Volume 44 Wood-style cuisine
The house rented by Lin Ye and his girlfriend was about to expire, and after the toss during the Jialiu period, Lin Ye learned his lesson and decided to find another love nest near the school. Before moving, he invited us to their house for a meal, and he was going to cook it himself, saying that it would give us a taste of authentic Korean food. In my memory, my impression of Korean cuisine, in addition to the time when her aunt, a female classmate at the same table at the beginning of my freshman year, took us to eat, was the various magical delicacies made by Jang Jin in "Dae Jang Geum". So I'm still full of fantasies about this trip.
On this day, according to the address given by Lin Ye, the five of us set off from the school, took the rail transit to bypass most of the Cha Hachong, and finally arrived downstairs at his house. We also deeply experienced the hardships of Lin Ye's return home during the closure of the school, and also felt his persistent love for his girlfriend. Lin Ye went downstairs, he didn't take us directly to his house, but asked the boss for a case of beer in the small supermarket downstairs and asked them to send it upstairs. Watching him skillfully communicate with his boss in short words, it is not difficult to see that he is a frequent visitor here.
Lin Ye, they rented a bachelor apartment, and we took off our shoes and entered the house. As soon as you enter the door, there is a bathroom on your right, and when you go inside, there is a large room that integrates the living room, kitchen, and bedroom. A large bed is next to the south window, a TV is hung on the east wall, facing the bed, a washing machine and refrigerator are placed in the northwest corner, and a straight kitchen area with an induction cooker and rice cooker on the countertop, which makes the living room area in the middle particularly large.
There is only one dining table for four in the kitchen area, and there are only two stools. Just as I was thinking about whether we would sit on the bed and eat like we had on the TV for a while, Lin Ye took out a cassette stove and put it on the floor in what I thought was the living room area. Then he beckoned us to sit around the stove. There is a pan on top of the stove with spicy cabbage, lettuce, and Korean hot sauce around it. When we were all seated, he took out a large plastic from the refrigerator, which looked like it contained today's ingredients. When he takes it out and looks at it, I'll go and fan the whole pork belly. According to Lin Ye, in order to entertain us, he bought a full 10 catties of meat, which would be a feast if it were put aside now.
Each pork belly has a thickness of about 2 centimeters, which should be cut like this by Lin Ye's instruct to sell meat. The cassette stove should also be specially prepared by Lin Ye, and he is not very proficient in using it. Under the joint research of our 6 undergraduates, it took a lot of effort to finally ignite the fire, and then complained about whether other people copied the college entrance examination. Taking advantage of the hot pot interval, Lin Ye gave each of us a bottle of beer, this time he didn't use a lighter, but chopsticks. I saw him holding the mouth of the bottle in his left hand, holding a pair of chopsticks in his right hand, using the square end against the bottle cap and the thumb of his left hand.
After the pot was hot, Lin Ye brushed the bottom of the pot with a layer of oil and prepared to put the meat on it. Because the pan is not very big, Lin Ye cut the meat in half and spread it flat on the bottom of the pot. As the temperature in the pot gradually increased, the grease continued to be precipitated, and Lin Ye hurriedly took the shelf to turn over the meat. Although the meat is very thick, it can't withstand the effect of the high temperature, and the side turned over has turned white. The grease in the pot grew more and more and began to splash everywhere, and a few of us were splashed before we could take a bite. At this time, the operation to refresh our world view began: Lin Ye took out a roll of toilet paper (I didn't know it was kitchen paper at the beginning, I thought it was toilet paper for daily use), quickly and forcefully ripped off a few sheets, and then covered them in the pot, and when the paper was full of lard, I took it out and put in a few new sheets...... After repeating this operation several times, the pan finally became honest.
