The leisurely life of rebirth

Fang Monan quickly prepared two generous hot dishes with salmon.

During lunch time, everyone sits together, and there are two tables separated for many people, but the dishes are the same, regardless of each other.

Except for the salmon made by Fang Monan, the rest are the steamed bowls that are often eaten during the Chinese New Year. After these things are deep-fried, they are steamed over a fire and poured with soup.

Small pork steamed bowl, meatball steamed bowl, braised chicken steamed bowl, braised hairtail fish steamed bowl, tofu pork, steamed pork ribs, as well as vegetarian lotus root, tofu, vegetarian meatballs, etc.

Fang Monan was also worried that Faith and Eva couldn't use chopsticks well! Unexpectedly, they both used Beer Ma Liu! They were able to pinch the meatballs accurately.[

"It smells so good!" Faith said. "It's very fragrant and goes well with rice. It tastes extraordinary!"

"Of course, this is authentic Chinese food, not improved! It's completely different Chinese food!" Fang Monan gave way, "You're welcome, let's eat together!"

"Doctor Fang, you should eat this salmon while it's hot!" Hughes said, pointing to a bright red plate.

"Don't worry, it just looks spicy, but it's actually just mild! This is a Sichuan style of boiled beef and fish. The ingredients are green bamboo shoots and salmon, cooked with dried chili peppers, sprinkled with chopped green onion and sesame seeds to make spicy water.

Cook salmon." Fang Monan simply introduced.

Mr. Lin smiled and said, "It's rare! Salmon is a cold-water deep-sea fish. It dies as soon as it leaves the water, so most of them are chilled and will change color when heated. Therefore, hot salmon is rarely served in Western and Japanese food."

"Yes! Yes! No matter how you cooked it, the color of the fish didn't change." Ni Baohong raised her eyebrows and asked, not forgetting to put a chopstick of vegetables in her hand in a small bowl.

"Chinese food is mainly hot dishes. This dish is slow-cooked at a low temperature. In addition to not letting it change color, it can also maintain its freshness and nutritional value to the greatest extent. It is cooked for a long time at a temperature of 30 to 40 degrees Celsius.

It can be considered a compromise method, and it can be sterilized without compromising on the deliciousness." Fang Monan briefly explained the cooking method.

"Hey! This one is full of Beijing flavor!" Ni Baohong said after eating another salmon dish, "Yeah! It's actually a candy roll."

"Brother Ni, I admire this tongue!" Fang Monan cupped his hands.

"Hehe...it's nothing. If you eat more, you will naturally become more knowledgeable." Ni Baohong said humbly.

Fang Monan smiled and continued, "This is cooked salmon with candy rolls. It is a hot Chinese dish made of salmon. The dipping sauce is made of osmanthus and honey. The fish is cooked half-cooked first, and the outside is burnt and the inside is tender.

, without losing the original color of the ingredients, and some of the fat has been removed.

Those who don’t like sweet food can eat it with dipping sauce, and those who can tolerate it can pour the dipping sauce on the salmon.”

"This is for ladies! I don't like to eat dishes that are too sweet." Ni Baohong gave up after tasting it.

"We love to eat sweet ones!" said Hughes and Faith, and ate them without any hesitation.

Salmon has always been eaten fresh and rarely eaten sweetly. Adding sugar also adds some nutrients and calories. Candy rolls are made by rolling various dried fruits in bean curd skin and frying them in a pan, including peach flesh, dried almonds, green mango, etc.

After waiting for the dried fruit, you can eat it after eating the fish, which is similar to a dessert. The texture is crisp and sweet. As expected, the ladies can pick it up quickly. Of course, the little Dudu is indispensable, so you can eat two more bites.

"It's called a steamed bowl, right? It's tender, smooth, and not greasy." Hughes said with a smile, "In short, it's delicious!"

"Hmm! I'm so full!" Faith slumped on the chair, peeping at her bulging belly, and humming unpromisingly! Just rolling around, he looked like a comfortable pig!

We all feel the same way and have eaten a lot today.

Vera, Weikala, and Aunt Lian cleaned up the overturned dishes. Fang Monan and his party returned to Mid-Levels and sat down in the living room. They had just eaten so much that they lay down on the bed to sleep because they were trying to gain fat.

Woolen cloth![

Faith leaned casually on the sofa and said casually, "Xius, Beibei, do you know what my biggest gain is during my time in China?"

"Oh! What does our big agent have to say?" Hughes smiled with interest.

Eva looked over coldly and was talking nonsense again.

Both Faith and Eva's Chinese are not bad. When Ellen and her aunt chose them, it was because they had a basic foundation in Chinese.

Father Fang and Mother Fang did not go out to visit relatives and friends on the first day of the Lunar New Year. They had to visit relatives and friends only after the second day of the Lunar New Year. They really didn’t have much time to spend with their families throughout the year. It was a rare opportunity to spend more time with their families during the New Year.

So everyone was very interested to hear what Faith had to talk about.

Faith danced and said exaggeratedly, "I should have met Beibei earlier, like this! I could have come to China earlier, and I could have understood what real Chinese food is."

The topic came back to the foreignization of Chinese food that we talked about during fishing in the morning!

