Chapter 37: Crab roe soup dumplings

"Your boiled dried shreds, crab roe xiaolongbao, and red dates and glutinous rice porridge...... You're all set! A waiter smiled at Li Gengxin, and suddenly frowned slightly. looked at Li Gengxin's eyes a little dazed, as if he was thinking about something.

"Thank you!" A man who looked like a "bald head" sitting opposite Li Gengxin responded with a smile at the waiter.

The waiter hurriedly nodded, subconsciously turned around and paced away.

"It's weird, who the hell is this man? Why can't I remember it for a while? The waiter muttered to himself as he walked.

Li Gengxin laughed dryly twice, and said to the man in front of him who seemed to be bald-headed: "I didn't expect you to arrive so early." ”

"Bald Qiang" hurriedly laughed embarrassedly at Li Gengxin and said, "Master Li, this should be me...... I didn't expect you to come so soon. I saw you on TV yesterday and I didn't expect you to be in front of me in the morning, it's a ...... Too...... It's incredible. Hey hey ......"

After the bald head Qiang said this, he suddenly remembered that Li Gengxin was eliminated yesterday. I suddenly didn't open any pot and mentioned which pot, how could I feel very embarrassed......

Li Gengxin reluctantly followed Hehe and laughed twice and then said: "Mr. Liu, I am the king of chefs, but they are all recorded and broadcast." You've seen it all from last week. ”

The implication is that he was eliminated last week. It's just that you only saw it yesterday.

"Hey, it's a lot of anger when I talk about it. How do those guys compare to you? There must be a big cat in this! After muttering a sentence angrily, he subconsciously leaned over to Li Gengxin and asked, "Master Li." You should have the highest number of points of all the people eliminated, right? When the time comes, I'm sure you'll make a big comeback. Hehe, that's just so willful to look at you. ”

Spoon in hand. Gently scooped a spoonful of red date glutinous rice porridge.

Li Gengxin looked up at Mr. Liu, who always made him feel as if he was talking to the bald head, and said with a faint smile on his face: "Mr. Liu." In fact, every chef performed very well. In the repechage, I naturally try to get a good result as hard as I can. ”

The bald head "laughed" twice, and his face seemed to say "I understand". Then he put a crab roe bun in the flavor dish for Li Gengxin and said, "Master Li, try our crab roe soup dumplings here." Don't look at the small size of this soup bun, but this is also our Han specialty snack! ”

Li Gengxin nodded and said, "Actually, I came to our Huai City, and what I wanted to eat was this crab roe soup dumpling." Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to make a special appointment for you to meet here. ”

Hearing Li Gengxin say this, the bald head Qiang hurriedly smiled and said, "Well, most of the people on our side love to eat this bite." However, the world food is in Beijing, and there should be many famous restaurants selling soup dumplings over there, right? ”

Li Gengxin shook his head and said with a smile: "It's really not." It is really rare to sell crab roe soup dumplings in ordinary places in Beijing. There are also in some upscale places. ”

"Oh...... So that's the case? The bald head nodded thoughtfully.

At this time, the waiter who had just served the food suddenly paced. I don't know when I rubbed it by Li Gengxin's side.

I heard the waiter say: "If you want to eat crab roe soup dumplings, then you have come to the right place, we are also a century-old restaurant." And the points we got in the public reviews recently are not our own! ”

Li Gengxin looked back at the waiter in surprise, only to see him looking at him with an intoxicated expression. Li Gengxin subconsciously shuddered twice. In that moment, Li Gengxin seemed to suspect that he had seen something wrong.

It turned out that Li Gengxin actually saw pink peach hearts in the eyes of this waiter, and they flew towards him.

"yes? Hehe...... I also came here after seeing a good one on Dianping. Li Gengxin responded to the waiter awkwardly.

The waiter smiled at Li Gengxin a little shyly, and suddenly asked, "You definitely don't know the origin of our soup dumplings!" ”

"Ang ......" Li Gengxin glanced at the waiter blankly, and then subconsciously turned his head to look at the "bald head strong" opposite him.

The look in his eyes seemed to say to the bald head: "What the hell is going on? ”

The bald head Qiang also shook his head blankly at this time, and responded to Li Gengxin with his eyes, "Don't make it!" ”

The waiter didn't wait for Li to speak. He had already gushed about Li Gengxin's introduction: "This soup dumpling has been sold in the market as early as the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was called grouting steamed buns or soup dumplings. That's why we're calling it a steamed bun shop here! The famous production areas of soup dumplings are Kaifeng and other regions, although the practice of crab roe soup dumplings is very simple, but it is these simple words that are difficult. How to make simple things not simple. That's called kung fu! Moreover, crab roe soup dumplings are one of the staple recipes of pastries, which are made with crab roe as the main ingredient.

Speaking of soup, soup dumplings are actually a famous snack in the Two Lakes Basin, which began in the Ming Dynasty. At first, it was Huaiyang xiaolongbao operated by Sudi chefs to the mouth of the Han River, but the filling was too sweet. Not quite to the taste of the two lakers. Later, Tian Yushan, a famous chef of the two lakes, used the method of jelly meat skin to adjust the filling, and it was mainly salty. The slightly sweet xiao long bao is particularly prosperous. The crab roe soup dumplings are made by wrapping the meat filling with fermented dough and kneading the skin jelly into a crucian carp mouth, and steaming it in a small basket. The soup dumplings are white in color, thin in skin, tender in filling, fresh in soup, and non-greasy, so they are indeed very popular. In the end, it spread to the Jiangnan area! ”

It was also the first time that Li Gengxin had heard such a detailed introduction to crab roe soup dumplings. Just as he was about to speak, he saw the waiter suddenly hand him a black notebook......

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Speaking of soup, soup dumplings are actually a famous snack in the Lianghu Basin, which began in the Ming Dynasty and began to be operated by Sudi chefs to the mouth of the Han River, but because the filling is too sweet, it is not suitable for the taste of the people of the two lakes. Later, Tian Yushan, a famous chef of Lianghu, used the method of jelly meat skin to adjust the filling to make Xiaolongbao, which is mainly salty and slightly sweet, and the business is particularly prosperous. The crab roe soup dumplings are made by wrapping the meat filling with fermented dough and kneading the skin jelly into a crucian carp mouth, and steaming it in a small basket. The soup dumplings are white in color, thin in skin, tender in filling, fresh in soup, and non-greasy, so they are indeed very popular. In the end, it spread to the Jiangnan area! ”

It was also the first time that Li Gengxin had heard such a detailed introduction to crab roe soup dumplings. Just as he was about to speak, he saw the waiter suddenly hand him a black notebook...... (To be continued.) )