Languages / Mandarin / Level 4 · Unit 1

煮烂了 — Advanced Result Complements

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In this lesson

You are learning advanced result complements: you will read the scene it happens in, learn 10 words and phrases, take apart the pattern behind them (advanced resultative complements (v + result)), hear them in a conversation, rehearse them, and finish by saying one thing out loud to be graded.

The scene

Fu He Hui, a vegetarian fine-dining restaurant in a converted villa on Yuyuan Road, Shanghai

The Art of Vegetarian Fine Dining

福和慧藏在愚园路的一栋老洋房里,推开门就好像走进了另一个世界。这家素食餐厅没有菜单,厨师根据当天最新鲜的食材来决定做什么。

第一道菜是一碗汤。厨师把各种菌菇炖了四个小时,炖到菌菇完全烂了,只留下浓浓的鲜味。我喝了一口,鲜味在嘴里散开来,层次分明。

第二道是煎豆腐。厨师把豆腐煎到外焦里嫩,配上一勺黑松露酱。豆腐的嫩和松露的香融合得恰到好处。旁边的朋友说:「我从来没想到素食可以做到这种层次。」

最让我惊叹的是甜点:一朵用米做成的花。厨师把米蒸透了,然后捏成花瓣的形状。我几乎不忍心把它吃掉。每一口都让我重新思考了什么是真正的美食——不是贵的食材,而是把普通的食材做到极致。