A person's life begins with a banquet, the full-moon wine at birth, the thank-you banquet for college, the wedding banquet, the sixtieth birthday banquet, and the funeral banquet at death. Life ends.
Food is also eaten during the festivals of the year. Yuanxiao is eaten on the Lantern Festival, rice dumplings are eaten on the Dragon Boat Festival, moon cakes are eaten on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and a big meal is eaten during the New Year. After the New Year's Eve dinner, a year has passed.
If these large and small banquets are deleted, what will be left in life? Eating not only sustains our lives, but also nourishes our souls.
Eating is the most interesting thing in life. I will never forget my hometown. The most unforgettable thing is my mother’s cooking. I have eaten delicacies from all over the world, not as good as the bowl of green vegetables my mother fried.
I once visited a middle-class family in Australia. Their open kitchen was in the living room and there was no oil fume. The diet structure of Westerners is different. They never stir-fry or braise. They roast medium-rare New Year ribs and mix them with a vegetable salad, which makes them feel rich.
Chinese people carry their Chinese stomach with them wherever they go. Even after living abroad for decades, they are not used to eating Western food.
Among the delicious food in the world, Chinese food is the most delicious. It pays attention to the color, flavor and taste. Eating is not only to fill the stomach, but also to enjoy the beauty and taste life. In this sense, Chinese people understand life best.
I like food, and I get very excited when I encounter delicious food. I also have a good appetite and can adapt to all kinds of food. I don’t want to give up delicious food, and I don’t want to become fat, so I can only exercise every day, even if it’s windy or snowy, I don’t dare to be lazy. Exercising makes me have a better appetite, make my food taste better, and I can enjoy eating to the fullest.
Three years ago, I lived in Hong Kong for more than a month. Most of the dishes in Hong Kong are steamed and boiled, very light. The first dishes are all special soups. The soups they make are very delicious. Pay attention to it, it contains some Chinese medicinal materials, and it usually needs to be simmered for three or four hours. After everyone sat down, they drank soup first and then drank wine. The wine was mainly foreign wine or wine, and no one was encouraged to drink. Everyone drank freely and relaxedly. Most of the dishes are seafood, with authentic flavors, and thick oily red sauce is rare. This kind of diet makes Hong Kong people advocate nature, health, and freedom, and their interpersonal communication is relaxed and light.
I once traveled to Harbin and Changchun, and they were very generous in eating and drinking. In the summer, I eat random stew in a restaurant. There is a big iron pot with guests sitting on three sides, and wood is used to cook it and eat it. The heat of the firewood at the bottom of the pot, coupled with the steam of various fish, meat, and vegetables rolling in the pot, makes people sweat profusely. The men are shirtless, drinking from large bowls, and shouting loudly. The ladies are holding chopsticks in the pot. There was a lot of fishing, a big mouthful of meat, and laughter and satisfaction. Drinking and eating meat freely like this quickly brought us closer to each other, and we became good friends after just one meal.
Our food here tends to be sweet. Whether it is braised, steamed or stir-fried, we like to add sugar. I think dishes that are a little sweet are delicious. Friends get-togethers usually start with three exquisite cold dishes, including raw cucumber, beef, preserved egg tofu, chicken feet, dried shreds, and white-cut chicken. Then there are seven or eight hot dishes, including sweet and sour mandarin fish, saltwater lake shrimp, dongpo pork, celery and lily, whitebait soup, eggplant stew, chopped pepper fish head, bacon and winter bamboo shoots, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, etc., with two dishes in the middle dessert. Drinking is somewhere between the Cantonese people who don't encourage people to drink and the Northeast people who force people to drink. You should be encouraged to drink until you feel comfortable. What Jiangnan people say is true with a little sugar added to make it comfortable for people to listen to, but they cannot be taken seriously.
The soil and water support a person, and their eating habits determine their character. With the rise of the fast food market and the convenience of takeaways such as Ele.me and Meituan, many young people no longer cook for themselves, but do whatever is convenient for them.
There is an article saying that "takeaway is ruining three generations of Chinese people." Takeaway is unhygienic and will cause health problems. Food delivery takes up a large number of young workers and harms employment in the real economy. Takeaways change the diet structure of young people and affect their living habits. When eating is no longer fun, the joy of life will be greatly reduced.
A person who loves life must love food.
A good life is inseparable from good food, and interesting souls are born from good food.
The most healing thing in the world is food first, and words second.
Su Dongpo and Wang Zengqi both experienced ups and downs in life. Only their love for food made them optimistic, cheerful, and cultivated an interesting life.
Su Dongpo liked delicious food, and his "Ode to Pork" became the method of making Dongpo Pork
"Wash the pan cleanly, use less water, and the firewood will not smoke. Wait for him Don't rush it when it's cooked, it will be beautiful when the heat is sufficient.
The rich will not eat it, and the poor will not know how to cook it. When you get up in the morning, you will have two bowls, and you will not care if you are full. ”
He also invented Dongpo elbow, Dongpo tofu, Dongpo fish, Dongpo vegetarian soup... Among poets, he is the best at eating, and among foodies, he is the best at writing poetry.
Wang Zengqi is known as an all-round gourmet. His books such as "Mushrooms", "Radish", "Five Flavors", "Tofu", "Dried Silk", "Hometown Food", etc. are all delicacies. Even his work "Shajiabang" contains lyrics about eating: "Set up a seven-star stove and boil three rivers in a copper pot. Set up a table of eight immortals to entertain sixteen parties."
Food can make friends, food can relieve worries, food can maintain health, and food can keep fit. In this world, love and food are the only things you can’t live up to.