Chapter 786: Soup from Hell
There is only one supermarket in Baikalsk, and Yang Meng was a little confused after entering: Did I cross over?
This should not be called a supermarket, but should be called a 'commissary' in Hanguo: a counter in front, a small shelf behind the counter, tell the salesperson what you want, and she will take it out for you.
There are not many men in Baikalsk, most of them go to work in Irkutsk, the situation is the same as in the Han Kingdom, but there are not many elderly people here, which may be related to the average life expectancy?
And the supermarket here is really poor in supplies, but there are many types of vodka for sale, and even vegetables are sold.
There is a saying in Han China that vegetables are very expensive in winter on the Tsarist side. After reading it, Yang Meng had the urge to scold the street: onions are 15 rubles a kilogram, which is almost 5 yuan a piece, carrots are 21 kilograms a piece, kohlrabi is 21 kilograms, Chinese cabbage is 8 yuan a kilogram, tomatoes are 7 yuan and 51 kilograms, cucumbers are 10 yuan a kilogram, and lettuce is 10 yuan a kilogramγγγγγγ Isn't this about the same as the Han Kingdom? Things like onions, potatoes, carrots, and kohlrabi are much cheaper than in China! The only thing that is more expensive is green onions, and I don't know why this thing is about 20 yuan a kilogram.
Well. It doesn't look that new? Does it matter? Good quality and low price are important.
Only Hugh and Susan, as well as Alexander, went to Yang Meng to eat hot pot, and the rest of the people did not come. Instead, they thought Hugh and Susan were doing too much.
Alexander is a very cheerful young man, when he knew that Yang Meng had a pair of small golden eagles, he directly said that he was going to come to him to see the golden eagles, and he said that he liked speed sports, and there were several sports cars at home, and he was the teacher this time when he was skiing.
Yang Meng is even more sure that the family background of these young people in Tsarist Russia is not simple: when they know that Yang Meng was originally a motorcyclist (introduced by Susan) and now does nothing (introduced by Yang Meng himself), there is obviously a trace of disgust in Yang Meng's eyes. It's a feeling that Yang Meng and their identities are not equal.
But what else is there to say?
Although the vegetables here are cheap, they are not used except for the side ear, Chinese cabbage and lettuce, and other vegetables are not used even if they are cheap.
But Yang Meng has a way: after three years of drifting on an uninhabited island, he hid a lot of food in the 'big sleeves', and he must buy a bunch of delicious food wherever he goes, and he has everything in the pot base and seasonings, Yang Meng pretended to take food out of the motorcycle bucket, and moved food to the house one by one!
"Yang, did you prepare this yourself?" Hugh was a little confused.
Yang Meng nodded: "Yes, you can't be too wronged along the way, right?"
Hugh was puzzled and asked, "No, I see that you eat self-heating military rations and other foods every day in the video, and I have never seen you eat this hot pot!
Yang Meng's face darkened, some of them are good to eat, what are you curious about!
However, he still explained: "It takes a long time to prepare the hot pot, and it is inconvenient to eat it in the wild, so I never took it out." I wanted to find a place to stay and use it. β
As soon as his voice fell, there was a knock on the door, Alexander just said that he was going back to get something, and now this is back?
"Also
Didn't you start eating?" Alexander laughed, "I've brought something good too!"
Before he could finish speaking, he heard Hugh and Susan say together, "Caviar!"
Seeing that Yang Meng did not understand, Hugh explained: "Alexander's family has the largest local European sturgeon farm in Hatanga Bay, and it is the largest caviar export manufacturer in the whole of Tsarist Russia. So he takes the best Russian black caviar with him everywhere he goes. β
Susan continued, "Don't think he likes to eat this, he's here to see our jokes. β
"See your jokes?" Yang Meng asked puzzled as she prepared the ingredients.
Susan nodded, "We are alumni of Newcastle University. What was the name of the word that your friends used to say when you were on the Isle of Man? Oh, X! And for the rotten people, no, it should be said that for the whole of Europe, caviar is the artifact of X. β
Yang Meng didn't understand what Susan meant: "What do you mean by installing an X artifact?"
Susan explains: "When we had a reunion, Alexander would bring out black caviar, and then I would see the girls dressed as X. At that time, you will see girls pretending to elegantly put black caviar on the back of their hands and lick it into their mouths. β
"Put it on the back of your hand and lick it, why?" Yang Meng asked puzzled.
