The collision of spicy and fragrant, the meeting of the four seasons and the heat, the red and oily spicy soup is bubbling by charcoal fire or electric pot, and all kinds of ingredients release their original flavor in it, this is a long-standing delicacy in Kyushu - hot pot.

It is said that back then, "Qin Taizu" turned ninety-five years old and had a big birthday. The Emperor's Christmas is celebrated by the whole country. "Qin Taizu" likes to publicize his great achievements, and in order to reflect the emperor's grace and love for the people, he called Prime Minister Li Sibai to discuss. Li Sibai has been by the side of "Qin Taizu" for decades, and it can be said that he knows the emperor quite well.

Li Sibai is wise all over the world, and he is very liked by "Qin Taizu". "Qin Taizu" celebrated the "Ninety-fifth Birthday" this time, and Li Sibai was also thinking in his heart, thinking of a good way to please the emperor.

The smart Li Sibai is very good at using his brain. So he came up with an idea for "Qin Taizu": to invite the old man who turned 95 years old this year to come to the "Qin Imperial Palace" to celebrate his birthday with the emperor. As soon as "Qin Taizu" heard it, he immediately agreed. So he made a holy decree: Ninety-five-year-old old boys, all come to the capital and have a meal with me!

The whole country rejoiced.

"How many ninety-five-year-old guys are there in the country, and what do you eat for such a big feast? The imperial dining room is too busy, and the dishes are easy to get cold? Li Sibai thought about it again: "Yes, make a big pot, put charcoal fire in the middle, put vegetables around, cook what you want to eat, eat as you like, and you are not afraid of cold vegetables." ”

In this way, at the birthday celebration of "Qin Taizu" that day, the ninety-five old people who came to Beijing from all over the world were beaming, and they were together in the square of the "Tianhe Palace", accompanying the world's first powerful person to eat "hot pot" and drink wine, which was very lively.

There is a saying that "upward and downward effects", and all of a sudden the people have followed suit, and the form of "hot pot" has become popular all over the world. And Li Sibai has another name: "Hot Pot Patriarch".

The above is the legend about the origin of "hot pot".

In this way, "hot pot" should also be a high-end delicacy, however......

"Fire ...... Chafing dish? ”

Zhou Yanli was stunned.

Of course she knows about hot pot, cook a pot of base, add soup, and then prepare a bunch of ingredients, a group of people gather in a circle, and if they want to eat, they pick up the ingredients and scald them in the bottom of the hot pot ingredients, and eat them with a snort.

According to what Mu Tang said, the form of hot pot is indeed very suitable for a group of people to eat together, and the diners enjoy considerable freedom during the tasting process, and they can eat whatever they want, which seems to be nothing wrong at first glance...... But, but! Key points: Since ancient times, or in other words, since the "Great Qin", there has been a saying and tradition of "hot pot is not on the table"!

In other words, this "palace delicacy" that originated from the court and arose because of "Qin Taizu" was completely disgusted. And if you are well-informed, you will find that this is the only thing that has a deep relationship with "Qin Taizu", but it is still disliked, and the fate of "hot pot" can be said to be a little crippled.

If you want to talk about the reason, the layman only said that the "hot pot" is too low-level, a group of people sit together, a pair of chopsticks stained with the saliva of the people stretch out, stir, and clamp into a pot, while eating while shouting, the spit stars splash everywhere, plus the flames burning under the hot pot, making the room full of black smoke miasma, this is too disgusting!

But Zhou Yanli is an insider, so naturally she will not have any prejudice or contempt for the form of "hot pot" itself - she herself likes to eat hot pot, and has enjoyed it with her best friends such as Wei Cangcang and Shen Aoxue many times, and she is happy. Then after a little thought, she knew why "hot pot" would become a "non-serving" inferior dish, one word: miscellaneous!

Miscellaneous, miscellaneous ingredients, miscellaneous flavors, and people who eat hot pot are also miscellaneous!

In the form of "hot pot cuisine", diners are asked to enjoy the ingredients according to their preferences, and the ingredients are cooked before eating, which leaves the work that should have been done by the chef to the diners, and some people may think that it is a pleasure, but those who are really interested in food and taste will not tolerate this.

A group of diners who don't know what cooking skills are, throw all kinds of ingredients with different tastes and characteristics into a pot to boil in a completely disorderly manner, and the taste of all the ingredients is mixed into one pot, and this taste can still be eaten? Even top-quality ingredients can be contaminated into garbage!

And if you change the diner who is proficient in cooking, this is even more annoying, the chef is the chef in the kitchen, and the diner is the diner at the table, and the diner has to carefully calculate the ingredients first and then put those ingredients like a chef, so as not to spoil the taste in the pot...... Damn, can you still enjoy the food happily?

Hot pot, despite its natural attributes of creating a lively atmosphere, is actually a form of cuisine that is not friendly to both diners and chefs!

Although there are exceptions, there are also popular hot pots, such as "Molten City Hot Pot", which are liked and sought after by many diners.

But in the eyes of expert chefs, "Rongcheng Hot Pot" is actually a kind of tricky and rough cooking, which solves the disadvantages of "hot pot" in an almost barbaric way, that is, to set a very heavy basic taste for the hot pot base, such as heavy hemp, heavy spicy, or clear soup - light is also a heavy taste, either use heavy hemp, heavy spicy and heavy oil to suppress the taste of all ingredients, or let the taste of the ingredients completely occupy the entire hot pot soup base.

So Zhou Yanli doesn't like "melt city hot pot".

