作者：心尘

文学领域里讲，生死和爱情是人类永恒的主题。但对大多数人来说，“吃”才是啊！有人爱吃，自诩吃货，有人爱吃，称为老饕，老饕的境界，像极了随心所欲的太极浑圆之境，不单是为了吃，还能随时从生活中找出吃的乐趣，信手拈来，浑然天成，从这一点上来说，吃，何止是生命的主题，更是一种终极的艺术。

Death and love are the everlasting topic of human in literature. But for most people, eating is more important! Many see themselves as foodies, or even as epicures who can fully appreciate the joy of eating in life any time in a natural way. At this point, eating is more than a lifelong topic, but an ultimate art.

关悦来，人称关爷，作为一名设计师，朋友们都说他是设计圈里字写的最好的厨子。从设计师到厨师的跨度可是不小，但终究以美启真，美食与设计最终还是殊途同归地体现在了关悦来的身上。

Guan Yuelai, who is called as “ father Guan”, as a designer, however, his friends regard him as a chef with the best handwriting in the design community. It’s a big gap between a chef and a designer, while beauty evokes truth that he successfully combined these two things together.

关悦来喜肉食，尤其爱牛尾，常挂嘴边的一句话是：“孔子老先生也爱吃，爱吃肉铺，爱吃咸肉，关于美食，学问多着呢。“

Guan Yuelai enjoys eating meat, especially oxtail, he always said: “ the Confucius eats meat, eats pork jerky, there’s rich knowledge in food.”

说起“牛尾”这道菜，是让关悦来从设计师变厨师的主要原因之一，每逢聚会，这道菜可谓是他朋友们的必点菜，征服了无数亲朋好友挑剔的胃口。别小看这一条小小的牛尾，这里面可是有大文章，有肌肉、有胶质、有骨头、有骨髓，还有脂肪和胆固醇，一口牛尾吃出多种滋味。

When it comes to the dish “oxtail”, Guan Yue said this is the main cause of his change from a designer to a chef. Every time when friends gathered together, this is their necessity, which conquered their picky appetite. You should never look down upon this small oxtail, there’s more to it. Muscle, gelatin, bone, bone marrow, fat and cholesterol,all these combined in a bite of oxtail.

设计师到厨师的跨越，源于他对生活的热爱。我们的人生只有纵向未免过于局限，横向发展，才是生活的硬道理。对于美食的研究，他亦是精益求精，对于菜肴，他更是希望客人可以专注地品尝一道菜，为此他会经常嘱咐服务员放慢上菜的速度，只为让每一位客人达到最佳的用餐体验。

This transformation from a designer to a chef comes from his passion of life. Living our life in a way of horizontality is better than the verticality only.

He works hard on the study of food. In order to make the guests have enough time to fully taste every dish, he deliberately told the waiters to slow their speed of serving dishes so that to give the customers the best eating experience.

吃，是生活的一部分。一日三餐，五谷杂粮，柴米油盐，酱醋糖茶。有人吃滋味，有人品火候，有人看吃客，有人贪杯酒……但不管怎么吃，和谁吃，好心情至关重要。如果连吃都不是在一种自由而幸福的状态下去完成，想必，连食物本身也会变得孤独吧。

Eating is a part of life. Three meals a day, daily necessities of fuel, rice, oil, and salt, different people learn different things from the flavor, the flame, the eaters and the drinkers...... While no matter how you eat, who you eat with, the good mood matters most. If you don’t eat in a free and happy atmosphere, then I think the food itself would be lonely.