Chapter 210: Food and Civilization
As Zhang Tong said to Qin Kuairen, seemingly inconspicuous snacks can actually reflect whether a world is prosperous from one side.
Just like this magical world, for example, this is the world of the middle demon and the high demon. Because of the care of the magicians, agriculture here was very good for a long time. Ninety percent of civilians rely on at least potatoes and barley to feed themselves.
It's not very good to eat, but at least it's full.
Of course, it is only limited to eating enough, and it is impossible to eat how delicate and good the food is.
Zhang Tong and Qin Kuairen have wandered around Sylvie City, and now they are also wandering around the Immortal City, which is known as the most prosperous city in the world. There are a lot of shops in the city, and there are all kinds of things to buy.
There are everything from daily necessities for residents to armor and weapons for soldiers. The more advanced ones were the shops that sold magic items, and Zhang Tong, accompanied by Qin Kuairen and other mages, also wandered around and bought some souvenirs to go back.
Of course, Zhang Tong and Qin Kuairen also went to the bakery and various restaurants in the Immortal City.
In the largest bakery in the Immortal City: the bakery of the croissant, Zhang Tong smelled the aroma of freshly baked bread, and he took a deep breath.
"It smells so good. Zhang Tong praised that the sweetness of baking always brings people a warm and sweet sense of happiness.
The croissant bakery has three floors, offering an area of more than 1,000 square meters. On the first floor is the baking room, where more than 20 bakers and apprentices work hard to knead and bake.
The third and second floors were sold, and freshly baked bread was put on the shelves by the apprentices one by one, and it was quickly sold out.
The bread sold on the second floor is all staple bread, which is the kind of hard bread that is more difficult to eat, but very top-notch. This bread is usually eaten with soup.
The third floor sells a variety of snacks and baked goods.
On the second floor, there were the most customers, and Zhang Tong saw a lot of women dressed like housewives carrying baskets and buying three or four pounds of whole-wheat bread and multigrain bread at a time. Of course, the best seller is brown bread. Brown bread tastes really bad, and it has a strange sour taste that is over-fermented. Because it contains a lot of bran, it doesn't taste very good.
But this thing is the cheapest staple bread.
So a third of the bread sold in the bakery on the second floor is brown bread.
On the third floor, the furnishings are completely different, and the bread sales office on the second floor is not elaborately furnished. There are only rows of grills for freshly baked bread. And the bread is blocked by a fence, and you must tell the waiter what bread you want, and the waiter will load it after you settle the bill.
The bakery on the third floor looks like the old-fashioned European bakery that Zhang Tong has seen on TV. Pale yellow walls, rows of solid wood shelves display this fresh bread. In the middle of the room is a five-metre-long solid wood table with fine bread and snacks on wooden plates.
The staple bread sold on the second floor is bread such as multigrain bread, brown bread, and whole wheat bread. This type of bread cannot be said to be untasty, but it is tooth-consuming and face-consuming, and it is particularly laborious to chew.
On the third floor, you can sell white bread made of pure white flour mixed with milk and butter, which is fluffy and brushed. At first glance, this bread is much better than the staple bread on the second floor.
In addition to the staple milk white bread that only the rich can afford every day, there are many other baked goods on the third floor. For example, a praline bread baked with nuts, a grape bread with grapes, and so on. Different flavors of bread can be obtained by mixing different ingredients, and there are more than 20 types of bread on the third floor.
On the third floor, in addition to bread sales, dine-in is also available. On the street side of the third floor, there is a large terrace with ten tables where you can have a light lunch.
Sitting on the terrace facing the street on the third floor, Zhang Tong and Qin Kuairen and his junior brother Feng Meier were enjoying their lunch. Sliced pralines, raisins, garlic bread and jam, and milk for drink.
"Cowson's bakery is the best bakery in town. Here is the best bread in the whole continent!" von Meier said as Zhang Tong felt a little proud.
Probably because after he shocked the taste buds of five legendary mages with a snack from the other world last night, Mage Carter secretly called Von Meier to his side and said something. Maybe Von Meier already knows something now, so he can't wait to show the world's excellence in front of Zhang Tong all the way today.
"The bread here is delicious, and it's not very expensive, and civilians and mages come here to buy it. Feng Meier's words were translated to Zhang Tong through Qin Kuairen.
Zhang Tong picked up a piece of sliced nut bread and took a bite, well, it was baked well, but it was just good. It's not as amazing as it is, and it's not even as good as the toast of those well-known chains in China.
Because bread does not mean that the more you make it according to the traditional recipe, the better it tastes, and the most important thing that affects the taste of bread is yeast, in addition to basic flour, oil, sugar and milk.
The annual investment in yeast research and development by a large company in the bakery industry is probably higher than the turnover of this croissant bakery in ten years. If you look at it according to Zhang Tong's standards, the bread in the warm time in Hive City is also better than this one.
"It's not soft enough, it's not brushed enough, and the fragrance isn't very sufficient. Zhang Tong made his own comments on the nut bread. Von Meier was very unconvinced: "Do you know how to cook?
Regarding Feng Meier's words, Zhang Tong smiled and remained silent. He silently took out a packet of Xiaobai and handed it to Feng Meier softly: "Taste it." ”
Von Meier smiled, tore open the package and took a hard bite: "The taste is also ...... No...... Hmm............"
He was silent.
Although it is said that industrially produced food is often inferior to handmade for people on earth. But not all handmade food is as good as industrial food. It's like for more than half of the world's population, their cooking skills are not as good as the various semi-finished products sold in supermarkets.
Zhang Tong ate the nut bread and looked at the tool translator Qin Kuairen: "Xiao Qin, when will your teacher be open?" I can't stay in this world for long, my wife is pregnant. It's almost up to them to decide, or we'll go back. ”
Qin Kuairen was studying the teacher's magic notes there, he had come to this world to prepare to learn some new medical magic in order to chase Chen Xingxing. Hearing this, Qin Kuairen raised his head: "I guess it should be soon." But Lao Zhang, we leave all the snacks in our suitcases to my teacher, are they really good? Those things are high in oil, salt, and sugar, and they won't cause diabetes, right?"
"Hey, you have to believe in the constitution of a legendary mage. Zhang Tong patted Qin Kuairen's shoulder.
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At the top of Master Carter's Tower, a meeting is taking place about the future direction of this world.
Five legendary mages, a large round table, and on the table is a mountain of snacks piled up.
Several bowls of instant noodles are billowing white smoke.
PS: Ask for tickets!