It was very nice, and good wine pairing.
Just one pairing was a bit off, but due to this bloody trend of orange (skin contact) organic wines. Will never really like them, and the pairing indeed was off. All the other dishes and respective wine worked very well instead.
The orange peel does indeed work better with Hickenlooper (chicken, im going to keep that lovely cellphone autocorrect in haha) than wine 
It took nine years for authorities in China to define the spectrum of the 24 flavor profiles used in Sichuan cuisine, André Chiang said, and he described as one of his missions completing the full spectrum of Taiwanese flavors over the next decade.
tbh, this guy is full of shit.
Potato Starch
Soy Sauce
= foreign food in taiwan.
? wut?
Neither of those are taiwanese, they are foreign.
Taiwan, as a colonial contact zone, is full of âforeignâ stuff right from our beloved mangos down. So much has been brought here, adapted, and used.
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Yup. Others are just straight up imported and imparted into foreign cuisine. Like soy sauce and potato starch lol. Well, we have some factories, granted.
Same as other parts of the world⊠so many things we nowadays see as local but in reality itâs imported. Potato as an example, in reality only local to parts of South America before it was brought to Europe
Itâs why the imported argument makes no sense.
In ways. Absolutely. The imported thing doesnât make sense in a pure form of a cuisine type. I think for things like say chili, which has many centuries, if not millenia, get a pass when itâs raw plants being used and made into clearly new cuisines fro. Their traditional origins. Now aways is just chemicals mushrd in a jar and squirmed into starches. I would think chili proper in old school Thai food, African food etc is a far superior food type than tobasco and msg ladden wheat flour scultped and fried in oil.
Imported factory products also prepared as another cuisine, also makes no sense to call it that nations cuisine. Eg. Hamburgers in Asia. Kimchi in Canada. And so on.
Correction: ginger and fake sesame oil.
Donât believe me? Look at the ingredients of a local sesame oil brand next time you are at the supermarket.
Factory sludge is problematic world wide. Absolutely! People know this and still take the fake liter for $ 150 instead of the raw one for $30 because they donât want to break a nail slicig a vegetable. Or something. Some wonder why health problems are so damn high, but justify it with much better health care and thus lower death rates. Completely ignoring the quality of life, and just focusing on the duration of average life.
Considering the % of population with higher education and university degrees, we sure are dumb for being so awesomely educated.