A simple dish - Texture or Aroma?

I shared dinner over my mates place yesterday and I cooked this dish. It was a simple one, but they were wondering what was the main structure of the dish, I wanted to explain to them in detail, but wonder would they understand. But anyway, let's check out the dish first.

Ingredient: (serves 3-4)

1kg Garlic sprouts (soaked and chopped into 2cm pieces)

50g Fried Gluten (soaked until soft and tender)

50g Peanuts (skinned, toasted until crispy)

30g Salted Black Beans (rinsed, drained and set aside)

2 tbsp Vegetable Oil

1 tbsp Sesame Oil

1 tbsp Light Soy Sauce

1 tbsp Black Pepper Powder

2 pc Ginger (finely chopped)

2 cloves Garlic (finely chopped)

Water as needed

Method:

1. In a wok, heat vegetable oil, add in ginger and garlic and fry till aromatic. Stir in garlic sprouts, stir-fry for about 2 minutes.

2. Add in gluten, fry for another 2 minutes, add light soy sauce and continue to stir-fry.

3. Stir in salted black beans, continue to stir-fry, add water bit by bit if the wok is too dry. Stir in the black pepper powder by now, followed by the toasted peanuts, stir-fry for another minute or two.

4. Give the wok a good drizzle of sesame oil right before removing from heat and serving. This is the important part where every ingredient in the wok get a bit of the sesame oil taste, if you think 1tbsp is not enough, add more to get a stronger taste, do not add water after adding the sesame oil, add before if necessary. Serve hot.

Well, if you look at it, there's really nothing hard about the dish, and too simple that there is no main structure some people reckon? Well, the main structure, I say, would be the texture of biting the food. Imagine the crunchiness of the toasted peanuts and the tenderness of the other ingredients in your mouth, it pushes you to bite and crunch a but, but out of it, you get this rich texture of biting...

On the other hand, there is this subtle taste of sesame oil in the ingredients. As you bite, there should be a mouthful taste of sesame oil in it, not forgetting the taste of the ingredients themselves. The latter should be unleashed in a series of biting, after the sesame oil's taste is passed. So, a bit too hard to imagine? Try it yourself! Haha