Chapter 63: Vegan Fasting and Taoist Robes
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With the curtain talking about some of the ancient and modern past events in Fuzhou City, everyone's performance on the table gradually became lively, because those Daegu Zhuang people were all Zhuang families in the mountains before, and the surnames of each village were even muscles and bones, so there was no way to pay attention to too much respect and humility, and then I saw that my master was so amiable now, so he slowly let go of his restraints and immersed himself in this warm atmosphere.
Although Huang Shi didn't know whether the overall kitchen of the Xilin Temple was clean and tidy, he saw that the small white porcelain bowl in front of him seemed to have some yellow dirt, and it was estimated that this was caused by which little monk who helped the cook was not serious, although he was not a particularly particular person, but such obvious stains he couldn't be invisible, and he couldn't take out a napkin to pick up the bowl and wipe it well like in a modern snack bar, or shout to the boss to come to the basin and wash it with boiling water. I can only figure out how to deal with it myself.
Huang Shi saw that everyone was talking without noticing himself, so he slowly stretched out his hand and picked up the porcelain bowl, covered it with the long sleeves, and then collected it back, and then the two sleeves were rounded, and he wiped the porcelain bowl vigorously with the lining of his left sleeve, and then saw that everyone still didn't notice, so he put it back with a normal face, and saw that the porcelain bowl seemed to have turned whiter, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The heart said that I used to think that those modern costumes were just worn on the body to look elegant, but in fact there is no practical place, if it is inconvenient to go to the toilet, now it seems that I am a little biased, now at least when a clean rag should be emergency or okay.
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After a short time, the monk Shi Xin led a few small novices to serve dishes one after another, and everyone present except Huangshi and Mu Dexian looked stupid, these 10 bowls of chicken, duck, fish, and meat were not only too rich, but also appeared in the temple where the Buddha ate fasting, and it was too incredible.
The letter of interpretation saluted everyone again and said, "Donors, please use it slowly, the little monk has retired", and after speaking, he also helped to cover the door. Huang Shi was very satisfied when he saw that there were two chopsticks and spoons in the dozen bowls of hot dishes and cold dishes that were served. Although the system of sharing food in modern Chinese banquets has not become popular, chopsticks and spoons have become the mainstream, and Huangshi feels that modern hygiene etiquette must be written into his own canons in the future, so that the ancients can learn it well.
Zhou Mingrui saw that the dishes were all ready, so he stood up and rolled up his sleeves to serve the old man, Huangshi waved his hand to let him sit down and stood up by himself, "Eating this kind of thing must come by yourself, and it is not a seventy or eighty dignitaries with inconvenient mobility, we must keep this in mind", everyone replied yes, how do you know that when Huangshi himself really operates, he will find that there is a problem, because it turns out that when they usually eat together, Everyone has a fast-food-style stainless steel square plate brought from Yellowstone from modern times, so the length of the sleeves is not a problem, but as soon as I get on this big table today, I have a problem, and I can imagine that when I am carrying vegetables, this wide sleeve should not hang down to the soup pot on the table.
Huang Shi naturally can't roll up his sleeves rudely like Zhou Mingrui just now, but he is embarrassed to let the long-term long-robed literati come to demonstrate, and he can't help but feel a little bit in his heart The ancient costume that has just been praised in front of him, you said that there is nothing to do with this long sleeve to make it so wide, no wonder there is a person standing behind every ancient master in the movie, it turns out that he brought cloth vegetables and served him. It seems that he has to think of a workaround, Huang Shi had to roll up the two long sleeves on his arms, and said in his heart that in the future, the robe of his sect can only be narrow-sleeved, and the form must not be like the so-called mage in later generations, which is not solemn at all, and everyone dare not laugh when they see the appearance of the old man's rolled sleeves.
Huang Shi finally has no problem eating now, he saw that there are four cold meats, four stir-fried vegetables, and four large pieces on the table today, with a total of 12 dishes, and looking at the past, they can also correspond to the names of the dishes mentioned in the letter just now, such as mushroom gluten, eight-treasure fried sugar vegetables, chestnut chicken, roasted liver tips, eight roosters, vegetarian duck, sweet and sour fish, Dongpo elbow, spicy chicken, vegetarian roasted mutton, vegetarian sausage, pine nut tripe, etc., so he took a small point of each sample and looked at the porcelain bowl in front of him, and then sat down and motioned for others to choose.
After everyone saw that Huangshi had been selected, they started one by one in order, but saw that the table was full of chickens, ducks, fish, and meat, which were all good in color, flavor and shape, and were mouth-watering, but when they raised their chopsticks to taste it, they were surprised, and then applauded, the fresh meat dishes turned out to be really all vegetarian, and these were just shaped like fish.
"This is the real kung fu of Xilin Zen Temple, it really deserves to be the first of the Zen forest food in Fucheng", after tasting these exquisite dishes, he made a tasting review, after saying that, he put some of the things he heard about Xilin Zen Temple from the same year again, it turned out that the raw materials used in this vegan Zhai such as yuba, winter bamboo shoots, fresh mushrooms, magnolia slices are all specialties of the south, and the seasoning is mostly sugar, and the taste is also sweet-based, and then more than ten years ago from the capital down to a northern prefect, Love to this Xilin Zen Temple and the presiding monk said Zen Taoism, but good vegetarian food does not like sweet and greasy, so the chefs of this Xilin Zen Temple tried to do the south and the north, in addition to using sugar and salt to taste, but also add soy sauce, so that the color is heavy and the taste is strong, salty and sweet moderate, but also improve the freshness, increase a lot of varieties, make this vegetarian dish color, fragrance, taste, shape are good. The prefect later also wrote the name "Quansu Zhai" for this Xilin Su Zhai, so the reputation of this Xilin Zen Temple became more and more famous, and the people who came from all over the world were about to squeeze through this mountain gate.
After eating a piece of chestnut chicken, he then said to Huang Shi, "Master, you see that the difference between this vegetarian meal in Xilin Zen Temple and other vegetarian dishes is that it does not use the seasonal vegetables of the four seasons, but only uses gluten and oily skin as the main ingredients, supplemented by shiitake mushrooms, mushrooms, magnolia slices, fungus, lotus seeds, peanuts, etc., and then mixed with cinnamon, peppercorns, spices, and fennel. It is not wrong to say that it has the salty and fresh ingredients of northern cuisine and the fresh and sweet taste of southern cuisine."