Chapter 224: Quanzhou Food from the Future

"Hehe, you are seasick, the last time you were on the river was different from here. Because the boat ride was not long, and the difference between the river and the sea is still a lot bigger, it's good to get used to it. But there are a lot of delicious things on this sea, but unfortunately you can't eat them, so you can only watch us eat them. ”

Li Hao looked at the weak Wanwan and said with a smile: "It's a pity that I was too busy in the past few days in Guangzhou Mansion, and I didn't have time to cook a few delicious seafood meals for you." Now that you have time, you are seasick again, and you can only wait until Quanzhou goes ashore before eating. ”

You can also make a fire on the boat to cook, Li Hao brought a lot of ingredients up, and he was originally going to come to the ship to eat a few seafood. Compared with freshwater fish, marine fish is actually more delicious, which is Li Hao's personal feeling. Because the smell of marine fish is not so strong, and there are not many bones, it is just right to make food.

As a result, Wanwan was seasick, couldn't smell the fishy smell, and couldn't look at Li Hao's delicious seafood, which made Li's interest in delicious seafood disappear instantly. You can't eat it by yourself, and then let Wanwan watch from the side, so it's not necessary.

However, Guangzhou is not far from Quanzhou, and if you take a boat with a tailwind, it will take more than a day to arrive. So Li Hao doesn't feel that the days are sad, and he can still hold Wanwan at night and look at the sea together, look at the night of the sea, and then sway and fall asleep peacefully in the gentle sea breeze.

At this time, the ship looks not small, but it can't get into Li Hao's eyes, and there are too many things that need to be improved. For example, the speed of the boat, the size of the boat, how to distinguish the direction when sailing, and many other problems, these need to be used by the students led by Li Hao to use their brains.

The students brought by Li Hao have arrangements on each ship, and they have studied with Li Hao for so many years, so they naturally know how to distinguish them. But the old sailors here have not learned that, they have the same experience to identify, and both sides have tested their own methods.

These students made a few trips with the ship, and in the future, the shipyards in Guangzhou and Quanzhou would be handed over to them, and the task of training naval sailors and naval warfare would also be handed over to them. This is one of Li Hao's plans, and it is still only in the layout, and it must wait for Li Hao to gain a firm foothold in Lingnan Road.

"General, Quanzhou Port has arrived!" The fleet arrived at Quanzhou Port in the afternoon of the next day, and it was still early. After seeing so many fleets coming, Quanzhou Mansion immediately imposed martial law in the whole city. Li Hao let the ship stop outside the port, and then sent someone to send his seal to the officials here in Quanzhou Port for verification.

The Quanzhou Prefecture Thorn Shizhi Office is not in Quanzhou Port, but in Fuzhou. Li Hao naturally couldn't see him immediately after arriving at Quanzhou Port, but it didn't matter, naturally someone would notify Quanzhou Thorn Shi to come and see him.

Li Hao did not enter the city after taking the people ashore immediately, he was carrying 5,000 soldiers, and entering the city directly was afraid that it would cause panic, and it would not be easy to settle. The officials at Quanzhou Port apparently also thought of this problem, and placed Li Hao and them in a camp on the edge of the port, and then invited Li Hao into the city.

The current Li Hao is the leader of the entire Lingnan Province at all levels, and these people naturally dare not despise Li Hao. However, Li Hao didn't plan to enter the city, he had to arrange these thousands of soldiers first, and then just rest and eat something outside the city.

Quanzhou Port is now also an international port, and there are many merchants from all over the world. After Li Hao and the others got off the ship from the port, they saw a lot of people of all kinds along the way, and these people admired them after seeing the regular Tang Army.

Leaving enough people to guard his fleet, Li Hao arranged for people to go to Quanzhou Port to purchase some things, and the pigs and sheep sent by the officials in Quanzhou Port Li Hao smiled like Li Hao, as well as all kinds of seafood.

Li Hao was not sure what kind of food the officials of Quanzhou Port would arrange, but he didn't dare to compliment the food at this time, and he had walked a lot anyway. After a lot of seasonings, these foods are much worse, and the current Quanzhou is not the future Quanzhou, so Li Hao refused to participate in their reception banquet, but chose to come by himself.

Food is the knowledge of eating, Li Hao has traveled to Quanzhou in the later generations, and he has not tasted some of the characteristic delicacies here. In later generations, the flavor food of Quanzhou was famous at home and abroad because of its rich historical and cultural connotations, and it was unique.

The cooking techniques of Quanzhou cuisine include stir-frying, boiling, stewing, steaming, stewing, frying, frying, etc., and the taste is generally light and sweet. Some people say that if you don't eat all the food here in Quanzhou, it is equivalent to a wasted meal, and many people often stay because of the delicious food here.

This is enough to prove how tempting Quanzhou's food is, but at this time, there is only boiling and stewing, and there are no other methods. If you want to eat real food in Quanzhou Port, Li Hao has to do it himself, so he has no interest in the officials in the city inviting him into the city, not to mention that the Quanzhou Thorn Shi at this time is not in Quanzhou Port, Li Hao has to wait for that guy to come over before entering the city.

