The Female Supporting Character of Food Literature (4)
Yang Qingyan sniffed in disbelief the strong fragrance that rushed into the tip of his nose domineeringly, the kind of fresh fragrance that was difficult to refuse ran from his nose to his skull, and he didn't even have to taste it to know that the bowl of shark fin rice in Ye Lin's hand was so delicious that he swallowed his tongue.
He looked straight at the woods of geoduck leaves beside the steaming stainless steel pot, and his eyes were as surprised as if he had seen a pair of gold ingots with long legs.
He seemed to have a premonition that after the death of his master Yang Guanzhong, the Yang family was about to come again.
Shark fin rice is the finale dish of Songyue Building, in a high-end restaurant like Songyue Building, the price of a cup of shark fin rice is very high, and it is impossible for guests to come here to eat only this, and the other side dishes and drinks are finally counted up, breaking through the five figures for a meal easily, in this case, the taste of this finale signature dish is particularly unforgivable.
Many old gourmets come here to eat only to recognize Yang Guanzhong's craftsmanship, and their tongues are very tricky, and then Yang Guanzhong fell ill, and his chief apprentice Yang Mulian took over the restaurant, and the taste was not bad at all, but now that Yang Guanzhong is dead, Yang Mulian is gone, and the old diners of Songyue Lou are constantly losing at a speed that is almost visible to the naked eye.
Some people even thought that Songyuelou would have another chef with excellent cooking skills after the two of them, but the bad experience made them have to die and have to look for delicious food elsewhere.
The foodies who have been die-hard fans of Songyue Lou for more than ten years choose to come here for a farewell meal at the end.
"Alas, when Yang Lao was still alive, Songyue Tower was such a grand occasion, the taste of this Songyue Tower at that time was very authentic, how could I have thought that now that Yang Lao is dead, the only apprentice who has become a tool is gone, and this old signboard will not be able to hold on." A rich old man stirred the dried bamboo shoots on the plate with a spoon with a regretful face, and said to his companion.
They are all witnessing the development of Songyue Building from a small façade that has just opened to today's old customers, and they can't help but feel sad when they see the cold appearance of Songyue Building.
"I heard that Yang Mulian left Songyue Tower for a woman." A person who knew about the recent situation of the Yang family lowered his voice and said.
"How so? This Yang Lao can treat him well..."The other person looked curious, and just as he wanted to ask carefully, the box door was gently slammed. The voice of the polite and gentle waiter came from outside the door: "Shark fin rice has arrived." ”
After many disappointments, there was no expectation in their hearts at this time, and several people listlessly turned their heads to look at the waiter who came in, and a row of waiters behind her held a carved tray with five neatly stacked stew cups in their hands.
As soon as they entered the door, a strong salty fragrance rushed into the tip of their noses, like small hands, tickling their hearts to the small stew pot in the waiter's hand.
Smelling this domineering fragrance head-on, the people in the box froze, and then reacted, hurriedly took their stew cup from the waiter's hand, opened it eagerly, took a sharp breath of fresh fragrance, and asked with wide eyes: "Why is today's shark fin rice so fragrant?" ”
The little girl explained, saying that the daughter of the owner had come to take over the business of Songyue Building, and she was also Yang Guanzhong's apprentice.
Those people didn't have time to listen to her nonsense, and they all picked up a bowl of rice next to them and poured it into the golden shark fin soup, grabbed the spoon and ate it.
"Ouch scald me!!"
"This is damn delicious!!"
The chicken soup, which has been hung over a warm fire for three days and three nights, is mixed with the sweetness of the scallop ham, and the fresh air rushes straight to the diner's heavenly spirit cover, smashing in the mouth like a crazy wild horse.
Even if they have lived for decades and eaten shark fin rice in so many places, how can anyone compare to this bowl?
The few people who were still lamenting to each other before were still complaining to each other about the sunset, staring at the stew pot that would bottom out after a while, and they were speechless in surprise.
Even in this Songyue Building, which is located in the city center, only 100 cups of shark fin rice are prepared every day as a signature dish, which is generally enough to meet the needs, after all, the price is not close to the people.
After Yang Mulian left, the sales volume of shark fin rice plummeted like jumping off a cliff, and the huge contrast hit Yang Qingyan, who knew that his cooking skills were far inferior to his senior brother, and couldn't take care of himself.
Although he knew that Yang Mulian had always been the proudest apprentice of his master, but at this moment, in the face of such a bloody reality, Yang Qingyan was still sour.
The wonderful aroma that spread in the kitchen made his eyes moist, he didn't expect that the little junior sister who had been scolded by the master all the time was so powerful, except for the master's craftsmanship, he had never tasted such a domineering delicacy, the taste was simply unreasonable, even the senior brother Yang Mulian, who had always been difficult for him to match, had absolutely no way to match it.
Thinking of Ye Lin, whose temperament had changed greatly, Yang Qingyan's sour and depressed mood reinvigorated, and Songyue Lou, who thought he was going to lose in his hands, was miraculously reversed with the miraculous cooking skills of the little junior sister, and re-attracted a large number of diners to come——
Several stores in Songyuelou in N City began to miraculously come back to life, and the demand for each store's signature dish shark fin rice exploded, especially in the old Zifeng store, where customers who came to taste shark fin rice every day could make an appointment from nine o'clock in the morning to nine o'clock in the evening.
Also, there were originally only three disciples of the Yang family's lineage, and Yang Guanzhong's daughter-in-law was not successful, and the only proud protégé Yang Mulian went out to stand on his own because of a woman, and the Yang family's cooking skills were about to be broken in the lineage. Clear-eyed people know that Yang Mulian resents that Yang Lao has to marry his unsuccessful daughter to him, and deliberately goes out of the mountain to open a Lian Yumen and Songyue Lou to fight against him, and people who don't understand only think that Yang Mulian has been living in the shadow of Yang Guanzhong for many years, and his kindness to the Yang family has been paid off, and it is time to fight for his own happiness.
Who would have thought that the daughter of the Yang family, who was originally unsuccessful, suddenly seemed to have opened her mind, and she didn't let her come much better, and even made things that tasted much better than Yang Guanzhong.
It is rumored that Yang Guanzhong hid his personal knowledge from his successor Yang Mulian and refused to teach him the core cooking skills of the Yang family, but before he died, he gave the recipes passed down from generation to generation of the Yang family to his daughter Yang Yelin, which made Yang Yelin's cooking skills amazing overnight. Such rumors spread far and wide, and in a short period of time, they spread throughout the entire Chinese food circle.