Chapter 377: Three Contests for Seafood
"Chen soup is here..."
"Well, where did you get the chicken soup?"
"The rest of the meal last time I kept it in the refrigerator. I thought that it had been several days and it was not fresh anymore. I simply used it to stew the soup so that it would not be wasted..."
"luxury!"
Even though she said this, Zhou Zhiruo put down the book in her hand and slowly came to the dining table. In response to Cao Wei's earnest gaze, she simply scooped a spoonful and put it next to her mouth and sniffed it slightly.
"good..."
It's not just good. According to her estimates, I'm afraid that the apprentices in the Emei-man kitchen may not be able to have this cooking skills even if they practice for another two hundred years. But she couldn't say this clearly because she was afraid that Cao Wei would lift his tail up.
But who is Cao Wei? After being together for so long, he has already touched Zhou Zhiruo's personality. So even if there are only these two words, he proudly grinned his mouth.
"Get it, just say you're fine... Wait, the three seafood competitions will come out soon!"
"Seafood is seafood, and the three seafood competitions are the best."
"You don't understand this. You need to learn to be appropriately exaggerated in the chef industry. It is very important to attract the attention of diners by a good dish."
"It's like here, fried steamed buns are called golden ten thousand taels, and roasted pork is called Hongyun Dangtou. I also saw a restaurant with a dish called "All and Earth Shuangfeike..."
"Twin passengers flying all over the world?"
"Yes, roast duck and roast goose..."
Zhou Zhiruo stopped talking. One is that she didn't know what to say, and the other is that she had to admit that this description is very vivid. Are ducks and gooses? They are just two kinds of migratory birds, and they have to fly like all over the world every year. Are they just flying together?
Just saying that, it was hard for her to imagine the diners' psychology at that time. I guess the diners' mood would be a little confused and laughed and crying when the dish was served.
Thinking of this, Zhou Zhiruo inexplicably thought of Cao Wei's three seafood competitions. She suddenly felt that Cao Wei must have made some new tricks for him here.
To be honest, she didn't plan to suffer any inexplicable surprises in such matters. So she immediately reminded her with a little warning.
"Your seafood three-time champion won't make me such fancy things, right?"
"How could it be, just rest assured."
After saying that, Zhou Zhiruo still felt a little unsure. But she was already sitting at the table, what else could she do? She could only let Cao Wei do it.
Cao Wei, as a chef with absolutely perfect professionalism, naturally would not delay the meal time. He said he would come immediately, but he would immediately raise a golden lobster with half of his body.
"Here, the first place for the three seafood competitions, the fried general."
"Isn't it just a fried lobster? Do you need to make it so mysterious? And the general is fried?"
Zhou Zhiruo sneered, feeling that Cao Wei's dish was a bit mysterious, and it was comparable to the previous ones that had been flying around the world.
In response, Cao Wei took the knife and directly scratched the lobster's back.
Fried shrimps are not uncommon. They are wrapped in a layer of egg liquid and bread crumbs and are put into the oil pan. Anyone who cooks a family can do this. There is nothing to say about this, at best, it is a little more particular about the ingredients.
The common ones are rapeseed oil and the most common frozen shrimp. Fried at ordinary heat will basically be no problem to satisfy your daily appetite.
For a little more particular, for example, the way to eat Japanese tempura, we need to find out whether the ingredients are fresh, and choose blended oils similar to sesame oil, cottonseed oil or exclusive formulas to make perfect.
This is how Cao Wei’s fried general was like this, and in the face of Zhou Zhiruo’s sneer, he explained it like this.
"Since this fried general is called a general, it naturally needs to be worthy of its name. First of all, in terms of ingredients, this is the best big green dragon, which is the best among seafood, and can be called a general's product. Then in terms of cooking..."
Seeing himself breaking the crispy skin with one size, the inside immediately showed a distinct black and white color. Cao Wei immediately said proudly.
"This is called "there is a world of a world."
"The white one is lobster meat, and the black one is the sauce I specially made with abalone sauce. As a general, he not only needs to be extraordinary in his own courage, but also has strategies in his belly. And my black and white colors just imply two qualities, just in line with this statement. How about it, have you been amazed?"
"How do you...do not let the sauce come out when frying?"
Zhou Zhiruo is not a daughter who is not touching the spring water. She was born as a fisherman and had a good cooking skills in the early years, so she immediately discovered the problem, but she didn't know how Cao Wei solved this problem.
In response to this, Cao Wei picked up a layer of bean skin from under his crispy dress with chopsticks.
"While I was dipping the lobster meat in the sauce, I wrapped it with a layer of oily bean skin, then sealed it with rice paste. Finally, I fry the sticky steamed bun chaff. A little trick, to put it bluntly, is actually that's the case."
