Chapter Ninety-Three: Skillfully carved jade lotus root reflects the fragrance of brocade honey in the sun
In fact, Huai Liangren is not mistaken, Zhou Dong is a silver needle used in traditional Chinese medicine, but this is called 'ancient nine needles', and now even some old Chinese medicine practitioners rarely use it, which is at least twice as long as the ordinary silver needle, and it is also twice as thick.
After Zhou Dong got the recipe of 'Green Lotus Fat Jade Porridge', he went to Shennongtang in front of Chudu Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital to buy it, and it took him some thought to bend the needle.
The needle looks like a tool used to draw the inside of a snuffbox, but it is longer and thinner, and it is more difficult to control.
Huai Liangren looked at this strange silver needle, only to feel that he was becoming more and more unable to see through this genius of the same kind; chefs sometimes use steel needles when handling food, such as when making bundles of meat, there is a practice of piercing the meat with steel needles first, so as to absorb the flavor, but it is a steel needle, who has ever seen a silver needle?
Although the ancient nine needles are thicker and longer than ordinary silver needles, the hardness is not as good as the steel needles at all.
After Zhou Dong gently probed the needle into the lotus hole, the thumb and index finger holding the tail of the needle quickly trembled, and a silver needle in his hand was like a dragon swinging its tail, and the cane shook its head, and the two fingers suddenly bent and shrunk, and suddenly straightened forward, and the action was natural, as if the antelope hung its horns and came naturally!
After a while, he withdrew the silver needle, and gently shook the lotus root in his left hand against the porcelain plate a few times, and suddenly a lot of lotus root powder fell from the lotus root hole, and quickly spread a layer at the bottom of the plate.
"What is this?"
Huai Liangren was dumbfounded, and it took a while to come back to his senses, and he quickly ran to the well in the corner of the courtyard to fetch water to wash his hands, and then ran back to Zhou Dong, as if he was on a pilgrimage, he picked up the lotus root that Zhou Dong had handled, and watched carefully in the sun.
Under the sunlight, the snow-white lotus root body seems to be transparent, and a clear pattern appears in the inner layer of this lotus root, which is a small channel that winds and turns, extending from the inner layer to the surface layer, just like the capillaries of the human body, extending in all directions, seemingly chaotic, but very regular!
"Zhou Dong! you actually ...... A lot of capillary pathways are opened for this lotus root with a needle!
I see, I see! So this is your secret technique! If you make lotus root like this, it's not easy to taste like anything you do, and it's all delicious!
How could you do that...... My God, are you the devil?"
Huai Liangren only felt happy and sour in his heart.
Glad that this friend he didn't stagger, is really a cooking wizard in the world; sour is this hand he saw is seen, but it is difficult to learn, who would have thought that to deal with a piece of lotus root must first know the 'inner painting' technique!
What's more, Zhou Dong's technique seems to be much more clever than those interior painting masters he has seen on TV.
Don't you want to be so exaggerated? Obviously, everyone is a genius, who are you going to kill when you make such a big gap!
Zhou Dong shook his head: "Without it, only familiar ...... "For a guy like Huailiangren, you have to pretend to be pretending."
"It makes sense, Jin Yu's good words!"
Huai Liangren secretly made up his mind, and when he turned around, he had to get such a silver needle, and then he would waste the white lotus root......
Zhou Dong processed a total of ten sections like this, stacking them in a bamboo basket prepared in advance. At this time, Shen Cheng's lotus root flour was almost dry, and Zhou Dong began to clean the spring spinach that Li Xiuchen's wife had just picked.
These ten white lotus roots completely broke the class barrier, and Huai Liangren thought that he should not be the only one who was shocked to drop his jaw, so he was very enthusiastic to sell this 'Zhou miracle' to Shen Cheng. ’
Taking advantage of the opportunity for the two guys to surround the white lotus root and marvel, Zhou Dong quickly activated the perfect-level vegetable washing skill.
The spinach in spring was originally fresh and juicy, delicate and delicious, and as Zhou Dong threw a lot of praise into it as if he didn't want money, the spinach in spring seemed to be given life, and began to throw autumn waves to this magical young chef, and across the water, Zhou Dong seemed to be able to feel the vitality from these plants.
"Although it's still a perfect-level vegetable washer, it seems that the perfect-level skills that have reached the critical point of upgrading are still a little different from before?
If you break through to the legendary skill, I don't know what kind of magic it will be?"
"It's juicing, isn't it?"
Seeing Zhou Dong processing the white lotus root with internal painting skills, and seeing him cleaning spinach, if you can't think of a way to get the 'green lotus', Huai Liangren, a three-Michelin-starred chef, is a Xibei product.
"You guessed it.
But I can't use a juicer this time, I need to squeeze out the spinach juice, but I don't allow the spinach puree to mix into the juice, so that even if I filter it afterwards, the spinach juice will have a hint of bitterness. ”
Zhou Dong looked at Huai Liangren: "Michelin three-star chef, there should be this skill, right?"
Huai Liangren glared at him indignantly: "Of course there is, but there are not many people who dare to call me like this, no, there is no more at all!"
Zhou Dong frowned and said, "Then I'll do it myself." ”
"I didn't finish yet! No one dares to call me like that, you're an exception!"
Huai Liangren snatched the vegetable basin and said coldly: "I'll let you see my skills!"
"Get it better. ”
Zhou Dong handed the spinach to Huai Liangren and opened the honey jar that Li Xiuchen had brought early in the morning.
When the lid was opened, a pure nectar fragrance came to the face, and you didn't need to taste it to know that Li Xiuchen really didn't make a mistake, this is genuine honey, not the kind mixed with sugar.
Zhou Dong nodded with satisfaction, poured the honey into the porcelain bowl that had already been washed in front of him, took an empty bowl of the same size, raised the honey bowl high, and slowly poured the honey into the empty bowl.
When the honey bowl was emptied, Zhou Dong quickly alternated his left and right hands, and poured the honey back into the original bowl, repeating it more than a dozen times, as if he was enjoying it.
Shen Cheng looked inexplicable: "Master Huai, what is Master Xiao Zhou doing, aren't you tired?"
"What do you know? No matter how good the honey is precipitated in the jar for a long time, it will lose its activity, and he wants to stimulate the activity of the honey so that the honey can fully volatilize. Look at it, there's a lot to learn. ”
Shen Cheng couldn't help but be amazed: "It's so exquisite, I didn't expect that there is so much attention to making porridge." God, Lao Liu has to set a price for this porridge, if it is cheap, I will be sorry for Master Xiao Zhou's craftsmanship!"
"You know money, it's art, you know?"
Huai Liangren shook his head again and again when he heard this, a fool is a fool, a little sparrow is a little sparrow, and only he, a wild goose who intends to be in the nine heavens, can barely follow Zhou Dong's person to win the colorful phoenix, right?
"Is the spinach juice ready?"
Zhou Dong turned a deaf ear to the discussion between the two, and kept pouring the bowl more than a dozen times, seeing that the honey in the bowl was almost transparent, showing a hazy sense of beautiful jade, knowing that the time had come, he hurriedly turned his head to look at Huai Liangren.
"Get the spinach juice!"