Chapter 93: Food, Food, and Food
Chen Mo saw that everyone had a confused expression, and thought to himself that this was normal, and it was only after he got the recipe that he learned about the background stories of the couple's lung tablets and even the signing.
In the 80s, diners were still mainly "eating", and at that time, they didn't pay attention to the appearance of the dishes at all, because at that time, it was already a luxury to be able to eat a full meal, let alone ask for anything else. When I ate it in my mouth, I felt that it tasted good, and I was already very satisfied, so at that time, I mainly fed on my mouth.
In the 90s, people gradually became richer, life was better, and the requirements were higher, and "eye food" developed.
"Eye food" is to require the appearance of the dish to be exquisite, when people look at it, it is best to be able to attract diners, and even induce people's appetite, which is a visual enjoyment.
At that time, I began to feed on my eyes.
With the continuous innovation and development of diet, people's needs are gradually rising.
"Mouth food" and "eye food" can no longer meet the needs of diners, and a higher spiritual level of food pursuit has emerged, that is, "heart food".
What is Heart Food?
In fact, it is very simple, a story, or a gimmick, that is, the story behind the dish, can arouse people's curiosity, which is heart food.
That is, the food culture that has emerged after the continuous development of food.
Once the story behind a dish is able to move people's hearts, or to draw hearts, the dish is half the battle, because diners are not only tasting the dish through their mouths and eyes, but also with their hearts.
Born at the bottom of the "husband and wife lung tablets" after development, first from waste pieces into food, to meet the needs of ordinary poor people, at that time was food.
Later, the "husband and wife lung slices" began to improve and innovate, and the ingredients, soup bases, and ingredients were all exquisite, using red oil soup base in appearance, with green coriander and celery garnished, red and green, at this time, this dish also followed the trend of "eye food".
Up to now, "Husband and Wife Lung Slice" has been completely reformed, and with it as a team, a variety of similar dishes have been developed, each of which has even formed a genre.
In order to meet the needs of "heart food", the merchants who operate the skewers of incense came up with a gimmick of "signing", and it was widely circulated, and people gradually recognized this statement in order to ask for good luck.
After Chen Mo's patient explanation, the diners led by Yan Fengli finally understood a rough idea.
This "signing" is the same as the "husband and wife lung slices", but it is more innovative and pleasing, so that when diners eat this dish, it is completely a triple enjoyment of "mouth, eyes and heart".
Yan Fengli took out a string of chicken hearts soaked in red oil from a pile of bamboo skewers, and took it off in one bite, the chicken hearts were fresh and chewy.
There seems to be a kind of magic in this sign, if you don't eat it, it's enough, as soon as you eat it, one string after another, you can't stop at all.
Yan Fengli didn't know that this dish was in the "heart food", in addition to the lottery heads, there was also the diversity of ingredients, which was easy to attract the strong curiosity of diners.
When eating this dish, every time diners draw out a bamboo skewer, they have to think about what ingredients are skewered in this bamboo skewer?
This unknown attraction also makes diners continue to go further and further in the "heart food".
Chen Mo saw the diners in the hall eating today's new products in a big gulp, and he had a bottom in his heart, and sure enough, between the order recipes and the ordinary recipes, the order recipes were obviously ahead.
Compared with the "husband and wife lung slices", the biggest difference in the "Shangshang" is the soup base, in addition to the variety of ingredients.
The main focus of the husband and wife lung slices is the ingredients themselves, and the soup base and ingredients are mainly used for stirring, in order to support the deliciousness of the ingredients.
The main dish is the soup base, so even if there are a variety of ingredients, they can all show their flavor when dipped in the same soup base.
In fact, when Chen Mo saw the recipe of "signing", he recognized the status of this dish as a recipe in order.
The seemingly simple red oil soup base contains as many as nine kinds of seasonings.
The first: Ganxiang, a fluffy, black-brown root-like spice, also known as Ganxiang.
The second kind: cloves, also called male cloves, sub cloves, the fragrance is strong, and the taste has a pungent tongue and numb tongue.
The third kind: star anise, also known as anise, big material, August pearl, this is a common spice.
These three are the main ingredients, and the other six ingredients are cumin, grass fruit, sand kernels, grass drains, white cardamom, and cinnamon.
These nine seasonings are added to rock sugar, soy sauce, chili pepper, etc., according to the proportion marked in the recipe, and put them into a large pot to simmer over high heat, so that the boiled red oil soup base is spicy and numb, fragrant in the hemp, and sweet in the fragrance.
After the red oil soup is boiled, it is cooled in the freezer, which is the source of the flavor of the shang.
This is why some diners drink the soup base directly, which is enough to show the attractiveness and deliciousness of the soup base.
When diners order this dish, Chen Mo only needs to take out the semi-finished fresh bamboo skewer ingredients given by the system from the raw material cabinet, put them in a boiling pot and cook them for a while, take out the cold soup, sprinkle the freshly fried large sesame seeds on the soup, and then immediately dip the strings of steaming bamboo skewers into the cold soup base, and then it can be served.
Once the soup base of this dish is successful, the whole dish will be more than half successful, and the rest is the freshness of the ingredients, which will be handled by the ingredient cabinet, and there will be no surprises.
In this way, the recipe for the couple's lung slice - signed, was born on the menu of the gourmet house!
"Oops, it's a disc. Yan Fengli finished a string of duck intestines with Q Shuang elastic teeth, and when he stretched out his hand to grab it again, he grabbed it empty, only to find that there was only half a bowl of red oil left in the bowl in front of him, and in the stick holder next to the bowl, there were full of bamboo sticks.
Turning his head to look at the others, almost all of them had eaten about the same.
"Boss Chen, this is too delicious, can you have another copy? Some diners licked their mouths as they asked, looking like they couldn't get enough of it.
"I'm sorry, but this dish is per person per day..."
"You can only order one order!" replied neatly as diners rang out in the hall.
It seems that everyone knows the rules and requirements of this food house.
"Alas. The diner who asked the question just now sighed, looked at the red oil soup base in front of him, and actually took it up, and drank it in a big gulp.
A few people from Yan Fengli's side looked at this bold diner and were envious.
Although Yan Fengli also wants to taste the deliciousness of the red oil soup base directly, the voice is the most precious thing for an opera practitioner.
Eating spicy food is already the bottom line, and Yan Fengli can't do anything that breaks through the bottom line, because the fire in his heart has just been rekindled.
"Boss Chen, check out. ”
Yan Fengli and his entourage were satisfied with their meals and planned to leave.
"Teacher Yan, teachers, I wish your opera career to be just like today's signing, good things are coming and thriving. ”
Yan Fengli, who was very grateful to Chen Mo from the bottom of his heart, held Chen Mo's hand tightly and said, "Chen Mo, I also wish you to break the shackles and win in one fell swoop in Sino-foreign exchange activities!"