Despite Simple, Still Brilliant.
In my opinion, Chinese food is best. It includes all kinds of ingredients, different ways of cooking, and recipes. Among all those delicious meals, however, I like the most common one, which is called scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Its ingredients are ordinary; its recipe is simple. But it looks colorful with red and yellow, the most two lively colors. Also it tastes amazingly yummy.
This dish is Caroline’s (my best friend) and my favorite dish. Once we went on vacation in Xiangshan. It is a place close to the sea, and we stayed at a hotel next to the beach. Since it was a seaside city, seafood is certainly local greatest food to eat. So we mostly had lots of different seafood such as scallop, oyster, shrimp, crabs, etc. as our main meals. They were amazingly gorgeous. However, having seafood for all lunches and dinners for about a week, we both felt it very excessive. The smell and the taste of the seafood gradually became worse, since we already had enough and even too much. One day I even felt disgusting about eating seafood again, and strongly urged to have some meals other than seafood. So we walked around and tried to find such a restaurant. Unfortunately, all the restaurants near our hotel only served seafood, together with a few vegetables, for meals. I was so amazed that how local people could have seafood every day. Obviously, it was difficult for me. We were hopeless and prepared to have seafood again. So we randomly went into a small restaurant, sadly and dispiritedly. While looking at the menu seeing those seafood names, a feeling of disgust shot through my stomach. Suddenly, I thought of our favorite dish, scramble eggs with tomatoes, and so I quickly scanned the menu and sought for that name. The answer is “No”. There was that dish, either. How could a restaurant not have such a common dish? I was a little pissed and depressed. But that did not stop me from saving my stomach. I asked the waitress, “Do you have tomatoes and eggs?”
She looked at me, surprisedly, as if I was an alien, and answered, “Yes.”
“So could I please have scrambled eggs with tomatoes?”
She hesitated for a while and replaced her surprise with a big smile on her face, and said, “We had really good seafood here, why would you want…”
“Oh, please, don’t even mention seafood. We’ve had enough. So could you cook scrambled eggs with tomatoes for us?” I already became impatient.
Probably knowing that we did not want seafood by my unfriendly voice, she stopped her attempt to recommend seafood dishes to us, “Ok, anything else? Just this one?”
I nodded my head very heavily, desiring to eat it right away. Finally after about fifteen minutes, we started to enjoy our favorite dish and gobbled it like two starving wolves. The funnier thing was, only one dish was too little for two of us and we were still hungry after clearing up the plate. Therefore, we ordered two more dishes of scrambled eggs with tomatoes! With them, I had three big bowls of rice and Caroline had two. I could never have so much rice during one meal, yet only scrambled eggs with tomatoes can make that happen.
Scrambled eggs with tomatoes is such a common meal, but it is not common at all in my mind. I like its color, its smell, and its taste. The most importantly, it had meaningful symbolism to me: Despite simple, still brilliant.
This dish is Caroline’s (my best friend) and my favorite dish. Once we went on vacation in Xiangshan. It is a place close to the sea, and we stayed at a hotel next to the beach. Since it was a seaside city, seafood is certainly local greatest food to eat. So we mostly had lots of different seafood such as scallop, oyster, shrimp, crabs, etc. as our main meals. They were amazingly gorgeous. However, having seafood for all lunches and dinners for about a week, we both felt it very excessive. The smell and the taste of the seafood gradually became worse, since we already had enough and even too much. One day I even felt disgusting about eating seafood again, and strongly urged to have some meals other than seafood. So we walked around and tried to find such a restaurant. Unfortunately, all the restaurants near our hotel only served seafood, together with a few vegetables, for meals. I was so amazed that how local people could have seafood every day. Obviously, it was difficult for me. We were hopeless and prepared to have seafood again. So we randomly went into a small restaurant, sadly and dispiritedly. While looking at the menu seeing those seafood names, a feeling of disgust shot through my stomach. Suddenly, I thought of our favorite dish, scramble eggs with tomatoes, and so I quickly scanned the menu and sought for that name. The answer is “No”. There was that dish, either. How could a restaurant not have such a common dish? I was a little pissed and depressed. But that did not stop me from saving my stomach. I asked the waitress, “Do you have tomatoes and eggs?”
She looked at me, surprisedly, as if I was an alien, and answered, “Yes.”
“So could I please have scrambled eggs with tomatoes?”
She hesitated for a while and replaced her surprise with a big smile on her face, and said, “We had really good seafood here, why would you want…”
“Oh, please, don’t even mention seafood. We’ve had enough. So could you cook scrambled eggs with tomatoes for us?” I already became impatient.
Probably knowing that we did not want seafood by my unfriendly voice, she stopped her attempt to recommend seafood dishes to us, “Ok, anything else? Just this one?”
I nodded my head very heavily, desiring to eat it right away. Finally after about fifteen minutes, we started to enjoy our favorite dish and gobbled it like two starving wolves. The funnier thing was, only one dish was too little for two of us and we were still hungry after clearing up the plate. Therefore, we ordered two more dishes of scrambled eggs with tomatoes! With them, I had three big bowls of rice and Caroline had two. I could never have so much rice during one meal, yet only scrambled eggs with tomatoes can make that happen.
Scrambled eggs with tomatoes is such a common meal, but it is not common at all in my mind. I like its color, its smell, and its taste. The most importantly, it had meaningful symbolism to me: Despite simple, still brilliant.