Some people say that "hot pot" is the easiest dish, exclusive to lazy people, and stupid people specialize, but in Zhou Yanli's view, "hot pot" is actually the most difficult, simply hellish difficulty, once it is served, whether it is a chef or a diner, it will completely lose control of it - out of control is the most terrible!

"...... you" Zhou Yanli was stunned for a long time before she reacted, "Are you sure?" ”

Mu Tang had already taken out the "Tianjing Eight Door Knife", spread it out on the table, silently pulled out the "Death Door Knife", flicked his fingers lightly on the knife body, and said with a smile: "Didn't we get a bunch of seafood at the 'Tide Burst Fishing Conference'?" Just use them to make a 'seafood hot pot'. Rest assured, this final will be over today. ”

Zhou Yanli opened her mouth, but finally sighed secretly in her heart and said, "Okay then." If you don't have anything to say, tell me directly. ”

Mu Tang said: "There is nothing else missing, but there is a lack of hot pot utensils, and the standard shape is enough." Preferably all-copper. The copper wall is five centimeters thick and ninety centimeters in diameter. I can do the rest myself. ”

"No problem. I'll get people ready now. After that, Zhou Yanli took out the communicator to contact.

Copper pot or something, just call a "creative power" can be easily solved. With her family's connections, this matter can still be easily solved.

Twenty meters away......

Ah Ling turned her attention to Mu Tang from time to time, and at this moment, her ears moved, and then her face suddenly changed, and she lowered her voice and said, "Senior brother, I'm going to make 'seafood hot pot' over there!" Am I mistaken? ”

Ah Long's eyes widened in surprise, "Hot pot? Really? Has he given up completely? How do you want to make hot pot? ”

Ren Xingyou is making the second dish. The main purpose of the first dish was to abolish the "eight-legged kraken meat" in Mu Tang's hands, but after "Brother Salt" got more than 1,000 points, he secretly decided that this second dish must show all his skills.

Hearing the conversation between the twins at this time, his brows furrowed slightly, and he didn't say anything on the surface, but muttered in his heart: "That guy shouldn't be crazy, right?" Dare to make hot pot on such an occasion. Does he really have absolute confidence in his cooking skills, or has he given up completely? Doesn't he know that the taste of hot pot is out of control? ”

Ren Xingyou intuitively told him that Mu Tang really had absolute confidence, but he couldn't think of any way for Mu Tang to solve the problem of the uncontrolled taste of hot pot, and finally he shook his head and said secretly: "Why should I care about him?" Then he said to the twins, "Don't be distracted. Next, this 'colorful clouds chasing the moon' is very crucial. ”

"Oooh......"

One of the twins stuck out their tongues in embarrassment.

Below the jade steps of the "Tianhe Palace......

"Hot pot? Mr. Wan Hailong, is the hot pot the cooking method invented by Li Sibai, which uses the pot as a utensil, uses a heat source to boil the pot, and then boils it with water or soup to cook the food? ”

On the judges' bench, the thirteen judges listened to the conversation between Mu Tang and Zhou Yanli clearly in their ears - they controlled the dynamics of the audience all the time, but many situations could not attract their attention at all. However, the word "hot pot" obviously caught Athena's attention, and she chatted with Wan Hailong.

Wan Hailong said: "Exactly." ”

Athena laughed, "That kid is very confident and brave. ”

Wan Hailong smiled, "May the Holy Mother bless him." He didn't want to say anything else.

At this time, a third voice came, "Hmph, such a stupid person, even the Holy Mother can't bless him." He dared to make 'rogue dishes' for us to eat at the finals of the 'World's No. 1 Chef's Tournament', and tried in vain to squeeze out all the 'food points' in our hands...... Hehe, that kid really doesn't know how high the sky is and how thick the ground is. Chairman Wan, the quality of your 'soul cooks' in Kyushu this year is worrying. ”

Wan Hailong didn't like to hear this, and said: "Except for a 'little brother who sprinkles salt' in your country, the performance of other people seems to be mediocre. Besides, the 'hot pot' hasn't been cooked yet, so how can you be sure that it must be a failure? Let's wait until he's ready, Mr. Olivier. ”

Olivier Rum, the second-in-command of the Na'vi Gourmet Association, has a big shoulders and a round waist, a face full of meat, and a burly body.

I only heard him smile and say: "That's right, then let's see what tricks that little guy can play - I hope his 'hot pot' can be served in front of us." The implication is that the little guy probably won't even have a chance to bring the hot pot to everyone to taste.

"Huh." Wan Hailong smiled.

Athena saw that the atmosphere had changed a little, and smiled: "That little doll is still quite interesting." As far as I know, the hot pot used in Qin Taizu's 'hot pot banquet' was a copper pot with a thickness of five centimeters and a diameter of 90 centimeters. Copper, homophonic system. And the parameters of the copper pot symbolize the ninety-five supreme. After that, the pot is filled with delicacies from the mountains and seas, fresh and dried goods, implying that 'the Ninth Five-Year Plan supreme unifies the world'. Now that he deliberately chose the same copper pot to make the dish, it seems that he still has a lot of ideas. ”

"You're talking about 'dominating the world', right? Hehe, hearing you say this, I have some expectations," Wan Hailong also became a little interested, "I hope he has that ability." Back then, 'Qin Taizu' also enjoyed the 'Domination of the World Pot' in this place, if he can make some tricks and let us taste the taste, this is also a good talk. ”

Olivier Rum listened and laughed: "Heh, heh! He only laughed and didn't know what he was trying to say......