At the beginning, Sister Tao was shopping for food. Sister Tao is very picky when she buys vegetables. When she buys garlic, she has to wear reading glasses and pick them one by one in the cold storage. Even when the vegetable vendor saw her coming, he would make an appointment to play a prank together.
Roger went home, steamed crab and other dishes were already listed on the table. Come first with a bowl of hot soup, then eat fish and crabs. The shredded green onion is pushed aside and straight to the fish's belly, and he eats all the way without raising his head. At first glance, he is a young master who has been loved since childhood.
Roger was clamoring for beef tongue. Sister Tao refused to give him food and said, "I want to build a bridge again." It means that Roger ate too much unhealthy food before, which caused problems such as coronary arteriosclerosis. But Sister Tao still did it. The braised beef tongue was fried first with ginger slices and garlic, then cumin, cinnamon, star anise and green onions. The gestures were extremely skilled. - It's like the parents who can't beat their children.
Sister Tao chooses a new helper for Roger herself, and eats it in three words. Do you know where to buy live red shirt fish? My boss only eats live fish. What pot do you use to cook rice? It is fragrant to cook rice in a clay pot. So Miss Cai laughed at her: You choose a daughter-in-law!
Serving Roger's family is the theme of Sister Tao's life, and food is the core of this theme, and it is also the theme of everyone's memories of Sister Tao. For Roger's elementary school classmates, the best memory of Roger's family is the delicious table. When his wife returned to Hong Kong and had a sore throat, she remembered her Luo Han Guo tea. When I returned to the old house, I saw the refrigerator at first sight, and I thought that the eldest young master bought a big watermelon, and the whole family ate iced watermelon together, so the master and servant laughed together. This is a silhouette of the family's fondest memories.
There are two scenes where Sister Peach and Roger eat. The first time was when Sister Tao was still ill, Roger finished eating and sat on the sofa, and she was able to stand, holding a bowl and talking to him while eating the rest of the meal. The second time was when Roger took her to a tea restaurant. At this time, the two of them were sitting together, so the relationship between the two changed from pure master and servant to relatives, and it came out.
When my wife heard that Sister Tao had suffered a stroke, she flew back from the United States thousands of miles away to visit her. This is a good practice for a big family. The wife brought bird's nest. This scene is very interesting, the wife was very excited at the beginning, and Sister Tao was so grateful, she was restrained to the point of humbleness, but after tasting the bird's nest, Sister Tao's expression became focused, "This must be guarded against ginger, otherwise it will be fishy. ." The wife's expression also changed from condescending to questioning, and Sister Tao took another sip, but it was still fishy. The wife immediately didn't know what to say, her expression was a little embarrassed and very boring. Fortunately, even if Roger opened the topic, he resolved the embarrassment. Although there are only a few words, the professional self-esteem of an old servant comes out--although you are the master and I am the servant, when it comes to cooking food, I am an expert, and you can only listen to me.
Sister Tao's own changes are also reflected through food. She was admitted to a nursing home, and the food in the cafeteria could not be eaten. Let's look at a detail, the vegetables ordered by the nursing home. They are the most common ingredients such as green cabbage and cabbage, and they are completely incomparable with the ingredients that Sister Tao carefully selected for the host. Had to ask Roger to bring two bottles of fermented bean curd to adjust his appetite. Roger took Sister Tao's words "If you haven't eaten beef tongue for a long time, then don't eat it" to block her, but he still brought it to her, just like Sister Tao still gave him a stew of beef tongue. But from then on, whether it was the cafeteria of the nursing home or the tea restaurant where Roger took her to eat, the food level has plummeted, and the living standard of the whole person is just like this food.
Sister Tao has made fine food all her life, but her teeth are rotten in her old age. Roger wanted to make dentures for him, but she refused to make dentures too expensive, saying that she was useless, but she felt pain in her heart. At this point in life, the decline is irreversible. But people remember you because you gave them good things. The memory of fragrant teeth and cheeks is not deceiving, and it is permanent, with the warmth of emotion, the warmth will no longer have your years.
When Sister Tao was dying, Roger pushed her out to play in a wheelchair. She just said that the weather is hot and she wants to eat jelly. Sister Tao has always been very self-respecting, and when others say they want to come to see her at the nursing home, she is used to saying "don't come if you don't have time". Roger noticed it immediately, walked over to throw the trash, stopped for a few seconds in front of the trash can, and turned back. Andy Lau's back reflects his delicate acting skills, which is very moving. But what I was thinking was, did she consciously go back to her childhood, when she didn't have to wait, she could shout, I want to eat this, I want to eat that?
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