"You ......"

Wang Jiuzhi bowed slightly and said, "Down there is the cook of Lemin Building." ”

The old man nodded with satisfaction: "This leek flower is pickled well, it tastes good!" I've eaten so many pickled leek flowers along the way, and you're the best one. Where did you learn it? ”

"The little skill of the family, you are smiling."

The young man whispered, "I don't think it's as delicious as what you made, and it's still a bad taste." Who in the world does it better than you? It's your specialty. ”

Wang Jiuzhi heard the young man say this, and looked at the old man carefully.

Rich, saggy-skinned, but with a ruddy glow on his face, it is obvious that his previous life was good and well maintained.

Looking at the clothes on his body, the fabric workmanship is considered to be high-quality, well-dressed, and the origin is extraordinary.

The best thing in the world is his specialty dish, so he is......

"Nonsense!"

The young man shouted, "I'm not talking nonsense! Today's long live also boast that your pickled leek flowers taste good. ”

Wang Jiuzhi looked at the old man in amazement, and stammered, "Are you...... Are you ...... Imperial Chef Feng Wanfu? ”

The young man raised his head proudly: "Exactly! You also know my master's name. ”

Feng Wanfu glared at the apprentice angrily, he liked this apprentice because he had a quick mouth, and he could bring countless glory to himself with his impulse.

After those cooks knew that they were the imperial chef Feng Wanfu, the admiring and envious gaze and the boundless flattery made him very useful.

He still enjoyed Wang Jiuzhi's surprise.

"You say my pickled leek flowers are good?" Wang Jiuzhi rubbed his hands excitedly, it was a great honor to let this chef who was pickled leek flowers by the Wansui royal family praise his leek flowers for being good, "However, this little brother said that the taste is still bad." ”

Feng Wanfu smiled hehehe: "It's not bad, it's not bad." ”

"That little retirement, you just have to tell what you want to eat, and I will give it to you immediately." Wang Jiuzhi accompanied the careful, nodded and withdrew from the private room.

Feng Wanfu was slightly stunned, opened his mouth, and didn't speak. This cook is interesting, and when the people next to him see him and hear the name of his imperial chef, they can't wait to keep themselves and squeeze themselves dry.

But this one, in addition to being surprised, didn't even have a little envy, nothing, and couldn't wait to leave quickly.

"Master, what is it about him that he dares to look down on you? I'm going to smash this place for you! ”

"Nonsense!" Feng Wanfu really reprimanded this ignorant apprentice this time. Where is the main house behind the restaurant that can be famous in Nanjing City, where can he be smashed by a small cook who was expelled from the palace.

He was able to cheat and cheat along the way, because those people didn't know that he had been kicked out of the palace, and they thought that he was old and returned to his hometown. It's okay to smash and scold in a small place, but this stunned young man still wants to smash here.

"Master!"

"Go, tell them to serve a few more dishes. I haven't eaten yet. ”

The apprentice reluctantly agreed, went out to recruit the shopkeeper, ordered a few dishes that he and Feng Wanfu liked to eat, and asked him to send another roast whole chicken.

"Nope! I want to roast duck! Feng Wanfu listened to the apprentice asking for roast chicken outside, and vetoed it repeatedly.

The apprentice poked his head out of the knot: "Master, can the roast duck here be comparable to that in the capital?" It's better to eat roast chicken. ”

Feng Wanfu got up and walked to the door, and casually gave the apprentice a hairy chestnut in his head: "What do you know!" A roast duck. ”

Xiao Er responded repeatedly, the rich one is the main one, and the one who can be the master is the main one, he only listens to the main one, but he has a long heart: "Do you want to eat the roast duck in the capital, or the roast duck in our Nanjing City?" ”

"Of course it's from the capital. However, do you cook a good roast duck in the capital? ”

When Feng Wanfu heard his apprentice say this, his heart also let go, yes! If you want to eat the roast duck in the capital, others must also make it. He waved his hand and said, "Nanjing's is good." ”

Xiao Erfu smiled and said: "Our master, it is Master Wang who just came to see you, he has great ability, this roast duck in the capital can still be made." There are people who have been to the capital to eat, and they have tasted the roast duck made by Master Wang, and they all say that it is not bad! ”

Feng Wanfu also wanted to see what was really not bad about this, so he said very boldly: "Let's have the same one." ”

Xiao Er hurriedly went out and helped them close the door.

