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She is a very different and fashionable girl in Chengdu. In the special family environment where her parents divorced, she founded her own food website and shared her cooking experience with everyone almost every day. She also bought a full set of cooking supplies with the money she earned from working, and she couldn't put it down at home. Now, she founded the first family AA private kitchen in Chengdu and started her personal life of cooking for strangers for free.
The divorce of parents made Num stronger. When I mentioned my mother, Num kept laughing. For a moment, she gave me the illusion that mother and daughter were misplaced.
"My parents are divorced, and I have been with my mother." We sat down by the river, and the glass was steaming. Num gently raised his glass and said this calmly. I didn't expect such an opening remark. Seeing her long, slightly permed hair lying on her shoulders, I didn't know how to change the subject for a moment. Fortunately, she soon found my embarrassment and began to talk about her interest in cooking. This 22-year-old girl who is about to graduate from college has strong language control ability, and she will let you think and imagine according to her topic.
After my parents divorced, my father moved out and Num's mother lost her job. Mother and daughter live together in a small house on Taisheng Road. My mother tried hard to find a job, but she was rejected again and again because of cultural and age restrictions. Coupled with the daughter who is not at ease to enter adolescence, she can only stay at home and cook for her daughter with limited food expenses. The sensible Num doesn't want her mother to work so hard. As long as she has time, she tries to help her mother cook. "I think cooking is not a very troublesome thing. I have been thinking about how to renovate cheap vegetables. Later, I entered the university. Because I am a tourism major, I went to work everywhere and opened a lot of horizons before I really had a hobby and interest in cooking. "
Num kept smiling when she mentioned her mother. For a moment, she gave me the illusion that mother and daughter were misplaced. She seems to be a mother, always smiling, containing the child's willfulness and naughty.
In fact, Num's mother is a rare quiet housewife. No matter the blow of marriage or career, it failed to take away the smile on her face. She has lived in a noisy downtown for decades, and the personnel changes around her have hardly affected her. Her calmness and satisfaction with life and her attitude of never complaining have more or less influenced the habits and mentality of little Num. "Since I worked to earn money and bought a computer online, my mother almost took my place. Besides daily housework, she can spend almost the whole day surfing the Internet, playing games, playing QQ and watching online movies. Now on the Internet, her popularity far exceeds mine. " Num said with a smile that she is very satisfied with her mother's life now. "She used to be very tired. Her generation bears too much pressure and responsibility. It is my greatest comfort that she can relax and enjoy life. "
She has been working since her freshman year. Cooking and studying are never contradictory. Today, Num has become a food expert.
In July, 20001year, Xiaoshui was admitted to Sichuan Normal University, majoring in tourism and hotel management. Tuition fees are collected by parents and relatives. In order to reduce the burden on the family, Num started his work-study program from his freshman year. While working in a restaurant, Num became interested in western food. She began to refer to some famous western food practices on the Internet and conducted experiments at home. At that time, her mother was her only customer.
After successively serving as a reporter and editor of Sichuan Cuisine, Gourmet Information and Chengdu Dining and Fun Network, Xiaoshui began to learn some classic dishes at home and abroad in a planned way, and began to invite classmates and friends to taste them at home. She set a new task for herself, asking to learn to cook at least two new dishes every week and cook one by herself. In order to get more objective comments, Num bought a digital camera, photographed every dish he cooked and posted it online for discussion and comments. After doing this, some constructive suggestions gave Num inspiration and help, but they were also regarded as opportunities for free publicity by some savvy businessmen. They threw olive branches at Num and invited her to their shop to "eat and drink for free". The only requirement is that Num will also take pictures of their dishes and post them on the website for introduction. "From this point of view, I think I am very principled. Most of these people are my friends on the Bambusa forum. I can't be cruel if I don't erase them. But after I go, I won't see how much his shop decoration cost and whether the surrounding environment is cool. I dressed up as a small restaurant. I just want to know how the dishes in his shop taste and whether they are worth the price when they are sold. I only recommend things that are really delicious, and I can't smash my own signboard. " Num is serious, as if he has become the most authoritative food critic in this city.
