Chapter 23: White Sturgeon Roe (Happy National Day to all)
"Haha!" the South Korean reporter burst out laughing when he saw everyone looking at him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
"Young man, I didn't expect that, in addition to being a journalist, I am also a columnist for the famous food magazine Chickpea!
"Mr. Park Jung-tae, what is your choice?"
"I've always believed that real food is so delicious that you can't speak! My choice is Mr. Kim Tae-hyun, whose golden ginseng dumplings are truly top-notch cuisine, and which is the pride of our Republic of Korea!"
Park Zhengtai picked up Liu Mang's jade tea dumplings and then took another bite, and then spit it out into the plate: "And this?
"Youγγγγγγγ Hearing Park Zhengtai belittle Liu Mang's dumplings like this, Li Ruonan's face turned red with anger, and he was about to rush forward to reason with him, but was forcibly dragged by the staff around him.
The other judges in the hall who supported Liu Mang also talked a lot, and their eyes were full of disdain when they looked at Park Zhengtai.
I don't know how this product became a food columnist, you can choose your own preferences, but you can't deliberately belittle others, which is not the ethics of a foodie.
Compared with everyone, the person concerned, Liu Mang, is very calm: "Are you saying that the real food is so delicious that people can't speak?"
"Of course, boy, you don't want to make anything like this in your life!
"That's not visible. Liu Mang chuckled unexpectedly: "Park Zhengtai, right? I will satisfy you next time." β
After speaking, Liu Mang walked back to his workbench and prepared the ingredients for the next scene.
"Liu Mang, this judge was appointed by the Korean side, and I didn't expect it to be such a person. Li Ruonan walked over and said apologetically.
"It's okay, I'll shut him up next time. Liu Mang waved his hand and wiped the board attentively, as if he didn't pay attention to it at all.
"Shut him up?" Li Ruonan was very strange, if that Park Zhengtai deliberately wanted to embarrass Liu Mang, no matter what he did, he would criticize him for being useless.
"If I win this game again, you'll lose completely, Miss Wakao. Kim Tae-hyun walked up to Li Ruonan and said proudly.
"Your character is the same as your appearance, just as disgusting!" Li Ruonan frowned in disgust and replied coldly.
"Hehe, Miss Ruonan, the consequences are even more serious than you think. If the EMI Group loses this game, it will not only completely withdraw from the Korean restaurant market, but also face a huge fine, and the stock price of your group will also plummet, right? I have already contacted several consortia, as long as you get the controlling stake, can you still sit firmly in the position of the general manager?" Kim Tae-hyun laughed wildly.
"You... Shameless!" Li Ruonan's chest rose and fell violently, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak.
"It's not that there is no solution, I'm a very generous person, as long as you stay with me for one night, I will consider letting you go. Kim Tae-hyun licked her lips and stared at Li Ruonan with burning eyes, as if she saw that this hot woman had stripped naked and was lying in front of her.
"Whoever has the last laugh will laugh the best!" Li Ruonan took a few deep breaths and calmed down his mood.
"Also, the old lady just sleeps with a dog! I won't accompany you, a dead pervert!"
"Very good! Very good!" Kim Tae-hyun's face turned pale, and he said viciously: "Then you just wait." β
"Liu Mang, are you confident of winning?" Li Ruonan walked up to him and asked with a worried expression.
"What's wrong?" Liu Mang, who was dissecting a salmon, raised his head and asked in surprise when he saw Li Ruonan's face.
"We can't afford to lose! Here's the situationγγγγγ Li Ruonan told Liu Mang about Kim Tae-hyun's plan.
"Oh, that's it?" Liu Mang removed the bones from the salmon's body, put down the knife, picked up a towel and wiped his hands.
"What do you mean by that? If the group is controlled by Koreans, the old man in my family will definitely be angry to death!"
"Rest assured, they won't be able to bounce for long. Liu Mang patted Li Ruonan's shoulder, and there was a proud light flashing in his dark eyes.
"Chinese cuisine has always been the best in the world!
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"The second round of the competition will start soon, and the event of this competition is steamed dumplings!
"Boss, what kind of dumplings are you going to make this time? I think the eldest sister seems to be very worried. Wuyan chewed the tea dumplings left over just now, and asked vaguely.
"There are only so many kinds of steamed dumplings, and if you want to win, you can only come up with some new tricks, so I'm going to make steamed dumplings with sauce. Liu Mang said while talking to each other.
"I've only eaten soup dumplings, is there any difference between this one?"
"Of course, there is a difference, the juice is thicker than the soup, and the texture is a little thicker, this time I will boil fish bones to make fish jelly, with fresh salmon roe, so that the taste of the dumplings is a little more in line with the taste of foreigners. β
"Oh, I see, but boss, this game seems to be controlled by the Koreans, if it weren't for that Korean monkey just now, we would have won. β
"It is up to man to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen. Do your best. Liu Mang no longer spoke, but concentrated on kneading the dough in his hand.
This time, the dumpling dough is different from the soup dumplings last time, and Liu Mang is going to use Cheng noodles to make it.
Cheng noodles, also known as Cheng flour, is a kind of gluten-free flour mixed with a certain proportion of potato starch and lard, stirred well with hot water, and made into a dough.
After the dumplings are steamed, the appearance of the whole dumpling will appear crystal clear, and the filling will be clear at a glance.
This method comes from the crystal shrimp dumplings in Cantonese morning tea, which Liu Mang made several times by himself when he was at home, and it was very successful. He taught his mother how to do it, and it brought a lot of business to the breakfast shop.
Of course, ordinary shrimp dumplings will definitely not get into the eyes of these gourmets, so Liu Mang plans to combine soup-filled xiaolongbao and crystal shrimp dumplings today to create a new dish.
"Very good, it tastes good!" Liu Mang pinched a black caviar and put it in his mouth, closed his eyes and tasted it carefully, admiring again and again.
I thought that the material Li Ruonan brought was just ordinary salmon roe, but I didn't expect it to be this black white sturgeon roe.
This caviar Liu Mang has seen and introduced in food magazines before. It is said to be one of the most expensive ingredients in the world, and it is the roe of the adult white sturgeon in the deep sea.
This sparse and slow-growing white sturgeon is found only in a small part of the Black Sea, and is known as a 'living fossil' in the water. Its roe, with its round appearance and delicious taste, is said to dance on the tip of the tongue with every bite you open.
Of course, the price is also ridiculously expensive, costing tens of thousands of dollars per 100 grams, known as black gold.
It can also be seen from this that to become a top chef, it does require huge financial resources behind it, especially in this era of increasingly scarce resources.
Top-quality ingredients are bound to be expensive, but if you've never seen them, how can you cook them?
However, Liu Mang has never worried about the road he will take in the future, and with the upgrading of the chef space, the ingredients produced in the future must be the top.
He is very confident in this.