I personally don't think he is a gourmet.

Give an example.

I have a friend who said that I think everything outside tastes terrible, even five-star and Michelin restaurants taste terrible.

I said, what do you think is delicious?

He immediately got excited and said, I think the food my mother cooks is more delicious than any other chef, such as fried cabbage.

I am a foodie, so I finally found an opportunity and he invited me to his home as a guest. I finally tasted the fried cabbage that he said was out of the world.

The conclusion is that his food only stays in the taste he is used to.

So each of us is a gourmet. The taste you brought from your original family determines your discussion of food.

Cai Lam, together with Jin Yong, Huang Zhan and Ni Kuang, is known as the "Four Great Talents in Hong Kong" and is also known as the "God of Cookery"!

Mr. Jin Yong once said of Cai Lam: He is well-informed and knows everything from music, chess, calligraphy and painting, wine and sex, food, drink, whoring and gambling, to literature and movies.

He is a first-rate master of film, poetry, calligraphy, epigraphy, and food.

But in terms of personal achievements, Cai Lam is undoubtedly successful.

But compared with his literary talent, I personally don’t think his “strength” in the field of food is outstanding!

After all, the films he has supervised include: "Fast Truck", "Brothers and Brothers", "Lucky Star", "City Hunter", "Human Torch", "A Good Man", "Crime" and other films starring Jackie Chan

Blockbusters.

The achievements in the field of food are nothing more than launching the "Bao Bao Series" snacks, sauces and tea drinks, participating in opening restaurants in Hong Kong, and being the host of the food column!

It’s not that he doesn’t know or understand food, but the concept of food itself has no specific answer, just like some people like to eat tomato scrambled eggs, while some people never eat tomatoes!

In fact, the open topic is not worthy of further study, and Mr. Cai’s understanding of food seems to have a certain degree of research on Cantonese cuisine, cuisine and Western food. He does not have in-depth research on several other major Chinese cuisines. Among them

The most typical ones are Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine!

Chua Lam is a native of Chaozhou, Guangdong. He was born in Singapore. He later studied in Japan and became famous in Hong Kong!

It can be seen from his life trajectory that although he understands food, he may not know that much about other major cuisines in China!

To give a simple example: Sichuan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine emphasizes spicy and fragrant aromas. If you want to understand a cuisine and a delicacy, it does not mean that you can understand it after eating it; rather, you must learn from the origin, development, innovation, improvement, etc. of the dish.

To understand it, on the other hand, you also need to understand it from its material selection, production process, heat, time, etc. If a person does not taste and understand a dish many times, it is not called understanding the dish.

So I think Chua Lam understands Cantonese cuisine, cooking, etc., but I personally don’t agree with the “god of food”!

If a thousand people watch Journey to the West, there will not necessarily be a thousand Sun Wukongs. There may be 999 "flowers of both culture and style"!

I'm a big-faced cat and I'm happy to answer your questions.

Let’s talk about the answer first. Of course Mr. Cai knows a lot about food. You are asking how much he knows. I can’t find a word to answer this question. I definitely can’t say he knows the best, so I can only say he knows better than at least 99.9% of people.

Before talking about Mr. Cai, let me tell you a little story.

One day, Puyi went to Wang Guowei's house as a guest. Wang brought out antique calligraphy and paintings that he had collected for many years for Pu to appreciate. Pu Yi didn't touch them and didn't use a magnifying glass. He just took a look and said which ones were real and which ones were fake. Wang was not happy. I am a collector of everyone after all.

Ah, what you said is fake is fake?

Later, I took it out and appraised it with some experts, and it was indeed as Pu said.

Convinced, he asked Pu how he could tell. Pu said: It's different from my family!

Haha, you say this is unreasonable, but this is the reality. Some people have a far greater breadth and depth in some fields than the average person.

Food is obtained by tasting and comparing. After tasting, the taste is stored in the brain through the memory of the taste buds on the tip of the tongue, and then some similar dishes are selected for comparison. Only at this stage can one be considered a gourmet.

This requires a huge menu. The quantity and quality of the food Mr. Cai has eaten are far better than those of us ordinary people. Just looking at the number of food menus he recommended, the rich variety and the wide range, I only have 4 words in my mind:

Breathtaking!

He had eaten so many kinds of lobster before he could conclude that the local green dragon in Hong Kong was more delicious than the Oriental dragon. In addition, there were sheep in the rice fields of Yugoslavia, Iranian fish roe that only a few people knew how to cook, gold pickles made by Koreans, and Italian fruit trees.

Cut off the slices of ham, pick off the fruits on the head, and eat them together. Think about it, what else in the world has he not eaten?

I think the most amazing thing is: with the development of the Internet in the past decade or so, our horizons have become wider and wider, and it has become easier and easier to obtain delicious food, such as lobster and durian, and many high-end ingredients have poured into the country.

But think about it, when he was eating all over the world, he didn’t have any Internet access. This old man relied on his short legs to get out. If he asked for a delicious food, he would immediately kill him with flying eyes. This eating attitude won the first place.

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