After graduating from college, I took two big suitcases, a quilt in summer, a pillow, a short skirt and a coat in winter, and took a 20-hour flight to the United States to start my graduate life. It's a small town in the southeast. My friends and I laughed and joked that it was a small town. Big countryside? . Indeed, this is a small town built around a university. Life in the village is very simple, without the glitz of new york, the splendid Chinese food in Los Angeles and the historical sites in Washington. Have a plenty of leisure time for pure American life, or be bored and busy reading and writing papers.
When I first arrived in the United States, the apartment was not settled and I couldn't cook by myself, so I started the cycle of McDonald's and Subway.
It is said that scrambled eggs with tomatoes is the first dish cooked by 99% foreign students, perhaps because it is easy to learn, perhaps because it tastes delicious, or because it has red and yellow colors belonging to China, which makes people feel happy subconsciously and can produce a kind of comfort. Strange to say, until now, I can still clearly see the appearance of that dish in my mind: the eggs are fried very hard and a little brown and burnt; Tomato pieces are cut into small pieces and basically lose their original shape; If you put too much water, cooking may turn into soup. Theoretically, this is a failed tomato scrambled egg; In fact, this is a tomato scrambled egg, and we ate it upside down, with no juice left. After eating, we were silent for a while, and then began to laugh and play. I don't know what they thought when they were in silence, but I thought of my mother's figure in the kitchen, as if I heard the crackling of all kinds of meat, vegetables and fish in the pot, and after some lively singing and dancing, it magically turned into plates of steaming dishes on the table. There is no exquisite tableware, exquisite dishes or even beautiful color matching, but it is still delicious after eating for more than 20 years.
When I arrived in the United States, I became a gorgeous chef Dong. I couldn't even turn on the gas stove at home, never went to the food market or cooked a dish. From my mother's remote video command to face? To the kitchen? Food website recipes, all kinds? Fair-weather friends? I stole the teacher, then studied the ingredients of my favorite dishes in the Chinese restaurant and went home to try it myself. In America, I finished cooking? Zero breakthrough? Qualitative change. My mother's specialty is braised pork ribs, my mother loves to cook black-bone chicken soup for me, my mother forces me to eat celery fried meat, and my mother loves to eat chicken feet with sauce. My mother can't cook Chinese hamburger in Xi, pea yellow in Beijing, steamed stuffed bun in Shandong and boiled fish in Sichuan. When I graduated from my master's degree, my mother personally visited the United States to check my graduation results (academic and cooking) and admitted that I was shine on you and better than Blue.
There are so many delicious foods in America. After eating steak, pasta, sushi and burritos, why do people in China turn around and plunge into familiar Chinese restaurants? Some people say it's delicious, others say it's a habit, but I think eating Chinese food may give us a spiritual sense of belonging in the deepest part of our hearts. Familiar smells make us feel safe, and familiar cooking techniques make us feel a little closer to home. The thick oily red sauce braised in brown sauce reminds us of the red in the Forbidden City, the light steaming reminds us of the elegance in the south of the Yangtze River, and the fiery frying reminds us of the enthusiasm in the southwest. Sometimes, eating is not only a simple ingredient, but also a homesickness and a taste of hometown.
Six years later, my mood seems to have changed, but it seems that it has not changed. Maturity is a gift of time, but what remains unchanged is my dependence on my family, my concern for my family and my yearning for my family. However, the immigrant life in the United States can also bring me comfort in my life, and I am growing more and more mature!