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Shitang Yuanye Art Exhibition

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I am Yueryou! tour!   Fish in the Pool  

Dishes

2020

Welcome to Tai Sang Wai, the home of Yu'er. Aconitum is the most representative authentic product in Dashengwei fish ponds.

Please prepare your taste buds to swim freely, experience and feel the life of fish. Follow the map in hand and follow the designated route to visually explore the growing environment of the fish-Tai Sang Wai; at the same time, explore and experience the life of the scorpionfish with the first sense of taste.

 

Welcome Home!  Grey Mullet is one of the most significant local food at Tai Sang Wai. Let's get ready your five senses  to experience a life of'Fish in the Pool'. The map will guide you to walk and taste the growth environment of grey mullet with the first-person perspective.

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Wei Simin
Winnie NGAI
artist
Artist

Inakaze

  The Flavor of Rice

This dish is a toast-like snack. The main ingredients are bread, tofu residue, etc., as well as some doll noodles and rice noodles. Just like the daily food of a blackhead fish, it feels like a mess of food.

This dish is a plate of toast-like snacks. The main ingredients are bread, soy pulp, as well as some instant noodles and rice noodles. She hopes the participants taste the food that grey mullets eat, of which an array of flavours intermixes.

Tangyuan

Tong Yuen

This dish expresses the state of the blackhead fish just born in the fish pond. There will be a piece of blue ice in the plate. The ice is made of mint leaves, limes and some seasonal fruits. After the ice slowly melts, you need to use a drinking tube to suck the blue water point by point, like The act of sucking water by a blackhead fish.

 

This dish represents the state of a newly born grey mullet in a fishpond. On each plate, there is a piece of blue ice made of mint leaves, lime, and some seasonal fruits. As the ice slowly melts, the participants have to use straws for drinking the blue water, allegorising the process of grey mullets drinking water.

City

City

This dish is a dish of dessert-a marshmallow with a match placed next to it. After the participants struck a match, they could lightly bake the marshmallows with firelight and eat them again. One bite down, the soft marshmallows are inside. There are some uncooked doll noodles. This gustatory shock is imaginative of something soft and sweet on the surface. It turns out that there will be hard objects inside and will be damaged by fire, so as to express the harmful behavior of human activities to nature.

This dish is dessert —— a marshmallow with a match next to it. The participants can light the match and bake the marshmallow slightly before eating. Inside the marshmallow is some uncooked instant noodles. She hopes that the impact of taste will prompt the participants to imagine things that are soft and sweet on the surface can be hard inside and be burnt by fire. With this dish, she hopes to represent how human activities harm nature.

Due to the impact of the epidemic, some works have not been exhibited in the online exhibition as scheduled. Please forgive me.

In view of the continued COVID-19 epidemic, some artworks are unable to show in the online exhibition. Thank you for your understanding. 

Behind The Scenes

flying fish

Flying Fish

This dish is a self-made salted fish rice ball made with salted octopus and various ingredients. After the rice ball is formed, it is heated slightly in the oven to taste the taste of octopus.

This dish includes salted grey mullet dices and various ingredients. Participants need to use the ingredients to make a salted fish rice ball. After that, the rice ball will be heated in the oven and the participants can taste the flavour of grey mullet.

Pollution

Pollution

This dish is a white fish jelly made with blackhead fish soup. The fish soup does not use any seasonings. First, taste the original taste of the blackhead fish. Then freely mix various flavor powders, including bamboo charcoal powder, green tea powder, chili powder, etc., and sprinkle it into a fish-shaped mold. In the end, you will get a very messy taste, which expresses that the octopus is living in the muddy water.

This dish is a fish jelly made with frozen grey mullet soup. The fish soup does not have any seasonings. Participants can taste the original taste of grey mullet. Then, the participants can add spices of various flavours and colours, including bamboo charcoal powder, green tea powder, chilli powder, etc. The participants can mix the spices freely and sprinkle them over a fish-shaped mould. The participants will taste an intricate flavour, to express that the grey mullets live in turbid water.

Rebirth

Rebirth

This dish is a glass of carambola soda. After drinking the water, the taste that I had eaten disappeared, to express that everything started again.

This is a glass of star fruit soda. The drink will wash away all the flavours. Through which, metaphorise a new start for everything.

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