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Cooking with Chairman Wang's brought back memories
和王董一起烹飪把我思緒帶回到
of being in the kitchen of my grandmother's farm in Taiwan,
臺灣我祖母農場的廚房里
where I spent my early childhood.
在那里我度過了我的童年
She passed on three years ago
三年前她過世了
and I've come to a Buddhist temple to pay my respects to her.
我來到寺廟里向她表達我的敬意
My grandparents looked after me from a very young age, from about two.
我的祖父祖母在我兩歲時就照顧我
Both my parents were really busy working, trying to,
父母則忙于工作
er, make a living.
竭力謀生，撫養家庭
My memories of food actually all come from
我對食物的記憶全部都來源于
those very early years of living on that farm.
早年在農場的生活
We didn't have very much but every day was so much fun.
我們并不富裕，但每天都充滿快樂
The island of Taiwan is off the south coast of China
臺灣島位于中國南部外海
and is disputed territory.
仍然充滿爭議
My parents left for work when I was five and we travelled first
在我五歲時父母便外出工作，我們先到達了南非
to South Africa and then England where we settled when I was 11.
接著在我11歲時定居在了英國
When I was growing up I didn't want to be Chinese,
在我成長的歲月里，我不希望自己是中國人
I wanted to be English. I wanted to be everything that was not Chinese.
我想成為英國人，我想成為任何人但非中國人
My father forced me to go to Chinese school every Sunday
父母逼我每周日去中文學校
and I had to cook Chinese food for my dad.
還要為父親做中國菜
I resented that and I hated cooking.
我非常反感，我討厭做飯
Erm, but only as the years have gone by
但隨著歲月流逝
that, actually, that's the only Chinese part of me
事實上，我身上唯一留下的中國烙印
that remained, was the cooking bit and the food.
是烹飪和食物
Through it,I now appreciate Chinese culture
通過它，我現在欣賞中國文化
and I'm finding myself,through food,
而且我發現我自己，通過食物
and beginning to understand more of where I'm from and who I am.
開始更多的了解我來自何方，我是誰
This journey is so important because it gives me
這趟旅程很重要，因為它給予了我
a chance to really delve deeper into Chinese cooking, just to learn more.
一個機會真正更深入到中國烹飪，學習更多
