483 The Taste of Food (1st Update)
For chefs, radish is a difficult ingredient to control, and it is often 'turnips for success and turnips'.
"Compendium of Materia Medica" said that radish is "the most beneficial among vegetables", bitter and sweet, non-toxic, into the lungs, stomach meridian, with the effect of stagnation, phlegm and heat, lower qi, wide and medium, detoxification, treatment of food swelling, phlegm cough and loss of voice, tuberculosis hemoptysis, vomiting and acid reflux and other symptoms.
Roast pork with radish and tofu soup with radish are all outstanding representatives of delicious and home-cooked dishes that are commonly eaten by the people.
But radish also has one of the biggest drawbacks, that is, the taste is too strong, second only to garlic, which is a 'terrible delicacy'.
Therefore, it is necessary to make a good radish or stew it in large oil to cover it with a thick flavor, or it can be used at the same time as a 'versatile' ingredient such as tofu, but even if it is a well-known radish and tofu soup, it must be oily and watery, otherwise it will be difficult to become delicious.
It is actually a very bold act to use radish to serve cold dishes, is the cold shredded radish refreshing? That's because the diner will feel wonderful when the taste suddenly changes after eating the big fish and meat, and you try the cold shredded radish on the first course? It is estimated that the ladies at the table will cover their noses directly.
Takemiya Masata uses white radish slices to tenon and tenon fish fillets, mainly to take care of the enjoyment of the diners' senses, in addition to the radish slices with fresh fish, the nasal taste of radish and the faint fishy smell of sea fish can also cancel each other out to a certain extent.
But that's all, if you want to achieve the 'colorful phoenix flying and fragrant' recorded in the notes of the island monk, it is actually far from enough.
However, nine out of ten monks are half-pull writers, and there are also literary rhetoric that use exaggerated means, at least before seeing Zhou Dong's 'Phoenix Dance Nine Days', Takemiya Masata's has always thought that he has achieved the extreme, and that senior monk is mostly exaggerated.
Whether it is in the island country or in Huaxia, he believes that no second chef can do this, not even those old friends of Huaxia!
Who knows' I haven't seen the hand of God in my life, and I know the truth when I meet Zhou Dong'!
The Cangjiu King, who is also from Huaxia, is right, what Chef Zhou did is the real * Phoenix Dance Nine Days!
Compared with him, he made the phoenix fall step by step, and even had to spell out the whole phoenix after the plate, Zhou Dong was the real phoenix dance for nine days, and the phoenix only fell into the sycamore after the phoenix looked at the world;
The fragrance of the world is three, one is the fragrance of thick materials, the second is that there is good at seasoning, although various spices are used to get the fragrance of neutrality and peace, and the third is to get the law of nature, with a simple taste, a glimpse of the fragrance of plum salt!
These three incense people are the three products in the world that diligent masters often say, which are the lower grades, the middle grades, and even the upper grades!
But even a chef who knows that 'the best taste in the world is plum salt' has only mastered the taste of the top grade, and it is limited by the dish itself, not to mention, even if it is the best taste, it is still the taste of the world.
Since there is no smell out of the world, how can it be called a strange fragrance?
This monk is actually a layman in the kitchen, and it is estimated that he has never eaten really top food before he can say such layman's words......
Takemiya Masata has always thought so, until he met Zhou Dong, he realized that he had been sitting in a well and watching the sky all along!
No oil and salt, no knives and spoons, no fire, no cooking oil, just relying on the magic of the knife to make a plate that should be 'color is heavier than taste', but it was made by others to make a delicacy beyond the world, how could he not be convinced?
Lao Wugong's hand holding the chopsticks trembled a little.
He has already eaten more than a dozen pieces of 'Phoenix Tail Feather', and the dish made by Zhou Dong is so exquisite that he can't bear to put down the chopsticks, but he can't help but want to eat a few more bites, and he can't stop his mouth at all.
It's like he obviously has the heart of pity and cherishes the jade, but he is a natural flower thief, and in the end, the only reason that can explain himself is to default to the fact that he is the lone man who still has some principles of life.
The entrance of the radish slices is like the essence of the radish skin peeled from the freshest and most tender top-quality radish, which is not only crisp, but also extremely sweet, which makes him full of flavor, and there is no trace of the original smell of radish.
There are also those fish meat of Xizhiji fish and Su Mei fish, no matter how top-notch the sashimi is, there will actually be a faint fishy smell, so the clever chef will choose to use ice, sauce, and mustard to suppress the peculiar smell.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chinese people have loved to eat fish tart, there was no mustard at that time, and most of the freshwater fish used, but they also used soy sauce and rattan pepper made of meat to make sauce, in addition to increasing the taste, the main purpose is actually to suppress the fish.
To a certain extent, island chefs actually pay more attention to the original taste of food than Chinese chefs, and their craftsmanship in food is mainly embodied in 'simplifying complex problems and then becoming more complex', which is a process that seems to go from complex to simple, but in fact it is still from simple to complex.
For example, sashimi.
In order to pursue the original taste of food, the top island chefs will work the selection of ingredients, improving knife skills, and chilling time, which requires long-term practice and top-quality ingredients to achieve close to perfection.
But close to perfection, after all, it is not really perfect, even if it is a great chef like Takemiya Masata, the yusheng made by choosing the top ingredients will have a faint fishy smell, so he specially chose white radish and fish fillet tenon, just hoping that the taste of the two can be neutralized as much as possible, but it is not perfect.
And this phoenix dance made by Zhou Dong for nine days, not only is the radish crispy and sweet enough without a trace of nasal taste, but even the yusheng does not have a trace of fishy.
After the tender and sweet yusheng enters the mouth, just a light chew, the delicious gravy lingers in the mouth with a burst of delicious taste that belongs to the food.
Is this still the Joy Fish and the Sumei Fish? No, no, no! This is no longer fish, and it has even gone beyond the category of meat, and is completely the original representative of 'fresh', 'sweet', 'tender', and 'fragrant'!
Takemiya Masata's let out a long sigh, if the food also has the original taste, the young Chinese chef in front of him has restored at least four kinds!
A chef who has mastered the original taste of food can be described as a god of cooking!
"Your Excellency......"
In this way, under the gaze of the island country Tianhuang, in the shocked eyes of the junior chefs of the island country, in this 'imperial kitchen', Takemiya Masata suddenly took off a red sun medal on his chest, which is the top medal of the island country kitchen industry that represents the god of the island country kitchen world and the identity of the great chef.
Takemiya Masata thought that he was not qualified to wear this medal in front of Zhou Dong at all, and he didn't even have the slightest intention of dedicating this medal to Zhou Dong, because no one was qualified to award the medal to a kitchen god, and this medal was not worthy of the identity of the kitchen god at all!
Walking in front of Zhou Dong, Takemiya Masata's bow deeply: "Thank you, Your Excellency!"
It was you who gave me a taste of transcendence, and this 'Nine Heavens of Phoenix Dance' brought the taste that truly belongs to the origin of food.
Before I met you, the island culinary world regarded me as a 'god', and even I myself had this illusion.
But after meeting you, I realized that I was just a joke!"