Liu Mang and the others walked into the small door and climbed a wooden staircase, and another small door with a curtain came into their eyes. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Liu Mangjun, welcome to Dongying!" Ida Huaishu was already standing at the door with a few assistants in a white chef's suit.

"Master Huaishu, hello!" Liu Mang saw Ida Huaishu come out to greet him in person, and hurriedly walked up and held his hand.

"Come in, I've prepared a puffer fish feast for you today. ”

Lifting the curtain, Liu Mang walked into the room, and suddenly felt that his eyes lit up.

Ida Huaishu's store is really small, adding up to more than 100 square meters in total, which is less than one-third the size of the upstairs kitchen.

The kitchen is open and connected to the dining room, so diners can sit at the bar while eating, watching the chef inside and operating in front of their eyes.

The whole restaurant is not overly decorated, the chairs, tables, and ceilings are all made of ordinary yellow wood. It gives a bright and warm feeling.

"Sit down, Liu Mangjun, please wait a while, the cooking will be ready immediately." Ida Huaishu beckoned Liu Mang and the others to sit down, walked into the kitchen behind the bar, and began to get busy with Jiro Ida.

It's the first time for Five Eyes and Wu Jing to come to such a restaurant, and it's very novel to sit and look right.

"Boss, is this really Dongying Chef's shop? It's too small, and it's not worthy of his fame at all. Five-eyed asked in surprise.

"Don't look at it small, but it has its own unique charm. Liu Mang's fingers brushed the bar in front of him and replied.

The bar counter is made of thick solid wood, which looks like it has been many years old, and a thick layer of pulp has been felt on it.

"Flavor?"

"That's right, Charm. Liu Mang nodded: "Didn't you notice that this restaurant is very different?"

"Different?" Hearing Liu Mang's words, Five Eyes re-examined this small restaurant.

"You mean it's exceptionally clean?"

"Except for cleanliness?"

"I really can't see that. ”

"Although this place is small, every vase and every calligraphy and painting has a special charm. This kind of charm is like a long-standing antique, which has been played and appreciated by countless people, bringing people a thick and elegant feeling. ”

"Boss, it seems a bit like you say that. Five-eyed scratched his head and laughed.

"Liu Mangjun, please use it! This is the first dish of the day. As he was talking, Ida Huaishu and his assistant held several small bowls and placed them in front of Liu Mang and the others.

The small bowl is made of blue and white porcelain, which is small and exquisite. At the bottom of the bowl are stacked ingredients that are cut into strips and are as transparent as Chinese flour skin.

If you look closely, these powder-like strips are clasped with a raw egg on them, and the yellow and clear eggs are sprinkled with a few black sesame seeds, which are very delicate.

"Master Huaishu, then you're welcome. Liu Mang thanked him, mixed the raw egg in a bowl with the flour skin, and then picked it up and put it in his mouth.

"This is the skin of the pufferfish, right?" As soon as the powder skin was in his mouth, after chewing it carefully a few times, Liu Mang immediately distinguished.

The skin of the puffer fish, cut into strips, is preserved in lime vinaigrette, and while the toughness of the puffer fish skin is preserved, it is also combined with the sweetness of the puffer fish skin, and it is intertwined in the mouth, which makes people taste great.

Eating meat or fish fillets with raw eggs is a unique way of eating in Dongying, and Liu Mang is also trying it for the first time.

I thought I would feel very unaccustomed, but what I didn't expect was that the sweetness of the fish skin and the tenderness of the eggs actually complemented each other.

The eggs should be specially selected, there is no fishy smell, but special tenderness, while improving the freshness of the fish skin, it also adds a smooth taste, which is very palatable.

After chewing the puffer fish skin in his mouth, Liu Mang smacked his mouth, and a slight numbness rose from the root of his tongue, and the whole tongue seemed to disappear, giving people an illusion of emptiness in their mouths.

This tingling sensation came and went quickly, and disappeared in just a moment, as if it had been stimulated by a slight electric current, which made people's taste nerves extremely refreshing.

"The toxin was deliberately left by me, is Liu Mangjun still satisfied?" Ida Huaishu squeezed his eyes at Liu Mang like a child, with a slight smug on his face.

"Very good!" Liu Mang exclaimed: "Master Huaishu, if I guess correctly, the next dish must be grilled or fried, right?"

"Huh, you guessed!" Ida was a little surprised: "I thought you would say it was sashimi." ”

"I was going to talk about sashimi at first, because this dish is an appetizer to open up the palate and whet the appetite for the next dish. Liu Mang also laughed.

"However, after much consideration, I rejected it. Because of the toxins deliberately left in the dishes, people's saliva secretion is very vigorous, and at this time, a dish with a strong flavor is needed to alleviate it. Compared to light sashimi, grilled or fried, it is most suitable. ”

"Haha! Being able to cook for a god-level guest like Liu Mangjun is the most exciting thing. Seeing Liu Mang's immediate guess of his next dish, Ida Huaishu laughed heartily.

"Old man, what is a god-level guest?" In front of a master who was over 90 years old, the five eyes that had always been open-mouthed also became restrained.

"I've had a lot of people come to my store since it opened, including famous movie stars, football stars, and even the president of the United States and the prime minister of the United States. But in my eyes, none of them are god-level diners. ”

"Oh, then what does it mean to be a god-level guest?" Liu Mang became interested at once.

"Got me. Ida Huaishu held up a finger: "Sometimes, those guests who keep saying that I am rich and not afraid of your expensive guests are really unbearable." ”

"Understand me?" Liu Mang understood.

He can also empathize with this, a good chef meets a diner who understands him, just like Boya meets a child, it is a kind of sympathy and like-minded joy.

This is also the reason why Liu Mang met Lin Xiao and immediately became his best friend - in life, friends are easy to get, but confidants are hard to find.

"Liu Mangjun, I have ten seats in the store, but only eight are always open to the public, do you know why?"

"Why?" Not only Liu Mang, but even Jiro, who was standing beside Ida Huaishu, asked curiously.

Ever since he was a teenager and apprenticed to his father, Jiro Ida has been struggling with this problem.

He has always been unable to figure it out, sometimes he can receive two more guests, but his father still rushes the guests out on the grounds that the seats are full, why is this the bottom line?

"Because these two seats are reserved for my old friends and those who understand me, I am afraid that they will come to eat and worry about not being able to reserve a seat. Speaking of this, Ida Huaishu's face showed a trace of sadness.

"It's a pity, as I get older, many of my old friends have passed away, and there are fewer and fewer people who understand me. No one ever sat in those two seats again. ”

Hearing this, Liu Mang's nose was a little sour, and he admired the old man in front of him more and more.

What is the God of Cooking? This is the real God of Cooking!

You can stay in a small shop for decades, work hard, not for fame or profit, and only pursue the career you love. In order to allow customers who understand themselves, they can eat their own dishes without waiting, and there are always two seats. This kind of realm has long gone beyond the food itself......

"It seems that I still have a lot to learn!" Liu Mang said silently in his heart. (To be continued.) )