Wulang still didn't understand that Huanchang was just a place for fun, so he despised the girl's sudden change of face, and still kept a dark face and refused to get close to her. ("")
Chen Ke couldn't help but smile bitterly, and patiently explained to Wulang, these girls are not even prostitutes, they are just ladies who drink with you. Their job is just to make you feel comfortable and make you feel happy to eat the meal. Don't ask for too much.
Wu Lang said in a low voice: "We brothers are so comfortable when we are alone, why do we want these bird girls hanging around here?"
"Hey..." Chen Ke said, dumbfounded: "You are twenty, brother."
"So what?" Wulang widened his eyes and said, "We don't want to be next to her."
"Forget it, forget it," Chen Ke waved his hand to signal the girl to step back. Although the girl was reluctant to leave, Wu Lang glared at her with those bull's eyes, which scared her so much that she turned pale and jumped away like a rabbit.
At this time, the door curtain was raised, and several hotel clerks wearing square-top-like headscarves, purple shirts, and silk shoes and clean socks came in with trays. As soon as they entered the door, they said in a long voice: "Eight Seasonal Fruits and Flavors" "Ten plates of dried fruits, longan, hazelnuts, pine nuts, almonds, walnuts..." "Eight cups of fragrant herbs, licorice flowers, cinnabar balls, atractylodes ginseng, Olive blossom..." "Eight plates of fried honey with carved flowers, carved bamboo shoots, honey winter melon and fish, large segments of papaya, carved kumquats..." "Ten plates of preserved cured meat, meat strips, cured shrimp, cured meat, wine vinegar Meat……"
A wide and long dining table was filled to the brim in a blink of an eye. What is unimaginable to future generations is that these are all called "kanpan", which means that they are not mainly used for eating, but for beautiful displays. Of course , no one will stop you if you want to eat, but don’t regret it if your stomach is full after the main course is served.
What is even more unimaginable for future generations is that all the dishes and utensils, the wine cups, flasks, soup bowls, and plates in front of everyone are all made of exquisite sterling silver. There are more than a dozen people eating and drinking at this table, and all the tableware In total, there are probably hundreds of taels of silver, and the store generously gives it to the guests.《》
In fact, it's more than just eating in a restaurant. When a big restaurant sees a small hotel come to drink two or three times, it dares to lend it silver wine vessels worth three to five hundred taels. Even if the poor people and brothels come to the restaurant to drink, the restaurant will use them. Silverware was provided, and some drank all night and went to retrieve it the next day, but no loss was found. Occasionally, silverware was lost in the restaurant, and the literati recorded it as a new incident...
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Then, according to the preferences of each guest, the hotel served more than a dozen bottles of wine, including Yuye wine specially brewed by Yuxianlou, as well as nationally famous wines such as Xifeng and Jiannanchun, but unfortunately there was no Huang Jiao...
"Brother Wu Na," Song Duanping asked, "Why doesn't your hotel have Huang Jiao, the famous wine from our hometown?"
"Sorry, sir." The waiter said politely, "There are tens of millions of famous wines in the country. Our store's capacity is limited, so we can only pick one out of a hundred." This made everyone laugh.
"This shows that our Huang Jiao can only be king and hegemon in Shu, and people outside don't recognize her." Su Shi said with a smile: "Why don't third brother open a wine shop in Bianjing? Then we will have Huang Jiao again. Drink."
"We must get a share of this big market in the capital." Chen Ke said with a smile: "I will write to Li Daguan after I investigate."
Everyone was talking in a relaxed manner, while the girls accompanying them served them drinks, peeled fruits, and got snacks, while teasing the boys with laughter. In a short time, these untouched boys were taken away.
, so coaxed that the bones were crispy.
After a while, the waiter came back in and asked with a smile: "Sir, can we start the dishes?"
When Chen Ke nodded, the idle men and women in the room started to move the dishes to the small machine aside, and re-roasted the wine. The guys came in with Lao Gao's plates and bowls, which were naturally made of silver.
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Just listen to the waiter singing: "The first one, crab stuffed with orange, lamb tongue sticks..."
In high-end restaurants, everyone has a plate in front of them. (《》) Because there are too many dishes, in order to save space, there are two separate plates in each cup, which can hold two dishes at the same time.
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Chen Ke and others all grew up eating stir-fry. They thought they were at the forefront of the times when it came to food, but when they saw the delicacies cooked by Yuxianlou's famous chef, they were all dumbfounded.
Take a look at these dishes and you will know what it means to never tire of eating well and never tire of cooking!
For example, the 'Crab Stuffed Orange' is made by cutting off the tops of large yellow ripe oranges with branches, and removing the pulp, leaving only a little juice. Then put crab roe, crab oil, and crab meat into the orange, and still use the cut off branches.
Cover the original cut with the top of the orange, put it into a small steamer, steam it with wine, vinegar and water, then add vinegar and salt and serve it.
The 'Crab Stuffed Orange' that was served was a complete large orange, surrounded by chrysanthemum petals, roses, and orchid leaves. It was so beautiful that you couldn't bear to destroy it, and you didn't know where to start.
This is the job of the escort girls. They cleverly picked up the orange lid with their ivory chopsticks, and a unique fragrance of crab, wine and chrysanthemum hit their nostrils. After the heat dissipated, look at the crab inside the orange.
The meat is cute and the soup is crystal clear.
