299. Eat hot pot
Under Chen Zhe's methodical guidance, Meixi quickly made the shrimp slip she had in mind by herself, but she didn't expect that shrimp slip, which looks very complicated, is really simple to make.
First, the prawns caught in the river are cleaned, repeatedly chopped into fine minc, and then the eggs taken out of the nearby bird's nest are broken, and the broken prawns are wrapped in egg whites and patiently rubbed.
Finally, the shrimp are put into a porcelain bowl and repeatedly stirred with chopsticks like dumpling filling, so that a fresh shrimp slider is made.
Looking at the shrimp slip formed in the porcelain bowl, Mi-hee's face showed a proud smile.
"Wow...... This is my own handmade shrimp slippery ......"
"Yes. Chen Zhe nodded, and then asked, "Meixi, you might as well compare the shrimp slides you made yourself, and then think about the shrimp slides you ate in the hot pot restaurant in the past, what is the difference?"
Mi-hee glanced at it, and then said seriously, "Hmm...... The shrimp slippery at the hot pot restaurant looks a little cloudy, and the shrimp meat is wrapped around a circle of milky white substance......
The shrimp we made with our own hands are smooth and crystal clear, and it looks like crystal. ”
"That's right. Chen Zhe smiled, "That's because the shrimp slip made by the general hot pot restaurant is not wrapped in egg liquid, but uses water starch to mix the shrimp meat together, which has too much starch content and a very average taste."
Our handmade shrimp slip is made by wrapping the shrimp slip together with egg wash, which makes the texture more elastic and the taste more delicious. ”
"Understood, I see...... Meixi suddenly realized and nodded, "It turns out that there is such a big knowledge in a small shrimp slip." ”
Chen Zhe said with a smile: "The doorway in the diet is very deep, and if you want to pay attention to eating, you must study it carefully." ”
By the time Chen Zhe and Meixi finished making the shrimp slippery by hand, the ingredients of the other girls were almost ready.
Yan'er used exquisite knife work to make two large plates of sashimi, and Xiao Qiao washed fresh chicken fir mushrooms, golden fungus and oyster mushrooms.
Big Joe cut a ham and a portion of bacon, while Liatila disposed of the bamboo shoots she had brought from her camp.
Mr. Clark didn't know anything about Chinese food, so he could only wander around aimlessly like a schoolboy, visiting Chen Zhe and Mei Xi's shrimp slippery for a while, and observing Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao's cooking skills for a while.
This foreign friend didn't know how to feel it, and from time to time he gave a thumbs up and praised: "Amazing, really amazing!"
He couldn't wait to eat hot pot.
After the ingredients were ready, Chen Zhe went to prepare the hot pot base.
The hot pot base is taken directly from the self-heating hot pot, after all, most of the spices in it are not found on the island.
Tearing open the packaging of the self-heating hot pot, Chen Zhe took out the base material inside, but at this time he found a problem, that is, in order to consider the cost, the self-heating hot pot purchased by the program team is a relatively cheap one, and cheap means that the taste is inferior, and even the hot pot base is the most ordinary clear oil base.
Sweeping his gaze to the hot pot base, the item upgrade system automatically identifies the quality of the product.
[Item detected: A plain-tasting clear oil hot pot base.] 】
Seeing this, Chen Zhe couldn't help but shake his head.
Everyone happily opened up all morning, in order to eat a bite of fresh and spicy hot pot, the ingredients prepared by everyone are the best quality, freshest, and most natural organic food on the island, but now the hot pot base is so inferior, isn't it a loss?
How could Chen Zhe let a hot pot base spoil the entire exquisite hot pot?
So at this moment, Chen Zhe chose to upgrade without hesitation.
Upgrade items directly and turn decay into magic!
Looking at the hot pot base in his hand, Chen Zhe used the item upgrade system.
"Level up!"
[A clear oil hot pot base with an average taste] - [A clear oil hot pot base with a unique taste].
Chen Zhe is still not satisfied and continues to upgrade!
[A unique flavor of clear oil hot pot base] - [a fresh and spicy butter hot pot base]!
Seeing this, Chen Zhe showed a satisfied smile on his face.
