Chapter 246: Food in Taoqiu

In terms of solving the physiology, King Wei got such a wonderful experience, and he couldn't wait for the food provided by Taoqiu!

The iron pot produced in Taoqiu is a popular thing all over the world. And with the popularity of the iron pot, in fact, there are cooking techniques with the iron pot: frying, stir-frying, boiling, exploding, frying, burning, etc. have begun to be accepted by people all over the world. And with the spread of these culinary techniques, countless dishes with local specialties were also invented.

After all, the ingredients in each place are different, and the dishes that can be made are naturally different with different ingredients.

For a noble person like King Wei, when he went on patrol and went to other countries, he must bring his own cook. However, when he knew that his destination was Taoqiu, the birthplace of iron pots, and even countless famous dishes that he was familiar with in Daliang, he gave up the idea of bringing his own cook.

In today's world, before people arrive at Taoqiu, the most impressive thing about Taoqiu is not only the various luxury goods and wealth of Taoqiu, but also the many delicacies of Taoqiu. After all, the richer the place, the better the food.

In Taoqiu, stir-fry is already the most popular way to cook. And among all the dishes, stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots is the most famous dish!

Back then, because of the birth of the iron pot, the master of Taoqiu forced Taoqiu Jun to make five plates of fried meat with bamboo shoots, which is still well-known by Taoqiu people. After this incident, the cooks in Taoqiuyi Mansion deeply blamed themselves, so they practiced hard day and night in the technique of stir-frying, and they put great effort into studying how to make this famous dish that made them lose their professional confidence!

From the selection of the time when a pig is killed, as well as the selection of the pig's ** body parts, to the freshness and specific freshness of the bamboo shoots, to the selection of the accessories and ingredients used, each item has been carefully studied by the cooks! Dai Yan is not a professional chef after all, he was able to make a stir-fried meat with bamboo shoots, which gave Zhao Xue such a big shock, it was just that this dish had just appeared in Taoqiu, so it seemed unusual. If you want to talk about the real cooking technology, as well as the hard work on this road, Dai Yan can't catch up with the chef of the Yi Mansion!

This dish was quickly played by the cooks in Taoqiu, but in just half a month, when Dai Yan went to cook fried meat with bamboo shoots, Zhao Xue would unceremoniously accuse him of making something unpalatable, and go back to eat what the chefs in Yifu cooked!

After the invention of fried meat with bamboo shoots, Taoqiu was backed by such an animal husbandry base as Fuli Grassland, and with sufficient meat, all kinds of fried meat practices quickly became popular!

Stir-fried mutton and stir-fried beef were soon invented, and thus became the famous dishes of major restaurants and restaurants in Taoqiu.

And when Taoqiu began to gradually get richer, and there was no shortage of meat in the grassland, Dai Yan, the nature of a foodie in his previous life, was also exposed, and in his spare time, he also used his brains and made a lot of delicious things.

Lamb skewers, fried chicken, roast goose, and grilled pork ribs are directly grilled over the fire, and the food with "Rongdi customs" has been loved by Dai Yan. Unlike the Sifang Rong Di, who uses fire to barbecue meat, the barbecue used by Dai Yan is extremely oil-intensive and firewood-intensive, and the choice of ingredients is far from being comparable to Rong Di's pure barbecue, and the things made are naturally more wonderful!

Not only do the Taoqiu people make different dishes with different ingredients, but they also invent other ingredients through the processing of ingredients in their own hands!

After Le Yi, who followed Zhao Xue to Taoqiu, was reused by Dai Yan, he made up his mind and moved his elderly parents to Taoqiu. His parents were old and toothless, and even if Taoqiu had incomparably rich and delicious food, the two elders would not be able to eat it. In order to honor his parents, Le Yi had to find his own way.

He grinds soybeans into a pulp for his parents to eat, and he adds salt to them to make sure they taste. Once, because the salt in the house had bottomed out, he had to wash the salt bowl with water, and then sprinkle the brine into the pot. What Le Yi didn't know was that there was not much salt at the bottom of the salt bowl, and what he got by washing it with water was not salt water, but brine!

When the brine was poured into the hot soy milk, Le Yi didn't care at first, and went to do other things, and when he came back, he found that the soy milk in the pot turned into a white milk lump, gelatinous, when he gave such a thing to his parents to eat, his parents thought that this thing did not need to be chewed, and the taste was very good, and it was very suitable for them to eat!

