Chapter 1527: Good Fortune
Caviar, along with foie gras and truffles, is considered one of the "three treasures of the Western world" and is notoriously expensive.
Almost all kinds of fish eggs can be made into caviar (except for puffer fish, unless they are live). Strictly speaking, however, only the products of sturgeon roe can be called caviar, and among them, caviar from the Caspian Sea is the best and the most expensive!
The last time I came to the Soviet Union, the customs in Leningrad at that time stipulated that departing personnel could only carry 500 grams of black caviar, which was very strictly controlled.
That time, Zhang Nan, Xiang Weirong and Guan Xingquan bought the leather goods, although they did not sell caviar, a department store manager specially reminded them kindly, so as not to spend money and not take them away.
Memory is promising, and in terms of restraint, it is strict enough.
The management is strict, and the price is even higher, Zhang Nan heard in his last life that the price of many famous brands of caviar far exceeds that of gold, and now it is also the market.
Wealthy Westerners also think it's normal for outrageous prices to be expensive, such as the two housekeepers in the house and Charlize Theron, who is sitting next to her and putting caviar into her mouth with a wooden spoon.
It is said that you can't eat caviar with a metal utensil, otherwise it will change its taste, so you have to use a wooden spoon or a shell spoon, and the more particular way is to put the caviar on the back of your hand and suck it into your mouth.
There will be a lot of people, and Chariz Theron will not suck the back of his hand in front of everyone.
After a few years of hard work, Zhang Nan has successfully made half of the Westerners around him out of half of the Chinese stomach, but he still can't change the love of caviar, foie gras and truffles for these guys.
Charlie said that this caviar is expensive, and the process of screening fish roe is like a court draft of the Chinese Braided Dynasty, and it also follows the rules of the game that the tall and the mother are expensive.
Only the eggs of the sturgeon qualify as authentic caviar, and there are 27 species of sturgeon in the world, and according to the traditional belief in the Western world, there are only three species of sturgeon that can produce caviar: the glitter sturgeon, the ositra sturgeon and the white sturgeon.
To get roe, the glitter sturgeon takes at least 8 years to grow, the ositra sturgeon takes even longer, 15 years, and the rarest white sturgeon needs more than 20 years to grow!
As for the top-quality caviar in Russia, it needs to be taken from the body of a 60-year-old white sturgeon, and less than 100 white sturgeons are caught a year that meet this standard!
Charlie tasted the most expensive white sturgeon caviar, but not from a 60-year-old fish, which had a few jars in the kitchen warehouse on Long Island, New York, and fetched more than gold.
There are too few white sturgeons, and now it is not easy to be rich in Russia, and Andrei, Alyosha and others will taste the red sturgeon caviar on the table.
Before eating, the waiter deliberately showed the original packaging box - in order to distinguish the different varieties and grades of caviar, the outer packaging of this caviar has had an official color since the Soviet era.
Blue represents the most expensive white sturgeon caviar, yellow represents Occitra sturgeon caviar, and red represents the cheapest glittering sturgeon caviar.
Even in the heyday of the Soviet Union, professor-level Soviets could not eat authentic sturgeon caviar twice a year.
The Caspian Sea is home to the largest producers of authentic caviar, and it used to be the only two caviar producing countries, the Soviet Union and Iran, but now Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan share the caviar industry.
In the past two years, Caviar production in the Sea has been getting smaller and smaller, and it is good to eat caviar from a sturgeon occasionally, and it is generally good to be able to buy caviar made from salmon roe.
When wild resources are scarce, Charlie, who likes authentic caviar, probably needs to taste the caviar produced in China, or produced in Jiangnan Province - in the future, the caviar produced by the sturgeon raised in Qiandao Lake in Jiangnan Province will account for 80% of the caviar produced in China and 1/3 of the world's output, and the output will be the absolute first in the world!
However, Zhang Nan, including caviar, doesn't like any of the "three treasures of the West", such as foie gras, most of which are sold on the head of a sheep, and the "foie gras" sold in top restaurants in Paris is very likely to be duck liver.
