Taro Balls......

At that moment, Zhang Shou's first reaction, who heard this clearly, was that there was a person who loved desserts and could make desserts and crossed over with him! After all, with Emperor Taizu in front of him, he didn't think there was anything strange about this matter at all.

However, thinking that "Ge's Arithmetic New Edition" has been selling well so far, and the matter of measuring the density of Taizu's inscription has happened for a long time, and he has not seen his fellow villagers secretly snooping or even taking the opportunity to visit, he can't help but be a little uncertain.

And Ah Liu's detailed explanation successfully brought back his imaginative reverie: "That Chef Song said that when he saw those overseas ingredients before, he was suspicious and uneasy, and he didn't play well in the extra game, and then he woke up like a dream. So in the previous main competition question to make dim sum, in addition to using various fillings that he has always been good at in Shou Tao, he also used pumpkin filling and peanut filling. ”

"And now the taro balls are made not only with the sweet potatoes just provided, but also with the tapioca flour that he brought before and has been inspected by others, and uses an ingredient called cassava from overseas. He was shocked when he saw overseas ingredients because he had used overseas ingredients. ”

Seeing Zhang Shou looking at him in amazement, Ah Liu added: "I haven't changed a word, these are all his original words." ”

Zhang Shou couldn't help but laugh dumbly. It's not that I don't know that your dislike of talking personality has always divided people into places, even if you don't explain.

He shook his head, and then asked, "Then he came to his senses later, so a ginseng fruit is quite ingenious?" Then how did you come up with the idea of making this taro ball and sending it in, and then there are only two bowls? Does he think that such a small thing is enough for so many people here? ”

Princess Yongping thought that Zhang Shou was mocking her for competing with Zhu Ying just now, but then she heard Zhu Ying shouting: "That's it, three birthday stars, how can he send at least three bowls!" ”

Chu Kuan saw that Princess Yongping's expression was indescribable when she looked at Zhu Ying, so he stepped forward and personally took the tray in Ah Liu's hand and handed it to the little eunuch next to him to hold it, but he also asked with great interest: "I'm also very interested, why did you agree to send these two bowls so easily...... Hmm, taro balls up? ”

Zhang Shou saw Ah Liu glance at him, his eyes seemed to be a little entangled, he suddenly moved in his heart, and thought of the biggest possibility, he was angry and funny for a while, but then he coughed dryly and said: "Forget it, Ah Liu sometimes does things that he may not understand." Besides, it's all said that it's the leftover ingredients, so it's not surprising that you can only make two bowls. ”

He dared to guarantee, not to mention how Ah Liu would agree to help someone send these two bowls of taro balls, but why only these two bowls, it must be Ah Liu's insistence on tasting the "test poison" in person, so there is still a bowl that has entered this kid's stomach!

For such an explanation, Zhu Ying said that she fully understood and accepted it, but her eyes told Zhang Shou that she had already thought of that possibility. Princess Yongping was a little suspicious. However, she was already almost full at this time, and at this time, she was not too interested in the white or yellow taro balls floating in the red bean soup, so she simply enjoyed being generous.

"I can't eat anymore, since there are only two bowls, let's just give Dr. Zhang to you and Yingying, the two birthday stars."

This time, Zhang Shou didn't wait for Zhu Ying to agree and said with a smile: "I have eaten so many dishes and dim sum, even if some of them are only slightly touched by their lips, they are full enough, and I am a little unable to eat this bowl again." Even if others are celebrating our birthday, everyone can share and eat it, and they are also sharing the blessing of life, isn't it? ”

Zhu Ying remembered that she had just apologized for fighting with Princess Yongping for food, and at this time, her eyes rolled and she immediately instructed the little eunuch on the side to get dishes to share the food. It's just that when she almost counted the taro balls in the bowl, and then divided them, the relatives of the other uncles and uncles still couldn't help laughing, and Zhu Jing even wanted to pull her daughter over and tell her a word.

If you really can't bear it, then just eat it yourself, they are all old people, and they are not so interested in sweets! Besides, who will compete with you little girl for food?

But Zhu Jing was grabbed by Weinan Bo Zhang Kang, so he could only watch Zhu Ying smile dryly and bring them the pitiful small bowls with only two taro balls. At this moment, not to mention him, even Zhang Chuan, Ge Yong and others felt that they could understand the scene when the two little girls were competing for sweets just now.

