Chapter 178: Eh, yes, that's weird
A sense of disobedience, a strong sense of disobedience! Whether it is an appetizer, an appetizer or a side dish, the quality and taste are impeccable, and the umami is also very good, but this is definitely not Wang Yong's level!
"Do you mean...... It's because of this time...... We...... Why do you keep eating soups? Guo Jia asked cautiously, in the past two days, because Wang Yong has boiled a lot of soup, not only them, but also ordinary officials can taste it.
Not only them, but also the officials around them did not show anything abnormal, which is the strangest thing. With Wang Yong's cooking skills, the soup noodles on the shrimp could create such a strong umami chain before, and it was impossible to regress at the banquet.
"So, there's something even more powerful, waiting for us in the back, right?" Cao Ren was a little worried, no matter how big she pretended to be, she looked like a tomboy, she was still a girl after all.
Every time I eat a dish carefully cooked by Wang Yong, I will tear her disguise hard and show the real her. The little woman's delicate appearance, she originally only planned to leave it for her husband to see......
"Then ......" Seeing that they had finished eating the two lion heads, Wang Yong clapped his hands, and the cooks immediately understood and began to change the dishes. The fourth, and the first of the main course, is boiled prawns.
The shrimp threads have been carefully selected and a little soup has been poured into the boiling process.
"Boiled prawns, please taste slowly." Wang Yong slowly introduced, and the assistant chef divided the prawns into one portion, each serving was about five. Maybe there will be one more, but there will be no less, after all, the number "four" in China is not very auspicious, especially in the festive environment of the New Year's dinner.
"Hey, hey, hey...... Don't worry, you can't hide it from me, the real key is here, right? Cao Ren looked at the orange-red prawns in front of him, and suddenly showed an expression of 'I can see through you'.
"What's the key...... Wang Yong smiled faintly when he heard this, "I don't know anything!" β
"Anyway...... I will never eat until others have eaten it! Cao Ren directly clasped his hands in front of his chest and said.
"You're not right, it's like I'm poisonous!" Wang Yong replied angrily, then picked up a prawn and ate it. He was also a guest at the banquet, so naturally he also received shrimp.
The shrimp are boiled very well, basically just cooked, the shrimp meat will not look old, and it is not good to be too raw, after all, the river fresh seafood or something, if it is not cooked, it is still possible to be infected with ascariasis.
Under the flavor of the soup, you can vaguely feel that the umami of the shrimp is more solid, but because you don't put it much, you can't feel it at all if you don't taste it carefully. Yes, exactly as I expected.
"The taste of this shrimp is so fresh!" Xun Yu, a foodie, naturally started to do it, and the boiled shrimp is actually very fresh when eaten like this, but if it is dipped in sauce, the taste will be further improved.
Sour, with the sauce of shredded ginger, it tastes very appetizing, and even dilutes the aroma of the previous dish, and at the same time highlights the original sweetness of the shrimp.
"Huh? Wen Ruo, this boiled shrimp ......" Cao Ren looked at Xun Yu suspiciously, how could there be no reaction.
"It's a fresh feeling! I always feel that this umami is very strong, but that's all...... yes, that's weird! Xun Yu also realized that it was strange, why did this happen? It tastes really good, but it doesn't feel like a torrent or electricity at all.
"Really? Then I'll try! Xun Yu didn't react, so he shouldn't have reacted either. Cao Ren hurriedly picked it up and tried one, and the result was indeed able to feel a strong umami taste, but his body didn't react much.
"Hahaha, isn't it true that the carefree cooking skills have regressed?" Cao Ren teased.
"Just for your words, I will punish you with a drink!" Wang Yong raised the wine glass in his hand and gestured to Cao Ren.
"After eating so many dishes, I was just in the mood for a drink! Why don't you have a drink? Cao Ren directly proposed.
"Cheers!" Naturally, everyone had no objections, so they raised their glasses and drank them all. The liquor stimulates the umami in the taste buds, and there is a faint sense of electricity, but it is only a fleeting moment.
"Delusion?" Everyone couldn't help but be a little 'vigilant', and then picked up the rest of the shrimp and ate it. After the stimulation of alcohol, the umami taste of shrimp is further enhanced, and every time you eat, you will feel a trace of electricity flowing through your taste buds, crispy and numb.
"Sure enough, what a trap!" Cao Ren looked thoughtfully at the plate that had been swept away in front of him. When I used to eat shrimp, I just enjoyed eating it, but after drinking alcohol, the umami seems to be further condensed.
It's impossible without traps, and there must be a trap set in a certain dish, where is it?
As for Wang Yong, after drinking a glass of wine, he had already gone to the back kitchen. Most of the things can be done by the cook, but some dishes still need to be checked by him, and the process is very complicated, and there is no way to easily hand them over to others.
Three hours before, two hours before the dinner, he had already led the cooks to kill the chickens, put them in the water for two quarters of an hour, and then cleaned the blood and chopped off the chicken feet; After that, add boiling water and cook for about 30 minutes.
After taking it out, cut off the tendons on the leg bones, put them in a steaming pot, and pour in the broth to submerge the chicken. Add the soup, put the green onion, ginger, cinnamon and star anise on the chicken, and then steam it in the cage for about two hours. Calculate the time, and it's almost ready to get out of the drawer.
When it comes to the back kitchen, the gourd chicken has really been steamed through, take it out at this time, pick up the green onion, ginger, cinnamon and star anise, drain the water, and cut the chicken along the vertebrae. Put rapeseed oil in the wok, burn it with a strong fire until it is hot, push the back of the chicken down into the pot, stir it with a hand spoon, fry it until golden brown, and drain the oil in a colander.
Considering the meal distribution system, then there is no way to bring out the whole chicken, so the shape of the gourd naturally cannot be made, just put it on a plate according to half of the specifications, and put pepper and salt on the dipping saucer and bring it out with the gourd chicken.
"It's been a long time to wait!" Cao Ren complained directly. In fact, they chatted for a while just now, and when they came back to their senses, Wang Yong had already come out, but they didn't wait too long.
"Sorry, this dish is not easy to make, it will take almost two hours to make it!" Wang Yong apologized, and then instructed the cook to serve the gourd chicken.
"Isn't it called gourd chicken? Why doesn't it look like a gourd? Xiahoudun asked curiously.
"The whole chicken will definitely be made into a gourd, or even put into a special gourd container. However, because it is a separate meal system, it comes up in half and naturally does not form. In fact, the gourd chicken is not boiled with a gourd, the original name was actually called 'ε«ε΅ιΈ‘', and later it was changed to 'gourd chicken'. Wang Yong replied.
In addition, there is the problem of material selection, the real gourd chicken, it seems to be the choice of a special chicken species, only one pound when adulthood, so even if the whole chicken is taken, it is naturally no problem. However, he searched in the warehouse of the Wanshiya and asked the chief there, but he didn't seem to find a similar variety.
So sometimes it's like this, dishes made around a certain ingredient don't work in this world!