I know a young man from Germany who doesn’t know how to cook, but he knows how to eat. During the holidays, he travels around Guangzhou and finds various food stalls to eat various stir-fried dishes with different flavors. He was a guest at our house for a family banquet. After dinner, he told us that you Chinese people are so happy and have the best food in the world. He said that after coming to China, he no longer wanted to eat bread or steak, and he lost his appetite when he saw salad. In the future, I want to find a Chinese girl to marry in China and never go back. This made us laugh.
How many axes does this German guy have when he first came to China? When using a rice cooker to cook rice, it says how much rice and how much water to put in. Follow the procedures strictly. To the Chinese, having more people to eat and less to eat with is just a matter of licking more rice and putting less rice in it. When it comes to him, he won't be punished anymore and doesn't know how to operate it...
He once said that modern baking techniques should not be equated with ancient European baking techniques. His grandfather said that the bread at that time was dry and hard. It was made from semolina with some salt and water, baked and allowed to cool for several months. If you had this, you would be a middle class person. [Face covering] Break off the hard middle and add a rope to use it as a nunchuck. There are delicious Chinese steamed buns there.
Until today, most Europeans and Americans don't know how to handle cooked food, and cooking is simple, rough and monotonous. In particular, I don’t know how to handle fish bones, so I don’t eat carp grass carp. [face covering]
It’s not that they are lazy and don’t cook, it’s that they really don’t know how to cook. The reason why Europe and the United States do not use for cooking and is that the historical civilization is short and there are no soft or hard technologies such as oil and pots.
The ancients said that food is the most important thing for the people. Perhaps only China puts food in such a high position.
Many Europeans and Americans cannot understand that Chinese food takes so much time to prepare various ingredients. They would rather have a piece of bread with cheese or sausage slices to complete the meal. And they really didn’t expect that vegetables can be cooked that way: lettuce can be fried in oyster sauce, potatoes can be shredded and eaten cold, and tomatoes can be fried with eggs. The most they had was beef, potatoes and tomatoes stewed in a pot.
In some world-class food competitions, the winners are often Western food. Do you know why?
I heard a chef who participated in an international cooking competition and won a gold medal said that he participated in more than 90 competitions and only won three gold medals. The main reason was that he failed to pass some theoretical issues.
The reason is this. The judging criteria of the jury have theoretical requirements. For example, if you stir-fry Kung Pao Chicken, they will ask what materials are used, how much protein is contained, how much calories are contained, what types of vitamins are contained, etc. Our chefs were confused when they heard this, thinking that I was frying vegetables, and all you asked were chemistry questions. In this way, the prize will go to someone else.
But every time a food product is displayed, the Chinese booth is snapped up in an instant. Therefore, the human stomach is the most honest, don't read what is said on the lips. This German guy whom
met also once learned to make Chinese food by himself. He said that it requires too much time and energy. He has to go to the market to buy vegetables. After buying them, he needs to wash, cut, stir-fry or boil them. Then he eats, washes the dishes after the meal, cleans the kitchen utensils and the dining table. It takes three hours.
He said that Germans who have never eaten Chinese food would really rather eat sandwiches with milk, cereal, fried steak and frozen steaks which are more convenient.
Europeans and Americans really don’t have much craftsmanship or technology when it comes to eating, as long as the food can fill their stomachs. It won't take hundreds of years, I'm used to it.
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