I saw Xuanxu close his eyes, pursed his lips slightly, and then his whole body remained motionless, as if he was in a state of flux.

Everyone's eyes were staring intently at his lips, as if the umami could be transmitted through the sight. Zhang Meng's throat "gurgled", and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

After a while, Xuan Xuan slowly opened his eyes, picked up an empty dish from the table, stretched out his lips with the tip of his tongue, and deftly flipped it, spitting a lock of fish bones on the plate.

I saw that the fish bones were slender and soft, and although they were shunned into a lock, the roots were distinct, and there was no residual fish meat.

He licked his lips and said, "Fresh, tender, fat, and beautiful, worthy of being the best taste in the world." In particular, the tenderness of the meat was the most unexpected to me. The meat of this fish is extremely delicate, and it melts when it touches the tongue, just use the tip of the tongue to gently smooth it, and the fish meat and fish bones have been separated by themselves. ”

Zhan Kui smiled slightly and said, "The Xuanxu Dao Master is really an expert, and he tasted the most unique key to this dish in one bite. When I slaughtered and cleaned this fish, I secretly used my fingers to crush the meridians of the fish, which is why the meat is so tender. ”

Lu Xiaoxian is considered to have a long insight, but he didn't expect that fish would also have meridians, Zhan Kui's kung fu of kneading fish meat is indeed a real talent, which makes people sigh at themselves.

Lu Xiaoxian also tasted a piece, to be honest, it was indeed more delicious than the braised carp made by Chen San.

"How?" Xuanxu asked with a sideways look.

"This dish, the autumn wind is not as good as Master Zhan!" Xuanxu said calmly.

"Thank you, Chief! Now I'll make you another tofu soup! With that, Zhan Kui walked to the stern again.

Tofu is the most common soy product, according to legend for the Han Dynasty Huainan King Liu An invention, delicious and healthy, but also the main raw material of vegetarian dishes, Luoyang Nanshi has several shops specializing in tofu.

In the recipes of major restaurants in Luoyang, tofu is only one of the most common ingredients. Frying, stir-frying, steaming, frying, boiling, all of them are indispensable, you can enter the palace banquet, and you can enter the countryside grass mat. It can be said that it is not easy to find someone who has never eaten tofu in Luoyang City.

Because of this, chefs rarely dare to cook with tofu on important occasions. Everyone knows how to make this tofu and everyone has eaten it, which means that any mistake in the operation process will be exposed to everyone's eyes.

What's more, although tofu is ordinary, the technical requirements for cooking are not low at all. Tofu has a light taste and fishy fragrance, which can be flavored and flavored when cooking; It can be either primary or secondary; Cheap can be served with green vegetables and radish, and expensive can be served with sea cucumber and shark fin...... The corresponding cooking techniques are endlessly varied, and some people have even said: to learn to be a chef, you only need to learn how to make tofu.

Looking at the world of cooking, how many people dare to stand up and say: I have learned to make tofu?

Now, Zhan Kui is going to make tofu.

Lu Xiaoxian sighed, judging from the situation of the first two dishes, he guessed that the tofu soup that Zhan Kui was going to make was definitely not simple.

Tofu soup is an ordinary soup in later generations, refreshing and not greasy, Lu Xiaoxian will make tofu soup himself, because of this, in the autumn wind to break the new dishes, tofu soup is impressively listed.

Zhan Kui held a kitchen knife in his right hand and stared at the piece of tofu on the board.

Tofu is an ordinary ingredient, but this piece is by no means an ordinary tofu. The tofu is as white as jade, fine as clotted fat, and when you look at it, you seem to be able to feel its taste and light fragrance.

After a long time, Zhan Kui finally stretched out his left hand and gently pressed it on the piece of tofu, his movements were extremely gentle, as if he was touching the water surface but did not want to stir up a ripple.

Then he took a deep breath, but he didn't move, only his chest still heaving slightly.

Zhang Meng felt strange and poked Lu Xiaoxian beside him with his elbow: "What's wrong with him?" ”

Lu Xiaoxian put his index finger to his mouth, made a "shhh

Zhang Meng's question reached Zhan Kui's ears, his ears jumped, and his brows furrowed slightly.

Zhan Kui didn't move for a long time, precisely because he heard Zhang Meng's voice, and being able to hear those sounds meant that his heart was not quiet enough and his spirit was not focused enough.

So, he can't go out of the knife yet!

Soon, Zhan Kui's tightly knit brows slowly relaxed. He took another deep breath as the green tendon on his right wrist, where he was holding the knife, protruded.

Xuanxu was already holding a cup of tea, and he was about to open his lips to sip, but his movements stopped in mid-air, his eyes contracted, and the focus of his eyes was firmly fixed on the kitchen knife held by Zhan Kui.

Suddenly, the cold light flashed, and the knife was swung out!

The shiny blade danced on the white tofu, and with each jump, Zhan Kui's left hand moved back slightly. The blade seemed to chase his fingertips, but it was always a fraction of a second.

In a moment, the blade had followed Zhan Kui's fingertips to the end of the tofu, Zhan Kui put away the knife, exhaled, the piece of tofu shook slightly, and suddenly fell neatly to the side, and it had been cut into a pile of extremely thin tofu slices!