The girls used small spoons to scoop out a spoonful of crab meat, blew it gently, and carefully brought it to the mouths of the officials. The scholars held the crab meat in their mouths. It was not only fragrant, but also fresh... and even more so.
What makes such a poet so intoxicated is that this artistic blend of new wine, chrysanthemum, orange and crab colors and flavors can only be produced by very few dishes.
"I want to compose a poem!" Su Shi said excitedly: "But I have to wait until I'm full."
"You were outside just now, weren't you full?"
"Seeing such beautiful things makes me become a hungry ghost!"
"I think you were reincarnated as a hungry ghost, hahaha..."
After eating this fresh and timeless crab-stuffed orange dish, the girls brought the 'lamb tongue stick' to everyone's mouth. When this dish was on the plate, it looked like blooming yellow lotus flowers, placed on top of the fresh lotus.
Although the leaves are light and elegant, they will not be overshadowed by the previous dishes.
When you take a bite, you will see that the outer layer is a roll of shredded pork wrapped in a golden coating. But if you chew it carefully, you will find that it is different from ordinary mutton. The meat is not only delicate in texture, but also crispy and chewy. You think it is mutton tongue. Take another bite
, it’s actually wrapped in minced meat, and when you chew it gently, it’s smooth and refreshing. The most valuable thing is that it’s full of umami, and it’s actually fresh minced fish!
Chen Ke was completely convinced and smiled bitterly in his heart: 'Chuanfu, how about we stay in Chengdu, I'm afraid we won't be able to get ahead in Bianjing...'
'The second one, white kidneys with wine vinegar and three fresh bamboo shoots fried quail.'
'The third one is to burn doves and kingfish.'
'The fourth cup, crisp Qiong Ye, honey winter melon fish.'
'The fifth lamp...'
'The sixth lamp...'
Dishes that are so exciting that they make people cry are served one after another. The country bumpkins from all over the world are eating with tears in their eyes. It is so delicious. Did I eat pig food before?
Even Chen Ke had to be convinced. Huaiyang cuisine, which Chuanfu is best at, has no chance of winning in front of these Bianliang dishes that are both delicious, delicious and well-known...
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A group of people of the same age were having a great meal, changing glasses and enjoying themselves, when they suddenly heard a commotion in the restaurant.
Because Chen Ke had an enemy, he was extremely alert and immediately turned around to look around. The idle Zhang Wu had already noticed that Chen Ke was the rich man who was treating the guests, so he naturally focused all his attention on him and hurried down to check without running away.
When he came back, he looked like he had picked up his wallet and said with a smile: "Guanren is so lucky that everyone from Du came to sing unexpectedly..."
Because Chen Ke was a foreigner, he explained: "Master Du, she is one of the top ten singers in Bianjing City, and her singing skills are among the best. How many dignitaries have been waiting for her to come and perform...Thanks to us for meeting the immortals."
The boss of the building once praised her so much that everyone was so affectionate that he came here to sing here once a month."
"Then why is it said to be temporary?"
"Because the end of the month is the day for her to sing. Today, the Du family was going to the Runan Prince's residence. Unexpectedly, the old prince suddenly fell ill and was temporarily unavailable. So he came to our house nearby." Zhang Wu said.
He smiled and said, "The officials are not there, but people are rushing in? If we had known that the Du people were coming, I would have been unable to book a table ten days in advance."
"So popular." Chen Ke said with a smile. When he heard what he said, the female prostitute next to him not only was not jealous, but said with a look of infatuation: "Of course, it is said that Liu Qigong passed away two years ago.
Before that, I even wrote lyrics for everyone in Du."
"Alas..." Mentioning Liu Yong, Chen Ke felt a pang of regret. It was such a pity that he finally came to the Song Dynasty and didn't see a man's dream and a woman's idol. Yan Shu also passed away last year.
...It's a pity that I didn't ask for an autograph.
But speaking of it, Liu Yong is also a descendant of the Liu family in Hedong...
Putting away his random thoughts, he turned around and leaned on the railing. He saw that he was in a good position, facing the stage in the courtyard. At this time, the Nadu people had not yet appeared on the stage, but the stage was already crowded with eager audiences; look upstairs again
On each floor, the drinkers also opened the bead curtains and looked down. The atmosphere of anticipation was like the meeting of a certain emperor and superstar that Chen Ke encountered in a certain hypermarket in his previous life.
Su Shi and several others who were very flirtatious did not bother to eat, so they leaned to the railing and looked down. Wulang and Zeng Bu were not interested in big stars, so they just ate there...
At this time, the waiter came in with a candlestick, placed it on the dining table, and jokingly explained to Chen Ke and others that due to the needs of the performance, the brilliant lights in the restaurant would be temporarily extinguished.
When the candlesticks were lit, hundreds of lights in the restaurant were extinguished, and only the eighteen lotus lanterns on the stage were still as bright as before. The darkness made the restaurant quiet and focused everyone's eyes on the bright stage.
Then I heard the sound of the cloud board, followed by the bamboo flute, and accompanied by the long sound of silk and bamboo, eight girls in palace costumes with graceful figures, starry eyes, kerchiefs tied around their waists, and fans on their backs came on the stage.
The person who gets the bottle can't afford to be hurt... I'm writing with one hand. I'm a little slow. I can still write a chapter at night. Please vote for comfort...