The apprentice was thinking about asking for two roast ducks, where could they finish eating, and asked cautiously, "So many, where did we eat?" ”

"Let's take the rest with us and prepare it for dinner. When the time comes, the duck bones will be boiled in soup, which will have a different taste. ”

The apprentice nodded, but he still couldn't understand why the master insisted on eating Nanjing's roast duck: "Master, Nanjing's roast duck has something to eat." The world doesn't know that the roast duck in Beijing is this, and I really haven't heard of the roast duck in Nanjing. ”

Feng Wanfu picked his teeth boredly and pointed at the uninformed apprentice. Also, he wouldn't ask for this apprentice if he stayed before, but he was kicked out, and this kid was willing to follow him, and he was willing to teach him more: "The roast duck in Nanjing is older than the roast duck in the capital." The roast duck in the capital is famous for only a hundred years, but when Emperor Taizu was in Nanjing, it was a roast duck for a daily eclipse. If it's not delicious, would Emperor Taizu like it so much? ”

"So that's it? Is it any different? ”

"Of course. But I don't know the doorway here, that guy Fang Jiu specializes in making roast duck, every time he is locked in the room by himself, he never lets us see, I have been in the imperial dining room for more than 20 years, and I have never seen it once. However, there is a difference, although Nanjing's roast duck also pays attention to crispy skin and tender meat, fat but not greasy, but the really good thing is the red marinade poured on top of the roast duck. The roast duck in Beijing is sliced, dipped in sweet noodle sauce, and wrapped in lotus leaf cakes. ”

"What's so delicious about pouring marinade. I think the duck skin is crispy and crispy. ”

"You know what, bring what you will eat. Let me tell you, even duck bone soup is also a Nanjing method. ”

There was another knock on the door outside the house, and Xiao Er bowed in with a smiling face.

"What's wrong again?"

Xiao Erbao smiled and bowed again, almost kneeling: "I'm sorry for you." Master Wang went outside......"

"Well, what do I say by that? Just go out, you just come with me for this trick? "The apprentice is always at the front, willing to be a pawn for the master, but it also depends on personal preference, but Feng Wanfu, the last helpless apprentice, likes this. He likes the feeling that others promise him, as long as others soften first, he is the Great Wall.

Today, he put on a posture and said magnificently: "Do you know who my master is? It's the Imperial Kitchen. Coming to eat here is to give you face. ”

Xiao Er smiled and said, "Yes, yes, yes!" Master Wang ordered. You don't know, our Master Wang often has to go out to cook. This official the size of Nanjing City has never eaten the dishes made by our master Wang. It was the Governor of Caoyun who sent someone to invite Master Wang over, look at this ......"

Feng Wanfu was a little regretful, but he was not the kind of person who was dead-eyed, he waved his hand very generously and said: "Since this can't work, Nanjing's roast duck can always be made!" You don't have the only one cook! ”

Xiao Er thanked him for his kindness, and said: "The shopkeeper said, we won't accept your wine money today, you stay, wait for tomorrow, tomorrow Master Wang will be fine, how about asking him to make you a roast duck in the capital?" ”

"Oh? What does that mean? Are you here to cheat and cheat? ”

"How could it. Our shopkeeper would like to invite you to try the things in our shop. You are always a nobleman, if it is a weekday, we want to invite you to come. Now that such a big treasure has fallen to our small shop, of course the small ones are carrying it, and you always reward us with face? ”

