Food and sex are all primal needs fo human beings. “饮食男女，人之大欲也”——孔子
Staple foods 主食
There are different attitude towards food:
- Westerners: rational (理性的) → a science
- Chinese: perceptual (感性的) → an art form
- persuit for sensory preasure
Three Essential Factors:
- Color → eyes
- Aroma → nose
- dispell awful smell
- Scalding, high temperature, beer, liquor, cooking, cooking wine, Sichuan pepper (花椒)
- Seasoning: salt, vinegar
- Spices: scallion, ginger
- Other: flour, orange peels
- add aroma
- red pepper, hot pepper, Sichuan pepper, sesame oil
- dispell awful smell
- Taste → tougue
- smelly (臭的)
- proper amounts of spices, seasonings & condiments (调味品)
- A large number of sooking techniques
scispy (脆的) tender (嫩的) braise (烧)
shred（丝）slice (片) mash (泥) paste (糊) strip (条) segment(段) dice (丁) cube（方形的） chunk(大块的) mince（末）
Ornaments（装饰）
Dining wares (餐具) loading skills (装盘)
eight schools of chinese cuisin
pungent
sweet and sour carp
cream custard bun (流沙包)