At the banquet, you can pay attention to the collocation of tableware, materials, services and raw materials in shape and color. But no matter how luxurious and high-end, from L.A. to new york, steak has only one flavor, and there is no art at all. As a dish, chicken is chicken and steak is steak. Even if there is a match, it is done in the disk.
A plate of "French lamb chops", with mashed potatoes on one side, lamb chops on the other side, boiled green beans on the other side, and some tomatoes. The colors are in sharp contrast, but the raw materials are irrelevant, the taste is harmonious, each has its own flavor and is simple and clear.
China people attach great importance to "eating", and the proverb "Food is the sky for the people" shows that eating is as important as the sky. Because this nation has been in a state of low productivity for thousands of years, people are always hungry, so it has a unique food-oriented diet culture, which is probably out of a need for survival.
If a culture takes eating as the first thing, then there will be two phenomena: on the one hand, it will exert its functions to the extreme, not only for survival, but also for health preservation, which is the cultural basis of "medicine tonic is not as good as food tonic"
On the other hand, excessive attention to food will make people admire the pursuit of food. China people's pursuit of delicious food is an indescribable "artistic conception", that is, it is difficult to cover this "realm" by what people usually call "color, fragrance, taste, shape and container".