This Chef Song is also right, just send things up so little, how can you eat enough?

And Zhang Shou watched Zhu Ying send the small bowl with only two taro balls to Princess Yongping, and then secretly sent the bowl with four taro balls to himself, I really don't know whether to say that it is good to be moved, or to say that it is good to say that it is helpless. It's just that looking at Zhu Ying's own bowl, there are four, he feels that the fair distribution of the eldest lady is simply blatant cheating.

When the white taro balls entered, Zhang Shou suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly, and his memory couldn't help but drift to the familiar taste that his mother brought him in his previous life. When he first arrived here four years ago, from being confused and uneasy, to gradually numbing and accepting, to taking the initiative to familiarize himself with his surroundings and take the initiative to integrate, he actually always knew that he could not trace back his former life, but he still tried to find something.

Even those familiar smells are a comfort. And now, he has recovered enough things, and he has also met a wonderful fate.

"Oops, this is better than the glutinous rice dumplings made in my kitchen! The taste is really special! Zhu Ying showed a happy smile after only taking a bite, and then slammed her fist on the table, but she didn't care what the other people's expressions were, "I decided, if this Chef Song is selected as the imperial chef, I will go to the palace to eat every day!" If he doesn't make the cut, I'll hire him back as a cook!" ”

Princess Yongping also felt that the sweet and glutinous taste of the taro balls and the rich taste of the red bean soup were all extremely chic - and of course very delicious. Even she had never felt that three meals a day were just for routine, and at this time, she gradually felt that why her father wanted to make a big move against the imperial dining room.

In the past, those imperial chefs were simply blind to this name! Isn't the imperial kitchen just about bringing food enjoyment to people?

However, she was not as simple and direct as Zhu Ying, she just smiled reservedly, and then said lightly: "Since such a talent has come to the imperial chef examination, if he can pass five levels and kill six generals, he will naturally have a place." "Dan Fan and Zhu Ying compete for something, she has always won less and lost more, but this time she can't let it!

Seeing that the eyes of the two girls seemed to burst with passionate sparks, Zhang Shou shook his head, and then ate all the taro balls in his bowl, and saw that several uncle-level characters had also eaten, some of them had ordinary faces, and some nodded slightly, far less than the strength of these two girls, he smiled at Ah Liu on the side and said: "You go and ask that Chef Song again, whether this recipe for making taro balls is sold or not, and there is a ......."

He paused, and then said thoughtfully: "Although he said that the raw materials of this taro ball are not only taro, but also the overseas ingredients I provided to them this time, sweet potatoes, and tapioca flour, but where does this tapioca flour come from, I also hope that he can tell you a thing or two, and by the way, how the taro balls are made." Of course, if it's a secret, he doesn't want to tell. That gentleman doesn't take the favor of others. ”

A gentleman is not a gentleman, but I am not a gentleman! When Ah Liu thought about this, he nodded again and said yes, then turned around and went downstairs. I saw that another guy was busy sending the prepared dim sum to this Xinglong Tea House, and Lu Sanlang upstairs had already begun to announce the ratings of the first five dim sum. It is no surprise that the ginseng fruit is the best in terms of longevity, and it ranks first.

Although Ah Liu didn't understand these twists and turns, he also felt that even if Chef Song couldn't stand out from today's preliminary competition day, with the attitude of Zhu Ying and Princess Yongping, he would not be mediocre in the future. Of course, even if he is qualified to participate in today's preliminary round, Chef Song will never be an ordinary chef.

Because Lu Sanlang, who was in charge of the selection, was not easy to fool at all, all the chefs who signed up had passed through the hands of this little fat man.

Thinking so, Ah Liu quietly slipped into the makeshift kitchen again. Although there are people guarding inside and outside here, the people guarding it come from the Rui Cavalry Battalion, and as a person who has been allowed by the emperor, he often goes to the Rui Cavalry Camp to "learn art", and beats a bunch of people up and down, so naturally no one dares to stop him.

After turning around, he couldn't help but be a little confused when he came to the stove in the corner where he had met people before, and he couldn't help but be a little confused. When he came out of the back door, he found that the man was sitting on a bench dozing, his hands in his sleeves, and his head leaning forward little by little, like a chicken pecking rice, almost bubbling up his nose.

