Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Cooking master boy!

Been watching this anime lately. Very cool. "The goal of a chef is to spread happiness through food" Which i really agree with cause good food can really make people happy and satisfied XD.

Culinary is really an amazing art. When you eat something, you not only sense the flavour and the smell or the texture, but you can actually feel the emotions behind the dish. (If you put your heart into it, and not just eat to survive.) Which is why I think that fast food sucks cause all they do is dip everything into oil, and use crazy amounts of seasoning whithout a single good intention. Any Motherfucker of a cook can do something like that.

But when you eat for example home-cooked food or even food from a good hawker, you can feel the effort and heart poured into the food and it warms you up from within, leaving you with a sense of satisfaction and happiness.

Many people think that food is all about the taste and the smell, but the thought and spirit of the dish are equally important. Think about Ba Kut Teh, Pork bones boiled till the fats and juices in the bones degenerate into the soup and spiced up with pepper and garlic to whip up your appetite. Chicken rice, steamed rice first stir fried in chicken fats to soak in the aroma of the chicken, then boiled in chicken stock, coupled with fresh naturally-tenderized chicken with an amazingly tangy chilli sauce. How about prawn noodles, yellow noodles soaked in that otherworldy chicken-beef broth served with chilli oil.

Of course thats not to say that deep frying is not a respectable form of cooking. Deep frying in fact takes a lot of skill and experience. But when you look at that light and crisp breading of a good tempura prawn, or the flavourful, golden covering of a fresh red snapper in an expensive chinese restaurant, and then you look at the thick, starchy flour that mcspicy is covered with, and the fat filled oil is seeping out from the chicken itself, you will know that there was absolutely no skill involved. Food that is well deep fried is actually surprisingly light and NOT oily.

Thus I'm going to lead a mac revolution! Please vot on whether mac is good or not. I'll be the first to vote, mac suck my C#(K!

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