There were two people when we came, but it became three when we went back.
Some of the things Wang Dong brought were temporarily stored in the Internet cafe. Gu Zheng and Mumu accompanied Wang Dong back to get all the things before returning to the hotel.
A room was opened for Wang Dong, and the three of them entered Wang Dong's room.
"Where did you buy the eggs and rice?"
Wang Dong has a lot of things. There is a bag of eggs, about thirty in number. There is also a bag of rice and a rice cooker. The rice used for the competition today was cooked by him last night and brought here after it cooled down.
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What Gu Zheng is most curious about is actually not the eggs, but the rice.
Ordinary rice sticks together after cooking and becomes one piece after cooling. Wang Dong's rice is actually still loose after it is cooked and cooled, but not as loose as uncooked rice.
"The eggs are harvested at farmers. One family's eggs are particularly good. They are raised free-range in the mountains. I found that the egg fried rice made from their eggs tastes better than others. I have been buying there since, although it is a bit more expensive!
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Wang Dong lowered his head. The price of eggs is indeed quite expensive. The eggs Gu Zheng bought were three and a half yuan each. The eggs he bought were more expensive, five yuan each. He was different from Gu Zheng. Gu Zheng said he had a job anyway.
, can support himself, he is still an apprentice, and his monthly apprentice salary is less than 2,000.
It’s just a small salary. He has to give his family a thousand yuan every month, and he can only have a few hundred left. Because of this, he didn’t stay in a cheap hotel after signing up, but went to an Internet cafe to make do.
The registration fee of two hundred yuan was a big expense for him, so he still gritted his teeth and signed up.
“Good ingredients are more expensive, but sometimes you can’t buy good ingredients even if you have money!”
Gu Zheng nodded slowly. In the past, he did not have the weapon spirit and could not identify the ingredients. The quality of the ingredients was judged first by experience and secondly by tasting it himself.
He knew very well how a chef wanted good ingredients. In order to choose an ingredient, his local father tasted more than 300 kinds of the same food before finally choosing it.
Although Wang Dong said it simply, he could choose such inferior eggs, and he had to buy countless eggs. With his salary, it must be a big burden for him to choose like this.
"The rice was sold to me by a friend of mine in the Northeast. It cost 80 per catty. He said it was the same variety as the Northeast tribute rice, but it was not grown in the same place. I bought it once and felt good about it, so I bought some more.
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"Gongmi?"
Gu Zheng and Mu Mu both raised their heads with surprise on their faces.
Tribute rice is just a term. It actually refers to the rice grown in a special place in the Northeast. Because the yield of these rice is very small, only a few people can eat it, and it is guarded by troops, so everyone calls it tribute rice.
This legend actually exists in many places among the people. Gu Zheng and Mu Mu both know a little about it. It is true that such tribute rice exists, and the yield is low. But it is not only found in the Northeast, but also in other places. They don't know the specific taste.
After all, neither of them had ever eaten anything like this.
"I understand what you mean. The rice you bought is the same variety as tribute rice, but it was grown in different fields!"
Gu Zheng said something again, and Wang Dong nodded quickly. Gu Zheng understood the situation Wang Dong said very well.
The same variety, grown in different fields, will produce different results. Some fields can grow inferior ingredients, while others can grow ordinary-level ingredients. Gu Zheng has already learned this at Xiaosong Noodle House.
, the Wang Wei brothers contracted so much land to grow wheat, most of which were inferior ingredients, and only the cultivated land reached the ordinary level.
It is very possible that the tribute rice grown in that special land as a tribute to Ouchi was an ordinary-level ingredient, while seeds of the same quality grown elsewhere were inferior ingredients, which is what Wang Dong chose.
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There are not many ordinary-level ingredients in the country, but there are always some. If there is a place where they have the most, Gu Zheng believes that there is no place in the country that can compare to Da Nei. That is the real core.
Even if they don't know the grade of ingredients, they can still collect a lot of ordinary grade ingredients in terms of taste. After all, the higher the grade of ingredients, the better the taste.
Just like the chickens we usually buy for food, the most common and common ones are raised chickens. The average raised chicken costs seven or eight yuan per catty, but the taste is not as good as the one or twenty yuan per catty of free-range chickens raised by farmers.
Farmed chickens are junk food and are the most abundant. Free-range chickens are mostly low-grade food and the quantity is slightly smaller, but they are all available in the market.
In this way, if the same people and the same cooking skills use these two types of chickens, the taste of free-range chickens will definitely be better than that of farmed chickens. This is the contrast brought about by the different levels of ingredients.
Edible chickens that reach the level of inferior ingredients cannot be raised by ordinary methods. The number has become smaller. There are some, but they are basically unavailable in the market. At first, Gu Zheng searched all over the market, but he was just lucky.
I found a second-rate black-bone chicken and completed the first test.
Second-class chicken tastes better and the price will be higher. It can be said that if chicken reaches the level of second-class ingredients, ordinary restaurants will not be able to eat it. Nationwide, it is estimated that only a few restaurants can have such ingredients.
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The quantity is small and the price is high, which makes it difficult for ordinary people to eat it. If they can't eat it, they can't imagine what this kind of chicken tastes like.
Can the quality of edible chickens on earth reach the ordinary level? The answer is yes. Gu Zheng believes that there will be, but the quantity will become smaller. You can’t buy such high-quality ingredients on the market, but the lack of it doesn’t mean that there aren’t any.
It's possible that chickens like this were raised in places we don't know about, and were eventually sent to some special places.
This is Gu Zheng's perception after hearing about the Wang brothers planting wheat and hearing about Wang Dong's rice tribute incident.
"I didn't expect you used Gongmi. If it is Gongmi, 80 per pound is a great deal!"
Mumu's eyes shone, "Gongmi," she had heard of it many times, but she had never eaten it once. She didn't expect that a little fresh meat she met by chance would have Gongmi, and she couldn't let it go this time.
“Not the real gongmi, just the same variety!”
Wang Dong shook his head hurriedly. The real tribute rice was only grown by a small number in that black land, not other places. He only had the same seeds.
"It's the same thing. It's the same thing to me. I definitely can't eat the real one. It's not bad to eat one of its cousins!"
Mumu waved her hand indifferently. How much real tribute rice can be produced from just such a small area? Let alone that small area, no matter how big it is, it will not fall into the hands of ordinary people. It is the same.
