Chapter Twenty-Four: Feasting
(There is a change tonight, the time will be at 23 o'clock, ask for recommendations, ask for collection) Once you get a glimpse of the little careful thinking hidden in Yu Xiaoren's heart, Yang Guang is not in a hurry. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info while taking a sip of tea from the tea bowl in front of him, he commanded outside the door: "Come in." ”
The door of the private room was gently pushed open from the outside, and it was the same young man, holding a huge wooden tray in his hand, and he walked in with a smile.
vinegar, garlic, mustard, spicy ...... In the blink of an eye, the young man quickly covered the table with various small food plates, and placed an empty plate in front of Yang Guang and Yu Xiaoren.
"It's the rhythm of Korean food." Yang Guang looked at this posture, and couldn't help but think of the sour and delicious kimchi, steaming bibimbap, and the thick miso soup, and subconsciously swallowed his saliva.
However, when his eyes fell on the tray in the young man's hand, he did not see kimchi, bibimbap, and miso soup on it, but only a live fish still spitting bubbles in its mouth, and a fish knife two fingers wide and three inches long was placed next to the fish.
"Ah, it turned out to be sashimi."
Such a thought flashed through Yang Guang's mind, and he saw another person walking in from Shi Shiran outside the door, and when the young man saw this person, he hurriedly bowed down and said with a smile: "Chef Xie, the seasoning has been prepared, please use a knife." ”
If it weren't for the fact that the young man called him a chef in person, Yang Guang would have mistaken him for the son of a family, and he would have never imagined that he would be the chef in charge of the restaurant on the "south bank of the Yangtze River".
"Xie Wei has seen two sons." The young man bowed to Yang Guang and Yu Xiaoren, and asked with a smile, "I just saw that the water list of the two of you has written the dish of 'sugar crab', please forgive Xiao Ke for taking the liberty of eating crabs, crabs should be eaten in the third autumn season, and the heat is blazing right now, I am afraid it is not suitable to eat crabs, according to Xiao Ke's opinion, it is better to replace this 'sugar crab' with a 'white stewed hemp duck', the white and duck meat are warm and supplemental, and they are the most suitable for summer consumption, I don't know what the two sons think?" ”
Yu Xiaoren saw that Yang Guang listened to it with relish, and it was not good to arouse his interest, so he pressed the anxiety in his heart, nodded, agreed with what Xie Yan said, and asked him again: "Are you a new chef?" Why haven't I seen you before? ”
"Back to the son's words, Xiao Ke only fell from Jiangzuo to Chang'an half a month ago, Meng Dongzhu did not give up, and fell in love with Xiao Ke's craftsmanship, so he left Xiao Ke in charge of the case on the 'south bank of the Yangtze River' and served the nobles. Childe, this mullet has been marinated in good glutinous wine for more than two hours, and it is time to take it, you see? ”
Yu Xiaoren didn't dare to make decisions on his own, and set his sights on Yang Guang. For the first time in his life, Yang Guang saw a piece of live fish with his own eyes, and he was so surprised by the novelty that he raised his hand and said, "Please use a knife." ”
Xie Wei turned around and instructed the young man to remove the "sugar crab" on the water list and change it to "white duck", only then in front of Yang Guang and Yu Xiaoren, he carefully washed his hands with Qing Shuizai, picked up the fish knife with his right hand, and gently pressed the fish body with his left hand, but did not cut from the fattest abdomen of the fish, but first gently rotated two pieces of bright red fish meat as thin as cicada wings from the gills of the fish, and put them into the food plate in front of Yang Guang and Yu Xiaoren, and said: "Son, please use." ”
Yang Guang looked down and saw that there was still a wisp of blood on the piece of fish, and then raised his eyes to see that the fish that had been spun off two pieces of meat was staring at him with a pair of eyes wide open, and his heart was so frightened that he didn't dare to move for a while.
"Childe might as well dip this fish meat in vinegar and eat it, it is the most delicious." Xie Wei stood aside and reminded Yang Guangdao softly.
Yang Guang didn't want to show his cowardice in front of Yu Xiaoren, he deliberately turned his face away, picked up the piece of fish meat with chopsticks, quickly dipped it in the vinegar dish, closed his eyes, and stuffed the piece of fish meat into his mouth in one bite, and didn't even dare to chew it, so he swallowed it with a gulp.
Yu Xiaoren was not as flustered as Yang Guang, picked up the bloodshot fish meat on his plate, dipped it in vinegar, put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully, and couldn't help nodding and praising again and again: "Fresh but not fishy, slippery but not greasy, well, it is really delicious." ”
Looking at him with a satisfied look, Yang Guang tried to smack his lips, trying to taste the aftertaste left by the fish passing through his mouth, but he felt a faint aroma of wine and acetic acid, in addition, it seemed that there was indeed no fishy smell of ordinary fish, and he suddenly became much bolder, and hurriedly motioned to Xie Yan to have another slice to taste the taste.
Xie Wei slice two pieces of meat from the belly of the fish and put them into the plate in front of Yang Guang, while explaining to him: "Childe, the meat on the belly of this fish is far less delicious than the meat on the gills, but it is best to use it for hunger, Childe might as well dip some minced garlic to eat, it tastes better." ”
Yang Guang did as he said, and also imitated Yu Xiaoren's example, put the fish meat in his mouth and tasted it carefully, only to feel that it was extremely fresh, it was really the best fish he had eaten since he was a child, and he heard Xie sarcastically say that the meat on the gills of the fish tasted the most delicious, and he couldn't help but regret it.
Xie Wei kept spinning the fish knife in his hand, and in less than half a bowl of tea, he spun a mullet weighing three or four catties until only a long spine remained, and the most amazing thing was that the fish had no meat on its body, but it was still spitting bubbles out of its mouth, as if it was still angry.
After eating the fish, the young man brought another plate of roast chicken roasted to golden and crispy, Xie Wei put down the fish knife, washed his hands again, and reported the name of the dish to Yang Guang and Yu Xiaoren: "Shaved chicken, two sons, please use it." He picked up the whole chicken with both hands, and I don't know what technique he used, but in a moment he actually tore off all the big and small bones of the chicken, and re-twisted it into the shape of a whole chicken on the plate.
At this time, Yang Guangcai noticed that Xie Wei's hands were fair-skinned and had long fingers, which looked like the hands of the chef in charge, and they were clearly a pair of hands that were accustomed to dancing and writing. He stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of chicken, put it in his mouth and chewed it, only to feel soft and crispy, compared with the sashimi he had just eaten, it was a wonderful taste. Recalling the unbearable meal he had eaten in his house yesterday, Yang Guang couldn't help but have a strong interest in the young chef in front of him, who was just and weak but cooked well.
"Chef Xie's skills are really extraordinary, but I don't know if your mastery of cooking is from your family heirloom, or is it ......?"
Yang Guang had a chicken leg in his stomach, and his stomach was already padded, and he asked Xie Wei with a smile.
"Back to the son's words, Xiao Ke has been greedy since he was a child, and he was born with a quick temper, every time the cooking rice in the stove at home is not cooked, I run to the kitchen alone to watch the cooking, just like that, back and forth, follow my cook to learn the skills of cooking and cooking, but I didn't expect that today it has become a way for Xiao Ke to make a living." Xie Yan said this, a look of loneliness passed over his face.