The bottom of the pot with clear oil is too simple, and it is more exciting to replace it with butter!
While everyone was chattering beside him, Chen Zhe upgraded all the six hot pot bases in his hand in one go, and then poured the upgraded butter pot bottom directly into the casserole.
No one can see the difference between the hot pot base before and after the upgrade, and this upgrade can be described as foolproof.
After waiting for all six butter hot pots to be put into the casserole, Chen Zhe directly lit the bonfire, and then put the casserole on the bonfire, and then just wait for the hot pot to boil and eat.
"Alright, you're all set. ”
Chen Zhe turned around and said to everyone.
Yan'er brought Coke over and handed everyone a bottle.
Holding the fat house happy water that I haven't been able to touch for a long time, the girls have a happy smile on their faces, and even the tough guy Clark can't help but raise the Coke and say from the bottom of his heart: I really miss it...... )”
Seeing the smiles on everyone's faces, Chen Zhe took the lead and was the first to unscrew the lid of the coke.
"Puff ......"
With a refreshing sound, the Coke was unscrewed.
Immediately after that, others followed suit, and the bottles of Coke were unscrewed one by one.
"Puff ......"
"Puff ......"
"Puff ......"
Everyone raised the Coke in their hands and drank it with emotion.
At this time, a strong fragrance wafted from the direction of the casserole, which was the fragrance of the butter hot pot after it boiled, and the unique spices of the hot pot base exuded a breathtaking delicacy in the air, which made everyone can't help but secrete saliva.
"The hot pot is hot, it's time to serve the ingredients. ”
Chen Zhe beckoned to the girls, and the cut ingredients began to be put into the hot pot one after another.
Fresh fish, shrimp slippery, chicken fir mushrooms, bamboo shoots......
Soon the casserole was filled with fresh ingredients, and the original self-heating hot pot contained some food, which made the hot pot even more hearty.
After a little shabu-shabu, the ingredients can be cooked, and everyone can't wait to but humbly fish out the food, and then start to feast.
After living on the island for a long time, everyone has forgotten how delicious the taste of hot pot is, the taste of the combination of multiple spices that directly hits the taste buds, it is simply irresistible.
Chen Zhe gently bit a piece of fish fillet, almost shed tears without excitement, the upgraded hot pot base is simply heavenly, and the layering of the taste is higher and higher.
Mi-hee finally got the shrimp slip she wanted to eat the most, and the taste of the shrimp slip didn't disappoint her either.
She swallowed the hot shrimp slip and said excitedly, "Oh...... The taste of this hot pot...... It's even more ...... than any hot pot I've had before It's all delicious!"
"That's true, it's amazing, why do I think this hot pot base is amazing?" said Lyatira in shock, "Is it because I haven't eaten hot pot for too long?"
"It should be that we haven't eaten hot pot for too long, so a self-heating hot pot base conquers us. Da Qiao analyzed seriously.
Of course, she wouldn't have thought that it was actually Chen Zhe who upgraded the hot pot base with the item upgrade system, which allowed them to eat a delicious hot pot that they had never eaten before.
……
This hot pot was eaten from the east of the sun to the west of the sun, and it took a whole noon for a long time, and finally all the ingredients were swept away, and everyone put down the chopsticks unsatisfied.
The girls' cheeks flushed one by one, and the feeling was so satisfying and satisfying that even Clark, a foreign friend who had rarely eaten hot pot before, kept burping with his stomach and gave a thumbs up and said, "Delicious! It's so delicious!"
Chen Zhe himself is also quite satisfied, it is rare to be able to eat such an evil meal when he comes to the island.
It's a high-calorie hot pot and a fat house happy water, and this feeling seems to be back in the city.
In the afternoon, Liatila and Clark stayed to clean up the scene, and after chatting for a while, the sun gradually lowered and dusk was about to fall.
The day was beautiful and short, as if it was just a hot pot to end, and this happens to be life on the island, slow and beautiful.
Before dusk came, Liatila and Clark planned to say goodbye and leave, but Chen Zhe certainly wouldn't let them walk back, so he continued to drive them with Mi-hee.
