After all, Brother Zhang did not try the taste of orangutan, even though those people recommended it desperately.
Of course, it's not that Brother Zhang is worried about safety. If he wants to, it must be safe. But this thing is really not attractive at all. But apart from the orangutans, they said that this place is also somewhat interesting.
For example, the smuggling ships passing by will bring some slaves for sale from time to time. If you want, you can spend a little money to buy a few slaves, and then use these slaves to exchange for some good things with the monsters on the island, or simply
Being tortured to death is actually very relaxing.
Of course, it was impossible for Brother Zhang to accept such a proposal, but he didn't say anything, because those who want to change this world are not guardians but revolutionaries. Generally speaking, the backwardness of this place is really disappointing.
It's amazing, but speaking of them, they were able to achieve an inexplicable balance in such harsh conditions, which is quite remarkable.
But in the end, Brother Zhang didn't stop. After resting here for a night, he came to the largest town near the Bay of Bengal. It is said that this is now the only designated trading place for Ananda dragon skin, except for the skin of Ananda dragon.
, it is also the largest slave trading city and the largest smuggling port in the entire subcontinent.
Standing on the bustling harbor and looking out, the sails are densely packed, the ships entering and leaving the harbor are constantly coming and going, and the pier is lit up all night long. The prosperity of import and export has created the unique style of this city. The surrounding Persia, Egypt
Even ships from Europe gather here, and people of all races come and go. Even people in strange clothes like Xiao Zhang are nothing new on the street, because there are also many dark-skinned and dark-haired smugglers here.
Wandering on the street.
And because of its unique terrain and unique world civilization, this port city should theoretically be the most prosperous city and the city with the highest technological content in the world. The buildings and streets built layer by layer along the mountain show the
It has a flavor of early steampunk. Walking in this city is like entering the world of Monster Hunter. Although there is no magical flying carpet, you can see that the flying boats in the city have become wealthy people.
The mode of transportation is similar to a taxi.
Brother Zhang just arrived here, and everything he saw was new. He even paid for a ride on a flying boat with no destination, just flying around the city a few times. Flying boats are not cheap or even expensive, and they have a unique schedule.
The method is to meter by street corner. Each street corner costs one silver coin, and one silver coin is half a day's salary of a hard worker at the dock.
Most of the drivers of the flying boat are practitioners with certain abilities. Although they are different from the Eastern schools, they are essentially the same. Most of these people are very talkative. They are like taxi drivers and Xiao Zhang.
high rollers to talk to.
"Ananda Shesha, it is said that it lives under the bay and protects the bay with its own power. It is very lazy and never likes to move. It only needs to eat once every few hundred years, but no one has actually seen it.
Its appearance, legend says it is very big."
The pilot of the flying boat controlled the flying boat to fly over the city, and then introduced the customs and customs of the city to Brother Zhang like a tour guide. Because Brother Zhang can communicate spiritually, no matter how obscure he said, Brother Zhang could understand
Can understand.
And because Brother Zhang gave this flying boat driver a large piece of gold, if there is no accident tonight, this flying boat will belong to Brother Zhang, and the driver above will concentrate on taking care of this high-profile customer.
"This is our most famous food store below. Do you need something to eat? I'll buy it for you."
The height of the flying boat has been lowered. Below is a food store full of the third brother's style. It looks quite high-end. Brother Zhang became curious: "I'll go with you. I'll treat you to food, but you have to be responsible."
Pick out what tastes best.”
What surprised Brother Zhang was that this restaurant actually had a special place for flying boats to dock. It was like a parking lot. After entering, the splendid feeling really made his eyes shine.
But the prices on the menu are even more eye-catching. The prices of the dishes here start at five silver coins, and the expensive dishes are calculated in gold coins. What surprises Xiao Zhang the most is that there is an Ananda Dragon here.
Dragon skin soup, in order to study what it tasted like, he spent ten gold coins to order one.
