Chapter Twenty-Three: Winter Trip (Part II)

The naval base wasn't that far from the city, and although Garion consciously slowed down so that Mo Yan could enjoy the scenery along the way, it still took less than twenty minutes for the open-top jeep to drive into the city.

After entering the city, the chaos and prosperity of the city immediately greeted you.

Even in the outer ring of the city, you can see a variety of cars shuttling back and forth, although the style of these cars is a little old in Mo Yan's eyes, but this does not prevent car owners from showing off the shell of the car in a colorful way.

Cars of different colors come and go on the road, and the river is endless, like a flowing colorful river.

There are many shops on both sides of the street, and the carefully arranged windows are like beautiful pictures, showing their own style like a crowd of people.

If he hadn't experienced it himself, Mo Yan would never have believed that this was actually a city that had experienced air raids and bombardments only a few days ago.

Because of the communication with Mo Yan during the process of coming, Garion naturally understood the reason why Mo Yan and Quincy entered the city today. After entering the city, the white jeep turned left and right, and soon came to the long food street in Mo Yan's impression.

Parking the jeep on the side of the road, Garion unlocked the door and got out of the car, then gentlemanly opened the door for Quincy.

"I still have some things to do, if you are willing to enjoy your face and hitchhike again when you go back, just sit in this coffee shop for a while, and I will come here again around six o'clock."

After getting out of Mo Yan's car, Garion returned to the cab and started the car again, leaning against the window and pointing to Mo Yan at a very exquisite-looking café on the side of the road.

Compared to Garion, his ship, Salt Lake City, was much quieter, and along the way he only chatted with Quincy about his experience of fighting the deep sea.

"Then I'll bother you, we'll be waiting for you at the café later."

Mo Yan's sense of this self-acquainted Garion is okay, although he may only be so enthusiastic about himself because of his "talent", but this is actually enough, at least he has the value of being worthy of the other party's "investment".

In the process of chatting with Calian, Mo Yan learned a lot of useful information, such as the factions within the Admiral!

"It turns out that there is such a thing as an aristocratic system in this world? It's so much fun! ”

After seeing Garian drive a white jeep out of sight, Mo Yan chuckled, turned around and prepared to ask Quincy to go to the food court together.

"Kun...... Forehead? What about Quincy! ”

In the blink of an eye, Quincy, who had been obediently staying by his side, disappeared.

Mo Yan was not in a hurry, turned his head to look in the direction of the food street, and his eyes quickly turned. In less than three seconds, a blue figure appeared in his sight.

"Sure enough, alas...... Is there any need to be so impatient? ”

Shaking his head helplessly, Mo Yan walked towards the street stall at the entrance of the food street.

Before you get closer, you will be greeted by a fresh aroma mixed with seafood flavors, and if you look closely, you can smell a little subtle but rich flavor of sauce.

At first glance, the source of the fragrance was the stall where Quincy was stationed.

The stall is a very convenient wooden food cart that can be pushed out on the street and can be pushed back home when closed. Because the cost of the stall itself is very low, it is especially suitable as a special food stall with high mobility.

Walking to the snack cart, Mo Yan found that Quincy was already sitting on the stall extending from the snack cart itself and began to taste the food.

"Boss, give me one too, and give her three more!"

Mo Yan came to Quincy and sat down, and greeted the middle-aged boss with black hair and black eyes and an Asian appearance in the snack truck.

"Haole, fragrant takoyaki, it's going to be good right away! What flavors do you like? If you don't have a special taste, I recommend you try our specialty seafood flavor sauce and takoyaki with the finest bonito flakes made this year. ”

Although the boss has been recommending the special flavor of his small shop to Mo Yan, he has not hesitated for a moment in the movements in his hands, and a set of actions of frying and grilling takoyaki is smooth, without the slightest jerkiness, and he knows at a glance that it is an old craft for many years.

"Then come to this so-called specialty seafood flavor sauce fragrant takoyaki! The same goes for hers. ”

Mo Yan glanced at Quincy, who was carefully biting a bite of delicious takoyaki like a little squirrel beside him, and then squinted his eyes and chewed carefully, carefully tasting the taste, and shook his head with a smile.

Quincy, Quincy, you don't look like you eat in the cafeteria on weekdays, where did you take my half-chicken leg burger?

However, although each takoyaki Quincy has a careful taste, but this thing is so big after all, even if he subconsciously slows down the speed of eating, this small box of six takoyaki was quickly eaten by Quincy.

After going down and finding that there was a gap, Quincy realized that these unusually delicious little balls had been eaten by herself.

Licking her lips unsatisfactorily, Quincy slowly opened her half-squinted eyes.

Reaching out to the side, Quincy took Mo Yan's arm beside him into his arms and hugged him tightly, staring at Mo Yan with big burgundy eyes, revealing a pitiful aura in his eyes.

"This foodie is going to become a sperm!"

Mo Yan felt the softness of the girl's clinging to her arm, and helplessly turned her head and shouted to the owner of the stall:

"Boss, except for the ones I ordered before, all the flavors of takoyaki you have here will be a copy for this one next to me!"

