"This aroma ......" Kanejiro Kanemoto couldn't help but close his eyes and twitch the wings of his nose: "This is the smell of eel meat after it is perfectly roasted over a charcoal fire." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Liu Mang's left hand kept turning the eel skewers of the charcoal volcano, and with his right hand, he used a small brush to brush the crimson kabayaki sauce on it.

The sauce has also been carefully blended by him, adding his own ideas, such as adding shiso sea salt and mint leaves, to add layers of texture to the skewers.

After charcoal baking, the eel meat is curled up and tightly wrapped in the rice, forcing the tender juice of the meat to penetrate into it.

"Well, that's fine. After roasting on the charcoal fire for a quarter of an hour, Liu Mang nodded, took a small square plate, carefully turned the bamboo skewers, and took off the eel roll on it and placed it on the plate.

"Everyone, please use it. Liu Mang sent the plate to Kanejiro Kanemoto and the others, waved his hand and said.

Unlike traditional eel rice, the eel rolls grilled by Liu Mang are the same as sushi, and the rice is not visible from the outside, because the rice is wrapped in the eel meat.

The crimson eel meat is charred and fragrant, and the oozing fat shimmers with a sparkling oily shine, and just a few glances make people want to swallow and chew.

"It looks average, and although the color is beautiful, there is nothing very special about it, and it is similar to our eel rice from Noda Iwa. One of Kanejiro's aides said.

"It's good to learn cooking in China, you can learn new things very quickly, like us, who are still practicing slaughtering eels, and the chef doesn't let us learn to bake them ourselves. The other assistant muttered softly.

"Shhhhh

"That's right, Master Kanemoto said that after practicing for another year, you can teach me how to make sauce, and I can also get the qualification of 'craftsman'. Another assistant said excitedly.

"I really envy you, I'm far behind, although I have practiced for a long time, but Master Jinben is not satisfied at all. ”

"I see that the eel rice made by this Chinese now must not impress Master Jinmoto." It's fine to make it another dish, but it's eel rice! Jeon Dongying, no! It's the whole world! No one has a better say than Chef Kanemoto. ”

"That's right...... That's right......" Hearing this man's words, the rest of the people nodded in agreement.

"Please, Master Kanemoto, try my eel rice. Seeing Kanejiro Kanemoto holding chopsticks and still looking at the eel rolls on the plate, Liu Mang smiled.

"Okay. Kanejiro Kanemoto nodded, reached out and took a piece into his mouth.

"This ...... This is ......???" As soon as the eel roll was swallowed and chewed twice, Kanejiro Kanemoto let out an exclamation of disbelief.

Since he was in his twenties, he has been learning how to grill eels, and in the past few decades, Kanejiro Kanemoto has not slacked off for a day, and every day he makes it in his hands, all he thinks about is eel.

He has always believed that sticking to traditional practices and then perfecting the details and striving for perfection is the path that a chef should take.

This method did work at first, but thanks to the experience gained from cooking eels for so long, Kanejiro Kanemoto's Noda Iwa has gone from an unknown restaurant to a world-renowned three-star Michelin, and he himself is revered by the Toei people as the 'God of Eels'.

So Kanejiro Kanemoto has always believed that he is on the right path. The apprentice has always been asked to cook the eels only the way he does.

In his opinion, any new idea is a departure from his own beliefs and will be ruthlessly extinguished.

But today, when he tasted the eel rice made by Liu Mang, Kanejiro's once indestructible belief in his heart began to waver—could it be that my previous thoughts were wrong?

The taste of the eel roll in your mouth is so wonderful. The charred skin, the smooth eel meat, and the umami-like rice wrapped in the meat all seemed to open a door to a new world for him.

When you chew it again, all the flavors bloom in your mouth, and this taste has the tenderness of eel and the sweetness of rice......

The mint added to it and the perilla sea salt in the sauce also form a lingering sea breeze smell that lingers around the lips and teeth.

This breath touched Kanejiro Kanemoto, and he vaguely recalled the time when his father taught him to make eel rice.

The eel rice I ate that day was filled with a new flavor from the moment I ate it, and it was the same as it is now, which made Kanejiro Kanemoto decide to embark on the ambition to devote his life to it.

"Liu Mangjun, it's me who is rude! Your eel rice is no worse than Noda Yan's. After eating the eel roll in his mouth, Kanejiro Kanemoto bowed and apologized.

"Ahh

Having worked by Kanejiro's side for so long, they know the old man's personality and temper very well.

Don't look at Kanejiro Kanemoto, who is usually very kind, and doesn't seem to have any temper, but when it comes to cooking. Especially the eel, he seems to be a different person, very stern and very unkind.

I remember an apprentice from another restaurant who raised a little objection to Noda Iwa's eel rice and wanted to cook it in a different way, but Kanejiro Kanemoto was furious and unceremoniously kicked him out.

You can imagine how difficult it must be to make an eel rice that will impress this old-fashioned old man.

"Please, you can taste it too. Liu Mang was not surprised by this result, and smiled faintly.

Jiro Ida picked up a piece of eel roll and put it in his mouth, unlike Kanejiro Kanemoto, he felt something else at the moment.

When you chew it gently, the tender eel meat and sweet rice are mixed in your mouth, and the flavor of mint leaves and sea salt is added to your mouth, as if the sea breeze is blowing, and it is refreshing.

Compared with Noda Iwa's eel rice, Liu Mang's current eel rolls are not inferior at all, perfectly blending eel and rice, while also maximizing the characteristics of the ingredients, presenting a different flavor.

"It's really worthy of being the Chinese god of cooking!" After tasting the eel roll in his mouth, Jiro Ida sighed with emotion: "The name is well deserved!

Kanjiro Kanemoto, the assistant who questioned Liu Mang at first, also picked up a piece of eel roll and put it in his mouth, and after chewing and tasting it, his expression changed drastically, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

"From today onwards, you can come up with any ideas that can improve eel rice. Kanjiro Kanemoto said.

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