154 Take a moment
Listening to Lu Li's words, everyone looked at the glass bottle on the table, with a skeptical expression on their faces—where is there any magic flavoring, how can a dish be seasoned with a little flavoring, and then it becomes delicious? This is not a fairy tale. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, looking at Lu Li's sworn expression, everyone couldn't tell whether Lu Li was joking or telling the truth. The expressions of each one are very playful.
Alice walked over at some point, looked at the glass bottle on the table, and then read out the words with great difficulty but very clearly, "Old ...... Dry...... Mother...... What is this?"
"Magic Spice. Lu Li gave the same answer, and everyone showed a look of disbelief at the same time, and Fred was the first to ask, "MSG?"
Because of the misleading media propaganda, many people's deepest impression of Chinese/Chinese cuisine is MSG, which has also received fierce criticism from many nutritionists. In the United States, many Chinese/Chinese restaurants will also add a large amount of MSG in order to save money, which affects people's impression and senses. After Lu Li came to Yunding Ranch, part of the reason why his cuisine has received so much recognition is because he never uses MSG and relies entirely on the original taste of the ingredients to complete the cooking.
But without waiting for Lu Li to answer, Randy was the first to deny it, "You see clearly, this is MSG? You can't have never seen MSG before, right?" The contents of the bottle in front of him had nothing to do with MSG at all, and the shape, color, and taste had nothing to do with it.
"And what do you say?" Fred's retort made Randy choke straight away, and he couldn't say why.
In the end, Tony, who was still standing in the back, pushed everyone away, "Just try it, really." Then he rolled his eyes, as if to say, "a group of idiots", which made Lu Li laugh.
Tony picked up the bowl of beef noodles in the clear soup, took a small sip of the soup, then took a bite of the noodles, and tasted the taste carefully, his expression did not change in particular, and then he opened the can of old godmother, scooped some out with a fork, added it to the soup, and repeated the previous action.
Everyone looked at Tony intently, but Tony never spoke, he chewed and savored it for a while, as if he couldn't taste it, and then spooned a large lump of old godmother with a fork, added it to the soup, stirred it, and began to eat noodles again. Each time he looked up and made a look of slow tasting, as if to discern the subtle differences.
"Tony, how's it going?" Randy finally couldn't help but ask, curious.
Tony, however, raised his right hand to stop Randy, then closed his eyes, lowered his head again, took a bite of the noodles, took a large sip of the soup, and chewed slowly, slowly.
Ke Er took a closer look, and then he sensed that something was wrong, and quietly turned his head to look at Lu Li, "Fourteen, get me a bowl, I'll try it too." There's always someone to sacrifice, doesn't they?"
Lu Li couldn't hold back a smile, he also saw Cole's discovery - almost two-thirds of the noodles in Tony's bowl had gone, and he had been eating a few more bites of noodles in front of everyone on the grounds of tasting, in fact, this action itself explained the quality of the taste, and there was no need for words to explain it.
Lu Li brought a bowl to Ke Er again, and then Ke Er also started to eat noodles without saying a word, he couldn't help but scoop two large spoons of Lao Gan Ma and stir them into the noodles.
In fact, Lao Gan Ma still wants to come to mix noodles to be more delicious, put it in the soup noodles, the taste is diluted, and the aroma is dispersed, but the boiled beef bone soup is already fragrant, and after adding Lao Gan Ma, it is naturally mouth-watering. Lu Li had heard of it before, Lao Gan Ma has been able to buy it on Amazon, in addition to the Chinese/Chinese who study and work here, there are actually many foreigners who also like it very much, and the sales are soaring. However, today Lu Li is the first time to witness the power of the old godmother.
It's not surprising that Western cuisine has always valued a variety of dipping sauces, such as ketchup, barbecue sauce, mustard, etc., and it's not surprising that Lao Gan Ma's fragrant dipping sauce has won the hearts of foreigners for several streets - especially in Texas, which is heavily influenced by Mexican cuisine.
First Tony, then Cole, and then Fred came to his senses, "Fourteen, make me a bowl of noodles." But before the words fell, the others also reacted, "Fourteen, I! I!" You shouted in a hurry, and the scene was so lively that everyone in the restaurant looked at it one after another, with a puzzled expression.
Lu Li ordered a total of three tubes of dried noodles, which was not enough at all, everyone only got a small bowl, and a bottle of Lao Gan Ma also went straight to the bottom, everyone looked like they were not full, which made Lu Li really cry and laugh.
Then, Lu Li picked up the boiled houttuynia and put it aside to cool. As expected, this bowl of herbal tea, prepared in the simplest way, has no market in the United States at all, and is even more neglected than Tieguanyin. Alice drank a small bowl out of curiosity, but her expression was so subtle that the others were even more reluctant to try it.