Then Zhan Kui's wrist flicked, and the sword light flashed again.

This time, the knife came more urgently, and the "tuk tuk" sound made by the blade and the board had already been connected, and it was impossible to distinguish one after another.

The tofu seemed to come to life, flying with the kitchen knife, and it was like snowflakes falling on the board. The snowflakes fell bigger and bigger, and finally completely covered the shiny knife light, leaving only a piece of white light.

Suddenly, the snow stopped, everything was calm again, and Zhan Kui let out a long breath, a thin bead of sweat oozing from his forehead and the tip of his nose.

The tofu on the board seems to be much less after the second round of knife cutting. The two sides of the kitchen knife are a white layer, densely covered with tofu, no wonder there was a scene of snowflakes flying on the board just now.

Lu Xiaoxian was dumbfounded, in his impression, the tofu soup only needs to be cut into cubes, who would have thought that Zhan Kui's tofu soup is actually made of shredded tofu, it is really not simple.

The breath was slightly steady, Zhan Kui gently raised his right hand, and immersed the kitchen knife stained with tofu into a basin of clear water that had been prepared, and in an instant, countless hair-thin tofu shreds were scattered into the basin from both sides of the blade, and the tofu shreds were white and elegant, just like a gorgeous firework blooming in the water.

Xuan Xuan and Chen San glanced at each other again, and they finally really saw Zhan Kui's sword skills.

The difficulty of cutting the tofu into such a thin shredded tofu can be imagined. The operator must hold a sharp heavy kitchen knife, first slice, and then shred, each process must be completed with the speed of the mouth in one breath, without the slightest hesitation and pause in the middle, otherwise there will be broken filaments and partial filaments.

People who don't know how to cook will be amazed and surprised when they see tofu cut into thin hairs, and they will think that it is slowly carved with a delicate knife. In fact, on the contrary, the more you cut this soft thing, the more bold the cut, the heavier the knife, the faster the cutting speed, and the more complete and smooth the cut of the tofu.

Even Zhang Meng, a person who doesn't know anything about cooking, couldn't help but admire Zhan Kui's performance when he saw it: "What a handsome knife skill!" ”

Zhan Kui continued to swing the knife, and in a short time, he finished taking care of the bamboo shoots, mushrooms, vegetables and other accessories. He then poured the prepared chicken soup into the wok, and put the shredded tofu and trimmings into the soup until it boiled.

Lu Xiaoxian couldn't help but shake his head when he saw it, it was originally an ordinary tofu soup, but it was made so complicated by Zhan Kui, this is obviously a show. Despite this, he had to admit that Zhan Kui's cooking skills were indeed good.

After about a quarter of an hour, the tofu soup was ready.

Zhan Kui put a bowl of Wensi tofu soup in the wok, and placed it silently in front of everyone.

Lu Xiaoxian picked up the soup bowl and looked at it carefully.

Compared to the two utensils used to serve the dishes, this bowl is much smaller. The mouth of the bowl is only the size of a palm, the bowl body is crystal round, and the wall of the bowl is transparent throughout, although it is as thin as a leaf, but the whole bowl feels very heavy, and it is originally made of fine crystal stone.

Through the wall of the bowl, I saw that the tofu soup in the bowl was thick and had a faint amber color. The soup is like a cloud, and a large amount of white tofu shreds as thin as a hair are evenly scattered. It is also dotted with various colored filaments cut from various vegetables, whether green or red, yellow or black, which is colorful and pleasing to the eye.

Lu Xiaoxian picked up a delicate porcelain spoon and gently stirred it twice in the soup bowl, only to see that the colorful filaments were mixed in a white cloud, swaying up and down with the floating of the surrounding soup, its posture was just like catkins in the wind, and it was like smoke and picturesque for a while, and it was beautiful.

He couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, the tofu soup he had drunk in later generations was simply pig food compared to the bowl made by Zhan Kui.

Xuan Xuan couldn't help but admire: "Master Zhan's tofu soup is colorful and graceful, and it is ingeniously served in a transparent crystal bowl, which makes people feast their eyes before feasting on it." ”

Zhan Kui smiled slightly, which was a response.

Xuan Xuan then said: "When Master Zhan cut the tofu just now, it took one hundred and twelve knives to slice it vertically alone, according to this calculation, this piece of tofu was at least cut into tens of thousands of filaments by you, and these tens of thousands of filaments are uniform in size and intact. The function of the knife has reached this level, which is rare in the world. ”

When Zhan Kui cut the tofu, he transported a kitchen knife like a gale, almost intermittently passing over the tofu blocks, and ordinary people couldn't see the knife rising and falling. However, Xuan Xuan accurately said the number of times he slice the knife, and it was not bad at all, and the essence of his eyesight was simply incredible.

Zhan Kui was secretly surprised in his heart, but on the surface, he remained silent and said indifferently: "Let's ask the Taoist to taste it first." ”

Xuanxu nodded, said no more, scooped up a spoonful of thick soup, pursed his lips and blew it lightly twice, and then even poured all the ingredients into his mouth.