Chapter 2 Food
It is the largest restaurant in the world, and it is also the best restaurant in the world.
The words "the best to eat" may sound exaggerated, but anyone who has been to the Pavilion will pat their stomachs and say these three words when they go out.
It is a place to satisfy the most discerning gourmets and whet every tongue's cravings for food, as every dish at the Pavilion is prepared by a world-renowned chef. Don't get me wrong, the "one" here does not mean that there is a celebrity chef in the Mople Club, but that a celebrity chef only cooks one dish and spends his life and his life's learning to serve this dish.
Yes, the Pavilion brings together the world's famous chefs, who have very different styles and strengths, but the space left for them to play is very narrow. Because Aunt Rong only allowed them to cook one dish, the one they were best at.
Shouldn't it be easy to cook a dish in a lifetime? Aunt Rong doesn't think so, in order to meet everyone's tastes, a dish must first be carefully selected for materials, and secondly, it must be well-made and the heat should be properly controlled, so as to harmonize the color, aroma, taste, shape and utensils. The most important thing is that people in different places have different eating habits, Fujian and Cantonese people eat a lot of seafood, and the meals must be accompanied by soup. The diet of the people of Hunan and Hubei likes spicy products, although the abbot of the food is full, and there is no pepper mustard and no chopsticks; The northerners like to eat onions and garlic, and they also prefer to produce them from the north......
To satisfy the preferences of all diners, in the eyes of Aunt Rong, it is by no means an easy task.
Therefore, she requires every chef in Wubi Pavilion to strive for excellence and use their lifelong cooking skills to create a dish. The selection of ingredients is handled by her.
If you talk about hiring celebrity chefs and asking them to make a dish each, other restaurants may be able to learn from it. But this latter item is like the moon in the sky, you can't pick it if you want to, you can only pay respects.
Because the selection and tasting of ingredients is a talent, Aunt Rong's unique talent.
Aunt Rong's full name is Wu Guirong, born in poverty, her parents died early, and she lived with her uncle since she was a child, and she was a child who grew up in bitter water. However, she is different from the rest of the world, and that is that she can always find the best part of an ingredient, whether it is a vegetarian dish or a meat dish.
This talent became more evident when she opened the restaurant, where the dishes of the Peerless Pavilion were based on the texture of the food, supplemented by cooking. For example, the crab meat selected by Aunt Rong is sweeter than that of common sea crabs, the paste will not solidify, and the fleshy fiber is also more tender and smooth than other crabs. Of course, the production is also extremely exquisite, decomposing the crab and changing the knife, divided into three parts: feet, body, and cover. The crab legs are stir-fried in hot pan with cold oil, and after the crab body is chopped, Huadiao wine is added and steamed in the basket. The crab lid is filled with eggs and steamed in a basket without the need for salt to taste.
Another example is the salted chicken, which is transparent in color, crisp in skin and tender in meat. To achieve such an effect, the material of the chicken is very important, the selection of three yellow chickens, Zhanjiang chicken, Wenchang chicken, Qingyuan chicken can be, but the chicken weight should be controlled at two and a half catties, the growth date should be more than three months, not more than four months, it is best to just start laying eggs chicken, such chickens eat tender, no slag. When cooking, it is necessary to observe the contraction of chicken thighs, and the contraction is fully cooked from the bones. Under normal circumstances, when the chicken is soaked and boiled to nine ripe, it should be scooped up immediately, and then immediately soaked in salted boiled water to shrink the chicken and keep the leather refreshing.
Due to the strict control of ingredients and cooking, the reputation of the Pavilion is far and wide, and everyone in the whole country knows about it, and countless celebrities and diners come here. Over the years, the market has been full of customers, and even more, they have made a special trip from other places to satisfy their taste buds and comfort their stomachs.
Aunt Rong is a Lingnan person, so the huge courtyard of the incomparable pavilion is a Lingnan garden, which is transparent and beautiful. The garden sits in the north and faces south, with an octagonal pool, a bridge corridor, and an attic that traverses the east and west. The buildings are arranged around the water garden, the main scenery of the garden is arranged along the axis, and the sketches are elegantly constructed according to the base, each with its own place. The whole garden has three floors, nine pavilions, five pavilions, ten stations, five pools, three bridges, thirty-six halls and fifteen rooms.
The largest hall is called Yuyin Mountain House, a single courtyard, located at the northernmost end of the whole courtyard, and the back door of the Wubi Pavilion is behind the courtyard. There is a coral stone rockery in front of the Yuyin Mountain Room Hall, and there is a plum blossom platform next to the rockery, even if you walk through the front of the hospital, it is difficult to peek into the scene in the room, and the privacy is excellent.
Yuyin Mountain House is specially used to entertain the distinguished guests who come to the Wubi Pavilion, it is said that even the emperor has been here, but the truth is true and false, and it is difficult to distinguish between the real and the false.
Now, the moon is on the west building, the stars are dim, and the guests in the garden have long since dispersed, this is the most peaceful time of the day in the Mobi Pavilion.
Zifu hid behind the rockery, clinging his body tightly to the cold coral stone, almost merging with it.
Through the cracks in the coral, his eyes looked unblinkingly at the Yuyin Mountain House in front of him, the candle flame was lit, and the room that was still black now overflowed with orange-red warm light, and a black shadow was reflected on the delicate carved window.
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The Wubi Pavilion attracts diners from all over the world, and among these diners, of course, the greedy Mu Xiaowu and Mu Cripple are indispensable.
The two of them had been to the Pavilion a few years ago, and had spent all the money they had here. But even so, it still left a regret, because in a corner of the courtyard, the old fire soup cooked on several rows of stoves is limited to 100 servings a day, and one person can only eat one. It is said that the roast duck, which fills the cheeks with a bite, is only sold for 100 pieces a day, and it is impossible to eat it when it is late.
Mu Xiaowu and Mu Cripple didn't eat these two dishes because they came late that year. Therefore, as soon as the sky was bright today, Mu Cripple got up, freshened up casually, and shouted to go to the Wubi Pavilion.
Zhao Zimai has woken up early in the past few days, and the words Xu Chong said before jumping off the cliff have been lingering in his mind, especially in the dead of night, this sentence is more like a cold hammer, knocking on his skull again and again, making him unable to sleep.
Therefore, when his heart was in turmoil, Leng Buding heard the sound of Mu Cripple clamoring to find food, he felt that his heart was a little more settled, and the thoughts that had been floating lightly outside his body seemed to have finally returned to their place.
Fireworks in the world may really heal the tangled and troubled mind. At least for this moment, that's what he thinks.
So Zhao Zimai got up from the couch, opened the window and said loudly from the outside, "Senior, I'll go with you." ”