Yanjing Recipe (Looking at China with Western Eyes)

Mr. Okuno loves food and is nicknamed "Food Maniac". He has rich gourmet experience and unique research on food. "Yanjing Cookbook" contains his essays about food, and his "foraging" footprints extend from Tokyo to Beijing. When writing about Chinese food, he tasted all the classic and luxurious dishes of the ancient capital. He also loved street snacks such as sour plum soup and roast mutton, and he could not forget private delicacies such as mustard mustard and lotus leaf porridge. When writing about the taste of Tokyo, I am more nostalgic for the food of the past, such as the grape pancakes from the "Ennichi" event in my childhood, natural and pure tempura, soba noodles and sushi, etc. When Mr. Okuno writes about food, he doesn't just write about food. He blends the taste of life and the aftertaste of the past into the sweetness, bitterness and spicyness of food. His writing style is vivid and sincere, and his diction is beautiful. From it, you can feel the author's poetic and romantic attitude towards life, which is full of deep gratitude for what he has experienced and a touch of melancholy for the past.