Maybe all people who live alone have this experience: in the morning, they wake up from a quiet room, go to work alone, come home at night, push open the door and see darkness. I'm in a good mood because most of the kitchen has been repackaged. I cook occasionally. If you are in a bad mood, you can stay out of the kitchen for a month.
As far as cooking is concerned, one is always embarrassed. No matter how much you do, you can't finish it; Do less, but feel too lazy to waste time and energy. Sometimes, I even feel that eating is just a task I have to complete. I took bibimbap from the takeaway brother and sighed sincerely: "Thanks for the takeaway, it saved the lonely people."
This is my first time to try bibimbap. I was a little disappointed when I saw that it was not a stone pot. Bibimbap is packed in a cylindrical plastic box. Boiled rice makes the box full of steam, and the contents in the box can't be seen clearly. Anyway, I'm not looking forward to it, just finishing the task of eating. As usual, I sat down by the window with bibimbap, took out my mobile phone and prepared to open the food video cached in my mobile phone.
I am used to watching food videos while eating alone. Eyes staring at the phone, while mechanically blindly sending food to the mouth. Looking at the food in the mobile phone is delicious, just like someone is eating with me, so I am not so lonely.
When the lid was lifted, a faint hot air rose. The moment bibimbap appeared, my attention was still attracted by it. Unexpectedly, a simple takeaway can be so particular.
Shredded chicken, shredded carrot, shredded mushroom, shredded lettuce and bean sprouts are orderly placed on the rice. At the top of the dish, there is an fried egg with a little pickle and hot sauce beside it. The whole bibimbap is very regular. It looks like not only a delicacy, but also a work of art..
The eggs are fried very tender, the protein is smooth and white, and the yolk is golden. Shake the lunch box gently, and the half-cooked yolk will shake with it.
The last time I saw such a hard-boiled egg was in my hometown during the Spring Festival last year. My mother always likes to fry half-cooked eggs to keep the yolk liquid, saying that it is the most nutritious and delicious, and named it sunny side up. At first, I didn't like it and thought it was fishy. Later, under the "coercion and inducement" of my mother, I gradually developed this unique taste.
"It's really like a little sun." Looking at the eggs in the box, I think so.
I picked up chopsticks and gently poked the yolk. Viscous egg yolk liquid flows out slowly. Stir the food evenly with a spoon, and the aroma of Korean hot sauce is also emitted in the constant churning and stirring, which makes people's index fingers move. I took a spoonful of bibimbap and put it in my mouth to chew slowly. The freshness of vegetables and the tenderness of shredded pork match the soft glutinous rice.
The familiar dense taste of egg yolk rice seems to bring me back to those days when my mother "forced" me to eat eggs. Spicy sauce brings unique sweetness to bibimbap. Some rice has been fried in a stone pot, and it is crispy and delicious with a bite. Eating bibimbap, I think happiness is so much.
I don't know when the food video on my mobile phone was finished, because I wasn't watching it at all. I just concentrate on the bibimbap in front of me and completely forget the sadness of being alone.
The charm of food lies in its subjectivity. I have eaten bibimbap countless times, but only this time made me forget my loneliness.
After eating the last bite of bibimbap, I happily put down my spoon and sighed with satisfaction.
Whether you are alone or accompanied, you can be free in front of food. You can eat without worry. After a full meal, all the troubles were put aside.
This is also the most equal cure that food can give to the world.
Later, I always remember that even if I am lonely again, don't forget to cook a bibimbap for myself.
Brush a thin layer of oil on the inner wall of the stone pot and compact the white rice at the bottom of the pot. Cut your favorite vegetables and meat into shreds, code them on rice, and cook them over medium heat. Add some pickles and some hot sauce.
Add a medium-rare sunny-side up egg.