Authentic yellow croaker in soup should be made from fresh large yellow croaker. The internal organs should be taken out and the fish bones should be removed without breaking the belly.
The soup for making yellow croaker is not simple either. The ingredients for the soup include half a pot of Buddha Jumping Over the Wall. Not only are scallops, bird's nests, skirts, abalone, sea cucumber and other seafood used, but also chicken stock is used to make a yellow soup.
The real difficulty of filling the soup with yellow croaker is that before the last step of filling the soup, the large yellow croaker needs to be fried, fried, and roasted to ensure that the yellow croaker does not burst into the stomach...
The complicated process and the rare ingredients are used to make the dish, which is naturally a delicacy in the world.
Of course, the premise of all this is that the quality of the ingredients is excellent.
Now, it's already July, and the fish season is closed across the country. Naturally, what Lao Hu brings cannot be fresh large yellow croaker, it can only be regarded as chilled.
Looking at the ice cubes in the incubator, Zhou Yan missed the young master's Yongling Knife. As long as the food is not rotten, no matter how long it is kept, it only takes one knife to restore it to the freshness and tenderness of when it was just picked or slaughtered.
At that time, Zhou Yan, who was possessing Liu Pleiades' head, once imagined that it would be great if there were not so many restrictions on the use of the Yongling Sword. If it could be used on people, it would be a perfect plastic surgery: you only need to get one knife.
You can turn an old bacon or an old lady into a little fresh meat or a little loli...
After checking the yellow croaker lumps, Zhou Yan put the fish back into the incubator and looked up at Lao Hu: "One dish shouldn't be enough, right?"
"Then let's do another bitch?" The joke on Lao Hu's face is self-evident.
"As long as you can bring the ingredients, I can make them for you," Zhou Yan rolled his eyes and turned to look at Wang Han, who was taking notes. "Do you have any requirements for other dishes?"
Lao Hu gradually suppressed the smile on his face and thought for a while: "Try to eat as much delicacies as possible!"
"How many people are eating?"
"It should be four or five. Just prepare for five people!" Lao Hu counted the number of people on his fingers and replied, "It should be accurate tomorrow night, right?"
"No problem!"
After receiving Zhou Yan's assurance, Lao Hu threw down the incubator and left.
"Zhou Yan..." After watching Lao Hu's car go away, Wang Han put down the notes in his hand and frowned, "Seafood is easy, Xinhai is close to the sea, and all kinds of dried seafood are available, but this mountain delicacy
..."
"I can make fake bear paws and fake monkey brains," Zhou Yan said with a somewhat relaxed smile on his face, "Hericium heads, sheep tripes, bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots and the like can also be bought in big supermarkets. Wait a minute.
I'll make a list, and I'll go to the city with you to have a look..."
The main reason why Zhou Yan made a "private order" was to gain experience points in his cooking skills.
The all-around master development system brought over during rebirth has two scoring systems: system points used to purchase and redeem tutorials, and experience points used for skill upgrades.
It is relatively easy to obtain points and redeem them through the system. You can get corresponding points every day for walking, riding a tricycle, reading recipes, or even using Tai Chi to knead dough and weigh spoons in the kitchen.
Obtaining experience points for skill attributes is more troublesome. Taking the cooking skills that Zhou Yan is currently focusing on as an example, the experience points awarded by the system are completely based on the improvement of the level of cooking skills in reality.
When he first started making steamed buns, Zhou Yan could still gain experience points in the first few days, but after he became proficient in the movements, the experience points he could gain every day were pitiful.
The same goes for lunch and evening fast food.
At this time, Zhou Yan realized that the master was not so easy to obtain.
Therefore, when the owner of the video store proposed to sublet the store, Zhou Yan agreed. And "private customization" was also a method that Zhou Yan came up with in order to gain experience points.
It's a big restaurant with so many twists and turns, so business is naturally very good, especially the menus in the restaurant, which are often changed. This makes the people of the Xinhai West Coast, who are in a food desert, extremely vain.
Great satisfaction...
"Master, where have I heard of this yellow croaker in soup?"
"Leslie Cheung's movie "Man-Han Banquet"," Zhou Yan was slightly absent-minded and replied expressionlessly, "Although there is no such dish in the Man-Han Banquet, it is indeed a dish that tests the chef's skills..."
