foreign restaurants" have also entered the Chinese market. The development of Sichuan cuisine is facing unprecedented challenges. This is the second condition for the emergence of slash Sichuan cuisine. There is a heritage of skills in
. There is a serious challenge outside. Under this situation, Sichuan chefs inherited their predecessors’ culinary concepts of inclusiveness and acquaintance, and carried out the raw materials, seasonings and production methods of various local cuisines and dishes from different countries. In order to adapt to the reality of the influx of live seafood from coastal areas into Sichuan and meet the needs of diners, spicy crab hot pot and Yuxiang-based shrimps have been added to the selection of ingredients. And other dishes came into being; in terms of seasoning, Sichuan cuisine began to use specialties from other provinces such as cumin, tomato juice, etc., created cumin beef tenderloin, tomato sauce prawns, tomato sauce fish sticks and other dishes, and some new commonly used dishes Flavor types, such as tomato sauce flavor, so far, the commonly used flavor types of Sichuan cuisine have reached more than 24.
But these dishes have a common feature, they are both foreign and Sichuan cuisines, both provincial flavors and Sichuan elements, such as spicy crab Hot pot and Yuxiangjiwei prawns, although the ingredients are seafood, the spicy and fishy aromas are all representative flavors of Sichuan cuisine. Think about it, is it very similar to those "slash youths" with different identities? So ah, These new Sichuan dishes have been given the name "Slash Sichuan Cuisine".