Anton tried the dishes of this restaurant with a learning attitude, but waited until Mao Xuewang, Mao Duck Intestines, Mao Brain Flower, Boiled Fish, Chopped Pepper Fish Head, Small Fried Pork Slices, Dry Pot Fish Offal...... After serving, he looked at the large number of chili peppers and bright red oil in the bowl on the plate, and had to ask before putting down the chopsticks, "How spicy does this have to be?" ”

"It's just a little spicy." Qi Min had already sandwiched a chopstick boiled fish white and tender fillet, blew it a little and put it in his mouth, "Well, not bad." ”

Anton pinched the letter suspiciously, and when he got closer and sniffed it first, he couldn't help frowning.

"It's spicy." Qi Min put on another jacket and said with a duck intestine.

Seeing that she didn't seem to be spicy at all, Anton took a small sip - and then immediately took a sip of wolfberry chrysanthemum tea.

He put the remaining half of the fish back on the plate: "It's not spicy, but the pepper flavor is too strong, and it's numb." ”

"That's how good people are now." Qi Min said, "No matter what it is, you have to be strong enough." ”

"The mustard mound is also quite strong." Anton said disapprovingly, "Why torture others on hard dishes? ”

"Mustard is strong enough, but some people can't eat it. Now that Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine are popular all over the country, you often have this brain-bending. Qi Min took a pair of chopsticks and put them on Anton's small bowl of rice.

Anton didn't want to eat the red oil on it, and most of the cuisines he studied were based on umami, and ingredients and seasonings that were too flavorful were generally not used in large quantities for main dishes. Soaking a good brain flower in chili oil is a bit of a waste in his opinion.

However, it was all sandwiched into his bowl, and Anton still tasted it, and then said with some surprise: "It's not too spicy...... Not bad. ”

The soup is very thick, but because the brain flower itself is not very flavorful, the taste is not strong or light after being prepared in this way, and the moderate spiciness also enriches the level.

"That's right, it means that there must be a reason for popularity." Qi Min added another piece of chopped pepper fish head to him, "You can taste this ...... again"

Qi Min wanted Anton to taste the dishes one by one, but he still didn't succeed. At first, Anton could still taste which one was good and which one was bad, but halfway through the taste, his taste was so spicy that he lost his ability to distinguish, and he could only keep drinking tea to barely relieve the burning feeling in his mouth.

"Enough is enough, I won't eat it......" Anton used chopsticks to clip the things she had brought back into her bowl, "It's all good things, why do you want to make it so spicy?" The spiciness covers all the flavors, and there are several dishes that are seasoned with the same recipe, when others can't eat it? ”

Maybe a lot of people just can't eat it. Qi Min thought to himself that life is so stressful now, and people are so busy, if it weren't for something that was very stimulating, it wouldn't be able to relieve the numbness under the pressure of life. This is probably why there are so many famous non-spicy dishes in Sichuan and Hunan cuisine, but those that are widely known in Beijing are spicy.

But this can't be helped, if you want the hotel to be popular, you have to cater to the needs of customers. Qi Min said: "That's because everyone just likes to eat this taste, it doesn't matter what the ingredients are, just the taste is right." ”

"If you think so, you might as well eat spicy strips." Anton said, "A dish is not a simple sum of ingredients and seasonings. Cooking is a non-linear process that cannot be explained by reductionism......"

Anton also took AP courses in high school, and although he was reluctant to spend money on the final exam, it laid the foundation for him to explain cooking in a scientific way.

"But if you think about it from another angle, even if the dish is complex, the real experience for the customer is just a combination of several feelings." Qi Min said, "Theoretically, as long as all these combinations are exhausted, the feeling that that dish brings to people must belong to one of them." ”

"Then you're going to exhaust all the combinations?" Anton said, "If you can solve this, I guess you can publish an article." ”

Qi Min shut up. Even if she can speak in the vernacular at the dinner table, she will be blind if she can't post the article.

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finally finished eating, during which the two of them had a bucket of 1.25L Coke to relieve the spicy. Thinking about what to do after that, Anton asked, "Are you going back to the lab?" ”

When Qi Min was studying for a Ph.D. before, even if he fell on the road while riding a bicycle, as long as he didn't break a bone, he would go back to the laboratory. This is also a helpless thing, the cells she raised before had to be digested from living tissues, and the vitality was not good, even if it was delayed for a day, there might be big problems. And when she was studying for a PhD, she was the only one doing the project, and if she didn't go, no one would do it.

However, now Qi Min has three people to help her do the project together, even if she doesn't go for a day or two occasionally, it's not a big deal.

Since this is the case, Qi Min doesn't need to force himself: "I have a bad cold, what kind of laboratory do I go to." Hey, while Mimi is going to kindergarten, what do you want to go? ”

"Aren't you suffering from a bad cold?" Anton asked with a smile.

"Do you want to hang out?" Qi Min asked rhetorically.

Who the hell wants to go out and have fun? Anton sneered, but still said, "Okay, can I go to the botanical garden if I want to?" ”

"Botanical Garden...... What's there to go about? "Qi Min is a little strange, wouldn't it be better to go to the botanical garden and bring Mimi, why do you have to go when you don't need to bring Mimi?

"It's so dreary in your house that there's not even a plant." Anton said.

Only then did Qi Min understand that he wanted to go to a place where he could sell flowers and plants, and he couldn't help but feel that although Anton was brought up by a Chinese restaurant owner, he still had to practice his Chinese again.

"If you want to go to a place that sells green plants, it should be called a flower, bird, fish and insect market." Qi Min corrected him and said, "Okay, no problem." ”

"Flowers, birds, fish and insects? Flowering plants may have pollen that is not very good, so you have to buy ...... that do not bloom," Anton hesitated.

Whenever this time Qi Min thinks he is super cute - this may be a rare place where Qi Min can surpass Anton in daily life.

"For example, when you put potted flowers on the balcony, the 'flower' refers to a potted plant. Sometimes this bonsai just doesn't bloom, it can be called that. Qi Min explained.

"Oh, I see." Anton nodded, and suddenly opened a brain hole, "Then if the merchant sells someone else a pot of orchids, and when he goes back and finds that it doesn't bloom, isn't it impossible to find a merchant?" Because what is called a 'flower' does not necessarily bloom. ”

Qi Min really wanted to say, "Are you mentally retarded?" when he heard it, and said with some amusement: "Don't others know whether orchids should bloom or not?" Don't say it's called an orchid, even if it's called 'orchid' when it's sold, it has to bloom. ”