The greatness of the ideal from one end to the end, once again the Bushido spirit

Merle 2022-01-09 08:02:59

"The children nowadays are not willing to work very hard and professionally. They want more money and more free time...". Hearing this, I couldn't help but laugh. Today's children, including me, are like this. We are all coveted for fun, but we don't want to exchange equal working hours. "Once you choose your job, do it, and there is nothing to complain about. You have to love your job." With such words, the rest is all shame after examining yourself.

There are too few people like Jiro, a serious old man, unsmiling, without perfection, and can't stop chasing perfection. This taste is too fatty, this one is cut too thick, and that one may be pickled for too long...He has the best ingredients and carefully selected them. "We don't care about the money. If the taste is not good, we will definitely not give it to the guests." There is always a way to deal with it and use the best cooking to meet the needs of the guests and give them the best enjoyment.

From the selection of raw materials, fish, shrimp, to rice, we have our own channels to select the best and most professional suppliers in each field. Suppliers also have their own characteristics, they are descendants of legends or equally demanding tuna pickers. Of course, the supplier also maintains a sympathy with Jiro's shop to some extent. "If they don't understand the ingredients, they don't know how to handle the ingredients properly, why should they be given to them? Isn't it a waste?" This can't help but think of a good horse with a good saddle.

A perfect sushi, a meticulous master, a group of people silently prepare. The chefs in the kitchen have been trained for several years before they have grown to what they are today, including Jiro's own eldest son. From the hot training at the very beginning, to knives, rice cooking, and egg cooking, the work behind these is just over an hour, so how can it be possible to fully understand it? We covet the exquisite quality of top-quality sushi, but how do we know the boring efforts of those chefs? The eldest son said while dealing with seaweed, in this field, you can do well as long as you do it seriously, but if you want to be the top, you need talent. I think this is a 10,000-hour genius theory and perhaps the best explanation. Working day and night in sushi making, Jiro's 75 years of service is really respectable, but it is also the best explanation. He has always wanted to break through yesterday's self, and strives to improve the taste of his works every day. He even said, "Even today, I'm 85 years old, and I don't think I'm perfect." The expression of rigid muscle movement is still on his face. As ordinary people, most of us would think that you are at this age, and the honor you should have cannot better summarize you. You are already in the pyramid. If you are not perfect yet, who else is there? Of course, if you think about it seriously, what he said is indeed correct. It's like natural numbers can never find the extreme value, and perfection has no extreme value. In Jiro, I saw the ultimate spirit, the so-called Bushido. Perfect, for the sake of my conviction, swear allegiance to death. "I don't want to retire, why do I retire? Even if I'm 85, I want to retire when my body no longer allows me to work." He smiled, such an elderly man, willing to use his life to follow his own career. Such spirit is really hard to find among young people. As ordinary people, we don't delve into the profession so much. How can we go to bed at five o'clock in the middle of the night and continue our day's work. They even dislike such things as national holidays and weekends. Of course, Jiro is an extreme example, but his parents should be more than pleased with half of him. Because there is no reason to be unsuccessful in that way. laugh.

Jiro's sushi is really beautiful. After seeing his sushi, I really want to say what I have eaten before? From the rich variety and careful selection of ingredients, one-by-one on-site production, to the control of the food intake of the guests, to the placement of seats, how can this experience not be top-notch? If you go to eat sushi nowadays, in addition to eating boringly, you will keep floating in your mind with those exquisite works. Yes, the work and the careful cooking are works of art.

Talk about other things. The rhythm of the whole film is well controlled, and the soundtrack is a very good helper, making the wonderful part relaxed. Those slow motions plus the capture of Jiro's few changing expressions are just right. Moreover, the attention to the details of Japanese culture, such as Buddhist temples, tomb sweeps, and fish farm bidding scenes, make people inadvertently remember the main line surrounding the god of sushi.

There is a longing for cooking, every foodie has it. But we don't think that the chef's mentality should be so different. We have eaten boxed lunches and fast food, but the top-level cuisine does have its advantages. If I haven't watched this film, I would have never imagined that there are such people in the world.

From a certain point of view, it is really suitable for parents to give their children a look to inspire them. It's really inspirational. Ha ha.

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Jiro Dreams of Sushi quotes

  • Jiro Ono: I do the same thing over and over, improving bit by bit. There is always a yearning to achieve more. I'll continue to climb, trying to reach the top, but no one knows where the top is.

  • Jiro Ono: I've never once hated this job. I fell in love with my work and gave my life to it. Even though I'm eighty five years old, I don't feel like retiring. That's how I feel.