"I wonder what customers are afraid of?" Hua Manxi did not go down directly, but asked thoughtfully.

"There are not a few bites of taboo, but the teeth are not good, if you brush the pot with mutton and beef, you must not be able to eat it, or I heard Yun Yatou say that there is a seafood pot, so I came to try it, and the seafood can still be eaten." The Empress Dowager said humorously.

"The mouth is not good, and there are a lot of things to eat in the pot, so let's get you something you haven't eaten, shrimp slippery, crab slippery, how about fish balls? It not only takes the meat of the seafood, tastes the umami, but also eliminates the need to peel the shell. Hua Manxi proposed.

"I've never heard of shrimp and crab slippery, but I've eaten fish balls, so you can get them." The Empress Dowager agreed.

"Then the little chef will go down and prepare, and the customer will wait later." Hua Manxi saluted again, and then respectfully retreated.

Hua Manxi returned to the kitchen, ready to start making shrimp slides, selecting the best prawns, removing the shrimp line, taking the shrimp meat, then adding egg whites, white pepper, salt and starch, stirring in one direction, then using a spoon to divide into circles of the same size, and then put them in the ice to refrigerate for a while.

Crab slip is the same way, but it is difficult for crabs to get meat, and this crab meat is more expensive to make, plus eating crabs is originally to enjoy the process of peeling crabs, so crab slips are not as popular as shrimp slides.

Hua Manxi later made some fish meatballs, because the Queen Mother just said that she had eaten fish balls, so Hua Manxi made some clever efforts when making fish balls, and added some seaweed to the fish balls, and made seaweed fish balls.

In addition to these, Hua Manxi also ordered people to prepare other materials suitable for the elderly, including soft and delicious tofu, fresh pig blood, cut boneless fish fillets, and all kinds of green vegetables, all of which are soft and glutinous, such as sheep belly, pig belly, duck intestines, etc., all of which are not available.

Hua Manxi first used chicken racks and pork bones to add fried dried shrimp and fried earth fish to hang the delicious soup base, and then took some of the best chrysanthemums used to make flower tea in Yipin, put them in the pot and boiled them with the broth.

The selection of chrysanthemums requires the selection of fragrant species, so that the boiled chrysanthemums will be mixed with the deliciousness of the base soup to give off a fragrant and tangy taste.

When a pot of chrysanthemum pots is served on the table, it is accompanied by four-color dipping sauces, which are sweet, sour, salty and spicy, which makes people appetizing when they look at it.

"This chrysanthemum is so fragrant, I only know that chrysanthemums can make flower tea, but I don't know that chrysanthemums can also cook vegetables, and they can be so fragrant!" The Empress Dowager really felt fresh, sniffed the still smoking pot, and said in surprise.

It is rare to see her grandmother so happy, and the county lord of Yunhua is naturally smiling, and immediately personally laid out the dishes and chopsticks for the queen mother, she glanced at the condiments on the table, and asked, "Which is the shrimp slippery?" And which is crab slippery? ”

Xiao Er, who served the dish, answered truthfully, and specially advised: "Chef Hua said, this fish ball, shrimp slip and crab slip are all hot for a while, as long as the balls float up, they are cooked, and they must not be scalded for a long time, if it is too long, it will lose its elasticity and taste slightly worse." ”

After he said that, the county lord of Yunhua had already poured a lot of pots, but after a while, the white and red shrimp slippery floated, and the color was dazzling, especially dazzling among the pile of yellow and white chrysanthemums.

"Floated, floated! Cloud girl! Cooked, cooked! Although the Empress Dowager was older, her eyes were quite good, and she was as happy as a child, pointing to the shrimp floating in the pot.

"Hey, there's another one! That's fast! Give me a taste. The Empress Dowager urged.

The county lord of Yunhua hurriedly picked up the spoon, fished out the two shrimp slips, and put them on the plate in front of the empress dowager to cool.

"It's ripe again, that's ripe!" The Empress Dowager didn't have time to eat, so she stared at the pot and screamed.

"I'll catch it, you can taste this first, here are four flavors of dipping sauce, which one do you want to dip? It's spicy, forget it, don't eat spicy, it's sour, it's made with that tomato sauce, it's salty, ginger sour is flavored, it's sweet, it's peanut butter and sesame sauce, and beef sauce. ”

"Naturally, I have to dip it in the salty flavor first, come and taste what this shrimp slip is, and then taste every dipping sauce, the pepper can't be taken away, I want to taste it too." The Empress Dowager said as she picked up the shrimp slip and dipped it in the oil dish, then blew it and put it in her mouth.

Although she still has teeth, her teeth are not very useful after all, and most of the things she eats on weekdays are chicken porridge, bird's nest, these soft and glutinous things, if you want to eat a pot, it is too difficult.

Although she is the queen mother, she is not willing to look at the face of her son and daughter-in-law for a meal, and then they will say that she is old and has a bad appetite, and she can't eat this or that, and she is upset when she listens.

