My Animation Era

Hou Bin is very busy.

Because of the animation "Master Chef Xiao Fugui", he has not had a good night's sleep for half a month.

When Gu Miao saw him, he was communicating with several specially hired cooking instructors about the royal meal that Xiao Fugui cooked for Lafayette in the animation plot.

There's really nothing to talk about.

Regarding the imperial cuisine in the palace, especially the royal diet, in fact, most of the existing chefs reasoned based on "records in classics", and no one has actually seen or eaten it.

This is different from "The Little Master of China". The delicacies cooked by the Little Master are mostly home-cooked dishes and common people's food, which are more daily life-oriented.

But the dishes that appear in "Master Chef Xiao Fugui" are all royal meals prepared for the emperor, the queen mother and others. They have a royal flavor and are very different in nature.

certainly!

According to Gu Miao's opinion, it's all food anyway, so how big a difference can it make? When the little master cooks, isn’t the process very complicated and magical?

In his understanding, the imperial cuisine made by Xiao Fugui is simply that the ingredients are better and the processing procedures are more complicated. Other than that, what other differences are there?

"No no no!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Gu Miao finished speaking, the specially hired cooking instructor criticized: "Who said there is no difference? Can the braised fish you cook for the emperor be the same as the braised fish at ordinary people's homes?"

"Why is it different?"

Gu Miao rolled her eyes and said, "What? Doesn't the braised fish that the emperor eats have no fish bones?"

He meant it as a joke.

But no one expected that the cooking instructor actually nodded and said: "It's possible, according to the imperial cuisine's processing standards, this fish may really have no spines!"

Gu Miao: "..."

seriously? Everyone eats fish, so why does the fish the emperor eats have no bones, but the fish he eats has bones?

"I'm just giving you an example!"

The cooking instructor shook his head and said: "It may not be such an extreme example, but it also shows that there is a big difference between imperial cuisine and ordinary dishes."

"The wolf's intestines were removed, the dog's kidneys were removed, the back of the raccoon was removed, the rabbit's legs were removed, the fox's head was removed, the pig's brain was removed, the fish was removed, and the turtle was removed...According to records, the imperial chef was very particular about the processing of ingredients. "

There’s also a set of plate layouts!

If the handling of ingredients demonstrates the skills of an imperial chef, then styling and plating the prepared dishes is also a skill.

It is also a fish, and the shape of the fish leaping over the dragon gate is difficult to concave. This is also a difficult problem that tests the skills of the imperial chef.

Gu Miao listened for a long time.

Through Hou Bin's conversation with these cooking instructors, he finally understood that the royal meals in ancient times were truly extravagant and beyond the imagination of modern people.

Of course, that’s the royal meal!

The food provided to the emperor must have been done to the extreme in every aspect. The food eaten by ordinary people is actually not that particular and luxurious.

"I've learned a lot!"

After Hou Bin saw off these cooking instructors, Gu Miao sat down on the sofa and sighed: "I thought that with modern technological and material conditions, I would be able to live a more comfortable life than the ancients!"

Unexpectedly, people in ancient times were just as good as modern people in enjoying and satisfying their appetites.

Even though there were no modern technologies at that time, the exquisite palace meals still made his mouth water.

"It's actually not that exaggerated..."

Hou Bin explained with a smile: "In the animation plot, the Queen Mother fled westward and has entered the end of the dynasty, when the people are in dire straits."

"When we are fleeing westward, what kind of delicacies can we choose from? It's not just ordinary home-cooked dishes!"

"That's true."

Gu Miao nodded.

The plot background of the animation "Master Chef Xiao Fugui" is originally the late Qing Dynasty. Coupled with the empress dowager's flight to the west, it is no longer the most prosperous period.

Xiao Fugui, the so-called "imperial cook", is not a serious imperial chef, but a private cook who recommended himself to save his grandfather.

I didn’t see in the plot that in order to find meat, Xiao Fugui and Xiao Lizi caught mice and made a pot of mouse meat for the Queen Mother!

"anyway……"

When it came to food and cooking skills, Gu Miao seemed to have something in mind and asked Hou Bin: "Although this animation is titled as a gourmet show, you won't really make it into a gourmet show, right?"

"That's impossible!" Hou Bin shook his head and denied, "Although food and cooking skills take up a lot of space in the plot, the overall focus is on telling stories and creating full-fledged characters."

The story is the main thing, and the food is the supplement!

This is the answer given by Hou Bin. In his words, the so-called food and cooking skills are just tools to promote the development of the plot and elicit conflicts and entanglements between different characters.

In other words, cooking is just an introduction. The real main story has never been cooking, let alone becoming the chief chef or getting golden kitchen utensils...

Little Plum, Bean Sprouts, Lafayette, Little Flying Butterfly, Ma Gonggong, the old doctor, Lord K, these flesh-and-blood characters, their love and hatred for each other are the biggest highlight of this animation.

It would be too shallow to just watch Xiao Fugui cook, watch him compete with famous Eastern chefs in cooking skills, and watch how he was promoted from a private chef to the chief royal chef.

This point has already been made clear in the theme song.

In the theme song of the original "Master Chef Xiao Fugui" animation, there is a line:

"Being a human being is like tofu mixed with green onions. You can travel around the world innocently. From the pots and pans, you can see the bright world and the world. From the ups and downs, you can see the long and long years..."

The lyrics have it all.

It seems that this animation is all about pots, pans, onions, ginger, garlic and peppers, but this is just an appearance. What it really tells is the story of those people in that era.

Hou Bin told Gu Miao.

With the help of Master Cao, the animation production team has begun to create animation music such as theme songs, interludes, and ending songs.

Among them, the first to be completed is the anime ending song "I'm a Cooking Maniac".

Gu Miao tried to listen to a demo. Although it had not been polished and tuned, and this was not the final recorded version, it still felt very good.

Except for the songs.

The animation production team has recently completed the formation of a dubbing team, which is the main reason why Gu Miao came to see Hou Bin today.

"The Adventures of Uncle Long" needs a group of dubbing teachers who are proficient in "English", preferably with a pure accent.

So Gu Miao came to Hou Bin to try his luck and see if there was any suitable candidate among the dubbing teachers for "Master Chef Xiao Fugui".

It’s best if there is!

If there really wasn't one, or there was no suitable candidate, then Gu Miao could only find a way to find European and American voice actors overseas.

Actually...

Wanbao itself has a team responsible for multi-language translation, and dubbing candidates are also ready.

But these people’s Chinese language is very poor!

Gu Miao's idea is very simple, that is, in the animation "The Adventures of Uncle Long", try to have the same person do the Chinese and English dubbing.

When I was writing, I suddenly thought of Teacher Zhao Lirong’s Palace Jade Wine, and I was instantly stunned...