Tell us the dish you're chasing and what your kitchen and shops can manage – get the recipe, the pantry list, and the vendor techniques that carry the flavour.
Home hobs run cool and slow, which steams food that should sear in minutes.
Soy sauce stands in for everything, and the dish loses the flavour it's built on.
Every dish has a detail – a soak, a bloom, a char – that recipes leave out.
You assume you need a specialist shop, so you never start at all.