Due to the amount of detail required to document this, this portion of our cooking class gets its own feature. While we were waiting for our sticky rice to soak, Suit taught us how to make absolutely beautiful garnishes. We started by slicing tomatoes into tiny 1mm thin slices, then lining them up precisely in a line one after the next. Before we even finished step 1, Suit had to fix mine because it was "not beautiful."
Waiting to find out how ridiculous Step 2 will be
Step 2: Roll the tomato slices carefully together.
Step 3: Suit tweaks all areas that are "not beautiful" until you get this:
Wow! Why do I have a feeling I will never be able to replicate this??
Now make leaves.
Step 1: Cut a cucumber into transparent, paper-thin, perfect slices
Step 2: Assemble slices perfectly curving around the plate while also maintaining
perfect angle and distance from each neighboring slice.
Step 3: Suit fixes any slices (which, let's be honest, is most of them) that are "not beautiful."
Step 4: Create a "skirt" for the rose out of a lettuce leaf and voila!
Beautiful food art... that we kind of helped make...
Beautiful!
("Not beautiful!")
I need to practice this- it was so hard! Ours were eventually beautiful because our teacher helped us ;)
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