Chapter 81: The Origin of Dumplings

Returning to the noodle cutting restaurant at half past four in the afternoon, Lin Yi began to get busy, and Xiao Ai also opened the live broadcast room and began the whole live broadcast.

There are only seven or eight people seated at each table, and Lin Yi didn't prepare too many dishes, still the same as last time, four hot and four cool four pieces, plus four soups, and some desserts and snacks, a total of more than 20 kinds.

But fortunately, Zhang Xiaohai distributed all the materials in advance today, and came over to help early in the morning, plus Li Xueqiang, the three of them were busy working together, but they were not too tired. After more than three hours of preparation, the banquet began at half past seven in the evening.

First is the dim sum, a plate of shortbread, a plate of mung bean cake, one salty and one sweet, enough to satisfy everyone's taste.

Liu Yanqiu, Wang Chunmei and Fang Jiayi personally went into battle to act as waiters, these are two store managers and a vice president, and they still rushed to compete for the role of waiters - not to mention that they can steal food halfway through the service, they just come out of the kitchen with a plate and smell the smell, and it is worth it!

"Don't rob, don't rob, one person ...... together"

"Do you want to be so ruthless, I haven't put down my plate yet, and you have snatched it up?"

"I like sweets, who will change them for me?"

"Xiao Ai, stop shooting, I left you two pieces of ......"

"You guys eat first, don't worry about me, when the official dishes are out of the pot at this time, I'll go over after the live broadcast......" Xiao Ai shouted at Chu Yuanyuan with a smile.

Ordinary people are noisy, and in less than a minute, two plates of dim sum are all eaten into their stomachs.

"Hey, by the way, it's time, look at Jin Haitai!" Liu Yanqiu shouted.

Today is Friday, and it happens to be a new issue of "Food", Wang Chunmei hurriedly ran to the cash register, picked up the remote control and turned on the LCD TV hanging on the wall behind the cash register.

Now there are not many TVs hanging in small restaurants, and this TV is still hanging here by Cui Yuchao - the production time of yellow stewed chicken is too long, so hanging a TV can also allow customers to pass the waiting time. And the fire burned the corner of the plastic shell of the LCD TV, but the TV was not broken, and it has been used all the time.

"At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, natural disasters occurred frequently, it was the winter month of the year, and the weather was cold and frozen......"

The TV screen shows an ancient town, some poor people in thick clothes but still shivering from the cold walking on the streets, the camera advances, filming the frostbite on the faces of those poor people, especially their ears, all of which are frostbitten and festering...... Then Lin Yi appeared on the camera, with a white face and a long beard, with an expression of concern for the country and the people, asking about the condition of some people with severe frostbite......

This episode is about the origin of dumplings. Legend dumplings are created by Zhang Zhongjing, when Zhang Zhongjing was an official in his hometown of Nanyang, he saw that the people's ears were seriously frostbitten, so he opened a medicine shed to apply medicine to the people, boiled mutton in a cauldron, and stomped with pepper after the meat was cooked, and wrapped the dough into a crescent moon to sign the ears, called "Jiao'er", each person who sought medicine had two "Jiao'er", a bowl of broth, after eating, it would be hot all over the body, and the ears would be hot, and soon the frostbite on the ears would be cured.

So "Jiao'er" became popular, and it became a custom to eat "Jiao'er" every winter, even if the people who did not have chilblains later, they had to make dumplings with other fillings to commemorate Zhang Zhongjing.

In this episode of the show, Lin Yi plays Zhang Zhongjing, while Xiao Ai plays a girl who asks for medicine, and she is also the representative of the people who did not get chilblains anymore, but invented the use of other fillings to make "Jiao'er......

"Wow, dumplings turned out to be used for healing......" Chu Yuanyuan looked at Zhang Zhongjing treating diseases with "Jiao'er" on the street, and sighed, and when she turned around, she found that the dishes on the table were empty, and she couldn't help shouting, "Fatty, did your chopsticks catch fire?"

"No, I just learned a trick called blind clipping...... Zhu Yifei stretched out his chopsticks while watching TV, and directly pinched it without looking at the plate, and actually picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth with great precision.

"And this kind of operation?" Fang Jiayi's eyes widened, and she followed his example and pinched a few times, but she didn't even catch a single green vegetable.

There was a lot of noise here, and Lin Yi shouted again to serve the food, and Fang Jiayi hurriedly ran over with chopsticks - grabbing food halfway, this is her stunt.

Everyone was watching TV while rushing to eat vegetables, and when Lin Yi brought the last big dish of crispy chicken, Xiao Ai finally followed back to the table from the glass wall outside the kitchen.

"Oh, poor Xiao Ai has robbed so many dishes in order to broadcast live for everyone...... Xiao Ai said pitifully, the camera took a look at the plates, but more than a dozen plates were empty by a third, and most of the remaining empty ones were eaten, and the crispy chicken that had just been put on the table was also being robbed.

"Quality, everyone pay attention to quality...... Lin Yi shouted with a smile, but he was more brave than anyone else, brushed twice, tore off two chicken legs, one was stuffed into his mouth, and the other was put into Xiao Ai's plate.

"Boss, what about your qualities?" the crowd laughed.

"Don't tease me, I'm eating too much, and my stomach hurts ...... when I smile," Chu Yuanyuan exclaimed.

"Get out of the way, let me stand, I can eat more while standing......" Zhang Xiaohai pushed away the stool and stood up with chopsticks.

Everyone eats all kinds of foreign appearances at a meal, but they are all unconscious, just be happy.

And the end of this episode of the show was also broadcast on TV, because the story of this episode of the show is relatively short, so in the last ten minutes, a footage of Lin Yi's teaching Xiao Ai to make dumplings was added.

This is the camera without wearing ancient costumes, but in a small studio built by the company itself, a face was posed, Lin Yi and Xiao Ai were wearing the kitchen clothes of the usual live broadcast, where they stood and filmed. The content is also very simple, that is, Lin Yi explained and demonstrated at the same time, and Xiao Ai followed and made all kinds of fancy dumplings.

In fact, the style of dumplings wrapped all over the country is not the same, the most representative is the crescent-shaped dumpling, a piece of dough is stuffed and folded in half, and the edges are pinched together and then bent to the same arc as a crescent. But there are also places where it is customary not to pinch the curvature, and after folding the dough in half, press the thumbs of both hands at the same time and it's over. In some places, it is customary to use a dough sheeter to press the dough, then cut it into a trapezoidal shape with a knife, roll up the filling from the short side, and then press the two ends of the barrel together, which looks like a horseshoe......

These are conventional methods, and the rest of the fancy styles such as: wheat ear dumplings, ingots dumplings, wallet dumplings, small lock dumplings, pearl dumplings, etc., are more varied, and there are more unique Sixi steamed dumplings, which are directly pinched out of four interdependent open dumplings, which are steamed on the pot with four different fillings, and the dumpling skin is translucent, with beautiful fillings, it looks like a work of art.

The last shot of the show is to shoot the finished dumplings made by Lin Yi teaching Xiao Ai several dumpling making methods just now, all of them are so pleasing to the eye, and finally freeze on the Sixi steamed dumplings......

Fang Jiayi looked at the TV and rubbed her bulging belly, swallowed dryly, and said, "I feel that if I persevere, I can eat another Sixi dumpling......