That's it, but just a few tricks, without the attempts of several generations, and a little cleverness, I'm afraid I can't think of such a trick.
Zhou Zhiruo sincerely felt the exquisite design of later generations in eating, and thus strengthened her idea.
If she didn't do this, it would probably take hundreds of years before the world could live such a happy life of leisure and elegance in food. If she did it, perhaps this day would be one hundred years or two hundred years earlier...
This will make the world less likely to die. I am afraid that even if I can't count it, she must take a gamble for this.
There is no need to mention this thought to Cao Wei. She just picked it up with chopsticks and put it in her mouth to taste it carefully.
“Not bad, pretty good…”
Cao Wei automatically filtered this sentence into a high-level praise in his heart. With a smile, he shook his eyebrows at Zhou Zhiruo.
"Wait, and there's also... The three seafood competitions are the number one. Next is..."
"Dangdangdang, flood the seven armies!"
The so-called flooding of the Seven Army is a broken emperor crab neatly placed on a very large plate. Judging from the appearance, it has a bit of Chaoshan raw pickling, but the color of the crab seems to be steamed. This makes Zhou Zhiruo a little confused about the way.
"What's the point of your flooding seven armies?"
"The key is in this crab's head..."
The emperor crab weighing seven or eight pounds was red and white, and it was extremely huge. It cost Cao Wei several thousand, and his brain alone was no less than an ordinary rice bowl. As soon as Cao Wei opened it, Zhou Zhiruo could immediately see a dazzling array of things inside.
In addition to the crab paste and crab meat in the crab's belly, there is also a neatly-coded circle of conch meat, raw sea urchin, abalone and fish roe sauce, which are divided into sliced lemon slices, and a layer of peppers floating underneath. This shape and creativity alone make people shocked.
"You are...a complete variety."
"That's right, if the seven armies are flooded, how can I do it if I don't get enough? I originally wanted to use Chaoshan raw pickling, but considering that you may not like to eat raw, I still steam it."
"First pick the meat and oil in the crabs cleanly, and then add other seafood. This is to prevent the flavors from being scattered when steaming, and also to make the shape more smooth. How about it, does it feel like a strong soldier and a mighty general?"
"Actually, this crab is already majestic enough..."
This is the first time in his life that a pair of crab claws were as big as an ordinary person. Such a big crab, Zhou Zhiruo, had not seen such a domineering thing in the Tamsui Basin.
"Do you eat it? You never get tired of fine stew. Since you have to make it a big one, it is naturally the scene that is big and not... You can wait, there is still!"
"besides?"
This crab is probably seven or eight kilograms, and the previous lobsters have already placed about ten kilograms on the table.
As a martial artist, Zhou Zhiruo knew that martial artists had a larger appetite than ordinary people, but to say that they were bigger, is it too much bigger?
"I said that the Three Battles, how could there be only two? Don't worry, I'm ready to eat a quit today. With my level of refining essence into qi, it's easy to eat more than ten or twenty kilograms of food for a meal. Don't worry, it's impossible to waste it if you keep it..."
Cao Wei understood what Zhou Zhiruo, who was born in poverty, would say at this time, and he also agreed with Zhou Zhiruo's view. Waste is a great crime, but as long as it is not wasted, it would be fine!
At this point, Cao Wei, who is proficient in inner alchemy, said that this is all a little bit.
Not to mention such a thing that costs more than ten or twenty kilograms, even a whole pig, if you give him enough time, he can chew it off within a meal.
Refining essence into qi is such a rude and unreasonable thing. It is probably because the monks of that year were so hungry that they figured out such a magical way to eat without slaughtering, eating openly, and eating a meal can last for many days.
Zhou Zhiruo had no choice but to watch Cao Wei make such a fuss, and soon the third boss of the three seafood competition was brought up.
"The third tyrant, the treacherous army and horse..."
A dry steamed bass was placed on the table. Zhou Zhiruo immediately shouted when she saw it.
"Let me guess, it means something hidden in my stomach."
"That's right. In fact, this kind of thing has only been a few tricks. Whether it can be made new is the key to how it tastes. Now, I tell you, I've put a lot of thought into this dish..."
"bluff..."
Zhou Zhiruo cut her chopsticks and peeled off the fish's belly.
I saw that it was full of pearl-like rice grains, mixed with ham, mushrooms, fine clam meat and shrimp. As soon as I opened it, the tempting aroma hit me directly. The smell was so delicious that it did not allow the previous two dishes to be divided, but it also had to suppress them.
This made Zhou Zhiruo suddenly surprised.
Chapter completed!