TSAI Lan, together with Jinyong, Huang Zhan, and Ni Kuang, are known as the "Four Great Talents of Hong Kong", and are also known as the "God of Food"!
Mr. Jin Yong once said of CHOI Lan, "He has a wide range of knowledge, including music, chess, calligraphy, painting, wine, sex, gambling, literature and movies. He is also an expert in movies, poetry, calligraphy, goldsmithing, and food, and he is a first-rate expert in these fields.
But in terms of personal achievement, Cai Lan is undoubtedly successful. But compared to his literary talent, his "strength" in the field of gastronomy, I personally think, is not outstanding!
After all, he has produced movies such as Fast Food Truck, Dragon Brothers and Tigers, Fortunate Son, City Hunter, Thunderbolt, A Good Man, and Major Crimes, which starred Jackie Chan.
In the culinary field, his achievements include the launch of the "Riot" series of snacks, sauces and tea, his participation in the opening of a restaurant in Hong Kong, and his work as a host of a food program!
It's not that he doesn't know how to cook, it's that there is no specific answer to the concept of cooking, just as some people like scrambled eggs with tomatoes, while others never eat tomatoes!
The open-ended topic is not really worthy of in-depth study, and Mr. Choi's understanding of food seems to be in Cantonese, Western, and Western cuisines, but not in other major Chinese cuisines, most notably Szechuan and Hunan cuisines!
Cai Lan, a native of Chaozhou, Guangdong, was born in Singapore, studied in Japan and became famous in Hong Kong! From his life trajectory, we can see that although he understands food, he may not know so much about the other major Chinese cuisines!
To give a simple example; Sichuan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine seeks spicy and fresh, to understand a cuisine a cuisine, not that you have eaten to say that you understand; but from the origin of this dish, development, innovation, improvement, etc. to understand, and on the other hand, also want to understand from the selection of materials, production process, fire, time, etc., and if a person does not many times to taste and understand a dish is not to say that understand this dish! The
So I think Cai Lan understands Cantonese cuisine, cooking, etc., but "God of Food", I personally do not agree! A thousand people watching the Journey to the West does not necessarily mean that there will be a thousand Monkey King, there may be 999 "literary and physical two bloom" it!
I'm a big-faced cat, and I'm happy to answer your questions.
First of all, the answer, Mr. Cai is of course very understand the food, you asked how much understanding, can not find a degree of words to answer this question, certainly can not say that the most understanding, so I can only say than at least 99.9% of the people understand.
Before I say Mr. Cai, let's tell a little story. One day Puyi went to Wang Guowei's home as a guest, Wang took out the collection of antiques and paintings for many years for Pu to appreciate, Pu did not touch and do not use a magnifying glass, a look at which is true which is false, Wang was not happy, I at least is a collection of people ah, you say that the fake is fake ah? Later took out and some connoisseurs appraisal, indeed, as Pu said. Convinced, asked Pu is how to see out, Pu said: and my family is not the same! Haha, you say this is still not reasonable, but this is the reality, some people in some areas of the breadth and depth of far higher than our general population.
Food is to rely on the product, by comparison, after tasting the flavor through the tongue taste buds memory stored in the brain, and then extract some of the similar dishes for comparison, to this step to be counted as a gourmet. This requires a huge menu, Mr. Cai has eaten the number and quality of food is far better than our ordinary people, I just look at his recommended food menu, the variety of rich, wide range, I only have four words in my head: breathtaking! He has eaten so many kinds of lobster to come to the conclusion that Hong Kong's local green dragon is better than the Aurora this conclusion, in addition to the sheep in the rice paddies of Yugoslavia, only a few people will do the Iranian fish roe, the North Koreans to do the gold stains, the Italian fruit tree under the slice of ham to pick the head of the fruit to eat together, think about the world there is what he has not eaten it ah. I think the most powerful thing is: the network developed over the past decade, we are more and more wide-eyed, more and more easy to get food, such as lobster, durian, a lot of high-grade ingredients into the country. But think about it, he ate all over the world when there is no network, the old man relied on two short legs to run out of ah, where to inquire about a gourmet food, and immediately hit a fly to kill the past, the attitude of eating the first won the 90 people.
I originally thought he did not like the northern cuisine and Sichuan spicy cuisine, but then I was wrong, he knows Beijing cuisine like the back of his hand, and he criticized the hot pot, saying that the development of other Sichuan cuisine will be lost, in fact, Sichuan has many very good food, but because of the high profits of the hot pot, do not need chefs and other benefits, by the market popularity, which will squeeze the development of the other Sichuan cuisine, for example, he said that an open water cabbage, and the development of space. He said a water cabbage, really subvert my impression of Sichuan cuisine, soup poured down, the center of the bowl of cabbage like flowers slowly bloom.
Some people say that the food introduced by Cai Lan is not good, this I want to say that food is not an industrial product, after all, every day, the freshness of the ingredients, the chef each time to put the salt may not be the same, so there are differences in the daily output, perhaps that day to see the Cai Lan came to play a particularly good it, right, a hundred kinds of people a hundred kinds of taste, the so-called difficult to adjust the taste of the people is said to be the situation, right?
Finally, as the tongue of the General Counsel, it is not what you want to do, the domestic so many chefs how did not invite it, so you can not deny that other people's great place.
