You are not mistaken. Laurent is an American who has lived in China for more than 20 years. He is also high flyers of Tsinghua University, a graduate student of Chinese Department of Tsinghua University, and a chef of American Embassy in China. Many people can't understand why Gao Feixia, who graduated from a prestigious school, didn't find a well-paid job, but chose to study cooking in China and went to various parts of China to improve his cooking skills. May be a kind of love, deeply attracted by China's food, when he introduces himself, he usually says that he is an ordinary chef who loves China's food. He also said that all the food he cooked came from the Ming Dynasty in China, and the master was an ordinary person in the north and south of China.

After graduation, Laurent went to many places in China to study cooking. From 20 10, he started from the Loess Plateau and went to Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi and other places, and then began to travel south, passing through Yunnan, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places, looking for the birthplace of various traditional China cuisines, and studying them, gradually mastering their essence and improving them. Then why did he choose to study cooking in China? According to reports, that's because his friends once invited him back to his hometown, in a small village in Guizhou, to kill Nian pig together. When he found that no one was idle, he cut the meat together and helped to pickle it. Only then did he realize what he had missed. He realized that if he wanted to really understand this dish, he had to know its background and story, so he said that he wanted to go to every place to experience and understand each kind. This also made him resolutely stay in China and start his own learning journey.

Laurent's search is based on his own strength. He believes that new things will always be discovered, and he can always find the next source. He keeps working hard and making progress. On the trip, there was also a bowl of noodles that was the most fragrant in his mouth. It was during the Sichuan earthquake that he passed by the south of Shaanxi. Because it is close to Sichuan, many houses have collapsed. He set up a tent in an abandoned primary school. The next morning, an old lady cooked him a bowl of noodles with spinach, tomatoes and eggs. The ingredients are simple, but Lauren feels that she has devoted all her love to this bowl of noodles. Walking through many places, his memory of food also comes from people and things around him.