The visiting service staff told Brother Zhang that Anandalong's dragon skin soup would take about two hours to come out of the pot and he needed to wait patiently. Brother Zhang didn't say anything about this. After all, he was also a cook.
I deeply understand that a good dish takes time to cook.
They ordered a table of dishes, which only cost a little more than five gold coins in total, and a dish of Ananda Dragon's dragon skin soup was more expensive than the whole table. The driver of Feizhou repeatedly praised Brother Zhang for his generosity.
After all, this meal is almost equivalent to the entire income that this flying boat traveler can save without eating or drinking for half a year, and even more.
You know, Feizhouke is already considered a middle- to high-income group in this city.
However, although they are expensive, these things do not give Brother Zhang a particularly amazing feeling, because most of them are made of expensive spices, such as pepper, chili pepper, cinnamon, star anise, etc... These people in this world
It seems that the spices that are full of awe are not worth mentioning in Brother Zhang's place.
But when the pot of Ananda dragon's skin soup came up two hours later, it really gave Brother Zhang a surprise. The basin that came up was probably the kind of basin where you usually eat boiled meat slices, and the dragon soup inside appeared.
It's a brown paste and doesn't have any of those messy spice smells.
Brother Zhang used a spoon to put a spoonful into the bowl. The texture felt a bit like... very thin ice powder, but it was indeed hot, thick and textured. Take a sip and the first thing in your mouth was
The feeling is that of Huzui, a large amount of colloid has been fully stewed in the soup, and then there is an unprecedented sweetness that fills the mouth, and there is also a fishy smell unique to seafood, and this fishy smell is
The taste is not unpleasant, and even the slight fishy smell makes this pot of soup have a more wild taste.
There are no spices in the dragon soup, just a little salt. Even the salt taste may be the taste of the skin, because you can taste the taste of the sea that seems to be absent. It is possible to add nothing, just simple
Made from the skin of the Ananda dragon.
Brother Zhang continued to take a few more mouthfuls. He could clearly feel the gelatinous feeling slowly entering his stomach, and then being quickly digested. Then it penetrated into every part of his body at a very fast speed, although this thing had no effect on him.
, but it can really be felt.
After that, he tasted every detail of the dish like a gourmet, and under the pot he found some finely chopped things that looked like the skirt of a tortoise, and he sucked one into his mouth
, without exerting any effort, it melted completely with just a sip of the tongue, and then the umami flavor ten times richer than the soup exploded in the mouth, and the salty taste here told Brother Zhang that his intuition was really not good enough.
No, the salty taste in this soup really comes from the flavor of the skin itself.
After swallowing the food in my mouth, I immediately began to feel a sweet taste rising up. That kind of sweetness with a fresh fishy taste was like drinking a bowl of Buddha Jumping Over the Wall that had been boiled for a long time, but this taste was far stronger than Buddha Jumping Over the Wall.
More sufficient.
He picked up one again and observed it carefully. Although it had been boiled to a pulp, from the outside, it looked like eel skin, but it was also different because it was thick enough.
Brother Zhang asked Feizhou's driver to call the manager here. He said he wanted to see what the real Ananda dragon's skin looked like. Can the manager refuse to let him go? This is a meal that costs fifteen gold coins.
The boss didn't even need Brother Zhang to go there in person. He quickly ordered the waiter to bring the ingredients.
There are two things on the tray, one is a sun-dried black hard shell, and the other is a dragon skin that has been soaked in water and swollen. The black one is nothing special, just like the shell of a big turtle, about ten centimeters.
It's thick, hard and has a fishy smell. But the swollen one next to it has a completely different appearance. It's a brown translucent piece with a jelly texture. It's been placed in the bucket for about five years.
It is ten centimeters thick. Although it looks like jelly, it is extremely strong and cannot be poked in with your hands, or even with a needle.
Brother Zhang curiously asked a few questions, and the manager answered them one by one. He said that the skin of the Ananda dragon cannot be cooked directly after buying it, because it will have a special smell and be difficult to cook.
