Chapter 9: What Can You See?
Cactus cooking is not complicated, Chen Er quickly made dishes such as fried cactus with red pepper, fried cactus, and stewed shrimp with cactus.
One of the best-looking dishes is the fried cactus with red pepper.
The fiery red shredded chili pepper and the green cactus shredded are matched together with the two most classic colors in nature, which looks very appetizing.
Chen Er's heat is also very good, the cactus is very tender, and it looks oily and shiny, like a fresh cactus that has just been cut and filtered out of clear water.
It seems that with a bite of it, the cactus silk can immediately burst out of the crystal juice.
When you eat it, it is crisp and tender, and each bite is full of fresh plant juice and exudes a faint aroma.
These three delicacies made of cacti, Shen Yinian ate very cheerfully and happily.
After experiencing the baptism of locust pizza, cactus, a slightly strange food in the eyes of ordinary people, has become the top delicacy in Shen Yinian's eyes.
After eating the cactus, the trip to Mexico is over.
Shen Yinian returned to China by himself, and Chen Er embarked on the journey to New Haven City.
Chen Er accepted an offer from an Ivy League college there.
I've heard that the school is particularly fond of improving its curriculum and teaching methods, but now it seems that it is true.
Chen Er thinks that there are few schools in the world that can come up with such a way to invite chefs from all over the world to teach students extracurricular courses, and in the name of helping students understand local cultures.
When Chen Er arrived at school, it was a Sunday, and the school was not in session. But you can still see many students coming and going on campus.
With the help of the "green hat" Qin Shan, Chen Er quickly found the person in charge and completed the relevant procedures.
Then Chen Er was wandering around the school while listening to Qin Shan's nagging, and by the way, he introduced the school and the situation in class.
Chen Er finally understood after listening to it for a long time, "You mean that when you go to class, it is the students who choose the course?" ”
Qin Shan nodded.
Chen Er thought, wouldn't it be embarrassing if not many people chose his course to take classes at that time?
Qin Shan seemed to be able to guess what Chen Er was thinking.
She comforted Chen Erdao, "It's okay, if not many students choose your course at the beginning, you don't need to be too discouraged or feel embarrassed or anything...... After all, you're new to the school, and the students don't know much about you. ”
Chen Er glanced at Qin Shan, shrugged his shoulders and said, "I know, I'm just afraid of your embarrassment." ”
"After all, I was recruited by you, and if the students don't like me, doesn't it mean that you have a bad vision."
Qin Shan said in a daze, "...... Seems like yes......"
However, overall, Chen Er still thinks the experience is quite good.
He has been graduating from college for many years, and Chen Er can't remember much about what school life was like.
Looking back now, I always feel that I didn't make good use of my time at school, and I always feel that I am indebted and regretful.
Although he now stepped into the campus again, no longer as a student, Chen Er still felt very happy.
College life is just once in a lifetime for everyone. If you miss it, you really don't have it.
Now that I can come back again, it can be regarded as a kind of fate.
The first day of classes was on a Monday afternoon, and there were very few people coming to class.
Chen Er stood in front of the blackboard and looked ahead, the huge classroom, the students who came to class, ten fingers could not be counted.
Maybe Chen Er seemed to have a good temper, or there were too few people in class, and most of the students were lying on their desks reading other books or catching up on sleep.
Chen Er was not angry, but turned around and wrote two words on the blackboard.
One is food in Chinese and the other is food in English.
A blonde girl noticed Chen'er's movements and was the first to raise her hand to ask questions.
However, judging from the tone of her voice, Chen Er didn't think that she really raised her hand to ask questions because of curiosity, most of them just felt too boring.
She asked Chen, "Sir, what do you think you should say in class to help us expand our knowledge outside of class?" ”
Chen Er patted the chalk ash on his hand, "Of course, I am talking about the knowledge I know, and I can't talk about the knowledge I don't know." ”
This answer seemed a bit strong, and the blonde girl felt that Chen Er's answer was not what she wanted, so she changed her question.
"Sir, do you think you can really understand the culture of a country through food?"
Chen Er stepped off the podium, stopped at the table closest to the podium, patted the table, and then sat down with his butt up.
"Absolutely." Chen Er looked at the blonde girl and said in a categorical tone.
The blonde girl seemed to be a little interested, "Oh? For example......"
Chen's gaze scanned the classroom and then landed on a desk in the corner.
There was a chubby foreign boy munching on a sandwich in his hand.
Chen Er pointed to the sandwich in his hand and said, "For example, this food." ”
"What do you see in this food?"
The classroom was already empty, and although Chen Er's voice was not loud, it was not small, and it was very generous and powerful, and his grammar was natural. immediately attracted everyone's attention, and then looked in the direction of Chen Er's finger.
Seeing that everyone's eyes fell on him, the little fat man suddenly became a little worried.
His mouth opened wide, and the half-bitten sandwich was still in his mouth, and it was not to put it down, and it was not to put it down.
The blonde girl who asked the question first frowned and glanced at the little fat man.
"All I saw was a sandwich that had been bitten off in half, and nothing else."
Chen Er smiled and said nothing, so the others followed suit.
"I saw a fat man eating a sandwich!"
"This is a sandwich sold at the school convenience store! Very unpalatable! ”
"This looks like a tuna sandwich!"
Chen Er shook his head slightly, "None of you got to the point. ”
The students in the classroom all looked puzzled.
Chen Er looked at the blonde girl, "Just now you asked me, can you really understand a country's culture through food?" ”
The blonde nodded.
Chen Er continued, "My answer is yes. ”
"First of all, when I see a food, I have to see more hidden information through the surface of the food."
"What kind of food is a sandwich?"
"Sandwiches are a representative food in Western countries, a food that people of all classes and colors eat at all."
"This is the same as steamed buns in Eastern society, no matter what class, rich or not, they will eat it."