Zhang Guanghang still remembers the shock he felt when he first tasted Peach Blossom Fanfare 20 years ago.
His mother, Zhang Mengxuan, was a pianist who had lived in Europe since childhood and could barely speak Chinese. The piano was the most important thing in her life; she was an artist who lived for her art, noble, elegant, and out of touch with worldly concerns. Her emotions were so tepid that her husband and son were almost inconsequential compared to the art she adored and dedicated her life to.
His father, Bono Durand, was a serious, stubborn, and even dogmatic man. Bono Durand was exceedingly arrogant, believing that French cuisine was the most perfect, excellent, and noblest in the world, rejecting fusion, exchange, and innovation. Over the years, he even seemed to have trapped himself in his own world.