Swallowing. You need to use a knife to scrape off the black mucus on the outside of the dragon skin bit by bit, and then put the processed dragon skin into the oven to steam it dry. This process alone takes ten days or even longer, and
After the steamed dragon skin is taken out, it can be hung in a cool and ventilated place for storage. When needed, you can use a saw to cut off a piece for soaking.
It takes about seven days to soak the hair. The water must be changed every morning and evening. The water must be the purest pure water. It must not have any impurities, let alone a salt-alkali smell. Just the pure pure water needed to soak a piece of dragon skin is enough.
It cost a gold coin to bring it from afar.
After the dragon skin is soaked, it will have a special texture. At this time, metal cannot be used for cutting, because if it is contaminated with the fishy smell of metal, picky gourmets will flip the table. At this time, they will use the sharp beak of an eagle or the crocodile.
Fangs to split dragon skin.
The divided dragon skin will appear in the shape of strips, because it cannot be cooked if it is not in this shape. Then these dragon skins will be put into the soup cooked with hard grass from the East. This soup can effectively
It removes the sea smell carried in the dragon skin and makes it sweet.
And this is not the last process. The last process is to put the dragon skin that has been washed, swollen and soaked in hard grass juice into a pot made of expensive ceramics and stewed. Although the dragon skin is already very soft at this time, it is still
It takes two to three hours of cooking before it is ready for the table.
Brother Zhang was amazed. He had never thought that it would take so much effort to make this thing. No wonder it was a top-notch dish. Looking at the money, it seemed that it was not too expensive.
Because the cost of the first few things here is there. The first is pure water. There is no pure water that costs one yuan a bottle. Pure water requires those alchemists to make it bit by bit. This cost is invisible.
The other one is that there is no bamboo here, or they don’t have Xiangfei bamboo. This completely requires smuggling and importing things. There is no way to reduce the cost. The last one is that they do not have exquisite porcelain firing technology. Although the pots are not
It can be cooked, but it cannot withstand such a long period of high-temperature stewing, so ceramics have to be used. Where do they come from? Or they have to be smuggled in. Brother Zhang was shocked when he saw a white porcelain plate smuggled from the East in the market outside.
It costs a gold coin each, and a stew pot that can withstand high temperatures is probably not cheap either.
But these things are at Brother Zhang's side... Isn't that something that PDD can search out hundreds of pages of?
"Can you sell this to me?" Brother Zhang just wanted to buy some Ananda dragon skin directly. After all, it can save a lot of effort if it is handled well.
However, this request was politely declined, because this is their signature dish. Although no one will have trouble with money, it will be the king’s birthday in a few days. If these finished products are sold to others now, there will be no
Time to make new ones. Compared with money and life, life is obviously more important.
Brother Zhang understands it after hearing this. After all, since people can introduce the production method, they are not afraid of people imitating it. After all, this thing has no technical content, but the time cost is there, and it also requires
Have plenty of patience.
"Where can I buy it now?"
The manager looked embarrassed and said with an embarrassed smile: "What we can buy this season are all in stock. The next time the Ananda dragon sheds its skin will be in nine months, and now we all buy it from the Vaishmiya in the city."
That buy, his temper is very strange, if you don’t give him a satisfactory gift, he won’t sell it.”
"Then what gift does he like?"
"Like... pigs, live pigs."
Live pig... Brother Zhang frowned. He already had some premonitions in his heart. This so-called Vaishmi Ayin was probably Ananda Dragon, because a normal person would definitely not ask for live pigs when buying things.
Such a thing as a pig.
Self-produced and sold? He is quite good at doing business. Brother Zhang decided to pay a visit to Vaishmi Ayin.
After eating, Brother Zhang ate up a large portion of the soup for the first time, because it tasted really good, and he also discovered a problem, that is, a large part of the alchemy of these people has been integrated with the food.
In one body, although the effect is somewhat worse than that of pure elixirs, it is no longer difficult to swallow.
"Take me to find that Vaishmi Ayin." Brother Zhang said to the driver of the flying boat: "I want to buy some Ananda dragon skin."