Chapter 182: Herring to Mackerel
While making a phone call, Gin Dojima brought Natsuyu to the main kitchen of the hotel.
"Is this big enough?"
Putting the phone back in your pocket, Dojima Gin spread his arms and said cheerfully: "This is the largest kitchen in our Totsuki Hakone Resort!"
Xia Yu's eyes were filled with shock.
At least two basketball courts have kitchen spaces as big as kitchens, occupying the entire floor and are equipped with all facilities.
The dozen Yuanyue graduates who arrived first were already busy, and the hotel kitchen chefs were carrying ingredients neatly and orderly.
"General Director Dojima!"
A handsome uncle in his thirties came over. This should be the deputy chef at Totsuki Resort and also the right-hand man of Gin Dojima, Hirohiro Sei Nao.
He suddenly exclaimed, stared at Xia Yu for a few more glances, and said respectfully: "It turns out that Instructor Xia was also invited to participate in this period of accommodation study. I saw the food halberd on TV in the shopping street, which was very exciting! The most commendable thing is to defeat the special ingredients with ordinary ingredients!"
Xia Yu smiled slightly, but his heart was complaining.
Finally, I met someone who could recognize me, but how could I feel like tears are filled with my eyes?
Those graduates from the Longyue are all very busy, such as Kojiro Shinomiya who came back from Paris, France. I don’t know that the food and halberd battle in the shopping street is normal.
So, the ultimate problem is because of lack of fame.
The food and halberd battle only caused heated discussions. Just one week later, not only did the food and halberd editing have been replaced by the TV station, but the topic of food and halberd on the Internet has completely disappeared.
The first-line stars in the entertainment industry will be gradually forgotten if they are not hyped, let alone Xia Yu, who has only been on TV for a little while.
Soon, the kitchen utensils and ingredients needed by Xia Yu were gradually transported.
Gin Dojima ordered a group of chefs to move a few kitchen counters to free up large enough spaces.
A food in charge said with a panic expression: "The Director Dojima, there is no 'green fish' in the hotel's food inventories. It will take at least 1 hour to retrieve it from the nearest freshwater fish warehouse in Kanagawa Prefecture!"
“Is there no 'schinfish'?”
Xia Yu pondered.
To be honest, 'schinfish' is not suitable for roasting.
The cooking method of roasting is rarely used on freshwater fish in Chinese cuisine.
The water quality of freshwater fish is inevitable in the waters. The fish meat has a strong earthy smell. It is impossible to remove this smell by using the more primitive "roasting" methods.
Moreover, there are too many ways to cook freshwater fish in Chinese cuisine, such as steaming, braising, boiling, etc., so there is no need to look far away, but use barbecue techniques to make the dishes.
"Lecturer Xia, the fish storage in the hotel's ingredient library is mainly seafood and aquatic products, including mackerel, mackerel, saury, tuna, etc...."
The food in charge is quite innocent.
‘Bluefish’ is a native Chinese river fish. Even if there are professional breeding on Neon Island, no guests in the hotel can order food, so how could their food department buy it?
"Then let's change the mackerel!" Xia Yu said, "Twelve pieces are needed, each weighing about 400 grams!"
"OK!"
The person in charge left in a hurry.
"Is it okay to change mackerel?" Gin Dojima said slowly, "Mackerel is a marine fish, while greenfish is a Tamsui River fish inland..."
"Aren't the recipe used to modify it?"
Xia Yu was calm.
Since the original recipe is unreasonable, just modify it.
Bluefish, mackerel.
The two pronunciations are similar, but they are completely different fish.
The bluefish is very large, and mature individuals generally have a body length of 1 meter and weigh 30 pounds. Therefore, in the original Chinese novel, the "Breaking Flame Chef" sub-printed several iron chains, and at the same time, it tied up five or six large bluefish and waved it in the hand, making it look amazing.
Five or six fish are pulled in the hand, and it is 150 kilograms up. What does this mean? The god of war Lu Bu and Guan Yunchang's food guy weigh only 100 kilograms.
The key is that while using iron chains to pull heavy objects, you also need to smoothly display your cooking skills [Tianxiong Fire Flame Wheels], which is more difficult!
Xia Yu's body, or arm strength, certainly did not become as perverted as an ancient general. It was difficult to pull two big bluefish, let alone five or six at once.
But mackerel is different. This kind of sea fish is not big and generally weighs 200-400 grams. That is to say, mature mackerel is only about one pound, and more than a dozen are tied to iron chains, so Xia Yu can still swing it.
When choosing mackerel instead of saury, there is weight consideration.
Saucer is very suitable for charcoal grilling, and Japanese cuisine also has the common salt grilled mackerel, which also shows that mackerel is more popular in cooking.
Ten minutes later, the person in charge of the ingredients went back.
Several hotel waiters were pushing a fishing truck full of ice, and more than a dozen mackerels of the same size were placed on the ice.
"Ah, Xia Yujun wants to make fish dishes?"
Qian Hikako greeted her next to her.
Other busy graduates all looked at attention when they heard the movement.
"That's right."
Xia Yu grabbed a mackerel and threw it on the chopping board, then pulled out a square knife at the knife holder. The sound of hissing sound came out. The sharp kitchen knife scraped over the fish tail, and the fine scales ejected out.
Scrape the scales, the second step is to remove the internal organs, especially the fish gallbladder, and be careful when operating.
A flash of sword light.
The mackerel was dissected and there were deep knife marks on the surface of the body.
Clean and neat knife skills!
Qianrika raised her thumb and said, "No, Xia Yujun."
At the adjacent kitchen counter, Shinomiya Kojiro's pupils shrank slightly, staring at the Natsuki who continued to deal with the second mackerel, calmly posing.
"...What a quick knife! The average length of his treatment of each fish is 8 seconds. Moreover, looking at his palms and wrists, it is a pair of knife holding the knife, which has a solid foundation!" Kojiro Shimiya pushed the glasses frame and stopped the work at hand.
The twelve fish were processed in less than two minutes.
Once Xia Yu enters the cooking state, he will naturally isolate the outside world. Even if he finds that more and more graduates are surrounding him, his heart will not fluctuate, affecting his rhythm.
The graduates are also audiences.
In Xia Yu's opinion, it feels quite accomplished to give the audience a cooking performance.
However, after the fish were cut off, Xia Yu did not pickle it up in a complicated way. He just used fine salt to evenly apply it on the fish body and belly, and then cooled it beside it, turned to the kitchen counter and prepared another sauce.
Ginger, soy sauce, rice wine.
A little spice.
Even poured Shuchuan Douban sauce.
The sauce is the second secret to the recipe "Tianxiong Roasted Blue Cuckoo" in addition to cooking skills!
The graduates couldn't even see Xia Yu's hands clearly, and in the end, a large pot of sauce was placed on the kitchen counter.
"What are these sauces used for? Are they marinated?"
The blonde Donato sycamore field was also attracted, put down the dishes at hand and walked over.
"Shh!" Gan Hyuko stretched out her finger and was dissatisfied.
Xia Yu ignored the graduates and asked Doshima Gin, "Where are the things I want?"
Gin Dojima pointed to the toolbox not far away.
After checking over, Xia Yu smiled, took out an iron chain about two fingers in his hand, shook it, and tried the feel.
Chapter completed!