I know that my taste buds have a good luck.
When I feel the attractiveness of a food has receded, there will be always one appearing to attract and inspire me. By the way, I consider myself is not a deft-handed man. But my taste is such strict that I have an enormous gap between ‘acceptable’ and ‘good’ in my mind. Under a long time, I became so weary of that very few of things interest me. Certainly, the life of little delight is very hard, so I have to develop the habit that being more active than most people for looking for good things and inspiration. Fortunately, there is always a good result to fill me more energy to tide over the ordinary days.
In an evening, an idea came though, ‘go to have a different kind of dinner’. Then I went to ‘for Farm‘ （田樂） for their vegetarian-featured burger. The atmosphere of this shop, which is redeveloped from an old house, transpired a natural and delicious smell.
I ordered a ‘toasted chicken burger’ set. The mixture of chicken leg and shiitake mushrooms with miso sauce is an unique creation. Although it is not a role of the general meaning of ‘tasty’, but it can lead a fascinating exploration of savour. It has some analogy with listening to a talk of a philosopher.
The only drawback is the chicken meat which is little overly firm. It is a good feature to somebody wants to have a chewy taste, but not me. And at that time I must consider that I never really like to eat meat. Next time I may choose “Tofu burger’. Generally, it is more delicious than other burger I’ve tasted, by making by a special way. Besides, Their potato chowder soup is another delicious, which is merged plentiful ingredients such as potatoes, celery, mushroom, enokitake, parsley and bread cubes which are for relish. Can feel that they are made with genuineness and worth the relatively expensive price.
Record the landscape of this shop on my Moleskine watercolour pad is another purpose. Because at for Farm there are two floors, I sit at ground floor while I did not want to miss the season vegetables clock at upstair, so I use the intermixture style, which is inspired from cubism, when drew the scene. In brief, I began to try to do it not only for a simple description of this space, but creating my own imagination of it.
Also this time, I also attempted to draw a person (she is one of staffs at the shop). On the finished drawing (on the top of this post), the gradient technique seems still not in adequate skill, in some ways it can be blamed on these is no grey in Winsor & Newton solid watercolour set, then I must mix it from raw umber and ultramarine. However, if I continually mix the mingled grey with other colors, it is so prone to appear small gray points. In order to it, I started to take the Holbein cake watercolours in account. But, disappointedly, this stuff is hard to get to them who are not live in Japan.
One more thing invigorating — When I was drawing this, two girls who sit next to me stroke up a conversation with me, praise my drawing has good quality. And including the manager, the staffs all showed their interest to my drawing after they passed by and took a view of it. In fact, this piece of drawing is not ‘good quality’ enough in my standard. But surely, especially when most of the moderns just want to take a shot after find a scenery they like; painting, the kind of traditional art, had indeed become more profound and spiritual. Usually people resist being photographed, but do not hold a dislike of being portrayed (unless the painter is a caricaturist).
Thank to this experience, I actually recognise that painting — can be a job to plant the joy around. Of course, the concept of creation can be an effective way to promote the creating process, but if we make concept transcends the simple joy from the creative process; in my opinion, it is similar to putting the cart before the horse. I would like to give the world we exist a new idea and meaning; meanwhile, I hope the creation can probably kindle people’s mind and palate. Perhaps what I like to do just resemble the ‘for Farm’ burger with miso sauce as condiment that enliven the sensory with the vitality of nature.
田楽 漢堡 鬆餅 午晚茶小館
for Farm burger, pancake, café
臺灣臺中市西區美村路一段102巷1號
No.1, Lane 102, Mêicūn Rd. Sec. 1, West Distinct, Taichung City, Taiwan