Seeing Liu Chuang's interest, Zhou Yan was also happy to teach him: In cooking, your level will not decline just because you teach others. In many cases, you will improve yourself after teaching others.
Review the past and learn the new.
Zhou Yan doesn't plan to be a chef for the rest of his life, so he basically responds to Liu Chuang's requests in terms of cooking skills.
It was the first time for Liu Chuang to hear the recipe of such high-end dishes. He quickly took out a small notebook and pen from the pocket under his apron: "Master, please speak slower!"
Seeing this, Zhou Yan was a little speechless: "I've always told you that you may not become a master by sticking to the recipes. Do you know why?"
"I know that there are no identical ingredients in the world, and there are subtle differences in these ingredients," Liu Chuang answered clearly, "and even if you use the same recipe, it will be completely different after you make it!"
Zhou Yan nodded and continued to talk about other things...
Zhou Yan felt that he had explained it clearly enough, but Liu Chuang, who was taking notes across from him, was still confused.
I raised my hand to look at the time, and it was almost ten o'clock.
"Let's prepare the dishes for lunch first, and I'll let you watch from the side while we cook tomorrow..."
"Thank you, Master!"
After noon, Zhou Yan explained to Liu Chuang, and then followed Wang Han to the city center opposite Jinghai Bay to purchase ingredients.
In 2006, although the Jinghai Bay Cross-Sea Bridge and the Undersea Tunnel were on the agenda, water from a distance could not quench the thirst for nearness. The most convenient means of transportation from the West Sea to the city center was to travel to and from the peninsulas on both sides of the bay.
The ferry...
When the ferry arrived at the other side, Zhou Yan suddenly felt a familiar feeling in his heart: he had the same feeling when he took the bus to the city for the first time.
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Wang Han on the side seemed to have the same feeling. He opened his hands and hugged the bustling atmosphere in vain: "The air in the city is more popular!"
"Boss, don't sigh for now, there are still so many things to buy!"
The ingredients listed by Zhou Yan, such as dried abalone, scallops and other dried goods, are available in local wholesale markets, with a full range of varieties and not cheap.
However, other fungi, such as Hericium, Bamboo fungus, Chicken fir, Morel and the like, are not so easy to find. Even if Zhou Yan consulted wholesalers who specialize in hotels, it was only
I bought morels and bamboo fungus.
Although he couldn't buy everything at the wholesale market, Zhou Yan also got clues from wholesalers specializing in restaurants: there is a counter specializing in precious ingredients in Limin Commercial Building in the city center.
Limin Commercial Building is not far from the wholesale market. It is only less than one kilometer away. However, when the two of them rushed to the Shanhai counter in Limin Commercial Building, they were both a little dumbfounded: the things here are quite comprehensive, but they are a bit expensive.
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Wild dried hericium costs more than 300 kilograms, and dried bamboo fungus costs more than 200. These are not the most expensive ones: matsutake mushrooms that have not been gilded by "The Tip of the Tongue" cost more than 1,000 kilograms; they look like dung balls.
A certain fungus with a fishy smell like tadpoles is not much bigger than a table tennis ball, and it sells for more than a thousand...
Such a price makes even Wang Han, who claims to have taken advantage of tens of millions of dollars from his family, find it a bit unbelievable: "Who can afford such a price..."
Zhou Yan, who was looking at the ingredients, suddenly froze there.
"Cooking is an art that turns decay into magic, and it is also an art that makes people happy..."
When watching "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" before, Zhou Yan also agreed with Dugu Qiubai's theory that all plants and trees can be used as swords, but after experiencing the impact of the Xiao Dangjia's splendid cooking skills and the luxurious ingredients and gorgeous dishes in Shiji
,Zhou Yan is a little drifting...
Now, after being reminded by Wang Han inadvertently, Zhou Yan felt like he was being slapped. He remembered that the original meaning of cooking is to turn decay into magic, to fill the stomach and to please the customers.
"Sister Wang, thank you!"
"Thank you for what?"
Wang Han was confused by Zhou Yan. He was about to ask why when he suddenly found a shining girl at the souvenir counter opposite, looking at Zhou Yan's back with a complicated expression...