314. Stewed sea cucumber with abalone juice and yellow gum
Everyone in the live broadcast room was heartbroken when they saw the host's shameless face.
"Anchor, can you have some backbone? You are an anchor who earns tens of thousands of yuan a day, and you still covet those few mouthfuls of soup. It is too embarrassing for our live broadcast room!!"
"The way the anchor looks now is very similar to the way I saw my naughty cousins rejecting red envelopes during the Chinese New Year."
"Is this soup really so delicious? It makes me want to try it."
"No way, someone would actually want to eat in a restaurant that uses expired ingredients?"
"It's just that such a serious food accident occurred in a high-end restaurant with a per capita price of nearly 2,000. It's really outrageous that there are still people willing to go there."
"Didn't they already come out and apologize?"
"Moreover, it was the chef who came out to apologize, and both the anchor and the chef just now said that it was not spoiled but was about to spoil. Please don't change the concept secretly."
"This apology is indeed acceptable. Don't be picky. At least people dare to face up to their mistakes."
"The key is that it doesn't matter if he doesn't admit his mistakes. The anchor now has more than 400,000 fans in the live broadcast room. Who dares to go tit-for-tat with the anchor without fear of being crushed to death?"
Li Xiao saw the discussion in the live broadcast room, and it was obvious that someone was trying to control his own pace, so he immediately blocked several people in succession.
Then he spoke:
"We talk about things, not people. If something tastes good, it tastes good. If it doesn't taste good, it doesn't taste good. If it smells weird, it tastes weird. If it tastes good, it tastes good."
"The soybeans do have a strange smell, but the chicken soup is really delicious. Let's not attack it personally."
"Okay, now let me try how his cabbage is."
Li Xiao used chopsticks to gently open the lotus-like cabbage hearts.
The cabbage heart is not a whole piece, but skillfully cut into 4 pieces by the chef.
Just put it back together using the same principle as Sun Mao's structure, and with Li Xiao's gentle fidgeting, the lotus flower spread out into four pieces again.
Use a golden spoon to scoop up the cabbage and stuff it into your mouth along with the chicken soup.
The texture of the cabbage was just as Li Xiao expected, just right, not too hard or too soft.
After all, cabbage is not a food that can be cooked for a long time. Once cooked for too long, the cabbage leaves will soften quickly.
The basis for judging whether cabbage is too ripe is also very simple. Just look at the transparency of the leaves of the cabbage.
The piece of cabbage in front of me was originally opaque, but after soaking in chicken soup for a while, the color began to slowly become transparent.
From this simple change, it can be easily seen that the chef in the back kitchen has mastered the heat of boiling water and cabbage.
"This cabbage is also quite good and delicious. The cabbage is filled with the juice of the chicken soup. The sweetness of the cabbage is combined with the sweetness of the chicken soup. The two different sweetnesses are intertwined. It's really great."
"If I gave this boiled cabbage a score of 90 or 90, I would highly recommend it!"
Next, Li Xiao drank soup and enjoyed the dance.
Soon the dance stopped, and each dancer left the performance stage.
The host quickly stood up again.
"Due to the recent cold weather and dry climate in the capital, the Imperial Kitchen has specially prepared a nourishing dish for all distinguished guests, [Fish Maw Stewed Sea Cucumber] and our carefully prepared dance [Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom]."
Amidst the applause, young ladies wearing various colorful dance skirts filed out. The originally light yellow stage lights also turned into turquoise, and the entire T stage instantly turned into a green grassland.
The ladies lifted up their skirts and spun them in place, spinning faster and faster until the ladies turned their skirts into a circle.
Flowers of different colors bloomed instantly on the cyan T stage.
Li Xiao also clapped gently. This dance seemed simpler than the previous one.
After all, from the perspective of a layman, all you need to do is spin in circles, just mindlessly spinning around on the stage.
But this is not the case. Rapid rotation will quickly cause the brain's sense of balance to become imbalanced. People without special training may fall to the ground if they spin in place for a few times.
However, these young ladies on the performance catwalk have been spinning for more than half a minute, and they are spinning very fast.
Ordinary people, let alone walking up there in person, would feel dazzled even if they were watching from the side.
During a pause in the dance, young ladies in red skirts brought the second dish.
[Stewed Sea Cucumber with Fish Maw] A very traditional and common dish. It is easy to make but difficult to make well. It is a dish that is easy to understand but difficult to master.
What was placed in front of Li Xiao was a small bowl of sea cucumber stewed with fish maw. A sea cucumber was cut into 6 short sections. The weight of the fish maw is the same as that of the sea cucumber, which is also 6 sections, but it is relatively larger.
However, Li Xiaocheng has acquired a proficient skill in seafood identification, so it is not easy to easily distinguish this piece of fish maw.
If he guessed correctly, this piece should be a piece of fish maw from Taishan Red Mouth, ranking second among the four red mouths.