June 5438 +2004 10, the movie Magic Kitchen starring Sammi Cheng, Andy Lau and Jerry Yan. It is shown in major theaters. With the popularity of the film, "private kitchen", a new way of catering, became popular immediately, and Num was inspired. I hope that when the time is right, I can practice cooking and open such an elegant small restaurant in Chengdu. This idea was also supported by my mother. "In order to buy expensive cooking supplies, I started working like crazy. The teachers at school all know about my family, and they don't feel sorry for me. They just hope that I can grasp the study time and pass the exam smoothly. Strangely, during the years when I fell madly in love with the kitchen, my studies were not delayed at all. I passed the final exam, Mandarin, English test and so on. I think it's because I love cooking. Cooking needs tenacity and patience, so does learning. I am not an anxious person. I can't cook well if I am impatient. "
After the opening of AA private kitchen, almost all the participants were strangers. If you see a beautiful girl with a cake at dusk on Taisheng Road, she is Num.
After falling in love with baking, Num worked hard and bought an expensive oven and a set of baking tools. The house is too narrow for the oven to fit in. Fortunately, her boyfriend's home is close to her own, so Num had to finish processing the cake at her boyfriend's home and take it home. So many times, at dusk on Taisheng Road, people will see a beautiful girl walking happily in the crowd with a big cake. I read the latest BF (food preparation method) report of Num on the Internet. Just one cheesecake needs cream cheese, milk, butter, low flour, corn starch, egg yolk, protein, lemon cubes, white wine or rum, sugar, digestive biscuits and so on. It takes about an afternoon.
In March 2005, after more than a year of careful preparation and cooking study, Num set up her own independent website with the help of her boyfriend. In the food column, she not only provided her own cooking skills for free, but also created the first "AA private kitchen" in Chengdu. Unlike profitable commercial private kitchens, she has no high-end shops and no high fees. Let participants only share the purchase of dishes, which is almost the process of tasting food for free. At the beginning, private kitchens allowed online single registration, and applicants could order food unscrupulously. Then Num set a time (usually on weekend nights), and friends could go directly to her house for a big meal. But after several attempts, due to the unstable number of participants, there are only two or three at times, and there is no place to put them at home at times. Num immediately made a revision, requiring that eight people must "organize" in the future. After controlling the number of people, both the cost of food and the space at home are just right.
"After the news of private kitchens was published on the Internet, many friends advised me that online people are complicated, and a gentle person on the Internet may become a wolf after meeting. But after thinking about it, I think there are still many good people in this society as a whole. If you preconceived that everyone in this world is a bad person, it proves that your mentality is too gloomy. Everyone has the potential factors of original sin and crime. It is good to be cautious, but it is too much to prevent everyone from being a thief. " Xiaoshui private cuisine has been successfully held 14 times since its establishment. Young people and middle-aged people have participated, and no one has ever made trouble in her house. Now, the online registration date of "Xiaoshui Private Kitchen" has been scheduled for mid-July. As a reporter, I tried hard and soft again and again, hoping that Xiao Shuineng would make an exception and let me "taste it first", but she politely refused. "I am an absolutely fair person. Besides, I have to cook for eight people. There are few people and few dishes, and cooking is boring. "
She showed me the menu and photos of the latest issue of private kitchens. On the menu for 8 people, the cold dishes include hot rabbit meat, crispy dried tofu, three-color eggs and cold cucumber; Hot dishes include bean curd ribs, casserole mushrooms, curry chicken, salted water, fragrant fish, fish-flavored anchovies, Sichuan-style pork and Jinsha corn. The soup is corn sparerib soup and the dessert is homemade fruit ice cream. In a normal restaurant, at least the price is around 200 yuan. "My private kitchen has always been a loss-making business, but I can't help it. I just love the kitchen. I like this lifestyle and I want to keep it. "