How this man was, driven to learn to make the foods, by his own, curiosity of how the foods were, made, translated…
It was about over thirty years ago, at the streets of Nanchang Street, I was like a peeping tom, peeping at the workers, wrapping the wontons, and became curious as to how that palm sized outside, got turned into, a delicious food item in almost, an instant.
The worker caught me looking, I’d immediately, complimented her, “You are so agile in wrapping the wontons, I’m about to drool!”, she was more than generous, not only allowed me to stand by her to watch, and used a slower motion, to teach me how it’s done, I really wanted to, ask for a piece of the dough, to try it, right then and there. Not long thereafter, the passersby started, staring at me, I felt awkward, thanked her, then left. Got on the bus, wand, the memories of worrying got lost, with the speeding away of the bus, I’d, immediately found a Kleenex tissue, and, folded it into a square, the size of my palm, then, followed what was still fresh in my mind, and in a few short seconds, I’d, made a, wonton out of the Kleenex tissues then.
Thinking back, in the third grade, I’d wondered, how did the stick just, rolled and rolled, and rolled, then, voila, an outside wrap of dumpling came into being. And because I wanted to learn, my mother told me how it was done verbally once, and allowed me to roll one piece of the dough; she’d told me, that the center of the dumpling wrap needed to be thicker, that it’s all in the strength when we rolled out the dough. I quickly got it, and, not long thereafter, my mother and I became, a two-man production line, with me rolling the wraps, she wrapping in the filling, and, in the end, we’d, competed too, to see who can do it, faster.
like this…photo from online
And now, when I had something that tasted amazing, I’d, searched for the recipes on Google, to find out how the chefs made them, that crispy fried pork skin, that aromatic smell of meat, you only needed a piece of bacon from the pork, and it cost only half of what’s charged in the restaurants; my mother told me back when I was growing up, making it yourself, is the cheapest way, she was, absolutely, right!
And so, a little curiosity goes, a very, long way, it drove this man to his man to find out how to make the foods that he liked, especially now, with the internet at our fingertips, it’s, even easier to learn to make the foods, you can google the recipes, and then, follow the recipes, step-by-step.