Faith put down his hands and said seriously. "In order to attract more customers, the only way for foreign Chinese restaurant owners to attract more customers is to 'cater', which is to over-'localize' the Chinese food. However, since we want to 'localize', local

There are German food, Italian food, French food, so why do you need this kind of Chinese food that has no special characteristics? We rarely see where Japanese food is localized. It is precisely because of the persistence of Japanese food that it is allowed to be so popular.

Many places in the world have established a special image of being 'original and pure', which is worthy of admiration."

"What Faith said is right, Chinese food should stick to its own style. If you don't know how to use chopsticks, just let them learn. Why do you want to make them all different? Destin and the others love eating Chinese food, but every time they go to a Chinese restaurant

, they all call me, why? Just because I look like I have Chinese ancestry!" Hughes laughed at himself, "Otherwise the boss will fool them, and the food they serve will not taste authentic."

"Hey! Don't laugh, I'm serious." Hughes continued with a smile, "My wife and I once went to a Chinese restaurant, and when we ordered, we specifically spoke in Chinese." He couldn't laugh or cry.

Said, "And they also gave me knives, forks and plates without discrimination. At the firm request of my wife and I, they only changed my chopsticks and a small bowl once. Their menu even included the most popular Chinese restaurants."

There is no green vegetables or tofu at all. In fact, there is an Asian supermarket near them, where Chinese vegetables, green vegetables, leeks, lettuce, chrysanthemum, bitter gourd, loofah, water spinach, everything is flown in every day. But they give

The vegetables provided by the customer were actually cabbage, which is available in every supermarket in the United States."

Fang Monan knew this very well. When he was in the United States, Cheng Shifei's parents came from Hong Kong to visit him. In a Chinese restaurant, they ate Kung Pao Chicken that was very different in taste and appearance from Kung Pao Chicken. His

When my mother went to question the restaurant, she was told that it was specially prepared for Americans.

For many years, Chinese restaurants have always tried their best to adapt to local tastes. But today, it has become synonymous with cheap restaurants overseas. Even American children know that restaurants run by Chinese people do not serve real Chinese food.

.And in her opinion, the vast advantages of our Chinese food culture have disappeared.

Hughes' words made Father Fang fall into silence.

Faith smiled and said, "What Hughes said reminds me of a very small Japanese restaurant near my home. Every night, people come one after another after finishing their meal. They always have difficulty booking a table."

It was hard to find an empty table. Their menu is very simple, just a few dishes, and the price is not cheap, but they make authentic Japanese food. No matter who comes, they always set out a pair of chopsticks.

Once an American asked for a knife and fork instead, saying that he couldn't use chopsticks. The Japanese girl serving the plate politely told him that Japanese food is eaten with chopsticks, and he should give it a try. He tried it and was very happy.

Very satisfied.”

"You put it this way, I remember one time when I was eating French food during a French violin competition. I saw a man who must have just come out of China wanted a pair of chopsticks in a French restaurant. I saw with my own eyes the waiter in the restaurant.

Politely take him to the door and tell him, go a hundred meters ahead and turn left, there is a Chinese restaurant there, go there and eat with chopsticks! They would rather lose a customer than be easygoing and accommodating." Mo Beixin.

Some people said that the young man's face was so red that he wanted to find a place to burrow into.

Grandma clicked her tongue and said, "Really or not, don't foreigners believe that the customer is God! How come they have driven God out? This is too arrogant, the store is bullying customers!"

Father Fang shook his head and said, "This is not arrogance, this is perseverance!"

Fang Ma echoed, "In many cases, cultures should not be integrated, because integration is equivalent to disappearing. If a person loves a certain culture, he should stick to it with reverence. With this persistence, culture will continue to grow.

Pass it on from generation to generation and always maintain its true dignity and value."

After Fang's mother finished speaking, Fang's father patted Fang's hand. The two looked at each other and smiled, showing a perfect understanding.

Fang Monan remembered that she and He Junyao were in a Western restaurant in a five-star hotel last year. She asked for chopsticks, and the waiter handed them over respectfully. This was the difference. She couldn't laugh or cry. If she were abroad, her end would not be any worse than the one just now.

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"The flexibility of Chinese people is sometimes a good thing and sometimes a bad thing..." Fang Monan said with a wry smile.[

A bitter smile appeared on Dad Fang's lips, "I'm afraid everyone understands the truth. It just depends on whether you have the courage to persist. After all, it's for life!"

Fang Monan leaned on the back of the sofa, gently scratched his chin with his index finger, and said slowly, "'When you are in the country and do as the Romans do,' of course cannot be denied, but if it is excessive, it will become a 'local' and there will be no 'when you are in the country, do as the Romans do'"

'The problem is.

The result of "learning to walk in Handan" is that you fail to learn from others and lose yourself.

Let’s take Japanese food as an example. It selects high-quality raw materials and insists on its own unique way. It doesn’t even come with knives and forks, and you have to take off your shoes when entering. However, Westerners are still willing to pay several times the price of Chinese food to enjoy it because, they

You can see authentic Japanese culture.

And broadly speaking, it’s not just Chinese food.”rs!.(Go)

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