Xiyao's guests looked at the food on the table in front of them, and aside from the decorated flowers, the dishes themselves looked bland, not as attractive as the rumors about the banquet in Yilan Mansion that they had heard before coming.

"This is ......", he picked up a ball in front of him, the yellow-brown skin of the ball came from the chopsticks with a somewhat hard touch, which couldn't help but remind people of the soft and tender mutton meatballs in his hometown.

Although I don't like these dishes from the bottom of my heart, I think of the conversation they just ended, and besides, this is the person's shop after all, and no matter how bad the food is, I can't show it.

Seeing that the guests had questions, Li'er immediately explained: "This dish is called fried chicken meatballs, which uses shredded radish and cucumber mixed with chicken puree, kneaded into small balls, wrapped in rice noodles mixed with egg whites and fried in an oil pan, and the seasoning powder used is cumin from Xiyao in addition to salt."

As she spoke, she recalled what Hua Mian had said when she explained to her, and she had to admit that she didn't have the same memory as the diners she met in her restaurant, and the other party could repeat what Hua Mian said word for word, and she could only say a rough idea.

"Cumin?" The Xiyao seasoning powder mentioned in Li'er's introduction aroused the interest of the guests, and the Xiyao seasoning from the maid's mouth was a name that even he, a Xiyao person, had never heard of.

"When this cumin came to our country, the merchant gave it the name Xiyaoxiang, which is said to be the incense powder used by the women of Xiyaoguo," Sikong Yu added.

It's also interesting to think about, at the beginning, Xi Yaoxiang in the incense powder shop in the city was boasted by merchants about how much it was respected by aristocratic women in Xiyao Kingdom, and other people disliked it for having a strange smell, only because he had an inexplicable closeness to Xi Yao that he bought some and gave it to Ziyuan.

Although Aster tried to use a variety of floral fragrances to reconcile, but never able to suppress the smell of Xi Yaoxiang itself, Hua Mian found the problem of incense powder when she walked past her and smelled it, and bought all the Xi Yao incense that could not be sold in the city through Sikong Yu, and the owners of the incense powder shops were afraid that Xi Yaoxiang would be smashed in their hands, so they sold it at a low price, which made Hua Mian have cumin in his hands that could be used in large quantities.

Of course, the connection between Xiyaoxiang and cumin, Hua Mian specially instructed her to keep it secret, and she must not say it at will, if the dignitaries and nobles who have patronized Yilan Mansion know that she eats and praises the Xiyao-style food from the incense powder, she is afraid of causing trouble.

However, today's Xiyao guests are very different from those people, the news he brings is exactly what he needs, and he plays an important role in his own plans, since he is currently on his side, so he doesn't have to remember Huamian's instructions to talk about topics that are not relevant to their affairs.

"Xi Yaoxiang?" The guests sniffed the balls from their noses, and they didn't smell as strange as they described.

Take a bite, 'Click-'The crispy skin of the meatballs is gently cracked under the action of external force, and the chicken is smooth and tender in the mouth, and after a few bites, you can taste the mushrooms mixed in the chicken in addition to radish and cucumber.

Xiyao's guest did not rush to swallow the meatballs in his mouth, but tasted them slowly, and after he swallowed the food in his mouth, he suddenly said: "If this is the taste, it is indeed not unfamiliar to us."