Chapter 134: Start Your Show

Really, it's all ruined. You said that as a middle-level and high-ranking official in Huaihai City, why did you come to this small shop to have a good time with us people. Shouldn't you Huang Gang go to eat at No. 7 on the Bund, or at the revolving restaurant of the Economic and Trade Building?

Don't you feel like you're losing your identity when you come to a small shop to eat lentil stewed noodles? A couple of men and women and Zhang Moxuan were thinking so. I thought that Huang Gang would be able to leave soon, but I didn't expect Huang Gang to eat it himself?!

"Good thing I just made an extra one. Zhang Tong didn't have anything to say that Huang Gang was willing to eat his own noodles, he made one more for Xiao Xiao to let her taste it...... Well, for Xiao Xiao, a bowl of noodles is really a taste. Because Xiao Xiao has never eaten this kind of stewed noodles. Only after tasting the taste can she understand why Zhang Tong did this and why she used these techniques when making this dish.

Zhang Tong said that he wanted to teach Xiao Xiao how to cook. Now she hasn't gone to the stove in person, and she doesn't even have a good level of doing white cases. But from now on, she needs to be taught some thinking logic in cooking, for example, there are several ingredients in a dish, but each ingredient has a different degree of aging. How to make this dish when it is ready, all the ingredients are at a suitable ageing level. It's not that some of the materials are too bad, and some of the materials are not yet cooked.

These basic theories such as how to divide the pot and cut the ingredients need to be taught simply. Just like lentil stewed noodles, noodles are easy to cook, but lentils are not easy to cook. If it is overcooked, the lentils will rot when cooked. If the time comes, the noodles are cooked just right, but the lentils are not cooked. Beans need to be cooked, and many beans are mildly toxic if eaten raw (half-cooked).

Another point is that the trick of making braised noodles delicious is that the noodles absorb the soup into the noodles just right, so that the texture and taste will have a plump and full feeling.

"Three minutes to go. Wait a minute, everybody. Zhang Tong turned the noodles over in the back kitchen, and there was no need to shake them apart or anything, just simply turn them over. The bottom of the pot is made of lentils and shredded pork belly, and the noodles are covered to prevent the noodles from sticking to the bottom of the pot and to better absorb the flavor of the soup.

Zhang Tong asked Xiao Xiao to start peeling garlic. If you eat northern noodles without garlic, it will be too uncomfortable. There are diners in the north who are fond of eating noodles and garlic and say: Raw garlic is raw on bare noodles, and you can eat a bowl and a half. Eat noodles without garlic, and the fragrance is half less.

However, there are also vinegar-loving noodle lovers in Shanxi who have put forward different opinions, for some people it is intolerable to not add vinegar to noodles, and there is an old saying: eating noodles without vinegar is like gnawing on a rag.

The war between garlic and vinegar is not as fierce as the sweet and salty battle of tofu brain. But there have also been debates about whether garlic or vinegar is more important when eating noodles. Later, the discussion was too intense, and the chef in the back kitchen ran out and said: stop arguing, noodles are the most important. If Lao Tzu doesn't make noodles, you can only eat laba garlic soaked in vinegar.

So laba garlic with noodles became a compromise point between the two sides.

However, for Huang Gang, whether it is eating noodles with vinegar or eating noodles with garlic, or eating noodles with laba garlic, it is actually okay. He craves the taste of noodles from the north too much now. There are also many places in Huaihai that sell noodles, but most of them are Soviet-style red soup noodles.

The taste of this kind of noodles is refreshing and sweet, but for Huang Gang, the taste is too bland, and it feels like he has eaten nothing and a bowl of noodles is gone. As a native of southern Henan who grew from snacks to braised noodles and plate noodles, Huaihai's noodles are really not delicious to him.

Xiao Xiao peeled a lot of garlic and sent it to a table of guests in a small white porcelain bowl with three bowls. The average person eats a bowl of noodles, which is one or two cloves of garlic. For example, there are still few people like Huang Gang who say that they want to eat a head of garlic. If you want to say it, Huang Gang has really been hungry for a long time.

