Having meals with someone older than you or with your parents could be interesting. You'll learn 1 or 2 things each time you spend time together with them.
Had a dinner appointment with my dearest mommy and her friend at a Taiwanese Restaurant. I only knew that the oyster meesua comes from Taiwan and other than that I don't think there's such things as Taiwanese cuisine. Like usual, we ordered our stuff and waited for then to serve it up. First look, it's basically local dishes.
Bring curious, I asked of why should we dine in at a restaurant with food that we could get a few times cheaper outside and still is exactly the same.
They explained that that porridge which is cooked with sweet potato is taiwanese cuisine. I've tasted it, and it taste like any plain porridge.
You basically need to add a ingredient that other people never thought of and that's a change of cuisine. It's amusing for me to start with. That's culinary art.
But art isn't something that you can take the original and add a few things here and there, and you're still able to call it yours.
Even though I call those art, but different kind of art have different kind of expectations like how each and everyone and different expectations towards themselves.

