"Ugly Delicious" is a food documentary produced by Netflix, which was released at the same time as Tiptop 3. In the first season, it has 8 episodes, focusing on eight kinds of foods that Americans are most accustomed to, from pizza, taco, home cooking, crayfish, barbecue to fried chicken, fried rice and baodian.

from the name, it is doomed that it will not be an ordinary food documentary. Ugly Delicious is named after a tag that David Chang, a famous Korean-American chef, often uses on his social media. Compared with the familiar China on the Tip of the Tongue, this food documentary seems to be less professional, steady and even "indecent".

The reason why this is a food documentary is that Ugly Delicious seems to be more like a record of David Chang and his friends' food cultural journey, showing their thoughts on food and people, compared with those food documentaries that focus on food itself with a lot of lenses.

It doesn't show the beauty of food with a lot of shots, and it doesn't make detailed comments on which ingredients or which food is made. More often, it's ——David Chang, the most photographed person in this documentary, and his friends, a group of people who deal with food, who are communicating and expressing their knowledge of food and themselves, and sometimes it's just casual and true.

In the first episode, pizza, a popular food all over the world, appeared. From this, a discussion about authenticity was also launched.

Pizza originated in Italy. After it was introduced to the United States, it was improved and became one of the favorite take-away snacks of the American people. According to statistics, Americans eat 111 acres of pizza every day, with an average of 351 slices of pizza per second, which is equivalent to the area of one and a half football fields.

for most people who eat pizza, they probably know little about "authentic pizza" except that pizza is delicious.

To make an authentic pizza, you need: Aguntu oven, San Marzano tomato and mozzarella cheese.

After the pizza is baked, it must be tested by vision and smell:

Only this kind of pizza is the authentic Neapolitan pizza with quality certification. Do you feel a little incredible? However, is it really true that authentic pizza made with prescribed ingredients can be called a real good pizza only if it meets this series of specifications?

Later, in an interview with Antonio Pace, chairman of Naples Orthodox Pizza, it was also confirmed that these norms were actually a kind of local agricultural protectionism in some aspects in order to sell more local agricultural products.

the transportation process of these local ingredients often takes five or six days, and the freshness of the ingredients is inevitably consumed, which in turn affects the taste of the food. Pursue "authentic" blindly, maybe you can't make delicious pizza.

authentic Napoli pizza is delicious, but for different countries and regions, it is often the most delicious only if it is suitable.

For example, David Chang ate the pizza made by the pizza chef at the Muhei restaurant in Japan. This pizza doesn't use any ingredients from Naples, but it allows you to enjoy the local flavor while eating pizza, which is delicious and innovative.

They started by imitating what they like, and then over time, they formed their own style, and then evolved and surpassed it.

If we can let go of some inherent prejudices, be more patient and tolerant of food, we may find surprises beyond the taste buds.

I hope that by watching this food documentary, more people will be more curious and think about food.