Chapter 1571 The beach on the tip of the tongue (1)
A chef's tongue is as important as a basketball player's hands or a football player's feet. If your tongue cannot judge the quality of a dish, then you cannot become a top chef.
Some people may say that practice makes perfect. A top chef can know the taste of the food he cooks even without tasting it. This may be true, but a real top chef will definitely taste every dish personally, because his hands
After all, you cannot taste the true taste of a dish, only your tongue can give you the most intuitive feeling.
And every dish you make, even if the process is exactly the same, the taste of the main ingredients and ingredients cannot be exactly the same. There will always be some differences between today's onions and yesterday's onions.
These details are actually the bottleneck of many chefs. A truly top chef must integrate these details into his own habits.
A good tongue is a gift, but it also needs training and protection. As for protection, Li Qi will not smoke in later generations, and he will drink a little alcohol. He rarely gets drunk. The only time he got drunk was when he came to the Song Dynasty. As for training,
To put it simply, you need to know how to eat.
When it comes to eating, Li Qi thinks he can't catch up with his father. His father is extremely strict about eating. The key is to be very patient. After retirement, he can spend the whole day eating.
Even the most basic rice, his father was very particular about how to cook the rice on any day, such as rainy days and sunny days. Anyway, the cooking methods are different in four seasons. The designated dishes must be accompanied by designated wines.
, otherwise he won’t drink it, even if he goes out to socialize. No matter how good the wine is, if the dish is not right, he will not drink it at all. In his father’s words, there is no reason to ruin a delicious dish with a sip of good wine, and vice versa.
Likewise.
Li Qi does not have this kind of persistence and patience. Sometimes, it is common for him to just cope with a meal. However, Li Qi also has a very high pursuit of delicious food. Sometimes when he is interested, he can travel thousands of miles to pursue delicious food.
Of course, the prerequisite is that you must have money before you can be willful.
When Li Qi came to the Song Dynasty, although he ate a lot of two-headed abalone, he had not really eaten seafood in his heart. This has always been a regret in his heart. When he came to Laizhou today, he had to eat enough seafood.
"Hurry up and work, it's going to be dark today."
The fishermen on the fishing boats are working hard to transport the caught fish to the shore. You must know that they have to transport the seafood to the city to sell it tomorrow morning. The longer the seafood is stored, the less valuable it will be.
"Hey, brothers, this trip to sea is really a bumper harvest."
Suddenly hearing someone say something with a smile, the fishermen were startled and looked for information, only to see a few strangers coming.
One of the older fishermen said: "May I ask what you are doing?"
Li Qi smiled and said: "Of course I'm here to buy seafood." His eyes were scanning the bucket and the fishing net, tsk tsk, what plump prawns, what big clams! Such curved saury is really the best of the best.
, and, and, wow, wow, what a thick lobster, I love you so much.
The man added: "If you, sir, want to buy seafood, you can--"
He originally wanted Li Qi to go to the fish market to buy it tomorrow. After all, they were in a hurry to unload the goods and didn't have the time. But halfway through the words, he couldn't continue because Li Qi used his trump card, which was silver.
The silver worth a certain amount but twelve ounces shines brightly in the setting sun, it's so charming!
Li Qi said very politely: "I'm really sorry for delaying everyone's work. This ingot of silver will be used to make up for your losses. I believe it should be enough."
"Sir, come and see me."
"Sir, please come to my place and take a look."
"My guest, my guest."
This was definitely a super wealthy person. The fishermen jumped out of the boat one after another and surrounded Li Qi and others. This was the God of Wealth.
"OK OK."
Li Qi was so upset by their quarrel that he quickly raised his hands and said: "You are busy with your business, don't disturb me here, I will choose myself, there is no need for you to fool me."
When he said this, the fishermen all looked at him in surprise. Could it be that he was an expert?
But no matter what, no one dared to offend the God of Wealth. He nodded repeatedly and went back to work, but his eyes glanced at Li Qi from time to time, hoping that he would patronize his seafood.
"gogogo!"
Looking at these delicious seafood, Li Qi was already moved with his index finger. He quickly stepped forward and asked a fisherman to fetch fresh sea water from the sea, while he lowered his head and wandered around.
Zhao Jingyan and Liu Yunxi followed beside them, but they didn't understand these things. Zhao Jingyan followed Li Qi around for a while and said, "These are all freshly made. They should be very fresh. What else can I choose?"
"Don't you understand? People are good and bad, and the same is true for seafood. Even if it is fresh, there are good and bad. Fish in the sea may also become sick."
Li Qi suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed a fish with a long point. When the fishermen saw it, they knew that this man must be an expert and it was impossible to fool him, so they simply went to work with peace of mind and said: "Just say this
Let's go for saury. The taste of a healthy saury and an unhealthy saury are completely different. They are completely different. The former is so beautiful that people will have endless aftertaste, while the latter will make people lose their appetite for three days. Although it is wrong to judge a book by its appearance.
