Chen Tianliao smiled and opened the lid of the food box.

There are three layers in the food box, and the first layer is two oily roast ducks. There is no oven in the United States, so Chen Tianliao deliberately went to Oakland's Chinatown to borrow a roast duck oven from a Chinese restaurant to make it, which is not inferior to the original roast duck in terms of color and flavor. When everyone saw it, they all exclaimed, and at the same time, several ladies also muttered in their hearts. After all, they all value their figures, and such a fat thing is really a bit out of place, but the tempting fragrance makes them swallow their saliva again.

Chen Tianliao smiled and removed the layer of food box, revealing the second layer of food. This is Chen Tianliao's temporary addition of food - salt-baked chicken. As a representative of Hakka cuisine, salt-baked chicken feels his responsibility to push this famous dish to the world.

Chen Tianliao put all the chickens and ducks on the table, and then put the food box on the ground. Xiao Ai asked curiously, "Xiao Liao, isn't there another layer?"

Chen Tianliao smiled and said, "This is a dark dish from the East, don't take it out first, so as not to affect everyone's appetite." When everyone is full of food and drink, I will take it out and see if everyone is willing to take the risk. ”

Xiao Ai immediately frowned, obviously she had seen the dark cuisine of Huaguo. And everyone else is quite curious about the "dark cuisine" in Chen Tianliao's mouth.

Next up is Ross's showcase. What he brought with him was fried chicken nuggets, which in Xiao Ai's eyes was American tempura, but the size of the chicken nuggets and the thickness of the batter were full of the roughness of American men.

Finally, there is the host, Lisa. What she offers are two huge deep dishs and a large cake. Deep dish literally means "deep dish", and it is the most famous type of Chicago-style pizza, and several other Chicago-style pizzas such as stuffed pizza and thin-crust pizza are almost all modified styles of deep dish. This pizza has a high rim to hold a large filling, often full of cheese and tomato sauce. It's a typical food of the Midwest, but for Chen Tianliao, it can't be accepted. He quietly glanced at Xiao Ai, but found that the girl was also looking at him with embarrassed eyes. He couldn't help but bared his teeth and smiled, and Xiao Ai also smiled when she saw his embarrassed eyes.

Next is the time to eat. Mu Qiao and Chen Tianliao each processed their own food. First of all, the salt-baked chicken, Chen Tianliao put on gloves and tore the salt-baked chicken that had been cut off and put it on the plate, and then asked Mu Qiao for a pancake to make burritos, put a few pieces of meat in it, and rolled it up with two lettuce leaves, handed it to Lisa and said, "Come, Lisa, try my craft!"

Lisa took this

"Well, it's delicious!" Lisa couldn't help but exclaim. Chen Tianliao smiled proudly and did not answer. His salt-baked chicken is not the kind of chicken made of salt-baked powder in later generations, but baked by practical traditional methods.

Hakka salt-baked food is famous for salt-baked chicken, the general selection is about two catties of half-sized hens, slaughtered and dried for a night, and then wrapped in straw paper, stuffed into sea salt and baked. Traditional sea salt is coarse salt, with more impurities and coarse particles. At the same time, salt is also a good desiccant, in the process of baking, the moisture of the original tender chicken will be absorbed by the coarse salt through the straw paper with a large gap, and the coarse salt that absorbs the moisture can better penetrate into the chicken evenly through the straw paper, so that the chicken has a unique fragrance and is not too salty, and can also form a good chewy taste, but does not lose the green and tender taste of the half-sized hen. This kind of fragrant but not losing the original flavor of chicken, tough but not woody chicken is more and more fragrant the more you chew, which is irresistible, and it can be described as a rare delicacy in the world. As for the finished product made of salt-baked powder, whether it is the delicate and chewy taste or the natural fragrance of the salted water, there is no way to talk about it.

As for Chen Tianliao's tools for making salt-baked chicken, the iron pot was bought from a Chinese store, the coarse salt was obtained by recrystallizing refined salt, and the straw paper was bought from an incense and candle shop in Chinatown. The only disadvantage of making salt-baked chicken is that it costs too much iron pot, because salt is extremely corrosive to iron, basically salt-baked chicken cannot be used for other purposes, so now many people use pottery containers to make salt-baked food.

Chen Tianliao watched Lisa gobble up with some satisfaction, and handed the second chicken roll in his hand to Xiao Ai. Xiao Ai took it with both hands, opened her cute little mouth and took a bite gently, chewing slowly in her mouth. Chen Tianliao was making chicken rolls on the side, while happily watching Xiao Ai's eyes become brighter and brighter as he chews.

Chloe on the side quickly swallowed the tacos into his stomach, and without waiting for Chen Tianliao to wrap the new chicken rolls, he reached out and grabbed a chicken leg and stuffed it into his mouth.

"What a good smell, Chen, how do you do that?" Chloe asked, aloud and complimentary.

Chen Tianliao smiled and said, "This is a bit complicated, I'll tell you when I have time!"

