Chapter 119: Finding Fault (Part I)

Bai Xiaobai took a taxi to Jianghai Yangning Airport, completed the registration procedures, and after the security check, he boarded the plane and flew to Shudu.

Shudu is the capital of Shuchuan Province, because the territory is flat, the river network is vertical and horizontal, the products are abundant, the agriculture is developed, and all kinds of mountain food ingredients are innumerable, and it has the reputation of "the land of abundance" since ancient times.

With the world-famous Sichuan cuisine, Shudu ranks first among the top ten food cities in China all year round, and has been awarded the title of "World Capital of Gastronomy" by UNESCO.

Food has become a shining business card of Shudu, and the concept of "food in China, taste in Shuchuan" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Although Sichuan restaurants are now blooming all over the country and even the world, many foodie tourists still visit Shuchuan, the place of origin, and Shudu, as the provincial capital, is naturally the first choice.

When Bai Xiaobai got off the plane, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon.

Dragging the trolley suitcase and walking out of Shuangliu Airport, his head was a little dizzy, after all, it was the first time he took a plane, and his eardrums were a little tinnitus, and he hadn't fully adjusted.

Bai Xiaobai did not squeeze the bus, but took a taxi directly to the hotel where he stayed and checked in.

It is the summer vacation, so there are a lot of tourists from Shudu, and the price of hotels and inns is naturally rising.

Considering the cost, Bai Xiaobai booked a hotel located in the Shuangliu District of Shudu City, which is relatively cheap because it is outside the Fourth Ring Road.

A single room of 88 yuan a night, the decoration is quite good.

Bai Xiaobai tidied up his suitcase, took a cold shower, and changed into a clean T-shirt.

At this time, the cold electronic sound came.

[The daily fund of 250 for the food trip has been put in place, and the host chooses cash or WeChat red envelopes. 】

"System, I choose cash. Although electronic payment is very popular now, Bai Xiaobai still feels that it is more secure to hold money in his hand, and it is not a large amount anyway.

After choosing cash, an envelope from the system appeared out of thin air in Bai Xiaobai's hand, and he opened it to see that a few tickets were just 750 yuan.

After deducting the three-day accommodation fee, there is only more than 400 yuan left, that is, it can only spend more than 100 yuan a day, and the average meal is more than 30 yuan.

If you travel normally, the province is still enough, but the food trip, focusing on tasting food, this money is obviously a bit stretched, at least it must not be spent lavishly.

Fortunately, Bai Xiaobai already had his own plan.

Breakfast should be planned for no more than 5 yuan, and the focus should be on lunch and dinner. In addition, roadside stalls, small restaurants, and high-end restaurants are staggered to taste, so that the net-style tasting of food can not only save money, but also ensure that you do not miss the well-known food of Shudu.

After the plan was made, Bai Xiaobai left the hotel with the money and went to dinner.

In Shudu, he is completely unfamiliar with life, Bai Xiaobai does not have a Baidu food strategy, but personally looks for restaurants on the street.

The time was only a little after five o'clock, and the summer time was quite early, so Bai Xiaobai took a bus from Shuangliu District to the inner ring city of Shudu.

While shopping, Bai Xiaobai paid attention to finding suitable restaurants.

Until twilight fell, and it was time for dinner, a restaurant called Chuanxiang Food Flavor Fang aroused Bai Xiaobai's idea.

This street is full of gourmet restaurants, and now every restaurant is basically full of people, but this one has no customers.

It's dwarfed and conspicuous.

Through the glass window, Bai Xiaobai saw a girl in the store holding her cheeks and looking out of the window with a frown.

The depressed little eyes, coupled with the extremely delicate and fair-skinned, three-dimensional facial features, look delicate but not charming, and from a distance it looks like a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world, which really makes people can't bear to look away.

Soon the girl's gaze wandered to Bai Xiaobai's face, just staring at him.

Bai Xiaobai was calm, didn't want to think about it, and strode directly into this restaurant.

In fact, it is not only because the girl in the restaurant is eye-catching, beautiful and attractive, but also because Bai Xiaobai is curious about how this restaurant has no customers. Besides, it's a meal now, there are many people in other restaurants, and the serving is very slow, and Bai Xiaobai is too lazy to wait.