Li Hao, the assassin of Quanzhou, learned about it when he came to the south, and in fact, Li Hao, an official of the entire Lingnan Province, knew about it. The people who came here to be officials were basically people who were not powerful in Chang'an, and they were not very liked by Li Er, and those who were not good were driven here.

Because this side belonged to the border area in the Tang Dynasty, in fact, the talents of these officials here are not bad. They may lack some epoch-making vision, but they have done a lot of work for the first term of office, for the benefit of one party, and for the people to live a better life.

It's just that the population here is too small, and there are not many things that can invigorate the economy, plus the miasma and the troubles of the indigenous people of Shanyue, it is really difficult for them to do a big job, which is what it is now.

"Does Lang Jun want to cook and eat by himself?" In Li Hao's tent, after going ashore, Wanwan's current state is much better, and she can no longer see the weak appearance when she first got on the boat. Seeing Li Hao commanding the personal soldiers around him to get busy, she couldn't help but speak up.

"Of course, now that I've seen the sea, it's indispensable to eat seafood. I don't know how the guys in Quanzhou make it, but what they make is certainly not as delicious as what I make. ”

After hearing this, Li Hao replied with a smile that there was a lot of seafood bought from the port in his tent. Looking at the sea is a relatively rare thing for the students brought by Wanwan and Li Hao, but not for Li Hao.

He has been to many seas, has been into the water, and even dived. So the idea of the sea is just like that, he values more of the rich products in the sea, which is a treasure mountain for a foodie.

"Aren't you going to do this stuff today?" Wanwan looked at the things around Li Hao, and curiously pointed at Li Hao to put aside the contents of a small bucket, and covered it with a lid, as if he was not ready to do it today.

"Well, if you don't do this today, those things need to be made to spit out the impurities in their stomachs before they can be made delicious." After hearing this, Li Hao replied that the small bucket contained bamboo shoots, a kind of insect. He didn't want to see Wanwan startled, and then everyone else would know that there was a woman in his tent.

Soil bamboo shoots are originally a kind of insect that is wild on the tidal flats where brackish and fresh water meet at the mouth of coastal rivers and seas, and the label of later generations is that it belongs to the phylum Astrozoa, and the scientific name is Delicious Leathercapon Starworm. It contains gum, is two or three inches long, has a rough appearance, and is dark and brown in color.

The size of the bamboo shoots is different, the thick one is like the index finger, the thin one is like the rice stalk, about the length of the thumb, and there is a long one or two inches, as thin as a match stem, the "tail" that stretches freely, this kind of thing is also called the bamboo shoot.

According to the "Min Xiaoji": "Yu often eats bamboo shoot jelly in Fujian, the taste is very fresh, but it smells born on the seashore, and resembles an earthworm, that is, Shaxun. "That's what I'm talking about, but this is a record of the Qing Dynasty, and no other records have been found before.

How to do this kind of thing, Li Hao has deliberately learned about it, and he has also seen the people in Quanzhou Port do it themselves. It's not hard, it just takes a little time.

After the bamboo shoots are caught out of the sand, they have to be stocked for a day to let the guys spit out the debris. Then spread it on the stone slab and crush the broken belly, wash off the remaining mud impurities in the stomach, and then boil in the pot. Because this thing has a high level of collagen like pigskin, it is boiled to a sticky and slimy pot, like jelly.

Put the paste out in a small bowl, and after it cools naturally, it solidifies into a small bowl of "bamboo shoot jelly". The color of the bamboo shoot jelly is white and crystal clear, its meat is clear, the taste is sweet and fresh, the fragrance is soft and tender, smooth and refreshing. Served with good soy sauce, northern vinegar, sweet sauce, spicy sauce, mustard, minced garlic, jellyfish and coriander, shredded sour white radish, shredded chili pepper, tomato slices, etc., it becomes a flavor snack with good color and flavor.

These things are not available in Quanzhou in the Tang Dynasty now, but Li Hao has them, so he prepared this Quanzhou delicacy from later generations, and it was just right to put it.

The history of bamboo shoot jelly is relatively long, and the most famous in history is the bamboo shoot jelly in Anhai, Quanzhou. The bamboo shoot jelly here is gray-white, crystal clear, fragrant and crisp, elastic, and other seasonings to eat, the flavor is particularly good, it is the seasonal delicacy of winter and spring in Quanzhou and even in the pan-Fujian region.

"Oh, so what are we going to eat tonight?" Wanwan didn't have the curiosity to lift the lid to see the contents of the bucket, in fact, the appearance of the bamboo shoots is really not good-looking, it is estimated that it can scare this girl a lot, and the girl doesn't seem to like that kind of thing very much.

"There are a lot of things to eat tonight, boiled shrimp, and lobster. There are also a lot of sea fish, a big and delicious taste, which is a rare good thing, and there is a noodle batter, which is an authentic food in Quanzhou. "The noodle batter actually didn't have it at this time, and this is a delicacy from Quanzhou in later generations.

However, Wanwan didn't know these things, she was just curious about them, and she was even more curious about how Li Hao knew the practice of these things, I heard Wu Shun say that Li Hao had never actually been to the beach.