Brain Wave #4: I'd make food my whole life

 Brain Wave #4: I'd make food my whole life

Props to myself for not having a single click bait title, so yeah you get the gist: I love food. And not gonna lie I'm nobody special for stating this lmao, but one thing I feel like telling people at least once is that since I was a little fatass kid (I swear to god if you get annoyed by that comment get a life, I'm talking about myself) I just always loved to eat anything my mom would cook, wanting to learn how to cook myself, and even watching MasterChef (+Jr) religiously and hoping to get on one of those shows one day. Listen, I've never been a picky eater, and I don't think I'll ever be, there are very few things I'd actually refuse to eat, I even get annoyed to my mom whenever she asks me what I want to eat, because she knows that the answer will always be "I'll eat anything"; as far as I remember I was like 7 years old when I would start asking my mom to teach how to cook and obviously she would say no because we both knew that at such young age I wouldn't have gotten anything out of it. But that certainly never stopped me from making the whole kitchen a mess trying to make a dessert for the weekend: which you can guess I would fail most of the time because I had no idea what I was doing, as well as me being too damn thick to write down or go over a recipe but just go with what I remembered and what my heart would tell me lol.

Anyway, fast forward to the present day I am definitely not a chef nor the best 20 year old cook out there, but y'know I know my way around the kitchen, overtime I understood quite a few things that shaped me into the "cook" I am today: first of all being an actual chef is way out of my league lmao, I understood that to be a chef I would need to know way more than just how to cook, there are many things out there to understand such as I don't know: plating, understanding the function of each ingredient, how they all combine together, timings, temperatures...holy shit way too much for me or many people out there I'm guessing; another thing is that I came to appreciate so many different cuisines around the world, as a child I didn't have the opportunity to eat so many diverse meals from all around the world, and my god I have to admit that very frequently I am in search of something new out there, just so I can taste so many things. Obviously with all my friends in university being east Asian there might be a bias there, but who cares.

See I don't want to sound like I'm some sort of elitist who takes pride in each and every single one of my dishes that I cook on a daily basis, but at the same time I'm not even the type of person my age who only boils pasta and puts it in tomato sauce lmao. You get what I mean...but at the same time I am also the type of person who would save so many recipes I see on TikTok, I swear I'm not beating the doomscroller accusations, but I also YouTube and stuff to expand my knowledge, don't hate on me. And finally, one point I wanna bring home is that I am definitely not the type of person who meal preps or shit like that, because I swear I cannot bring myself to eat the same shit every single day, the maximum I do is make the same pilau recipe every Wednesday, but just because I got time for that: usually I cook dinner and box my food for lunch the day after when I'm in uni, but basically the same thing over and over, nuh uh not for me absolutely. I feel quite neutral with the people who do that, but just know that we are not the same.

One last thing I want to talk about is quite literally the title of this post: if money wasn't a problem in today's world, I would either dedicate my life opening and running a restaurant or doing mukbangs. I say that because I feel like I have such a great idea for a restaurant, which I obviously am not going to explain because nobody is reading this and stealing it (you see the irony? Aren't I funny asf?) but what really annoys me is that nowadays running a restaurant is basically about running the business and not about the food itself, which is why I say that I would do it if money wasn't a problem because I would love to properly learn how to become a chef and just cook for people all day. Following that, my second option would be mukbangs: I already thought this through as well, you just gotta eat in front of an audience, how fucking great! I love eating! I mean I will try my best to stay healthy at the same time, but you know I just like food, what can I say? So yeah, if I didn't need a steady income to live a life in today's day and age I'd make food my whole life.

This time I don't even apologise about the length of this thing, you know I just love to yap at this point, and I just hope you find it interesting and enjoyable to read at the end of the day.

Good bai for now, poposwag