Good food paired with beautiful utensils is one of the joys of life

As the saying goes: "Food is the first priority for the people." Eating is the top priority for Chinese people, and eating pleasing to the eye is even more of a pleasure. Food utensils, as the carrier of delicious food, have played an important role since ancient times and have become a very important part of Chinese food culture. Where there is delicious food, there must be beautiful utensils; and where there are beautiful utensils, there must be delicious food.

Beautiful utensils and delicacies should be like red flowers and green leaves. No one can live without the other. However, too often, we focus on the food and ignore the silent food utensils.

When you open the cupboards at home, how many pieces of tableware that can be called "beautiful utensils" can you take out?

There is a group of people who are out-and-out "foodware addicts". They bring neglected foodware back into the realm of aesthetics and make life more refined.

Eating utensils for one person

Form - Times are changing, and so are the utensils. Today's tableware has already achieved group and customized design, and the use of more new materials has also given more possibilities for the presentation of tableware, giving people a different aesthetic feeling.

Eating alone always brings with it a feeling of loneliness, being alone, so many people will choose to just make something to deal with it. But the philosophy of life that Chen Pengfei wants to express is: being casual does not mean being casual. Just because you are a person does not mean you are indifferent to life. Therefore, there is this set of "one-person eating utensils" specially designed for one person to eat.

The simple combination is designed based on Eastern eating habits and can meet a person's meal matching needs.

The quality of life comes from details. Each piece of "Eating Utensils for One Person" may appear to be simple in shape, but it has put a lot of effort into the details. In Chen Pengfei's view, for a designer, making a cup shape is no different from designing the appearance of a building.

The size of the bowl is just right for holding with one hand. The thick sole lowers the center of gravity of the entire tall bowl, making it difficult to tip over. The foot of the bowl matches the size of the palm of your hand and uses a rare flat bottom. Designed to fit just in the palm of your hand when held, it is stable and elegant.

The 4 cm deep plate can accommodate dishes with a large amount of soup. It is of moderate size and is in line with Chinese eating habits. The sole of the foot has enough thickness to provide effective heat insulation.

Life needs to be surrounded by beauty

Daily use - tableware is made for use, one is to carry the taste, and the other is to beautify the dining table. The entire table setting process is like a gorgeous performance. Each piece of tableware has its own role and interprets the unique dining table aesthetics.

People who take three meals a day seriously will definitely have a special liking for delicious food utensils. Sister Jiang can be said to be an out-and-out food lover. She rented an office space of more than 500 square meters in the bustling business district of the city and decorated it carefully to create a "comfortable home" for the food she has collected over the past 20 years. ".

On the afternoon when I went to Sister Jiang’s house, she was preparing for a small private party with a dining table decorated with the theme of "Blue Danube". Several people had been busy in the kitchen for most of the afternoon. When Sister Jiang walked into the kitchen wearing a slim light blue dress and holding the lazy folded-eared cat, sporadic lights were already lit outside the window. Like photographers, the most important thing for everyone next is to capture the most beautiful moment in front of you. Sister Jiang first picked up a glass bottle to add water to the flowers, and then sat down to taste the dessert. She behaved calmly, dignified and elegantly. Flowers reflect people's faces, and people complement flowers. This is probably the legendary "dining table is picturesque".

I'm crazy about food utensils

Cherish things - "Who knows that every particle of food on the plate is hard work."

Food utensils are the most likely to cause people to cherish things. Heart. Whether it is collecting or repairing, we cherish the emotions placed on the food utensils and the time spent with them every day.

Click on Li He’s Weibo and WeChat, and you’ll see a plethora of pots, dishes, cups, spoons, chopsticks, forks and cages... some are made of ceramics, glass, iron, wood; some are rustic, some are simple, or some are Fresh, or childlike; filled with vegetables, soup, pastries, or just empty. No matter what, they are all worthy of viewing, even if they are just piled on the ground, they are still amazing. "She is indeed a girl who loves food utensils so much."

Li He will use every utensil he gets to serve food. "Eating utensils look good when placed alone, but they are practical utensils after all. Only when they are filled with delicious food can they have the beauty of complementing each other and achieving each other." On weekdays, she always chooses the most suitable utensils based on the dishes she is cooking. Japanese food is paired with stoneware utensils, Chinese food is paired with a steamer, and Western food is paired with a simple dinner plate... "It is important to highlight the ingredients themselves, and of course you like them." Stoneware is sometimes used to cook pasta.

The fragrance of chopsticks and lacquer

Skillful craftsmanship - most of the traditional food utensils have been lost now, and the memories they carry have also become history. To preserve a food-making skill is to preserve the collective memory passed down from generation to generation.

Traditional Chinese food utensils are often known for their exquisite craftsmanship. Not to mention large utensils, even a small chopstick can be seen. Because Fuzhou people are good at making lacquerware, they applied the lacquer painting technique to chopsticks to create exquisite-looking lacquer chopsticks, which not only convey delicious food, but also become a gorgeous scenery on the dining table.

Qi'an Village, located in Cangshan District, Fuzhou City, is a village famous for its production of lacquer chopsticks.

In imagination, making lacquer chopsticks should be a very simple matter, but what you see in front of you is not like that. A lacquer chopstick needs to go through more than 20 processes from rough bamboo or nanmu to final product, including blank selection, painting, drying, and decals. Moreover, every process must be meticulous and meticulous, and must pass layer-by-layer inspections to be considered qualified.

Let us re-see tableware from a variety of perspectives, feel the designers’ intentions in the details, discover the beauty of tableware for daily use, listen to the collection stories of tableware connoisseurs, and appreciate the exquisite craftsmanship, food and beauty. The meaning of the combination of utensils. We also hope that you can choose a satisfying tableware and treat yourself well.