And such a thing is tofu! Le Yi is a smart person, and he learned dialectics from Dai Yan, and he also knows how to stabilize the production process by experimental methods. He soon discovered that gypsum was also a good place to point out tofu, and then he discovered that the precipitated tofu could be fixed with a burlap cloth to get a neatly shaped tofu!

After the invention of tofu, it quickly swept the entire Taoqiu. When Dai Yan knew that this thing was invented by Le Yi, he couldn't help but be amazed. Of course, he has the experience of later generations, and no one can better understand how to discover the beauty of this thing!

Soon, a variety of tofu dishes such as braised tofu, mapo tofu, fish-flavored tofu, fried tofu, steamed tofu and even cold tofu appeared, some of which were mentioned by Dai Yan, while others were spontaneous efforts of the people.

After the rise of navigation and whaling, the Taoqiu people's interest in catching fish also increased a lot. In the folk, the unique dish of fish head tofu soup invented by the common people soon became a unique dish second only to the stir-fried meat with bamboo shoots in Taoqiu.

As for those who use tofu for barbecue, there are also those who want to be able to preserve it for a long time, and they start to study how to ferment tofu, and in the process, they also get tofu with a smell, which is stinky tofu. When people found out that this stinky tofu was just as edible and tasted more delicious than regular tofu, stinky tofu began to be all the rage again!

The rise of the nautical industry and the whaling industry not only brought fish head tofu soup to Taoqiu, but also brought fresh ingredients from the sea. While most people are concerned about the huge benefits of whaling, those who do not have professional whaling ships in their hands and do not want to give up the huge profits on the ocean are beginning to set their sights on the fish in the ocean!

A wide variety of seafood is fished out of the sea and brought to Taoqiu. Some specific seafood has a relatively short storage time, so as soon as Fang returns to Yancheng, he must use salt to marinate or dry it into dry goods. Among these dry goods, Dai Yan's favorite is the shark shark fin that he doesn't have to worry about fake!

Others, seeing a business opportunity in it, began to make faster and faster ships in cooperation with the shipyards in Taoqiu, shortening the sailing time from Yancheng to Taoqiu and limiting it to less than five days!

After five days, seawater can be used to keep a lot of seafood fresh. And this includes Dai Yan's treasure in the sea that he couldn't afford to eat as a dick before crossing over, and could only look at it dry-abalone!

In the expectation of the King of Wei, the food provided by the Taoqiuyi Mansion for the King of Wei and his party did not disappoint them!

If it is said that food such as stir-fried meat with bamboo shoots is superb in cooking skills, so that they can eat well; Tofu, an ingredient made through the reprocessing of primary ingredients, is made through the diversity of cooking methods, which makes the Wei people feel extremely wonderful; So shark fin, abalone, these kinds of seafood, which the Wei people who are not close to the sea have never seen, and the taste is extremely delicious, which really makes them have endless aftertaste!

"Cao Gong, everyone in the world says that your Taoqiu is a heavenly city, and it seems that what you say is indeed true! There is no one in the huge Wei country, but I never knew that there was such a delicious food in the world! It's not as good as Cao Gong being able to enjoy the fairy days every day! King Wei threw the finished abalone shell on the plate in front of him, drank another bowl of fish head tofu soup, and said to Dai Yan with a look of envy.

Dai Yan replied noncommittally: "King Wei is too famous! I don't have great ambitions in my lower chest, but I just want to eat better and live better, so I put so much effort into this tongue desire below. Where is it like King Wei, who is prepared for danger in times of peace and has the world in mind? However, if the King of Wei really thinks that Taoqiu's food is good, he can let Taoqiu's cooks communicate with Wei to enhance their understanding. If the King of Wei does not give up, he can also let the merchants of Taoqiu supply high-quality ingredients to the Wei State, what does the King of Wei want? ”

As soon as King Wei heard Dai Yan's words, he also replied with a smile on his face: "Gong Cao is so polite, but he is disrespectful!" In the next meeting, I will remember the favor of Taoqiu, and the neutrality of Taoqiu, which I determined with Zhao and Qi before the Wei State, will also abide by it! ”

"So, thank you King Wei!" Dai Yan immediately replied with great joy.

One meal can get King Wei's promise of Taoqiu's neutrality, and such a price can indeed make Dai Yan happy!