Chapter Eighty-Seven: Challenging the Northwest School of Halal Cuisine
Come to Mogao Grottoes naturally to appreciate the beautiful flying murals, among the 492 caves of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, almost the caves are painted with flying heaven, its number is so large, it can be said that the world and Chinese Buddhist cave temples preserve the most flying grottoes, its most representative is the 12 bodies of the upper layer of the south wall of the 282nd cave, these 12 bodies are flying to the sky, the head is tied with a double bun, the upper body is exposed, the waist is tied with a long skirt, the shoulders are draped with ribbons, the body is slender, into a large opening horizontal bow shape, flying against the wind, respectively, playing the waist drum, clapper, flute, horizontal flute, reed sheng, pipa, Musical instruments such as Ruan strings and gonghou are surrounded by small flowers, and the clouds are drifting, setting off the flying sky and flying in the wind, and the body is as light as a swallow, taking care of each other, free and happy, roaming in space.
Looking at the twelve fairies with different forms in front of him, You Yishou couldn't help but sigh at the superb skills of the ancient craftsmen.
"Drop, please feel the way of joy in the murals of the Twelve Flying Immortals, as a reward The ancient Shaolin kitchen recipe will unseal the "Painting Food" chapter. ”
"What is Painted Food?" Hearing the prompt of the system, You asked suspiciously.
"Ancient Shaolin kitchen recipes not only have poetic dishes, spiritual food and painting food, painting artistic conception dishes, food such as beauty, painting food pays attention to the combination of virtual and real, called the artistic conception, what is the artistic conception? The housekeeper Ni Mei explained.
You Yi Yi lamented, he was only a secondary school student who graduated from New Oriental, and he didn't know anything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting at all.
This is also the reason why the host is allowed to learn to cook with the chef, that is, to understand the culture and improve the cooking environment in the learning process. Ni Mei continued.
"Okay"
"Please feel it with your heart. ”
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As soon as the style of painting changed, You Yishou seemed to be in the clouds, and the latter was slowly immersed in it as the melodious melody of the instrument sounded, and what he had to do was to use different cultures to edify himself in order to improve his self-cultivation.
After feeling the artistic conception of the Dunhuang murals, You Yishou is ready to leave Dunhuang for the provincial capital Lanzhou, from which he will gradually enter the inland city, and since then his adventure has officially ended, and the next step is to apply what he has learned to make a variety of different flavors of food.
It takes about 11 hours from Dunhuang to Lanzhou, and the impression of Swill is that it is located in the northwest of the country, but there are also a lot of delicacies in Swill, such as the famous Lanzhou ramen and mutton steamed buns.
The north and south spans of Shusu Province is very large, the main catering feature is the Hui flavor snacks represented by Lanzhou, there are many snack streets in Lanzhou, if you go to travel, you can choose to taste the food in the snack street of Farmer Lane, and the snack street of Hezheng Road around the railway station is also very famous, in addition, there are also snack streets such as the west exit of the square, the new railway village, Xiguan Shizi, Xiaoxi Lake, Jianlan Road, etc., which can generally last from morning to midnight, and the snack street such as Hezheng Road and Xiguan Shizi can last until zero morning. At four o'clock, some stalls are open day and night, and there are takeaways such as melons, fruits and vegetables on the snack street.
You Yiyi drove Wuling Hongguang to Lanzhou is already 14 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, after entering the city, he first found a place to stay, washed up before going out to find food, the streets are full of ramen restaurants, Lanzhou beef ramen, also known as Lanzhou clear soup beef noodles, is one of the "top ten noodles in China", it is "clear soup mirror, rotten meat is fragrant, noodles are fine" unique flavor and "one clear, two white, three red, four green and five yellow", one clear (soup clear), two white (radish white), three red (chili oil red), four green (coriander, garlic seedling green), Wuhuang (noodles yellow bright) has won praise from customers at home and even around the world, and has been rated as one of the three major Chinese fast food by the China Cuisine Association, with the reputation of "the first side of China".
Lanzhou ramen and noodles and soup base are very critical, pay attention to "three times water, three times ash, ninety-nine eighty-one times kneading", in which the ash is an additive called Pengcao but it has been eliminated, and now it is used as a ramen agent.
Stretching is also very important in this process, stretching is a very technical work, the same dough, in the hands of experienced old chefs, not only the speed of ramen is fast (generally only about 10 seconds), and the thickness of the noodles pulled out is uniform, and it is difficult for beginners to do, a noodle section just pull a large bowl of noodles, every time you pull, you have to fold back on the wrist once, pull to the end, shake your hands up and down a few times, then the noodles are flexible and long, and the thickness is uniform. Generally, the two thin ones are 7 buttons, the thin ones are 9 buttons, and the capillary noodles can reach 11 buttons, which are as thin as silk and do not break, which can really be described as the essence of Chinese cooking.
However, Lanzhou ramen is really not too difficult for You Yishou, the noodles he used to pull out with dragon claws are chewy and delicious, and the workers at the construction site love to eat the noodles he makes.
He wants to find a halal restaurant to taste the famous halal cuisine, which is also the most widely spoken in the world, and Muslims all over the world enjoy halal food. According to the United Nations and some international organizations, the world's Muslim population has exceeded 1.5 billion, with the largest Muslim population in Asia, about 800 million. The Muslim population in non-Islamic countries has reached 500 million and continues to grow in many countries, meaning that at least one-quarter of the human population consumes a halal diet every day.
Halal cuisine is divided into northern and southern flavors: the north is good at beef and mutton dishes, and the cooking method is similar to Beijing cuisine, which is good at exploding, boiling, frying and boiling, and only the mutton eating method has stewed mutton, shabu mutton, grilled mutton skewers, stir-fried mutton, sauce mutton and whole mutton banquet and so on.
After hundreds of years of development, China's halal cuisine is gradually stable, and can be roughly divided into three major schools of West BJ Tianjin and Jiangnan, with Xinyi, NX, SX as the representative of the halal cuisine in the northwest region, more inherited the flavor of the Arabic diet, good use of mutton, onions, radish, tomatoes, peppers, pepper, etc., the taste is characterized by spicy, sour, sweet and salty, and the process is good at roasting, frying and boiling.
"Drop, the host triggers the battle of the genres of the cuisine, the task: defeat the Northwest school of halal cuisine. ”
I really don't know much about halal cuisine, because after all, he is a Han Chinese and rarely eats halal food, but each cuisine must have its unique charm that can be passed down to this day.