I learned piano as a child. About 6 or 7 years ago I decided to try playing the guitar. When I was small I started off with pastry after that I went into cooking and cuisine. The period in between, from pastry to cooking, coincided with my shift from piano to guitar, and I think they are very similar things.

Piano is very elegant, everything needs to be played perfectly, you need to follow the notes. But guitar is a very freestyle thing, like cooking; when adding a pinch of salt, you don’t need to be very precise.

When I moved to playing the guitar it took me a while to get used to it. And when going back to the piano it took me a while to get used to that again. In the same way when I go from cooking back to pastry, I need to get used to measuring the right quantities of sugar, attaining the right consistency, the right temperatures, butter… after a while I get used to all these and now after a few years I can jump between the two very well. I can sit in front of a piano and play very freely, and enjoy the process, before I needed to think about it more. Likewise, I can now make pastry freely, but still following all the rules.

Both benefit me. I now not just a cuisine chef, or just a pastry chef- I am both!

音樂旅程—由精準走向隨性，周而往復

當我還是一個小孩子的時候，我一直在不斷地學習彈奏鋼琴，而就在六七年前，我決定開始去嘗試吉他。這讓我想起，當我還很小的時候，我便開始學習烘焙，之後的幾年，我選擇進入烹飪製作的世界。在從烘焙轉到烹飪製作，和學習鋼琴轉至彈奏吉他，這兩者之間，我認為它們是相似的，且有關聯的事情。

在我心目中，鋼琴是非常優雅的，在其中每一件事你都需要做得完美至極，你要去遵循它的每一個重要事項。但，吉他卻與之相反，它是非常的自由隨性。就像烹飪那樣，當你用手去揪一小撮食鹽的時候，它並不需要那麼精確。

當我從鋼琴轉去學吉他，我花了一段時間去適應這種變化。而當我又重新回到鋼琴的世界中時，也需要再一次的去適應鋼琴的節奏。這樣的過程，像極了我從烹飪回到了烘焙一般。又需要去用精確的稱量方法去計量每一毫克的糖粉，以便它是準確無誤的。把握精確的溫度，黃油的重量等等，這一切又重新回歸完美與精確。在經歷了一段時間的磨合之後，現在的我已經能夠在兩者之間不停地自由轉換。我能夠坐在鋼琴面前，自由隨性地去演奏的同時，去享受這個過程，而在此之前的我還需要花時間去思考一番突然的轉變。同樣的道理，我現在也能夠更自由地去進行烘焙的工作，但所有的這一切都還是在遵循著既有的規則的原則之下進行融合。

我在這兩種事物的不停轉換與磨合中，受益匪淺。現在的我，不僅僅是一個烹飪廚師，又或者我不僅僅是一個烘焙廚師，也許兩者的我都是，也都同樣精彩！