When the roast duck was skinned next, everyone was stunned when they looked at Chen Tianliao's knife work. Lisa watched Chen Tianliao deflect the roast duck and put it on the plate, and said tentatively: "Chen, have you learned to cook?"

"Hmm. Chen Tianliao nodded, "Cooking is my hobby. ”

Lisa was a little crazy: "Chen, what else can't you do?"

Before Chen Tianliao could answer, Xiao Ai interjected: "I didn't expect him to have anything that he wouldn't." ”

"Don't blow it for me. Chen Tianliao smiled and said to Xiao Ai, "At least you have one ability, I won't." ”

"What are you capable of?" asked Xiao Ai as she picked up a small lettuce leaf from her French sibling's salad and put it in her mouth.

"Have a baby. Chen Tianliao said.

“…… cough, cough cough...... "Xiao Ai was choked. Everyone laughed.

Needless to say, the next scene was quickly snatched up by everyone. There are no green onions here, Chen Tianliao uses cucumber strips instead, plus his exclusive sauce, everyone eats happily.

Chen Tianliao focused on taking care of Mu Qiao's tacos, and was full of praise for the fresh mutton he baked. As for the big pizza he didn't want to eat the most, he barely ate two pieces, and the strange taste of cheese, the excessive sweetness of sugar, and the sour taste of tomato sauce mixed together, so that he ate very hard to hold his eyebrows so that his face did not wrinkle. For the Chinese, this kind of food is more worthy of being called "dark cuisine" than the food on the last layer of his food box. Surprisingly, Mucho ate more than the two Americans, and it was clear that he genuinely liked the food.

The last dessert, Chen Tianliao was also drunk, and there is almost no difference between Americans' sweets and eating sugar directly. A few Westerners ate with great pleasure, while two Easterners sat opposite each other with wide eyes and tasted it, resisting the urge not to throw it away.

At the end of the sweets, Chloe said, "Chen, you should show off your dark cuisine, right?

"Nope. Chen Tianliao smiled, "It's just something that you Westerners don't eat." ”

He brought up the box and uncovered the last layer. It contained four plates of things: a plate of pickled pepper chicken feet, a plate of vinegar pickled duck feet, a plate of fried liver, and a plate of chop grounds.

"Uh......" Everyone present looked at each other.

"It's ...... Foie gras?" Chloe pointed uncertainly.

"No, it's chicken liver and duck liver. Chen Tianliao said.

"And the other entrails of chickens and ducks?" Chloe said, pointing to the plate of chops.

"You're so smart. Chen Tianliao said with a smile.

"I'll taste it!" Chloe smiled and picked up a spoon, scooped up a slice of fried liver, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it carefully for a while, and said, "It's delicious, it tastes like French foie gras." With that, she scooped up another piece of chicken gizzard and stuffed it into her mouth. "Yes, this texture, crunchy, so delicious. Chen, you're a great cook!"

Xiao Ai looked at Chloe's appearance and asked cautiously, "Chloe, aren't you afraid?"

Chloe laughed, "There's nothing to be afraid of. I used to eat in the French countryside when I traveled to France. Some people over there also eat chicken offal. It's all good food, and you can try it too. ”

Xiao Ai looked at Chen Tianliao, then at the food, and finally mustered up the courage, picked up the chopsticks in his hand, and stuffed a piece of chicken gizzard into his mouth.

"Hmm, it's delicious!" Xiao Ai also cried out.

At this time, Mu Qiao's curiosity was also piqued. This old Mo is also a person who is willing to take risks, he picked a piece of chicken gizzard and chewed it. The three of them all chose the chicken gizzard on the chop plate, probably because the chicken gizzard is not easy to see what part it is, and there will be fewer mental obstacles. But as soon as the psychological barrier was removed, they all ate it. Speaking of which, I must thank Chloe for her drive, after all, Chloe has eaten offal before, so there is not so much burden, and everyone else will follow suit.

Lisa also picked up the spoon and joined in eating the chops, while Leon ate a piece of chicken liver. Only Rose still looked coldly. Lisa and Julion also stopped after eating two or three pieces of food. However, the entrails were wiped out by the rest of the people, and most of them went into Chloe's stomach. As for those claws, even Chloe couldn't get their mouths, let alone the others.

Chen Tianliao finally chose Mu Qiao as the breakthrough target. He picked up a pickled pepper chicken feet and said, "Mu Qiao, this is a delicacy specially prepared for you." Don't you Mexicans like to eat spicy food? This is made of spicy and delicious pickled peppers, do you want to challenge it?"

Mu Qiao looked at the shape of the chicken feet and finally shook his head.

"Could it be that you are afraid of spicy food?" Chen Tianliao decided to use the agitation method.

"I don't want to eat chicken feet. "Mucho is honest. Chen Tianliao only held his forehead with his hand, speechless and looked at the sky.

Everyone laughed.

"I'll eat!" Xiao Ai's voice came out at this time, "But I have one condition." ”

Chen Tianliao looked at the girl next door.