Xiao Er's flattery Feng Wanfu has heard a lot, he is not uncommon, and besides, this has not changed any new tricks at all. The apprentice was obviously useless, and he plucked out his ears impatiently: "What are you talking about, you treat my master as a food test for you?" This Nanjing city is big, we can go wherever we want. ”

"Yes, yes, yes." The young man smiled and replied, this big man's temper is big, and he endured it when he saw that Fang had just given him two taels of silver. There is a good article in this Lemin Building, the guest officer rewards the silver owner does not want anything, and in addition to the income of the store, it depends on their own creation. Today, if he can catch such a master, he will be able to do anything for the next month. Because the shopkeeper said that he could stay for a month, his salary for that month was doubled.

The apprentice continued, "Say it again. If you want my master to stay, it depends on whether you have the ability to do so. ”

"Yes, yes, yes. You see, we have a master from Huai'an, a fine master from Yangzhou, and there is nothing to say about craftsmanship. ”

The apprentice pulled Xiao Er and came to him and said: "My master has a rule, if a dish is good, my master will eat it one by one, but as long as this dish is heavy, no matter if there are good dishes behind you, he will leave immediately." Do you understand? If you can keep my master for as long as you want, you have to rely on your own ability. ”

Although he leaned in front of Xiao Er to speak, his voice didn't mean to be suppressed at all. Xiao Er's ears were a little buzzing, but he didn't dare to take half a step, so he quietly took a deep breath and closed his ears to reduce the incoming sound.

That's going to be hard. This cannot be repeated. There should be no more than two or three dishes per meal. How many dishes are going to be made in a month. The dish is able to support the stay, but this soup, this fine point.

"What? Can't do it? ”

Xiao Er's hesitant apprentice saw it in his eyes, he didn't want to give him any consideration, so he asked urgently.

Xiao Er smiled, but turned to look at Feng Wanfu, who had not spoken.

He is the right master. It's boring to jump with the little ghost, and I don't have that energy.

Feng Wanfu put on the posture of his imperial kitchen at this time, he comfortably sandwiched a small chopsticks and leek flowers, slowly drank the porridge, and ate the side dishes next to him, tasting them carefully. waited until Xiao Er couldn't be silent anymore before he said, "Then I'll come up with a question first." ”

"Speak, please."

"With the theme of the four seasons, a dish should be eaten at four o'clock, and it should be seen at four o'clock. In addition, since you said that there is a cook from Huai'an, I have always heard that the chefs in Huai'an pay the most attention to knife work, and I want to see Huai'an's knife skills in this dish. ”

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Roast duck: The word 'roasted duck' appears in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Later, although the times changed, two kinds of roast duck in Beijing and Nanjing evolved.

Beijing Roast Duck: Quanjude and Cheap Fang are very famous, of course, the latter knows less, but the latter has a history of more than 600 years, while Quanjude seems to be only more than 100 years, as if it was a matter of the Tongzhi period.

Nanjing roast duck: There is no specific historical evidence, but it can be seen from Zhu Yuanzhang's daily eclipse of roast duck after he settled in Nanjing, and the history of Nanjing's roast duck seems to be even older.

The difference between the two, I wrote in the article, one is eaten with soup and the other is eaten with slices. I love both, but the soup bibimbap of Nanjing duck tastes good; And the sweet noodle sauce of Peking duck is also delicious.

It's really hard to divide the ranks!

Remember to eat roast duck, spring and autumn are the best. The duck is fat~

In addition, the lotus leaf cake is the dough of Peking duck wrapped in us. It is said to have a long history. In the Song Dynasty, there was a record of 'lotus leaf cake'. According to the records of the Qing Dynasty: 'Pizza: The Qin people made small tin cans, containing 30 pieces of cakes, one jar of cakes per guest, as small as oranges, the jar has a lid, and can be stored. The stuffing is fried with shredded meat, which is as thin as hair, and the green onion is the same, and the pig and sheep are used together, called 'Western Cake', which is also recorded in Yuan Mei's Suiyuan food list.

P.S. Guess what the next dish will be???