Chapter 120: Squid Noodles
The door of the vine hall was opened from the outside, and Hua Mian stood in the middle of the door, with a white gauze scarf on his face, which was also specially ordered by Sikong Yu a few days ago, in order to increase the mystery of Hua Mian, so that the people of the royal capital were more curious about Hua Mian's confusing identity, Hua Mian felt that Sikong Yu's business acumen was a bit wasted in this era.
Behind Hua Mian are two rows of maids carrying food boxes, after entering the banquet hall, the maids open the food boxes in turn to take out the dishes, and see the dishes and the like on the table, whether it is a few guests from Honglu Temple, or the flower girls who accompany them, or even Ziyuan, they can't help but approach the position where the dishes are full of dishes on the table, so as to see the dishes served clearly.
In the first few days, Huamian was still interested in playing the game of guessing the ingredients, but slowly found that those guests were not deliberately wrong to make the flower girl laugh, but really didn't know, in their cognition, the taste of the ingredients was like that, the fish would have a fishy smell, the tofu was soft, the potatoes... Well, potatoes are still unpopular everywhere because they have no taste.
Because I saw too many of the other party's reactions, Hua Mian couldn't raise his interest in playing those games with them, so he simply said all the ingredients used in the dishes directly every time he served the food, cutting off their thoughts about the game.
Hua Mian gently grabbed the sleeve of her right hand with her left hand, and touched the edge of the tableware with her fingertips with her right hand, and introduced them one by one in the order in which the maids served the dishes.
"This is a pan-fried shrimp cake, using fresh river shrimp just caught in the morning, chop and mix well with various diced vegetables, put it in a pot with a little oil, and fry it until golden brown on both sides, so that it can increase the crisp taste of vegetables while retaining the sweetness of the shrimp meat."
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Everyone tasted one dish after another with Huamian's introduction, but they didn't care about chatting, and all the staff concentrated on eating.
"Then there is this dish, this one is called soft fish noodles, take a large fresh soft fish, wash it, peel its skin, remove its internal organs, cut it into thin strips and put it on a plate, dip it in the orange vinegar sauce here and eat."
"This pickled fish..."
"You're saying this dish is raw?"
Everyone didn't react when they listened to Hua Mian's explanation, but after hearing Lord Zhu's words, they thought about it carefully before they heard it.
"Yes"
"Is this what people eat?" The eldest of them suddenly raised his voice and shouted.
On the contrary, it scared Hua Mian, but it was just raw squid, how could there be such a reaction? Look at the few people around, from the guests to the flower girl, their faces are not very good.
"Wash and cut the raw fish and bring it out, do you think it's in those uncivilized barbaric places? Or do you look down on our Honglu Temple? ”
Another official next to him also said, "It's just a cook on Flower Street, thinking that he has become popular recently, and he has begun to look down on people."
Hua Mian was stunned by the question, and wanted to open her mouth to explain herself, but was blocked by Aster's hand.
"Lord Tong, this sister of the concubine has just entered the flower street, and many rules and etiquette have not yet been learned, if you are offended or offended, the concubine will compensate you for her first."
With that, Ziyuan got up and straightened her dress, and bowed very formally in the direction of several guests.
Hearing that it was Ziyuan's sister, the faces of several people softened a little, after all, it was the girl who was taken care of by the Oiran, no matter how angry she was, the face of the Oiran would always be given.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little stiff, Lord Zhu opened his mouth to say something to ease the atmosphere, and his face became more and more red when he thought about it.
"It's okay, it's okay, maybe the chef girl has been tired lately, and she forgot to heat it up."