Chapter 444: Flavor
Zhao Gangsheng came in with a basket of dried abalone, and came in with Jiahui, and saw that Fei Nan and Ou Zhaofeng were both in front of the shelves, so he asked curiously: "Brother Nan, master, what are you talking about?"
"Nothing. ”
Fei Nan threw the dried bear paw in his hand back to the shelf: "I want to remind you that the master should pay attention to preventing Huang Rong from playing tricks and making a fuss about the safety of ingredients." ”
"These ingredients are so expensive!"
Jiahui stepped forward and pouted at Ou Zhaofeng, complaining: "He spent millions just to buy these goods, and he usually refuses to even give me pocket money." ”
"Didn't I give you a few hundred dollars a week in pocket money?" O.W. glared and patted her on the top of her head.
Zhao Gangsheng put down the basket and asked, "Brother Nan, how does that surnamed Huang play tricks?"
"Use these three main dishes!"
Fei Nan knocked on the shelf: "These three main dishes are no longer as simple as wild animals, they all belong to protected animals." This is obviously Huang Rong's trick on your master, I reminded him early on, but he just didn't listen. ”
"I've figured it out!"
Ou Zhaofeng took the bear's paw and said: "I specially bought this bear's paw from Russia to breed the bear's paw, I have a certificate, and the elephant paw is also imported from Thailand, what is the problem?"
"What about monkey brains?"
Fei Nan pointed to a small monkey in a cage in the corner: "Is it also farmed?"
"Of course!"
Ou Zhaofeng said confidently: "I received it from the mainland, and it was raised by a monkey man. ”
With that, he took out a certificate from the side of Xiangba's bag and handed it to Feinan: "You see, this is a breeding certificate, with a customs stamp." ”
Fei Nan took it and looked at it, it was indeed true, and now, he couldn't say anything more.
Jiahui squatted in front of the cage, teasing the little monkey, turned back to Ou Zhaofeng and said, "Dad, can you discuss with that Huang Rong and change the ingredients? It's so cute, let's not kill it, okay?"
"The contract has been signed, how can I change it?" said Ozhaofeng, frowning.
Handing him back the certificate, Fei Nan smiled and asked, "Master Ou, we are purely communicating! Do you think it is advisable to eat wild meat?"
"It depends!"
Ou Zhaofeng stuffed the certificate back and said: "Aren't pigs, horses, cattle and sheep all game before they were tamed and farmed?"
Clapping his hands, he said, "Now, but there is one thing I agree with you, eating protected animals is definitely not okay, and I am also very opposed." ”
Fernan shook his head and said, "I don't think it's advisable to eat either protected animals or wild animals. ”
"You mean to only eat farms?"
Ou Zhaofeng smiled and shook his head: "How can there be so many breeding goods?"
After a pause, he asked, "Let me ask you, are the fish caught from the sea considered wild animals?"
Fei Nan was stunned, and Zhao Gangsheng on the side interjected: "It's not farmed, of course it's wild animals!"
"Yes!"
Ou Zhaofeng spread his hands: "Then do you know how many sea fish people in Xianggang eat in a day?"
"I don't know. ”
Zhao Gangsheng shook his head.
"I don't know. ”
Ou Zhaofeng hugged his arm and said: "Anyway, when Manhan Mansion was open, the sea fish sold every day were at least hundreds of catties, and this was only my family's sales. If you can't afford to eat grouper, you can always afford yellow croaker, right? Who in Hunan and Hong Kong hasn't eaten yellow croaker?"
Feinan didn't interject, he knew what Ozhaofeng meant, wildlife and people's tables were far more closely related than people thought.
Not to mention future generations, just in this era, except for the southern coastal cities, the central and northern regions of the mainland, frozen ribbon fish is almost the only fish that everyone can eat in winter.
If it is a one-size-fits-all standard that is either raised or wild, then hairtail fish is a standard wild animal, not to mention the various shrimp, crab and shellfish that are found all over the sea.
During this period, a large part of the purpose of eating wild meat was to supplement the shortage of food, which was also a choice that every people who experienced hunger had.
"Breeding goods are expensive! Sea fish are cheap! How much is a pound of barbecued pork? How much is a roast goose? How much is a sardine fish?"
Ou Zhaofeng shook his head and asked: "How many places in the world are rich enough for everyone to eat only farms? How many places are enough to raise so many livestock, poultry, fish, shrimp, mussels, and shellfish?"
"And you know, farmed goods are tasteless! Let's take fish, farmed fish don't have the umami taste of marine fish at all, and marine fish swim in the sea ......."
Ou Zhaofeng gestured with his hand to a swimming fish: "Its flesh is alive!"
Fernan, who agrees with this, prefers to eat fish, and wild fish are indeed more tasty than farmed fish in fish ponds.
"The eel rice of the neon country must be made of wild eels to be authentic, the raw materials of the sturgeon caviar in Russia also come from the wild sturgeon caught in the river, and the top truffles can only be found in the deep mountains and wild forests, these are the top flavors, aren't they wild?"
Ou Zhaofeng said a little angry, and his voice became louder: "It's angry when I say it, I don't know who wrote the report in the newspaper, saying that Chinese food is barbaric, not as good as Western food, and I like to eat indiscriminately, it's just a fart!"
"The consumption of marine fish in Neon Country is much higher than that in Hong Kong, and I like to eat it raw, I don't know how many people get sick because of parasites every year, don't they also eat it?"
"There is also raw pork sauce in German food, raw beef tartar in French food, and cheese with maggots in Italy, so they don't eat indiscriminately?"
Jiahui interjected and asked, "They don't eat this every day, do they?"
"Nonsense!"
Ou Zhaofeng snorted: "How many Chinese can afford to eat and eat bear's paw elephants every day?
"But eating game is dangerous. ”
Zhao Gangsheng said: "I read in the newspaper that a lot of wild meat has bacteria and viruses on it, and people will get sick if they eat it. ”
"Really?"
Jiahui hurriedly stood up: "Then isn't this monkey carrying a virus?"
"How can it be so exaggerated?"
Ou Zhaofeng frowned and said: "Of course there are risks in eating wild meat, but what about puffer fish!
"That's not what I said. ”
Fei Nan shook his head and said, "What is harmful to the body, of course, it is better to eat less, and it is best not to eat it." ”
"I know. ”
Ou Zhaofeng wiped his hands with a towel and said: "Of course, it is not good to eat wild meat, but no one eats it as food every day." Moreover, we Chinese are not the only ones who eat game, what country in the world does not eat game?"
"Russia has bear meat to eat, Nordic reincariner meat to eat, Australia has kangaroos to eat, Texas also has rattlesnake food, aren't these protected animals?"
"You're raising the bar. ”
Fei Nan smiled and said, "Master Ou, let's leave it right, I mean, since this is a cooking competition, as a chef, shouldn't you let diners eat healthy and eat at ease?"
When Ou Zhaofeng heard this, his tone softened: "That's right, this is the most basic moral bottom line of a chef." ”
"Yes!"
Fei Nan smiled and asked, "I know that rare ingredients will have a certain advantage in flavor, but if you can make up for it with cooking skills, wouldn't it be more effortless?"
"If I could, I would too!"
Ou Zhaofeng shook his head and sighed: "But the flavor can't be made up for by cooking, using beef tendon and pig's trotters to make a bear's paw flavor, I'm afraid only the God of Food can do it." ”