Alexander laughed and said: "There is a saying in Europe that using metal containers such as spoons will affect the taste of caviar, so you should use a special shell spoon to put caviar on the back of your hand, because the caviar that has just been opened is chilled, and putting it on the back of your hand can make the caviar slightly heated to a temperature close to the human body, closer to the original taste of caviar, and the metal spoon will oxidize the taste of caviar through some chemical reactions, so that caviar has a metallic taste." β
After speaking, he didn't wait for Yang Meng's body temperature and replied directly: "This is pure nonsense! Iran's Emas albino caviar is the most expensive caviar in the world, 25,000 US dollars per kilogram------ but it is also a metal container! Of course, I won't admit this when I say it, after all, my family also has a caviar business, isn't it? The louder they blow, the happier I am!"
Yang Meng laughed, this Alexander is also an interesting young man: "Then how should this thing be eaten?"
Alexander opened the lid of the box, took the spoon and dug a big spoon directly, and swallowed it in one gulp: "Just eat it like this!"
Yang Meng said vigilantly: "It won't be the kind of salty dead person again, right?"
Hugh and Susan looked at each other and smiled without saying a word.
Alexander laughed: "99% of the caviar in this world is the kind you call 'dead people', but what we eat now definitely doesn't belong there." After all, I ate it myself. Try it! I'm not going to lie to you. β
Since he said so, Yang Meng took a spoon and tasted it: "Hmm? It's not salty at all? It doesn't seem to be salty at all! Not to mention it's really fresh! Caviar is really famous!"
"Not salty?" Susan's eyes widened, "You used to give us the kind of dead people, okay?"
Alexander said: "To make caviar, you must put salt, because salt can make the proteolytic enzymes in the fish roe stimulate the umami of the caviar and make the surface of the caviar hard, so that it tastes better, but how much salt should be put in it?
It destroys the taste, and it is difficult to store it if you put it less. It's not that I blow it, our caviar technician earns 300,000 US dollars a year! This caviar is made by those caviar technicians little by little, and it is the best quality of our caviar. This is super high-grade caviar that even the rotten royal family can't eat!"
Hugh pouted and said, "The rotten royal family eats albino caviar from 'Emmas'. β
"If he had eaten this caviar from my house, they wouldn't have eaten Hermas!" Alexander said confidently.
Susan was a little curious: "It's really not salty?" She took a spoon and tasted it, her eyes lit up: "Huh, this is really delicious!"
Hugh blinked, "Susan, didn't we say we'd kill Alexander or eat Alexander's caviar?"
Susan scooped up a spoonful of caviar with a spoon and handed it to Hugh: "You taste it!"
Hugh took a bite and glared at Alexander, "Hey, Alexander, why don't you take out such a delicious thing?"
Alexander looked aggrieved: "From the first day you came to play in Tsarist Russia, I let you eat caviar, but you don't eat it yourself!"
Susan's eyes widened: "The caviar you gave us was all shit!"
Hugh nodded and said: "That's right, Louis XV ate caviar for the first time and spit it directly on the stall in Versailles, and the merchants of the Pisa country commented that caviar was: eat tobacco, eat dung and flies! The caviar you take out tastes like that! I deeply feel the same way, I don't want to eat this stuff since I was a child!"
Alexander said proudly: "That's because you eat 99% of the world's caviar, caviar was first a free snack in the bar, and it was made particularly salty in order to sell better wine! But it is definitely not the caviar that our Tsarist people eat themselves, you say that we Tsarist Russians have a heavy taste, but we will only eat fresh caviar, and those who use salt vigorously are afraid of spoilage. Even the red salmon caviar that the poor eat is much, much better than all of you. Yang, what do you think of my caviar compared to your Han caviar?"
"Han caviar?" Yang Meng shook his head: "I don't like to eat that thing." Is there still caviar in Han?"
Alexander had a black line on his face: "Now 60% of the world's caviar is exported by your Han country, okay? It is also the biggest competitor of my caviar business." I'll let you eat caviar just to compare!"
Yang Meng spread his hands and said: "You also said that this thing is exported, and we have no tradition of eating caviar in Han Kingdom." β
"And what do you eat?" asked Alexander, puzzled.
Yang Meng grinned: "The way you Tsarist Russians tolerate the cold is to eat high greasy, extremely salty and sour, and our Han people also have a way to resist the cold through food. β
"Oh, how?" asked Alexander, curiously.
Yang Meng directly lifted the lid of the hot pot: "No!"
Alexander saw the boiling soup and exclaimed, "OMG! Is this a soup from hell?"
Susan couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks: "Yes, yes, yes, yes! That's the taste! Let's try it! The spicier it is, the more enjoyable!"
βγγγγγγ Susan, are you taking revenge on me?" Alexander's face was aggrieved