Yu Youde has been in the kitchen (Chapter 39 of the Leisurely Life of the Phaser). eihei66cobr/>

Although he opened a private restaurant where he had to deal with dignitaries, his only pleasure was cooking. He made a lot of money, but he dreamed every night, and what he missed most was the burning feeling of weakness when he was forced by his father to stir the pot with a ten-pound shovel when he was a child.

Only the smell of oil smoke mixed in the kitchen made him feel intimate.

-- Of course, the kitchens are becoming more and more westernized, and there is less oil and less smoke, and it seems that cold food and less stir-frying have become the latest dining trends.

Yu Youde scoffed at this.

"Clean is of course yes. But what do you do with Chinese food? What kind of food is there without color, aroma and taste? ”

He kept muttering to his little apprentice in private.

And firmly believe that this is just a demon wind, just like the popular Indian food in the past few years, the closed culture of backward areas will always give Chinese people a sense of freshness. Everyone had fun for a while, and finally they had to go back to the original.

When the waiter came in, Yu Youde watched the dishes served by his subordinates, and squatted in front of the earthen stove to nibble on the pickled dried edamame, relishing it.

-- This earthen stove is also insisted on by the old Yu family, and this kind of stove can't be approved if you don't look for someone in Beijing. To this end, the imperial dining room also specially renovated the exhaust system, bought a set of smoke and dust removal equipment, and made an extremely complex chimney to avoid environmental pollution.

Without these three-eye stoves, several big dishes are not easy to make, at least they can't make real taste.

Now that the natural gas is on fire, the Yu family is not rejected, but they also feel that they don't need to discard the good things of their ancestors because of this.

The bear's paw was boiling in a large iron pot on the stove.

Yu Youde didn't need to open the lid of the pot to know that the heat was almost over, and the tendons of the bear's paw had been boiled into gelatin, crystal clear, and melted in the mouth. This is their old Yu family's unique craft, and no matter how capable other chefs are, this bear's paw can't survive this Cheng dù.

Next, as long as you put in the ingredients and stir well, you will be the famous orchid bear's paw that has won the gold medal of the food expo.

He's counting down in his heart.

The waiter asked, "Boss, today's guest would like to confirm the menu." We should also discuss the auxiliary ingredients of bear paw with you. ”

Yu Youde slowly peeled off the last bean in his hand and ate it, clapped his hands, and shook off the salt crumbs. I cut a piece of raw tofu from the table and put it in my mouth to chew, and then I asked if I was an old eater?" ”

Old diners may not have the money to eat.

Rich people don't necessarily know how to eat.

Yu Youde has always been very friendly to old diners, and he will even add a few special side dishes. Of course, this is limited to people who can eat and love to eat.

If you say that you don't like to eat and can't eat, then even if you have money, Yu Youde is not interested.

Now there are too many nouveau riche in this society, and it is difficult to find real food friends.

"Haven't been here before." There are not many people who come every day, and even fewer can be impressive, and most of the waiters can remember it.

Yu Youde paused.

If it was an acquaintance, he would have liked to say hello cordially, but the expectation of the person was much lowered.

"The material of the orchid bear's paw is my family's secret, what can he discuss with me? It's nothing more than salty, and it's really boring to do business. ”

He muttered and staggered to the front.

As soon as he arrived in front of the guests, the lazy Yu Youde still showed a smile and said attentively: "Which guest wants to confirm the menu?" Today's dish is Orchid Bear's Paw, served with braised abalone, Bazhen deer breast and bamboo chicken soup, as well as 16 hot and cold side dishes and 4 dim sum. ”

No matter how particular the guests are, that is, look at the main dishes, and the other side dishes are of course traditional, and there is no reason to move.

The imperial dining room is mainly based on Beijing cuisine, and most of them are mountain delicacies. However, in recent years, seafood has been quite vigorous, so the Yu family is also as good as flowing, and a dish of abalone and cucumber wings is generally added to the main side dish.

Duan Tianqing didn't care about this, he thought for a while and said, "Bamboo chicken soup is now you adding matsutake mushrooms, right?" In fact, this does not enhance the umami of the chicken itself, but rather adds a little sourness. And the sex is dry and hot, the little girl on my side is weak and inconvenient to eat, so you can just change it to ordinary mushrooms. ”

As soon as these words came out, Yu Youde immediately knew that he was an expert.

Of course, the bamboo chicken soup should be filled with mushrooms, and in the past, it was only accompanied by mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms or chicken leg mushrooms in the state banquet - but in recent years, everyone's requirements for ingredients have been higher, and if you want to sell them at a high price, of course, you can't use ordinary ingredients, so after the new century, the ingredients in this soup in the imperial dining room have also been changed to matsutake mushrooms.

Matsutake mushrooms are expensive and have excellent flavor, but they are not suitable for side dishes, but as a main dish, and other accessories are used to enhance its umami.

Taking it with other main dishes is inevitably inappropriate, and although it tastes good, it has lost its charm.

As for medicinal properties and the like, it is second to Yu Youde.

He took out a small notebook, wrote it down diligently, and grinned: "The little brother will eat it, the bamboo chicken has to be eaten with mushrooms, and the matsutake mushroom is really a tyrannical thing, and only fools can eat it." ”

This almost offended more than 90 percent of the customers who had come to his shop, and even Liu Fei sweated for him -- this kind of person didn't know how business could go on.

"Besides......" Duan Tianqing muttered, "Don't put cardamom powder in the orchid bear's paw." ”

Syllable!

The pen and paper in Yu Youde's hand fell to the ground, and he opened his mouth wide with a look of astonishment.

The cardamom powder in the bear's paw of this orchid is one of their secret recipes, and after several procedures, even a gluttony can't eat it.

In the 80s of the last century, Mr. Lu Da, a well-known gourmet, went to the newly opened imperial dining room to eat, and ordered this orchid bear paw at that time. He had a speculative conversation with Yu Youde's father, and when he was drunk, he came to guess the condiment of the bear's paw.

Under Lao Yu's prompting, Mr. Lu Da guessed nine ingredients, but the most critical cardamom powder was not mentioned at all.

This cardamom flour is originally slightly bitter and spicy, and although it is a commonly used spice, it is rarely used in a large dish such as bear's paw. At that time, the ancestors of the Yu family found that after the deodorization, in addition to removing the fishy smell of bear paws, it could also cooperate with gum to enhance the layering of taste.

This secret has been passed down to the Yu family for more than 100 years and has never been leaked.

It's really a son but not a daughter.

This young man is not surnamed Yu, even if he can eat again, how can he know this thing?

Duan Tianqing didn't care, and only continued: "Cardamom has a pungent taste, a warm nature, returns to the spleen and stomach meridians, and the aroma is scattered. Originally, it could also be used medicinally, but it had a triggering effect, and my daughter was using a medicine for big hair, but she had to pay attention to it. ”

――People don't want you to explain this at all, okay? Even Liu Fei can't look at it, look at the chef who scares people.

He coughed and asked, "Uncle Shi, I think what Master Yu means, is how do you know that cardamom powder is added to the orchid bear's paw?" ”