Journal #10: American Food

Personally, I don’t like American food. Although I don’t know what the traditional American food is, all I have known and seen is burger, salad and sandwich. The food seems to be made them up simple. Most of the sources are already prepared, and you just need to build them up as a building. In this case American way to cook is similar with constructing. For example, everyone can build a burger if there are some basic materials like bread, ham, cheese, peanut source, pepper, salt, jam, jelly. Most foods are simplified, and they think this way is better.
I prefer the way to cook putting in mind and heart. The way to prepare the components is one of the most important processes in Korean food. For instance, Korean BBQ, the meat should be prepared the day before use garlic, onion, pears, and all kinds of condiments and seasoning so that the taste can soak into the meat. And when we eat the BBQ (actually, any food), kimchi is the necessarily needed which not only can enhance the BBQ’s taste, but decrease the meat’s greasiness.
Maybe there is American stake tending to dispute my bias. I tried once, and it was not bad though, I found the quality of the food is quite different. Once, I was in Chinese, one of my American friends almost cried out when he ate the Chinese chicken. He said, from this chicken he could smell the real chicken taste. I could not understand at that time, but when I tried the chicken here, I realized. The chicken taste as more the cotton than the meat.
If I eagerly want to go back my hometown, one of the reasons must be the food nostalgia.