"Howler !!" The stall owner hurriedly glanced at the two people sitting in front of the stall, the speed of his hands increased a lot, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously raised.

The Admiral's money is really good, and my friends don't deceive me!

He quickly poured sauce on two boxes of freshly baked takoyaki, and reached out to grab a cluster of thin, almost transparent wooden fish flowers from the wooden box next to him and sprinkled them on top of the hot balls.

The boss hesitated slightly, then bent down and took out a light green rhizome from a small drawer under the counter, like a spinach root that had been magnified several times.

"Guest, do you need to add a little fresh wasabi sauce? It was grown in a pure mountain spring, and I was going to sell it to the restaurant after a while, but I thought the customers might like it, so I took it out and showed it to the customers. ”

As he spoke, the boss raised the wasabi in his hand in front of Mo Yan to make him see more clearly.

Mo Yan shook his hand, motioned for the boss to take it back, and then said:

"Since the boss has taken it out, let's add it, don't rob the flavor of the takoyaki."

Mo Yan also knows a little about wasabi, although he has not really tasted its taste, but he knows that this thing is a very good seasoning, and the requirements for the growth environment are very harsh.

"Don't worry, the taste will never disappoint you."

Knowing that Mo Yan was willing to try, the middle-aged uncle laughed happily, first handed the freshly made takoyaki to Mo Yan and Quincy, and then took out a small wooden board and began to tinker with wasabi sauce.

"Actually, I've always wanted to use my home-grown wasabi for takoyaki, but unfortunately it's a very common snack after all, and the price is not so affordable after adding wasabi sauce. Although the taste will be higher, fewer people will be able to eat it. In my opinion, a snack that everyone can eat is a real snack! ”

"But you're different, it's a pleasure for you to come and eat takoyaki at my stall. Although my takoyaki is the best in this snack street, I want you to taste the unique taste that truly belongs to our restaurant. ”

"Okay, guests, please taste, our restaurant's unique special flavor takoyaki: flowers and full moon!"

Just when Mo Yan and Quincy ate the box of takoyaki that they had made before, the boss finally made the wasabi sauce, and then used a chopstick to dip the fresh wasabi sauce on each of the freshly baked takoyaki, just on top of the sauce at the top of the meatballs, and then sprinkled a thin layer of bonito flakes.

After it was done, the boss immediately put two boxes of the just-completed "Flower and Full Moon" in front of Mo Yan and Quincy.

The charred octopus balls are topped with an enticing caramel-coloured sauce that hides a touch of fresh greenery under the almost transparent bonito flowers.

Under the expectant gaze of the boss, Mo Yan and Quincy looked at each other and smiled, each picked up a skewer and inserted a takoyaki called "Flower Good Full Moon", and then bit the whole ball into his mouth, ignoring the slightly hot taste, and chewed it quickly.

This is deliberately explained by the boss, this "flower good moon" must eat the whole octopus balls in your mouth at one time, and then chew quickly to eat the true taste of this delicacy.

The two of them quickly chewed the crispy and tender meatballs in their mouths, and they were also very elastic.

At first, it was a little hot, after all, just out of the pot, a bite down, the rich sauce and the fresh aroma of the meatballs suddenly burst in the mouth, full of seafood flavor under the spice of bonito flowers, people are full of appetite.

After the balls are bitten open, the heat contained in them also escapes, making the already slightly hot taste even hotter. Compared to the kind of meatballs I have eaten before, this kind of meatballs have a hotter and spicier taste after the first bite, and the flavor is more intense.

But from the second bite, the hot and spicy sensation begins to dissipate quickly, and another soft and refreshing taste gradually spreads in the mouth, and the mouth, lips and tongue that have been stimulated by the previous heat and spicy taste slowly regain the ability to perceive the rest of the taste under this refreshing taste.

The rich umami, rich sauce aroma, and soft and elastic taste have become layered under this refreshing adjustment.

Continue to chew quickly until you have swallowed the balls completely, and the softness and freshness that reverberate in your mouth.

That's the power of wasabi! Like the finishing touch, the whole takoyaki brings out its ultimate flavor.

"The so-called flower is good and the moon is full, and the flower refers to the fine bonito flower sprinkled on the balls, and it must be the bonito flower scraped out of the dried bonito made of the best bonito, and only in this way can the umami of the rich seafood in the balls be adjusted."

When it comes to the moon, one of them refers to the shape of the balls, which are round like the full moon in autumn. The second refers to wasabi, wasabi tastes similar to mustard when it is first perceived by the taste buds, with a little excitement and hotness, symbolizing that when autumn is just beginning, the weather continues to be hot in summer, and with the first wave of stimulation, wasabi will show its unique flavor, the kind of cool and refreshing like late autumn, and the moon is as cool as frost. ”

In the boss's patient explanation, a box of takoyaki named "Flower Good Full Moon" was quickly eaten by Mo Yan and Quincy.

The very discerning boss quickly put the two boxes of "Flowers and the Full Moon" in front of Quincy, and poured a cup of tea for Mo Yan, who was carefully savoring on the side. Looking at Quincy, who was quickly destroying the balls, the boss quickly made new balls.

"There's still a long way to go, and I'm just the starting point."