Cai Lan understand food? There are objections, I do not see, a more than eighty years of age, taste, hearing, vision, sense of touch, are seriously degraded, and then good food is also null and void, to the face of the gourmet, not to the face of him is a bucket, China is a lot of grass-roots chefs, is the real gourmet, decades of smoke, fire, knife injuries, scalding water, crawling in the food, both on the stove, but also to support the spoon, seasoning, aroma, color, knife, and the exploration of ingredients, the pot. Pots, the exploration of ingredients, human health, safety and hygiene negative out of his life's work, what home is not, relying on the noble and the news of a body of blowing flattery, and became a gourmet, the world's people end must be recognized, never heard of Cai Sheng did what a small dish into a big meal, or invented what Caijia dishes and Caijia sauce, wrote a few Asian food book, and the team together to do a film and television consultants, this is the real work, gourmet? I really disagree.
If what he recommends is the best of the best, then there is no need for anyone else to be a gourmet chef.
As many of you know, some of the dishes that were made many years ago may be unappreciated today because there are better ingredients and cooking methods. It is also possible that the ingredients are no longer as good as they were back then, and so the so-called cuisine is no longer worthy of the name.
On a higher level, the dietary preferences of each person, or group of people, are different. Some people think steak is better when it's medium rare, others think it's better when it's nine minutes or even burnt. Who is right? Some want it fresh, some want it fermented. What's the standard?
The world is so big that he thinks something is the best in the world, so does he really taste the same food all over the world? Obviously not.
Of course there are good and bad foods, but the world is a big place. There is no need to canonize his recommendations, much less pretend to tsk-tsk them.
Eating and drinking, or wrapping, or nutrition, or pleasure can be. Would it not be foolish to waste time in obtaining a favorite of another, if it were not already a favorite?
I think it! It's not always the case that what everyone recommends is delicious! Everyone has different tastes, what they like to eat, what they don't like to eat, only they eat to know!
And then delicious things, they like other people do not necessarily like, why foreigners think delicious things, we do not like! The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
Some things are expensive, but not necessarily suitable for themselves, the rough tea, eat appetizing, eat healthy on the line!
The most important thing is to be happy with yourself, hungry to eat what is good, full to give you more delicious things have no appetite!
Flavor, only taste, to understand.
Mr. Tsai Lan is great because he can use words to let you imagine that delicious. Besides, it's really hard to play with just talking about the taste, so Mr. Tsai Lan (after all, he has worked in movies), can often sublimate from the food to a story-like article.
It seems to be about food, but in fact, it is about our life, and even about a culture of people.
The difference between a gourmet and a foodie! You think it's all about eating.
Mr. Cai is more like a gourmet writer, and his writing skills are better than the food tasting, but the food is still quite wide.
If food is about beauty, it can't be as simple as "wrapping the stomach" and "satisfying the appetite".
Chinese food is all about "color, flavor, and shape," but it's often subjective and prone to strong regional bias.
Personally, I think it's probably fair to draw a parallel with wine tasting standards: the appearance and aroma of the food can be given a small amount of weight, while the structure and structure of the mouth and the aftertaste can be given a large proportion of weight.
Gourmets should have a broader palate, and be able to taste food from more places around the world, without being limited by geography, ingredients, or cooking methods, and not just by their own subjective preferences, although that's almost always hard to do.
So the Michelin rating system, which can be applied worldwide, establishes an objective system for judging the "beauty" of food, and is recognized by a wider range of people (not all).
And on the basis of the level of gastronomy experts, it is allowed to incorporate personal style qualities, and can give personalized judgments on the food of choice, which will add color to the culture of gastronomy.
In all fairness, Mr. Cai is a very good at writing stories of senior foodies, gourmet, literary, he is also China's last batch of Chinese intellectuals loved by many people, so what he said, there will be a group of fans.
Two, as the self-styled intellectual Shorter Daqiang said: China's intellectuals are withdrawing from the stage of history.
Cai Lan, as a gourmet, is just a sideline, or a hobby. I think we should at least understand the Chinese culinary culture before jumping to conclusions, and the gourmet is concerned about "food is not too fine, cooking is not too fine", and what to eat at what time of the year, and not to eat, and to learn about the cultural connotations of food and good people, and their stories of growth, just like the Dragon Boat Festival. It is like eating zongzi to worship Qu Yuan, which used to be white zongzi, but nowadays there are all kinds of fillings. Gourmets emphasize on food nourishment, that is, how food can be used for other purposes than just wrapping up one's stomach. Gourmets pay attention to local cuisine, to a place must need the most authentic local flavors, travel the world, eat all over the world. In a pinch, a gourmet not only has to be cultured, but also has to know the history, and is a traveler, then I think Cai Lan is a qualified gourmet, and has his own see.
Cai Lan himself doesn't even know what good food is
What is good food?
Can anyone tell us what it is?
Delicious, delicious, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
The key is the word beauty
For example, what is beauty?
The lover's eye out of the West Shi Shi
Then, in the end, what is the gourmet food?
For example, when fishing, the fisherman's bait.
The key is that there is more than one purpose of eating food, one is to satisfy the appetite, and the other is to eat healthy, that is, to know how to eat is to know how to eat food, to know how to eat healthy, vegetables, fruits are the best food. Cai Lan is a person who knows how to satisfy the appetite for food, not a person who knows how to eat healthy food [Lao Dao is a person who knows how to eat healthy food]. Because he, Cai Lan, is not healthy]. Laozi said [five flavors make the population cool], in fact, what he means is [delicious to eat more, the mouth will be out of the question], Cai Lan is in the [eat more delicious, the body is not healthy people] know to eat do not understand health, that is, do not understand the health of eating
Previously, understand the cuisine of the people are to eat dumplings are to take a ruler to measure to eat, the size of the dumplings are not eaten, to meet the food, will first be a seven days of fasting, shower more clothes, and then hungry to eat!