In foreign countries, dishes such as Zuo Zongtang chicken, Li Hongzhang's chowder, sweet and sour pork, etc., are very popular among foreigners.

But their practices have long been assimilated by local eating habits, and many people have never eaten Chinese food made by Chinese since they were young, and what they eat is made by foreigners.

So they really want to come to China and eat those Chinese meals made by Chinese chefs.

This is also the reason why Xu Zhuoyi said that he wanted to make sweet potato puree just now, and they were so excited.

I have really eaten Chinese food made by Westerners for so many years, and now I can't help but see Chinese food made by Chinese, and I can't suppress my excitement and excitement.

Stir-fried mashed sweet potatoes blew their minds.

And the Zuo Zongtang chicken made by Xu Zhuo also made them feel that the trip was worthwhile.

Not only did I taste the authentic Zuo Zongtang chicken, but I also learned the authentic method by the way.

It's worth it.

Now listening to Zhao Guangming say that he will do Li Hongzhang's chowder tomorrow, everyone is even more excited.

"Xu Zhuo, tell me what ingredients you need, and I'll prepare them in advance. ”

Xu Zhuo smiled, and was just about to tell Zhao Guangming about the ingredients used in Li Hongzhang's chowder, when he was suddenly stunned.

Because he found out that this so-called Li Hongzhang chowder is his mother's two dishes!

One is Li Hongzhang's chowder, which uses sea cucumber scallops and other ingredients, stewed in chicken soup and put in a pot, with a beautiful pattern, which is very similar to the Yipin pot of Hui cuisine.

It is said that when Li Hongzhang visited the United States, he entertained foreign guests at the consulate, and because the dishes were not enough, he made a dish with leftovers from the kitchen.

This legend is very marketable, and many people still talk about it with relish.

However......

This is a piece of outright fake news.

Not at all.

And foreigners don't like to eat stewed dishes.

Therefore, Li Hongzhang's chowder, which is widely spread in China, is simply a story made up by the Chinese people who add oil and vinegar to it, and the dishes are only chowder dishes from Anhui.

And the Li Hongzhang chop that is popular in the United States, the exact name should be fried chops.

The second dish Xu Zhuo got was this stir-fried chop.

After getting the skills, Xu Zhuoshun also learned about the origin of the two dishes.

Li Hongzhang is miscellaneous and has nothing to do with Li Hongzhang.

Stir-fried chop is a dish brought to the United States by Chinese workers from the Pearl River Delta region in the mid-19th century.

Although the name of the dish is chop, the ingredients used are not animal offal, but kitchen scraps.

Chicken or pork and these kitchen scraps are stir-fried in a pan, and the kind of crumble dish that comes out is the so-called fried offal.

In this dish, the word chop should be understood separately.

Miscellaneous refers to miscellaneous ingredients.

Crushed, refers to the finished product crushed.

This stir-fry is very popular in the United States because it is easy to take, quick to make, and relatively inexpensive because of the lack of ingredients.

Not only Chinese workers love to eat, but also Americans.

Wang Qingfu, the chief writer of New York's first Chinese newspaper, described chop as a staple food for Chinese New Yorkers, and even called it "China's national dish."

This is, of course, a big misunderstanding.

There are many kinds of Chinese dishes, and the 10,000 people in the back row will not be able to support this stir-fried chop scene.

But white people like to be self-righteous.

At the end of the 19th century, when Prime Minister Li Hongzhang visited the United States, the American media wrote over and over again the scene of Li Hongzhang eating fried chops.

The reason why it is written like this is because fried chop is the only Chinese food accepted by white people, so they take it for granted that the minister of a country must eat national food every day.

In fact, during Li Hongzhang's visit to the United States for a week, he did not eat fried chop once.

But those media didn't care about this, and just linked Li Hongzhang with fried miscellaneous things.

However, at this time, most Americans still have a ridiculous attitude towards the dish of fried chops.

What really made fried chop close to the daily life of Americans, and became an inseparable nostalgia in the memory of Americans, originated from the San Francisco earthquake in 1906.

At that time, the earthquake was sudden, and the people lived in tents, without food or drink.

At this time, fried offal with rice, a low-priced but rich and delicious delicacy, became a lifesaver for people in the disaster area.

It was from that time that Americans gave a nostalgic atmosphere to the dish of stir-fried chops.

Until now, there are also some old beauties who have traveled thousands of miles back to the place where they lived when they were children, just to eat a bite of fried chop with rice in the depths of their memory.

From this point of view, the Americans rubbed off on Li Hongzhang's popularity.

However, it is not only Americans who rub Li Hongzhang's popularity, but also the Chinese themselves.

For example, the plausible Li Hongzhang chowder is a typical hot dish.

Li Hongzhang's chowder also has nothing to do with Li Hongzhang.

Some people think that the word miscellaneous is not good, and Li Hongzhang is from Anhui, so they pressed Anhui's chowder on Li Hongzhang's head.

He also made up some stories about his visits.

What kind of food to entertain foreign guests is not enough to eat, Li Hongzhang had an idea and asked the chef to make a chowder, which shocked the audience.

Li Hongzhang couldn't get used to Western food, so he asked the chef to make a chowder dish, which was inadvertently tasted by the Americans, and he immediately couldn't put it down.

It's all.

The dignified and first-class people, and the nation that likes to talk about pomp and circumstance the most, how could they fall into the situation of not having enough dishes to entertain guests.

According to the spread of chop in the United States, it is impossible for people at the bottom to eat precious ingredients such as sea cucumbers, jade scallops, and orchid slices every day.

At that time, the living conditions of Chinese workers could not have so much time to cook that chowder.

But ordinary Chinese people like to hear this kind of story, and some chefs also like to use this kind of allusion to add a bit of legend to their dishes.

Therefore, this kind of legend has been very popular until now.

Many people still think that Americans like to get together and eat the chowder invented by Li Hongzhang around a stewpot.

After learning the history of these two dishes, Xu Zhuo was very happy.

It's not that I've figured out one plausible dish, but I've mastered two dishes at once.

There are not only fried chops that Americans like to eat, but also Li Hongzhang's chowder that has finally become a representative dish of Hui cuisine in China.

After the two dishes were in hand, not only did Xu Zhuoduo master an overseas Chinese dish.

At the same time, he also came into contact with Hui cuisine.

Hui cuisine, one of the eight major cuisines, is a little unfamiliar to Xu Zhuo.

Because Hui cuisine is not as widely spread as Sichuan and Hunan cuisine, and it is not as famous as Cantonese cuisine, Lu cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine.

Even in terms of local characteristics, it is not as outstanding as Zhejiang and Fujian cuisine.

Therefore, Hui cuisine has always had no sense of existence among the eight major cuisines.

Now, it is finally possible to unveil the mystery of Hui cuisine......