Even if Ah Liu came to him and shook his face gently, no one reacted at all. The young man withdrew his hand a little confused, and saw that there was a cook at the door of the big kitchen who had also completed the two questions and was poking his head at him, he thought about it, and finally knocked his fingers on Chef Song's head, the kind of knocking like knocking on the door, the curious and watching cook was stunned for a moment.

And Chef Song, who was originally asleep, was also awakened by this knock on the door, and the whole person almost jumped up, covered his head and exclaimed, "What's the situation?" Did it hail? ”

After he finished shouting, he saw Ah Liu's big face that was close at hand, and after being slightly stunned, he hurriedly smiled and said, "Hey, it turned out to be you, little brother!" If the taro balls are not delicious, it won't be bad for me, after all, it is the first time I have made sweet potato taro balls......"

Rao is expression has never been very rich, but at this time, the corners of Ah Liu's mouth still pulled down slightly. That's right, those two bowls of taro balls were not specially made with the remaining ingredients, so they were given to the three birthday stars above to make additional tastes, but they were half hungry, made with the remaining materials, and planned to eat them themselves, but no one saw the stove on the very edge, and he bumped into it!

And the first reaction of Chef Song, who was stealing food, when he saw him, was not to ask him who he was and why he came, but to push up a bowl by ghost, and said to him with a smile: "It's delicious, little brother, can you taste it?" ”

As for why he sent it to Zhu Ying and Zhang Shou, it was because after he finished eating a bowl in one go, he stared at the other party and asked if there was anything else, so, under his persistent eyes, Chef Song obediently put the remaining taro balls in the red bean soup and boiled them, and then served two bowls for him.

That's why there were only two bowls of taro balls.

At this moment, Ah Liu once again stared at Chef Song for a while with the kind of eyes that others would feel like people when they came into contact with it, and then asked directly: "Where did you get the tapioca flour to make taro balls, and is there a recipe?" ”

Such a straightforward question, a different chef might immediately turn his face, but Chef Song was stunned for a moment, but scratched his head, and then said with a dry smile: "Ha, haha, I didn't expect you to like sweets as a big man, little brother." Ahem, in fact, the taro balls I figured out after reading a book, I can't talk about any recipes, there is no need to keep it secret, it's very simple. ”

"It's stuffy food such as taro, steamed with water, mashed, and then kneaded into a dough like tapioca flour. Of course, this ratio has to be mastered, and I can't say for sure, because I also rely purely on gestures, mostly by habit, and you have to try it yourself. As for tapioca flour......"

Speaking of this, Chef Song smiled mysteriously: "It's a thing brought from overseas, and I look at it and the yam, which is quite similar to the yam." The back house of my hometown has been planted by people. The yield is very high, but the person who brought this thing to me said that this thing is poisonous, and it is better not to eat it directly like a yam, and it is better to soak it in lime water after grinding, saying that it is Emperor Taizu who said it......"

Ah Liu listened attentively to the other party's explanation, silently wrote down a word and sentence, and when Chef Song finished speaking, he suddenly smiled at people. This was a rare gesture of kindness to him, but Chef Song was taken aback!

Because unless it's involuntarily smiling, Ah Liu's smile ...... That's stiff!

However, the boy himself was not aware of this. Chef Song couldn't help but take a step back, and then hurriedly bowed and said, "Little brother, don't laugh, I laugh all over my body." Anyway, if you have something to ask, I promise to tell you everything. cough, you see, it's not easy for me to get a place on this preliminary day, and I'm unlucky enough to smash the extra questions! ”

"But I didn't expect to win the first place in the main event just now, although it is the first among the five, but I am almost happy! Therefore, I can't tell you the filling recipe of that ginseng fruit birthday bowl, and I will still open a store with this name in the future! ”

"Oh." Ah Liu's reaction to Chef Song's words was simple and direct, nodded and turned to leave.

As soon as he left, Chef Song couldn't help but stare at his back in confusion for a long time, and finally slapped his face vigorously. He seemed to think that this was not enough, so he simply went back to his stove, scooped a ladle of water from the water tank, and splashed it right in the face. As the cold water beads stirred on his face, and then dripped to the ground, he finally felt a little more uplifted.

He also thought that the lifelike ginseng fruit would be taboo, after all, the temper of some powerful people is difficult to say, but he didn't expect the evaluation to be good, and now it seems that this temporary decision to participate in the competition, it seems that the result will be unexpected? But the problem is that he can't do anything other than carver and sweets, and if he advances, how can he fool the semifinals? Ahh

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