How much salt should we put?
“Ouch! I put too much salt into the meal!” “Wait a second, maybe i forgot to put salt into the meal.” Do these things often happen in the kitchen of dining hall? I guess all Chinese people will say our dining hall is subject to changing salt. Today’s scrambled eggs is usual taste.
I guess most of the restaurants have black pepper and salt on their table, but I have never seen people add all the salt by themselves. The clearest memory in my mind was miso soup last year. That was a dinner, and I wanted to eat some rice in soup. Like usual, I added some miso soup, steamed rice and chopped green onion inside the bowl. Everything changed suddenly after I ate the rice in the bowl. I rushed towards the drinking machine and rapidly drank two cups of apple juice. It was just the rice, but I didn’t have courage to taste the soup. I was afraid i would become a dry sponge, as the correct in the chemical experiment, extracted all the water out. As a contradiction, our famous star scrambled eggs seems like never have salt inside. They are always pure and harmony without any taste, so you must add sauce ,pepper or salt inside. Pepper and salt are the saviors of our meal.
In Chinese food, salt are looked as one of the most important role in the cooking process. How much salt you add straightly affect the taste of the dish taste.
There is a Chinese story talks about salt. A man thinks everything is tasteless, and wants to find some delicious food. One day when he is eating a meal in his friend’s home, he says the dishes are tasteless. After hear it, the host adds some salt inside, suddenly it becomes tasty and delicious. The man starts to think: “After the dishes adding the salt, it become delicious.Why I just eat salt? Will it be more tasty?” Then he runs back home and starts to eat salt, but it tastes bitter and awful.
Our last dining chief does the thing like the man. He thinks Chinese food must have salt and ginger. In fact, our dining food is improving these days. If let me compare dinning hall’s food with Dragon Buffet, I will choose dining food. (It is because I ate too much Dragon Buffet, but it can also prove that dining hall food become able to eat.) If I can choose to eat breakfast at 9:00 a.m. I will go. So, challenge until now is not eat breakfast, but came back to get up. In the next days’ challenge, the main point is going to be getting up, but not talking about eating dining hall food any more. I must tell that this week was pretty good. I had a lot of sleeping, and well prepared for next week.

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