The melancholy Sichuan girl, after seeing Bai Xiaobai enter the door, her sad face suddenly stretched, and she got up and greeted with a smile, "Handsome pot, what are you eating?"

Bai Xiaobai chose a position to rely on the air conditioner, sat down, and said, "Beauty, is there a menu?" ”

Sister Sichuan smiled and handed a menu to Bai Xiaobai.

Bai Xiaobai glanced at the menu, the price of the dishes is decent in the first-tier cities, reasonable, and not a trick.

Because there were no customers patronizing this shop, Bai Xiaobai had doubts about the taste, so he didn't dare to order too many dishes, in case it was really not delicious, it would be a waste of money, so he only picked the cheapest mapo tofu first.

After all, mapo tofu is a traditional famous dish of Sichuan cuisine, this dish is easy to learn and difficult to master, ordinary families can make it as long as the ingredients are complete, but it is definitely not so easy to make it well.

Authentic mapo tofu requires numb, spicy, hot, fragrant, crispy, tender, fresh, live, lacking any point, it cannot be called the best mapo tofu, which requires the Sichuan chef to have exquisite cooking skills, and every key step can not be sloppy.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to use it to measure whether the cooking skills of a Sichuan restaurant chef are at home.

"Beauty, I want a mapo tofu and a serving of rice. After Bai Xiaobai made up his mind, he ordered.

"Okay, Shuai Guo, you wait a minute. After the Sichuan girl finished speaking, she turned her head to the kitchen and shouted with Trump, "Old man, a portion of mapo tofu." ”

"Okay!" a middle-aged Trump male voice echoed from the kitchen.

After shouting, Sister Sichuan took a cup and poured a cup of cold boiled water for Bai Xiaobai.

Bai Xiaobai drank some water, and took advantage of the time between waiting for the food to be served, and looked at the store a little.

This is a small and medium-sized restaurant, the space is not large, the decoration is simple, the walls are half-old, slightly yellowed, the store is not too much furnishings, only eight tables, although the sanitation is not spotless, but it is also quite okay.

Because there is only one customer in the store, Bai Xiaobai, the food is served quickly.

A middle-aged man in his forties, half-limped, came out of the kitchen with a plate.

"Mapo tofu is here. ”

The middle-aged man with inconvenient legs and feet gently put the plate in front of Bai Xiaobai, and the Sichuan girl immediately served a bowl of rice, and said with a smile, "Handsome pot, the dishes are ready." ”

Bai Xiaobai took a look at the mapo tofu in front of him.

The color of the tofu is pale yellow and shiny, the surface is covered with a layer of red chili oil, with the tender green chives, which sells very well, and the fragrant spicy aroma rushes straight to the nasal cavity, which makes the mouth water.

Bai Xiaobai broke open the disposable chopsticks, carefully picked up a piece of tofu, and put it in his mouth.

The tofu is smooth in the mouth, hot, numb, spicy and fresh in taste, while the minced beef is crispy in the mouth, and the full beef aroma fills the mouth, and finally exhales slowly from the nasal cavity.

The only thing lacking is that the mapo tofu is unevenly thickened, so when Bai Xiaobai eats it, he can clearly feel that the tofu sauce is thick on one side and the tofu sauce is too thin on the other, resulting in a slight difference in taste.

Generally, when cooking mapo tofu, because the water content of the tofu is very large, it is easy to make the dish look watery and affect the sensory of the dish, and it is easy to paste the pot if the thickening is too thick at one time, so even if the master cooks mapo tofu, it must be thickened at least twice, and finally fully open the heat to collect the juice, so that the sauce and the tofu are perfectly combined.

Only when the spicy and fragrant sauce tightly wraps the tofu, each bite is the top delicacy on the tip of the tongue.

And now the mapo tofu in the mouth ignores this.

Although the taste of mapo tofu in the mouth is lacking, it can only be regarded as a small flaw, and it is actually quite difficult to achieve the current taste!

Bai Xiaobai came to the food trip to increase his food experience, not to be a food critic, so he didn't comment on poisonous snakes, but bowed his head mapo tofu with white rice, and sweated profusely.

He was eating a lot when several young men with dyed hair suddenly broke into the door of the store.

These people are obviously not good at stubble, their eyes are very ruthless, they don't even say a word, and they directly kick the table and smash things after entering the store.