Chapter Eighty-Three: The Poor Cuisine
The copper pot of fish came up, but a few people were not busy eating the fish, but made a bowl of fish soup very old-fashioned, slowly blew the hot air, and drank a bowl of soup, which was very pure and sweet.
A bowl of sweet fish soup is eaten by a few people according to their preferences and tastes. They used another bowl to put a number of different dipping seasonings on their own, and poured some piping hot fish into it to make their favorite dipping water.
Qi Jingtao dipped his chopsticks in the dipping water and tasted the taste of the dipping water he made. I felt that the spicy taste was not enough, so I dug a few spoonfuls of water and seasoning, tasted it again, and then I was satisfied with digging a small piece of fish with a big spoon, putting it in the empty bowl where I had just drunk the soup, and eating a bowl of delicious clear soup fish first. After tasting the sweetness of the clear soup, Qi Jingtao, who prefers to eat spicy flavor, then dug a large piece of fish with a big spoon, and slowly ate the fish while dipping it in the water.
There are many fish bones in freshwater, and everyone concentrates on eating their own fish and rarely speaks. Qi Jingtao put down several bowls of fish and meat in succession before patting his stomach with satisfaction. Looking up at the three companions who were also satisfied, he said with a smile: "I haven't been to Jiangchuan Lake to eat fish for a long time, and the fish here has been eaten a few times, but I can't eat clear soup and boiled fish at home." ”
"After I came to work in central Yunnan, I came to eat the boiled fish in the copper pot here, and the taste is really amazing. Now, when I eat fish in those restaurants in central Yunnan, I can only eat other methods, which are fresh and sweet, and the clear soup fish made in other places cannot be compared. Hey, hey, I really wanted to eat fish in clear soup, so I ran straight to the lake to eat. Niu Weiqiang said with a look of recollection.
"It's almost time for the copper pot artichoke stew to come up, save some stomach for the artichoke stew. The food here is as simple as a pot of boiled fish in lake water, a pot of stewed rice with artichoke, accompanied by dipping water and a few pickles, people from all over the world can satisfy all tastes. When I got married, more than a dozen classmates from the east, west, north and south came over, and it was difficult to reconcile them. Thinking about it, I deliberately brought them over to eat copper pot fish. As a result, GD, FJ, Jiangsu, Zhejiang SH have a light taste, SC, GZ, and HN are also very satisfied with those who like spicy flavors, and the northerners of SX, HN, LN, TJ say that they have eaten it. Niu Weiqiang opened the topic and began to speak.
Zhang Hongle said hehe: "Hehehe, we Caiyun have two kinds of food known as the national killing, one is the cross-bridge rice noodles, and the other is the copper pot fish, no matter where the people come and like that taste, these two kinds of food can make the people who come to eat and drink enough and return satisfied." ”
"Who said that?" Liu Jianmin, who was still dealing with half a fish head, raised his head and asked.
"Hehehe, who you call him, we only look at the reality. You can try to entertain guests from other provinces in the future. You don't need to bother to understand their food tastes, just take them to eat these two kinds of food and try it. After Zhang Hong finished speaking, he still couldn't finish scooping out the other half of the fish head and putting it in his bowl, dipping it in the water and tasting the cooked fish head.
"You two will eat it, and the fish head will not really cook until the end. Oh, if you eat fish head, big-headed fish is the most unique, if you can't eat big-headed fish, the white-faced fish (silver carp) in this lake tastes the best, you can come and try it next time. That's the real cheap and good, only twenty yuan a kilogram. Qi Jingtao looked at the fish heads in the two bowls greedily and said.
"It's not simple, when we come back in a few days, we will eat the head of the white-faced fish boiled in a copper pot. Niu Weiqiang immediately took over the conversation.
"Hehehe, Mr. Niu, that's a really good dish. If you are not entertaining those who only eat expensive and do not eat right, entertain your friends, you can order the head of the silver carp. It's just that there are many fine spines in silver carp, and it is best not to eat them if you have children, because they are easy to get stuck by the fish bones. Qi Jingtao smiled and suggested.
Liu Jianmin, who finished eating the half of the fish head, said happily: "This is not simple, if there is a child with you, add another catfish, and everyone eats their own." ”
At this time, the best partner specially prepared for copper pot fish, copper pot artichoke stewed rice was served. Smelling the rich fragrance from afar, Qi Jingtao and the others lost the interest in continuing to speak, and they were all attracted by the fragrance. Looking at the oily but not greasy, sticky individual rice and fragrant browned potatoes in the copper pot. Several people picked up the bowl one after another, and found the most attractive aroma and taste between cooked and paste.
Artichoke stew was originally just a "poor dish" that could not be put on the table, and it was said that he was a poor dish because his ingredients and production methods were too ordinary, too simple, and too poor.
People in the rural areas of central Yunnan go up and down to work in the mountains, and some of them have a long way to go home to cook, so they bring a pot and the indispensable rice, oil, and salt, and as for the ingredients used in the dishes, it depends on what they have at home. Broad beans, peas, cauliflower, and potatoes are all available in the countryside, and of course, the most common artichoke is also the most portable.
Take these things with you and go out to the field. When it's almost time to eat, make a simple stove with a few rocks or large clods of earth in the field. On the pot rack, the washed rice and peeled artichoke are cut into pieces and mixed together, and the appropriate amount of salt and oil is added to simmer together.
However, after the simmering of the copper pot, the artichoke at this time tasted so delicious in Qi Jingtao. Of course, this rice has to be eaten hot, and the hot rice will allow diners to taste the fluffy and delicious taste by the fragrant bowl, accompanied by those simple pickled vegetables, as well as the dipping seasoning, the heat also increases the enthusiasm of diners from time to time, so that diners can enjoy the satisfaction and happiness brought by food.
A simple and delicious dinner without alcohol ended in a cheerful atmosphere, and when the four of them checked out and left, the group of Spring City visitors were also happily patting their stomachs. The young man in charge of ordering the fish said loudly to his companion with emotion: "Brothers, have you eaten enough? Come to Jiangchuan to eat fish, and when you weigh live fish, you should pay attention to it, the average person should not exceed one kilogram, and you can't eat it at all if you order too much." ”
"Yes, the big herring that Brother Jun ordered is delicious, much better than catfish. ”
"If you come to eat herring in the future, you have to go out with Brother Jun, otherwise you will only dare to order grass carp to eat honestly, so as not to be ...... by the boss"
Looking at the group of Spring City guests who went to the parking lot and drove away, Qi Jingtao smiled knowingly, "It seems that it doesn't matter what kind of fish you eat, it's still your mood." ”
On the way back, Mr. Niu made witty remarks along the way, and several people in the car laughed and laughed along the way, not as dull as when he came. When he returned to the still brightly lit Nanyan office area, even Qi Jingtao, who had always been wary in his heart, felt that he was very familiar with Mr. Niu, who he dealt with for the first time today, and seemed to have been friends for many years.
sighed that Mr. Niu seemed to be a natural businessman, and his emotional intelligence was far higher than his own Qi Jingtao, and he didn't say anything, it seemed that he invited them all the way to Jiangchuan for dinner today, but after saying goodbye to Mr. Niu, who was just making friends with himself, Qi Jingtao went to the garage to ride a motorcycle and rushed to his nest.
He has been thinking about the opening of his own company today, and wants to go back and ask Su Min about the specific situation. Arriving at Chunxi Community, seeing the warm light from the window of the 306 living room of Building 2, Qi Jingtao forgot the troubles of the surge in work, and the Wagyu always suddenly came to the dinner on guard, parked the motorcycle, and rushed to the 3rd floor.