It's still her granddaughter, but she went into the palace to borrow some seafood, and as soon as she said that she also wanted to eat seafood pot, she brought her old woman out.

The Empress Dowager slowly put the shrimp slide into her mouth, this shrimp slide looks like the same shape as the fish balls, but the taste is much better than the fish balls, the rich shrimp meat taste, and the shrimp meat, is basically the same, but it is easier to melt in the mouth than the shrimp meat, and she doesn't need to chew it at all.

"Well, it's delicious! Delicious! This one was just cooked, and I thought I was going to chew it, but I didn't think I would use it at all, and it melted in my mouth. It's so delicious. The Empress Dowager was very happy and took another one, this time dipped in sour sauce.

"Well, it's delicious, it's delicious!" Sour, very appetizing, she hadn't eaten such a delicious and satisfying meal for a long time.

It was rare for her to be happy, and the county lord of Yunhua hurriedly washed the vegetables for her personally, and soaked some crab slips, fish balls, pig blood, and tofu, so that she was half full, and the county lord of Yunhua began to move chopsticks.

"It's really good, every dipping sauce has a unique taste, this girl doesn't look very old, but she has a unique idea for the hot pot delicacy, not bad." Lord Yunhua also tasted shrimp slip and crab slip and praised it.

"Don't talk about this, it's just this fish ball, it's different from what I ate in the palace, add some seaweed, the taste is different, originally those fish balls are a little bland, add some seaweed, but it's full of aroma." The Empress Dowager exclaimed.

"Yes, we are used to eating this pig's blood and tofu, but her sauce is really delicious and fresh, it is an ordinary pea tip, dipped in it, and I actually eat it delicious." Lord Yunhua paused and exclaimed, "Kyoto is suitable for eating pots at other times except for summer, I have long wanted to move the pot to the table, and I am not very satisfied with the recipe after trying a lot of recipes, and I can't imagine that the soul is actually on the dipping sauce." ”

"According to you, didn't this girl help you earn a lot of money? The Empress Dowager teased.

"I really made a lot of money, I heard the manager say that Yipinju has not had an empty table in the past few days, and the list of seafood pots has been discharged for half a month." Lord Yunhua said truthfully.

"Then if the mourning family wants to take her to the palace, will you refuse to let her go?" The Empress Dowager said suddenly.

"What are these words? She wasn't invited by me, she was originally ordered to participate in the Imperial Chef Competition, and if she wins the battle, she will be able to enter the palace to organize your 80th birthday, where is the reason why I don't let people go? Lord Yunhua joked, "But if my grandmother took pity on Yun'er and left her in Yipinju, I would naturally be grateful." ”

"You girl, you're about to be a grandmother, and you're still so poor! It's really getting into the money hole. The Empress Dowager laughed.

"Where is the grandmother, I'm still a little girl, okay? Qin Baiting's kid, I really don't know what to do, Qin Xiang took a fancy to him and wanted to marry Sheng Sheng to him, but he was not happy! Now it's twenty and one, and I don't want to say kiss, and the Hou Ye doesn't say I can't move him, and I don't say I can't move him, these days are even wilder, and I don't know what to fool around all day. Speaking of his son's family affairs, Lord Yunhua was very worried.

"Hey, speaking of which, you're not as smart as a child, that kid in Baiting is shrewd." The Empress Dowager said in a low voice.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this, let's still eat vegetables, this imperial chef competition is about to start, this flower chef will definitely be able to come out on top and enter the palace to run the banquet, so grandmother, you just let her make more money for me here, don't rush to call people to the palace." The county lord of Yunhua sandwiched her favorite tofu skin for the Empress Dowager again, and said coquettishly.

"Then it's up to you, anyway, I can't eat much good things, by the way, what about the little cook, I think she is very pleasing to the eye, her appearance and temperament are good, let her come in and reward some things, otherwise you let Baiting go back to the house, it's good to be a concubine, and I can help you take care of the restaurant, now the nobles in Kyoto don't know how to be sorrowful, and you are stupid, desperately making money, and secretly donating a lot of military salaries to northern Xinjiang."

"Grandmother, there are so many people here, don't talk about it. I think I have a bit of the ability to look at people, that girl, it's not a concubine's life, I don't want to be such a bad person. Lord Yunhua said with a smile, and ordered someone to invite Hua Manxi over.

Hua Manxi is making desserts in the kitchen at this time, although eating hot pot is delicious, but it is always inevitable to get on fire, especially when eating is relatively hot, after the tongue and mouth are easy to be tasteless and even numb, if you drink a bowl of comfortable dessert after a meal, you can relieve it.

She made osmanthus coconut water lotus root powder, this coconut water, is the coconut flour she brought from Shishan County, because Wang Shishi's dessert shop uses a lot of money, so they have not sold this coconut powder yet, but now the desert island has been artificially planted.

"Chef Hua, you have a guest here." Xiao Er hurriedly came over and said in a low voice.