Because the output is relatively large, the price will be much lower than that of red chicken, red-billed turtle and fish maw.
However, the price of such a large 6-section sea cucumber will not be cheap either.
He first used chopsticks to tap the abalone juice at the bottom of the plate, then stuffed the chopsticks into his mouth.
The abalone juice is rich and fragrant, and as soon as you eat it you will know that it is not made with pre-mixed abalone juice.
And the taste is quite good and rich enough.
Sea cucumber and fish maw themselves do not have much flavor, so the quality of abalone juice often determines the entire dish.
Good enough abalone juice is the key but also the first step.
Li Xiao picked up another round and plump sea cucumber and held it up to the camera:
"There are so many types of sea cucumbers, there are about 30 kinds of them. Even the common sea cucumbers that are often eaten by people have more than 10 different kinds."
"The prices of different sea cucumbers vary from cheap ones costing just a few yuan to expensive ones ranging from hundreds to thousands of yuan."
"If the piece on my hand is not mistaken, it should be a flower thorn from Liaodong."
"The price of this kind of sea cucumber is about 50 to 100 yuan. Usually, the smaller it is, the more expensive it is. The more thorns on its body, the higher the price."
"The flowers on the sea cucumber in front of you are quite dense. It is obviously the best flower thorn. I will give you a taste now to see if it tastes good."
As he spoke, the sea cucumber was thrown into his mouth along with the abalone juice.
The size of the sea cucumber is just right, but if you were a female eater with a smaller mouth, you might need two bites to swallow it.
"Well, this sea cucumber is stewed very fat and glutinous. It's full of collagen and feels bouncy when you bite into it, just like eating cold pork skin."
"To judge whether a sea cucumber is well stewed, you have to see whether it is stewed enough to taste delicious, but when it tastes delicious, you must not stew its meat until it becomes rotten."
"Once the sea cucumber meat is stewed, it will lose its elasticity and taste like a piece of rotten meat."
"And the chef handled it very well. There was still no fishy smell, no peculiar smell, and no sand. They handled the most basic problem very well. I give them a thumbs up."
After swallowing the sea cucumber in his mouth, Li Xiao picked up a piece of swaying fish maw.
Fish maw is much larger than sea cucumber, but fish maw is a thin piece, while sea cucumber is round.
Therefore, the feeling of satisfaction after eating is slightly inferior to fish maw.
However, compared to the mediocre sea cucumber, the flavor of fish maw is much richer.
And because the fish maw soaking process is done very well, the fish maw is soaked very big, and it feels more and more delicious as you chew it slowly.
Generally speaking, fish maw is slightly better than sea cucumber.
However, this fish maw stewed sea cucumber is just average, not as amazing as boiled cabbage.
He licked the abalone juice remaining on his lips and said to the audience in the live broadcast room:
"A traditional dish that is quite satisfactory. The ingredients are very good. Whether it is sea cucumber or fish maw, they are both expensive and good, but they have no special features and are very ordinary."
“The only highlight is that the abalone juice is cooked well, with real ingredients and appropriate flavors.”
"It is true that this dish cannot be given a high score, but the score will not be low, because it is not easy to make such a must-have dish in palace cuisine. I will give it 80 points."
There weren't many sea cucumbers and the fish maw wasn't big either. Li Xiao quickly ate everything on the plate.
In the live broadcast room.
"Is the host reincarnated as a starving ghost today? He sat down and ate everything while talking?"
"I suspect that the anchor received money from this company called Gongyan. I think it is doing a good job."
"The anchor didn't say that he did a poor job. If 60 points is a passing grade, then the 80 points is considered good, right?"
"Actually, I think this dish must be more delicious than what the anchor said. It's just that the anchor focused his attention on the dancing ladies, so he didn't care whether the dish was delicious or not."
"The Emperor of Truth downstairs, it turns out that's the case. No wonder the host doesn't know how to eat. It turns out he was watching the young lady."
"I understand, all men understand. If you don't put your mind on eating, of course, whatever you eat will not taste good."
"I have already made a reservation for the day after tomorrow. Are there any fellow Taoists who would like to go and taste the delicious food?"
"One of the 1888 people, he made an order as soon as he was told. He is really a wealthy person."
...
A hundred flowers bloomed. After the dance ended, the dance stopped temporarily, but the performance continued.
Several bare-chested muscular men slowly walked out from the stage holding torches. Their naked upper bodies were covered with strong muscles.
The muscles are also specially coated with a layer of olive oil to make the muscles look smooth and smooth.
The ladies in the hall who were taking selfies immediately stopped taking selfies and let out low exclamations.
"So handsome and strong."
"Wow, his chest muscles can still move."
"This is the real show."
Hearing the low exclamations and praises coming from his ears, the corners of Li Xiao's mouth twitched.
Good guy, this not only designed the dance for the big brothers, but also gave the little sisters the performance they wanted.