But this saury is really judged by its appearance. A healthy saury is very beautiful.”
As he spoke, he slightly raised the saury in his hand and said: "Let's talk about this saury. It's almost perfect. Look at the luster of its skin. It's as light and charming as the moonlight. It's full of mystery. What's more?
The figure, the curvature is like a woman's breasts - uh... so beautiful, you can pinch it and look at it, just these muscles, so solid, tsk tsk, the best. How did that song come from, oh, saury.
The cat and you both want to know the taste."
Zhao Jingyan looked at his beaming expression, pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "What he said is magical, I don't know if it is true or not."
A fisherman who was listening attentively said: "This guest officer is really an expert, and what he said is absolutely correct."
"Did you hear that? Did you hear that?"
Li Qi blinked proudly, put the saury into his bucket, grabbed a handful of clams with one hand, turned his fingers, and heard a gurgling sound.
Liu Yunxi asked curiously: "Husband, what are you doing?"
Li Qidao: "Because there is a shell on the outside of this clam, it is difficult to see the meat quality inside. We usually judge it by listening to the sound."
Usually people use chopsticks to knock one by one, or two against each other, but Li Qi is a chef and a professional. He can tell the difference with just one grab, one hold, one turn and one sound.
If Wu Xiaoliu were here, he would definitely feel like he was in heaven, and he would also learn a lot of knowledge. However, Zhao Jingyan is not too interested in how to choose. Marrying a chef king as his wife, of course there is no need to buy or cook food.
I did it myself, just out of curiosity.
But Li Qi was so excited that he didn't care whether they understood or not. Anyway, he talked to himself and exchanged a few words with the fishermen and asked about the price of the seafood. If he came during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, the seafood would be very expensive.
Yes, because many of them are tributes.
However, since Zhao Kai came to the throne, in order to promote the development of the seafood industry and encourage fishermen to go to sea, the standards for tributes have been lowered. In the past, the top quality of each ingredient was accepted as tribute, but now tributes are stipulated based on the annual output.
The quantity, which was also filed through the Legislative Yuan, is only 20% for the royal family for each ingredient, with special exceptions, such as some extremely precious medicinal materials.
Because Zhao Kai is not a person who is greedy for enjoyment. If you want too much, you won't be able to eat it all yourself. Most of them will be used as rewards for ministers. However, because the new law allows free trade and commerce in the dark, you have to eat and sell it yourself.
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Due to policy changes, there are more private seafood products, and the prices are naturally much cheaper.
Unknowingly, half an hour had passed, and Li Qi had picked out three buckets full of water. Although he felt a little tired, he still had an excited smile on his face at the thought of being able to taste the delicious seafood right away.
After paying the money, Li Qi and others left with the buckets.
After walking for a while, a few people came to a relatively remote beach. There was a cliff on one side of the beach. Li Qi pointed with his hand: "This is it."
"My lord, my lord."
A few people sat and rested on the beach for a while, then they saw a team driving seven or eight donkey carts heading this way.
On the donkey cart are not only various kitchen utensils, but also tents, quilts and other daily necessities.
Zhao Jingyan said in surprise: "What are you doing with these?"
Li Qidao: "Didn't you hear what the fisherman said? A fleet of boats will come back in the next few days. It would be a lot of trouble to go here every day, so I decided to just live here and eat seafood for a few days. Wouldn't it be nice?"
Zhao Jingyan rolled her eyes and said, "But don't forget, you still have official duties."
Li Qi said depressedly, "Don't be such a spoiler." After a pause, he added, "Let's be fair, let's vote by a show of hands. If you agree to camp here and eat delicious food for three days and three nights, please raise your hands."
As he spoke, he raised his hand first.
The drunkard glanced at the jars of fine wine and raised his hand involuntarily.
Liu Yunxi suddenly raised his hand.
Zhao Jingyan said: "Shi Niang, you also ---."
Liu Yunxi said bluntly: "Living here is much more comfortable than living in the city."
When she raised her hand, Huo Nanxi and Hu Beiqing also raised their hands.
Zhao Jingyan understood that Li Qi realized that Liu Yunxi also liked camping in the wild, so he proposed a show of hands vote.
Li Qi looked at Maqiao again and said: "Maqiao, you---."
Before he could finish speaking, Ma Qiao raised his hand.
You know how to taste, otherwise you will eat steamed buns for me. Li Qi smiled proudly and said to Zhao Jingyan: "Yanfu, you---."
Zhao Jingyan sighed and said, "It's up to you."
"very good."
Li Qidao: "Let's start working." He then gave instructions. He first asked his guards to set up the tents, while he, Ma Qiao, Liu Yunxi and others went to build the stove.
Exactly: Sharpen your knife and go to seafood.r1152