Whether it is foie gras or duck liver is not the point, Zhang Nan has not liked to eat animal liver since he was a child, as the old saying goes, it is not good to eat too much liver, it is easy to get sick, who makes it a detoxification organ.
Western-style foie gras is even worse, the fat content is ridiculously high, beware of eating it to exceed the cholesterol limit.
As for the truffle, Zhang Nan hates its awkward fragrance, and when he smells it, he loses his appetite!
In the end, this caviar is the least cold, and I can't stand the fishy smell at all, but I like it if there is caviar when there is caviar when the fish is braised in the braised fish.
The Volga River produces a lot of fish, and the river that flows through the small town of Aleksandrovgay also contains a lot of commercial fish, including sturgeon.
In addition to the caviar and the sturgeon itself, the original chef of the hotel used the grilling method on the table today, and the craftsmanship is to the extent that it can be eaten.
As for Danny's small team, they used pan-fried and braised sturgeon meat to freeze and keep it fresh, but the boss didn't do it, and instead got a share of the mullet in scallion oil.
Charlie, who has always thought that her brother likes to eat fish very much, was puzzled by this, and when she saw that he didn't want sturgeon meat, she kindly reminded: "Danny did a good job, don't you try it?"
There are no sturgeons on Long Island's estate, and there is no habit of eating sturgeon.
Zhang Nan shook his head, "This fish is too ugly to be interested." ”
Charlize Theron expressed his puzzled face: This fish eats and pays attention to looks?
Today, the sturgeon replenished by Engels City are all divided and frozen, and each of the original sturgeon can be at least 50 kilograms or more, which will not be visible from the appearance of the finished product on the plate after cooking.
Ugly?
How to understand?
Zhang Nan usually eats a lot of strange fish, such as those live sand snakeheads that are airlifted from Huaxia to New York every once in a while, and their appearance is absolutely ugly, and he likes to eat them very much.
Charlie didn't understand, and Zhang Nan didn't explain: I just don't like fish with bone plates, if it's hard bone or cartilaginous fish, I feel that those things are antiques.
It's antique, just look at it, and don't forget to stuff it in your mouth.
It's good to eat some ordinary mullet, I liked it in my last life, and now it's the same, the fish is tender, and there are few bones in this fish.
Zhang Nan hates to eat sturgeon, but Jiang Aihua, who came with him, is feasting, according to him: "When you eat Chinese sturgeon, you can't eat it in China." ”
Now, in another 20 years, there will be as many sturgeons as cattle in China, but the market is not large, and not many people like it.
After finishing the meal, Guan Xingquan was going to return to Earth tomorrow morning, Zhang Nan went to the small command center next door to the guest house to inquire about the latest situation, and then made a phone call to the United States before resting.
The next day, everyone got up early in the morning, and Zhang Nan ate the Chinese-style omelettes and white porridge prepared by Danny, and then set off for the landing center 40 kilometers away.
The Soyuz spacecraft claims to have a landing accuracy of 25 kilometers, but sometimes it exceeds the standard, and the landing site has several helicopters and many cars specially prepared for this purpose.
Huaxia's later Shenzhou spacecraft landing progress was higher than that of the Soyuz, which Zhang Nan remembers very well.
Chariz Theron in the car also muttered: "Don't have an accident, if you go to Siberia, it will be miserable..."
Halfway through the words, "Oops!"
The skull was knocked on by Zhang Nan, and he muttered a few words: "Good luck, children talk nonsense, don't care." ”
How far can a Soviet spacecraft deviate from its landing?
3200 km!
Of course, the landing, which was a bit off-the-beaten, was a forced landing under the manual control of the top cosmonauts: on March 18, 1965, Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyaev arrived in space on the Ascent -2 spacecraft.
Leonov stepped out of the hatch and achieved the first human spacewalk, which was definitely another great feat of mankind after Yuri Gagarin's first flight around the Earth in a spacecraft!
However, when returning to the ground the next day, the automatic navigation system of the "Ascension-2" failed, and after flying one more lap, Belyaev switched to manual control of the spacecraft, and finally forced the spacecraft to land in the Siberian forest 3,200 kilometers away from the planned landing site!
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