Lin Ye began to reverse the pork belly again, and the meat at this time had changed from white to golden, with a bright color, and it looked really attractive. Just as we were thinking about how to eat, Lin Ye took out a large pair of scissors, cut the meat into even small pieces, and then roasted them a little brown, and when he felt that everything was about the same, he finally said the words we had been waiting for for a long time: "Okay, it's almost, let's eat!" We immediately picked up chopsticks, learned from Lin Ye to take lettuce leaves, picked up the meat and dipped it in the sauce, and stuffed it into our mouths in a ball. After eating a bite of meat, we took the first cup and drank it all, which was indeed enjoyable. Later, we all felt that it was too troublesome to directly put the meat dipping sauce into the mouth, and there was a lot of meat in the pot, but it couldn't stand the 7 of us eating, and soon there was an empty pot left. Lin Ye had to start roasting the second meat again, this time we filled our stomachs with something, no longer hungry and pounced, and began to eat while drinking, and the rhythm slowed down. During this period, we helped Lin Ye discuss the move, talked about various interesting things on campus, and of course, a few words to each other.
When the fourth meat was eaten, the fuel bottle of the cassette furnace seemed to have burned out, and the temperature in the pot plummeted, so Lin Ye got up and went to find a new fuel bottle to put on. Maybe there was some gas leakage during the change, or maybe the grease was dripping, and after a few fires according to the beginning of the operation, there was a sudden "bang", a burst of fire, and the whole furnace began to ignite. I don't know if we were scared stupid or drank too much, and none of us reacted, so we just watched the fire spread for 2 seconds. Lin Ye hurriedly found a wet cloth, turned off the stove switch with his hands, and then picked up the pan. At the same time, we hurried to extinguish the remaining fires. I think that's the end of it for common sense, but that's what we're so special about, we just cleaned up and started lighting the fire.
Eating too much pork belly will always be a little greasy, and Lin Ye probably expected it. After obtaining our consent, Lin Ye started the cooking demonstration again. He asked us to sit a little further away and got up himself and brought the rice from the rice cooker. He first stir-fried spicy cabbage and squid whiskers with barbecue fat, then poured rice and Korean hot sauce into the pan, and then stir-fried in the pan. This is the legendary Korean classic: spicy cabbage fried rice. Lin Ye asked his girlfriend to send a spoon to one of us, no bowl, meaning that we should eat directly from the pot. At that time, I thought it was a tradition of the dynasty, and it should mean to share blessings, right? It wasn't until many years later that I watched the Korean-style "Eat Broadcast" that I understood what was going on.
The fried rice cooked by Lin Ye is indeed delicious, completely different from the kind of bibimbap eaten in the cafeteria, the rice grains are soaked in lard, plus the red stained from the hot sauce and spicy cabbage, it looks oily like red and white jade beads. I couldn't help but stuff a spoonful of fried rice with spicy cabbage and squid whiskers into my mouth, and suddenly the salty, sweet and spicy flavor of the Korean hot sauce made my tongue busy. When you bite into it, the crispness of the spicy cabbage and the soft elasticity of the squid whiskers make the chewing feel layered. The strong flavor made me can't wait to taste it again, so I swallowed it in my stomach after a few bites, and then quickly carried it into my mouth with a spoon. Nowadays, whenever I pass by a Korean restaurant or a Korean barbecue restaurant, I miss that fried rice.
My stomach was already swollen with pork belly, and I had the heart but not the power, and after eating a few spoonfuls, my stomach gave the command to disarm, and the others were similar. Lin Ye has been busy with barbecue, oil absorption, fire extinguishing, and fried rice, so he can't drive the audience like he usually eats, so the atmosphere of our drinking is not particularly strong, and it is basically a stage for Lao Zhao and Da Biao's squad leader. After a few of us finished drinking a case of beer, Lin Ye asked the supermarket to send some more. Since the pace of our drinking is not too fast, I feel that I am still in shape, is it because I have been drinking more after a year of exercise? Later, we went to eat small plums again, and we drank baijiu, and I was still able to keep a clear head. After that, Lao Zhao began to often praise me for my good amount of wine, and the amount of liquor had to be a pound, and I actually believed it myself.
Who knows, the slap in the face came very quickly, and it hurt a lot......