Sitting on the solid wood convertible built by Chen Zhe, Liatilla couldn't help but sincerely sigh at the exquisiteness of Chen Zhe's craftsmanship.
"I really admire you, you can actually build a car with a bunch of wood, what is the structure of your head, Chen Zhe?"
Chen Zhe, who was driving, laughed and joked: "What? Do you still want to dissect it?"
"It's hard to say. "If you continue to be so wicked, I think one day someone will want to see what your brain is made of." ”
"Don't, it's going to be scary if it turns out like this. Chen Zhe said with a smile.
The speed of the open-top car was not fast, but it was better than walking, and Chen Zhe soon sent Liatila back to her camp, and then turned around with Meixi and turned back to the small tree house.
On the way back, the sunset has become golden, and the entire forest is dyed yellow, this warm scenery makes people's hearts indescribably peaceful, and the mood is inexplicably comfortable.
Chen Zhe sat in the front row, Meixi sat in the back row, and the two chatted with each other, and the atmosphere was relaxed and harmonious.
Unexpectedly, just as the car drove through a thorny field, the rhythmic sound of the engine suddenly slowed down.
Before, it was still "...... suddenly", but in the blink of an eye, it became "suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly......"
Meixi in the back row couldn't help but get nervous, looked at the engine and asked worriedly: "Chen Zhe, what's wrong? What's going on? Could it be that the engine is malfunctioning?"
Chen Zhe hurriedly controlled the steering wheel to drive the car out of the thorns, and then glanced back at the engine.
The item upgrade system can see the durability and status of the engine, and if it is really a failure, the system can also identify it.
However, when he looked at it, he found that there was no problem with the engine.
The durability value is still very high, and no faults have been detected.
When you think about it, there is only one cause for the problem.
"There should be nothing wrong with the engine, after all, our car has good shock absorption and will not wear out the engine.
In this case, it should be almost out of gas. Chen Zhe said.
"Ah......" Mi-hee suddenly realized, "It turns out that there is no gas." ”
This engine was originally a marine engine on a forest air kayak, and the fuel tank of this engine was connected to the engine, and the fuel storage capacity itself was smaller than that of the car fuel tank.
At the beginning, Lin Kongkong drove a rubber boat from his camp to Chen Zhe's camp, and this trip burned at least half of the fuel.
Later, Chen Zhe modified the car with the engine, tested it twice, and today he took a round-trip trip to Liatilla, considering the mileage driven these days, it is reasonable to burn out the fuel.
But in this way, Mi-hee is inevitably a little desperate.
There must be no gas stations on this vast desert island, and even if natural crude oil exists, it is buried deep in the ground, and it is not something that Chen Zhe can dig out.
Even if he takes 10,000 steps back, Chen Zhe has the ability to extract natural crude oil and process crude oil into gasoline and diesel, which also contains very complex chemical processes, and Chen Zhe will definitely not be able to do it.
In this way, the car runs out of fuel and is about to break down completely.
The only thing to be thankful for is that the place where the car broke down is not far from the camp, and Chen Zhe and Meixi can walk back in more than ten minutes, so even if the car can't drive, the two of them will not be homeless.
Glancing at the solid wood convertible that was completely unmoving, Chen Zhe shrugged helplessly.
"Mi-hee, it looks like we'll have to walk home. ”
"It seems so. Mi-hee said regretfully, "But this big guy has also helped us a lot in the past two days, and it hasn't been built in vain." ”
"yes. Chen Zhe nodded, and then said, "But I'll let it keep running soon." ”
"Really?" Mi-hee was a little worried, after all, she couldn't figure out how Chen Zhe was going to get the fuel to make the car run, but since Chen Zhe said so, she thought Chen Zhe should have a way.
After saying that, the two men parked the car, turned over and got out of the car, and walked in the direction of the camp.
The sunset slowly stretched the figures of the two people infinitely, but the solid wood convertible car behind them was motionless, which was quite sad.
In the distance, on the treehouse, Yan'er was standing by the window waiting for the interesting convertible to return, but the little girl didn't expect that the convertible would withdraw from the stage of history so abruptly......