VOA常速英语:厨师Tim Ma的美食

My name is Tim Ma, I am the chef and the owner of Kyirisan, Water & Wall and Chase the Submarine.
我的名字是Tim Ma，我是kyirisan餐厅，水枪餐厅，和追逐潜水艇餐厅的老板兼主厨。

So my parents are first generation immigrants, they both came from Taiwan to Arkansas sometime in the 70s.I can’t recall the year, they didn’t speak English and just landed in Arkansas, of all places.
我父母是第一代移民。他们是上世纪70年代的某个时候从台湾来到阿肯色州在的，我回忆不起来具体是哪一年了。他们不会说英语，他们就随便挑了个地方降落，就刚好到了阿肯色州。

My parents surely taught me about working hard, like, they came to America for the American dream.And you know, what they were escaping in China to land in Taiwan and then come to America was you could make your own destiny.You could work hard and that would lead you to your dream.
我父母教会我努力工作，比如，他们来到美国是为了美国梦。你知道，他们从中国大陆逃去台湾的，然后又到了美国的原因是，在美国，你可以创造自己的命运。你可以通过努力工作来实现心中的梦想。

So we specialize, here at Kyirisan, in Chinese French cuisine.I grew up in a very Chinese environment but I’m train in French cooking.
所以我们kyirisan的主打就是中法融合菜。我在一个非常中国的环境中长大，但我接受了法国烹饪的训练。

This was an expression of the melding of the two things that I know.For sure, a lot of attention is paid on a scallop dish that we do here, we simply wanted to match basil and coconut.
这据我所这是表达了两者的融合的意思，当然，我们在这里做的扇贝很受关注，而我们其实想把罗勒和椰子进行融合。

And we got to this point where we’re like, “Well, let’s just do something off the wall and see what happens.”
我们想到了这一点，“好吧，让我们做一些打破常规的事情，看看会发生什么。”

And we were like, “What if we take something cold and melt it in something hot and that infuses the flavor by mixing it in?”And that’s where we landed with ice cream.
我们都是一样的，“如果我们把冷，热融合注入在一起，味道会怎样？”，于是我们的冰淇淋就问世了。

The response was good, just started steamrolling from there and that’s one of our more popular dishes.
反响很不错，从此这款冰淇淋就一发不可收拾地开始大卖了。

So my wife and I have three children, ages one and a half, four and six.
所以我妻子和我有三个孩子，一岁半，四岁和六岁。

And in our family we have generation names, and my children’s generation happens to be the last one.And so their generation name is “Kun,” but we pronounce it “Kyin”.So the name Kyirisan comes from “kyin” and then “yi, er, san” one-two-three for our children in Chinese.And we just pushed it all together and called it Kyirisan.
在我们家，我们有族名。我的孩子一代恰好是最后一代。所以他们这一代的名字是“kun”但我们念成“坤”。所以这个名字kyirisan来自“坤”，然后中文的“一，二，三”就是英文的 “yi, ri, san”，我们把这三个名字放在一起就是kyirisan。

My children definitely make me smile but I like to say that I have three biological children and I have like, 50 or 60 work children.
我的孩子带给我许多欢笑，但我总说我有三个亲生孩子，而其他的我还有五六十个工作上的孩子。

I’m always at work, I’m at work seven days a week, and I want to be around people that I enjoy spending time with.Because you spend almost more time with the people that you work with than you do with your family and friends.
我总是在工作。我一周工作七天。我想和我喜欢的人们一起共度时光。因为你和你工作伙伴在一起的时间甚至比和家人和朋友呆的时间还多。

And so, you know, coming to work makes me smile, when I get home I don’t want to cook. You know, open the mac and cheese box and dump it in with some milk and butter and it’s done.
所以，我上班的时候总是很快乐。而我回家就不想再下厨了，你懂的，打开巨无霸和奶酪盒，塞两口牛奶和黄油就得了。

I don’t like to cook outside of the restaurant which is actually surprising to a lot of people.I also think that’s true of a lot of chefs, you know, I get all my cooking out of me while I’m here.
我不喜欢在餐馆外面做饭，这让很多人感到惊讶。我也认为很多厨师都是这样的。当我在这里工作的时候，我把所有的烹饪手艺毫无保留都拿出来了。

One thing that probably a lot of people don’t know about me was: through the places that we lived I was actually bullied a lot.
有一件事可能是很多人都不知道的是：在我们住的地方，我实际上经常被欺负。

And I think that set me up to, for one, have more compassion as a chef in what I’m doing and sometimes try and equalize everything,because I came up through a very non-equal environment, and I sometimes would be, not punished for that, I would be bullied for that.
我认为，这些遭遇让我作为一个厨师更具的同情心，我有时试图平衡一切，因为我是在一个非常不平等的环境中长大的，那时有时候我会因此受到，不是惩罚，而是受到欺负。

I do believe that I’m creative as a chef, but I also think that a lot of our success, up to this point, has been through just sheer hard work.
我相信我是个有创造力的厨师。但我也认为，在这一点上，我们的许多成功都是通过纯粹的艰苦工作完成的。

I think, in this country, you can create your own success, just by working hard.Not because you’re smarter than anybody, not because you’re more creative than anybody just by working hard and that’s, I think, that’s why a lot a people end up coming to America.
我认为，在这个国家，只要努力工作，你就能创造自己的成功。不是因为你比任何人都聪明，你比任何人都更有创造力，只是因为你真很努力地在做。我想，这就是为什么很多人最终来到美国的原因。