But can she cook chinese food?
I got a comment today asking me if I can cook chinese food - in fact, I've been ask this a lot by people because it seems like I never cook chinese food. I definitely CAN cook chinese food (and pretty well, trained by the best chinese cook I know, my mom) but I don't really cook chinese that often for a couple of reasons:
- I ate nothing but chinese food growing up. In fact, of my 18 years at home with my family, probably less than 10% were eaten with a fork and knife - most were eaten with chopsticks and accompanied with a bowl of rice. Very rarely do I actually FEEL like eating chinese food (except in Toronto where the food is awesome), much less cooking it. I'm pretty chinese fooded out even so many years later.
- There isn't a lot of challenge to chinese food cooking to me - I'm very familiar with the ingredients - whereas things like parsnips, fennel, pumpkins, celery root - these are all things I've never cooked with before and I'm totally fascinated with how to prepare them, what goes well with them, etc.
- High standards coupled with laziness - truthfully the dishes I would want to eat/make are WAY too labour intensive for it to be worth my time (sharksfin soup for example) that I'd rather just go out to order it (though I'm a snob and think Seattle chinese food blows) - or better yet, go home to Toronto to eat it or have my mom make it :)
- I hate chinese vegetables. Not that it should stop me from cooking chinese food, but I think bok choy, choy sum and pretty much every other chinese green is totally nasty.
So there you have it, can cook chinese food but probably won't.
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