The wife of the family is strict that he eats garlic, and the cooking at home does not enlarge the garlic. Except for Huang Gang, no one else in the family eats garlic, or even buys it. Even if Huang Gang wants to eat garlic, he doesn't have a suitable food with garlic. For example, noodles and dumplings or something, it is rare to make noodles once a month at home, and they are ordinary clear soup noodles, which are light and tasteless.

If he goes out to eat with others, Huang Gang is now a deputy director, not to mention a high and powerful position, but at least he is also a group of people with social status. If you eat with someone, you order noodles with garlic or something alone, and you are afraid of being laughed at by others. I still need to pay attention to my own image, and it is not good to talk to others about the smell of garlic, whether the other party is your boss or subordinate.

When Xiao Xiao put a small bowl of garlic in front of him, Huang Gang suddenly sighed in his heart: Hey~ This official deserves it............

The garlic has just been served, and Zhang Tong's lentil stewed noodles have already been prepared. The heat is just right, and the soup is absorbed cleanly, and the noodles absorb the soup and turn into a tempting sauce. Because there is no extra soup, the whole noodle appears dry and firm. Stir the lentils and shredded pork belly at the bottom of the pot well and you're ready to go.

A large white dish of sauce-colored braised noodles garnished with lentils and shredded pork. The same white porcelain stew pot is filled with kelp pork rib soup. The kelp is neatly tied into kelp knots and floats in the soup, and the five pork ribs are fragrant with meat at the bottom of the bowl. The soup is covered with sporadic yellow oil flowers, which are the wonderful changes that occur when the fat from the stewed pork ribs hits the kelp.

The stewed noodles and pork rib soup were served at the same time, and Huang Gang couldn't help but swallow his saliva. Delicious, high-end food, he has eaten enough over the years. But high-end food is like this after eating it for a long time.

My wife is a particular person, saying that the more high-end the food, the more you have to eat the original taste, but the taste is getting lighter and lighter. Huang Gang felt that sooner or later the family would become a raw food. Huang Gang felt that he couldn't eat anything particularly high-end, and he still loved to eat these flavorful things for so many years, especially noodles. It's a memory that's engraved in my bones. In his opinion, Lao Gan Ma noodles are much better than sushi, and sushi is really tasteless. Anyway, I just love to eat spices, and I can't help it, Huang Gang's self-evaluation.

When you bite into the lower half of the raw garlic, the pungent taste of the garlic spreads in your mouth. Unlike the spicy peppers, the spiciness of garlic is presented in a milder but more persistent way. You can feel the stimulation of the garlic taste from your mouth to your nose.

Then, under this stimulus, take a big bite of the stewed noodles, the sauce is fragrant, the meat is fragrant, the beans are fragrant, and the chewing looks like ordinary noodles but gives people an abnormal feeling of satiety. Each noodle fully absorbs the flavor of the sauce, and each bite of the noodle releases a strong aroma. The toughness of the noodles, the crispness of the beans, and the tenderness of the shredded meat, three different textures explode in the mouth.

And food with a strong flavor can easily numb people's mouths, making people easily tired of eating next. So the light kombu pork rib soup appeared. The seafood flavor of kelp and the meat flavor of pork ribs are two completely different flavors that combine but are natural. I don't know how many years ago a genius invented this simple but delicious dish, and his or her invention was even greater than Einstein's theory of relativity for many diners.

The pork rib soup dilutes the aftertaste in the mouth and refreshes the mouth again. Then you can start to charge the palate again! A small shop like this makes Huang Gang addicted to eating. This is more in line with Huang Gang's appetite than going to Something No. 7 and spending thousands of yuan to eat a Western meal. The current Huang Gang is like shouting: Cool!

Zhang Tong watched Huang Gang eat very refreshingly, and he took a big bite of noodles and enjoyed it. Zhang Moxuan was also eating silently and did not speak. The man and the woman looked at each other, then looked at Huang Gang behind them covertly, and then ate the noodles without a bite. Zhang Tong suddenly sat down in front of the man and woman with a thermos cup soaked in wolfberry water, and then opened his mouth without warning: "I haven't eaten this in the other world for many years, have I?