However, Lu Li did not force it, and the physique of Easterners and Westerners was inherently different. The simplest reason is that after giving birth, Western women can go directly to the ground the next day, even if they swim in the sea without any problems, and then start to enter the gym to lose weight. But women in the East need to recuperate for a long time.
Houttuynia cordata, a cold herb, is indeed not suitable for Americans.
Lu Huaijin and Song Lingyi each drank a big bowl, and then Lu Li filled a large bottle with a thermos flask and put it in the master bedroom, so that if they wanted to drink water after waking up in the middle of the night, they didn't need to go downstairs.
After all these things were done, Lu Li went back to the bathroom and took a hot shower, his muscles gradually relaxed, and the fatigue all over his body seemed to disappear.
Back on the first floor, the noise had settled, Lu Huaijin and Song Lingyi had gone upstairs to take a shower, and everyone else had begun to prepare for bedtime - there were two consecutive days of carnival waiting for them tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, leaving Jessica alone to tidy up the room.
Although she stayed at the ranch today, Jessica was not idle at all, taking care of the entire ranch alone, and the work was definitely not easy, after everyone came back just now, Jessica was also responsible for maintaining order, guiding the vehicles to the parking lot one by one, and then arranging various washing work, so busy that her feet did not touch the ground, until now.
"You go and rest, you have to get up early tomorrow." Lu left his mouth and said.
Jessica nodded in the affirmative, "What about you?"
Lu Li smiled, "Of course, that's the plan, isn't it?" He didn't know the bed in the first place, he slept in the tent last night, the experience was very special, he decided to sleep in the tent for the past three days, and stick to this carnival to the end. "I sat on the porch for a while, and then went to rest. You should go back early. ”
Due to the chaos of the cowboy convention, Cole and his family still lived in the annex next to the main house, and did not move directly to the newly completed villa, waiting for the convention to be over before making plans.
Lu Li didn't rush to sleep because Lu Huaijin and Song Lingyi were still washing and didn't go to bed, so he didn't know if there was anything else needed, he waited until they were all asleep before going to rest.
Came to the porch, sat in the old chair and staggered to look at the moonlight overhead, tonight there are a lot of clouds, covering most of the moon, even the starlight is hidden behind the clouds, the night looks a little heavy, but it also adds a touch of silence to the vast pasture, through the haze of the alcohol lamp, you can faintly see the silence of the beech forest and the oak forest at the far end, Lu Li can't help but imagine what a wonderful scene it would be if a bamboo forest was planted by the lake.
However, Lu Li does not know whether it is suitable for planting bamboo forests here in North America, and he still needs to investigate. Perhaps metasequoia or maple trees are more suitable here in North America, but planting metasequoia can be just as effective, adding a freehand charm to the rugged and wild pastures.
"Haven't you slept yet? I'm tired all day today, and I thought you had rested a long time ago. There was a soft voice in his ears, Lu Li raised his head, and then he saw Alice, she had just finished grooming, her hair was not completely dried after being blown by a hair dryer, and there was some faint moisture, hanging down lazily, she was holding a towel in her hand, and she was wiping it off and down.
"Relax and relax. Lu Li smiled and replied, "What do you think?
"Of course!" Alice replied crisply, without any hesitation.
Lu Li's smile rose a little more, "That's great, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief." ”
"Thank you for having me. Alice sat down on the bench next to her, "Otherwise, I'd have missed out on such a wonderful moment." ”
"This is just the beginning. Lu Li bent down slightly, spread his hands, and made a curtain call pose, as if the rodeo was his performance stage, taking all the credit to himself, this action made Alice laugh, "How is it, is there anything to gain from today's language exchange?"
"Chinese is the most difficult language in the world?" Alice's rhetorical question made Lu Li unable to help but wonder.
"While Persian and Russian may protest, ...... I am willing to accept such praise. Lu Li said with a smile, and Alice couldn't help but chuckle, "Thank you for being willing to exchange words with my parents." According to the plan, they were supposed to have a verbal exchange with him, but instead, they helped Lu Huaijin and Song Lingyi.
"Isn't it me who benefited?" Alice replied playfully with a rhetorical question.
Lu Li smiled and nodded, and did not continue to be polite, turned his head, and looked at the thick darkness in front of him, lacking the embellishment of moonlight and starlight, and the whole world was left with a vague outline, but it was such an undulating arc, but there was a thrilling beauty, which made silence a kind of enjoyment.
Alice also fell silent, quietly enjoying the scenery, this peace. The sound of the wind is gently moving.