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i used to hate it whenever my mom would say that about me, but now i can see that there are some people that just don't know quality even when it's right there in front of their face.

i guess this issue comes up the most around food. my mom is an amazing cook, she doesn't give a damn about nutritional value or salt content, the only thing that matters for her is flava flava flava. so growing up, i grew up eating food full of flava flava flava. meaning that each meal is full of fresh fresh herbs, lots and lots of spices and without a lot of ingredients (usually just a protein and a couple veggies with some rice on the side).

and not only does the food taste good, but it looks good. my mommy didn't have to plate every dish but she did make me aware of giving food an aesthetic to it.

but it's all amazingly simple. my mom never spent longer than a hour and a half cooking dinner and she usually had about three entrees enough to feed about ten people, and it got even faster once me and my sisters started helping out.

so it really surprises me, as well as offends me, when people say "it's all the same to me" because it's NOT. some people take shortcuts and leave out some details and claim that it's "all the same" then waste time on something completely insignificant then the dish just tastes...empty. a lot of tricks don't even take that much time and they make a world of difference.

one thing that i remembered was when my sister and sister in law wanted to make koh poon and for some odd reason they wanted to use rotisserie chicken instead of just boiling up a raw chicken. you'd think that it'll taste better since the rotisserie chicken has all of the basting and seasonings on it but sometimes simplicity tastes so much better. now buying an already made chicken means that it cuts cooking time...and that's pretty much it. what doing that did to the whole dish was make it greasier, the extra seasonings didn't go well with the dish in itself and gave it a horrible aftertaste and the texture of the chicken was..slimeyer (? that a word??) than usual.

so even taking a simple shortcut can ruin a whole dish, sometimes you just gotta just deal with the little things like cooking a chicken.

but what annoys the SHIT outta me is when people focus so much on like a worthless detail instead of something IMPORTANT like the variety of garnishes available, they focus on something completely insignificant like how big the pieces of minced garlic is. the pieces of garlic are so FUCKING LITTLE that NO ONE is going to notice or give a damn! and it's fucking MINCED already! it doesn't fucking matter! no one's gonna eat it and take a bite of garlic because everything else in the dish is so much bigger than the minced garlic!