Chapter 6 Gluttonous Feast
A small cold jade cart with gold trim slowly pushed in from outside the Nine Heavenly Gates. The delicacy that is not like what should be in the world is getting richer and richer, and Kaiyuan and others are more and more intoxicated with this dreamy aroma, unable to extricate themselves.
The cart was a tall and powerful old man dressed in a chef's suit, with bulging muscles.
This box-shaped Hanyu cart has a total of six layers. Through the crystal cold jade, you can vaguely see that the upper fifth layer seems to be the gluttonous meal they are going to eat this time, and the sixth layer seems to be the props used to eat these delicious foods.
"Ah, Chef Qiulong, why did you come here in person, you could have asked the people below to send it over!" Shangguan Yu woke up from the delicacy and said with a respectful expression after discovering the old man.
"Haha, I heard that Brother Xiaoyu, you have a guest coming, as your friend, how can you not come in person? At the same time, I was involved in this cooking, so I would like to tell you how to eat more deliciously! The sturdy old man replied with a smile while looking at Shangguan Yu's guests.
Shangguan Yu was very moved, because the old man in front of him was very unusual, but he was approachable, and when he first arrived, the old man gave him a lot of help.
"Come on, let me tell you about it, this old man is the head of the Dandao Department of Kaiyuan Academy, and he is also the head chef of Kaiyuan Restaurant, Brother Qiulong. Brother, this is my brother-in-law, the head of the family, happy. This is my own nephew, Kaiyuan. As for Zhang Li, I won't say much about the ones you know. Shangguan Yu introduced.
"I've seen the predecessor of Qiulong, and I have seen Grandpa Qiulong!" The three of them said to Qiu Long.
"It turned out that the head of the family and Ling Lang came, disrespectful and disrespectful, and Zhang Li's little girl, why did you come here to eat? Is your grandfather's old guy here? Qiu Long greeted everyone with a smile.
Zhang Li pursed her rosy lips and said, "Grandpa Qiulong, people are not here to eat, they are just ...... It's just, oops, I won't tell you! ”
Zhang Li shyly lowered her red face.
Seeing this, everyone felt that this girl with a hot figure was quite cute when she was shy, and they couldn't help but laugh.
"Chat at the gossip table, look at your gluttony, I can't wait!" Qiu Long quipped.
From the first level of the jade cart, Qiu Long brought out a tray with eight delicate jade square trays, each with a cylindrical seaweed roll, and it was impossible to see what was in the bread in the seaweed roll, but he could smell the aroma that made the pores relax.
The old man placed the tray on the giant stone pier. "Take it yourself, appetizers, big belly hand rolls. When dividing the bluefin squirrel, the big belly of the bluefin squirrel is chopped, and then wrapped in a seaweed roll, without putting any other seasonings, just to maintain the delicious fragrance of the big belly, mixed with the fragrance of laver, the taste should be good, come to Kaiyuan and Zhang Liya to eat two, one of us adults. As he spoke, he picked up one himself, took three bites, and put two bites into his mouth, and after eating, he had a satisfied look on his face.
At this time, the old man took out a silver metal box from the sixth layer of the cold jade cart and placed it on the small stone pier.
When the silver metal box opened, a faint white gas emanated.
"White wine." Zhang Li's face showed a hint of joy.
Kaiyuan said curiously: "How do you know that it is white wine?" ”
"Because of the temperature and taste." Zhang Li explained: "Different wines are suitable for different temperatures, red wine is suitable for drinking at 15 degrees, the incubator at this temperature can not appear that faint white gas, and white wine is suitable for drinking temperature of 5 degrees, this situation will naturally occur." Of course, champagne is also very cool, but this meal is obviously not suitable for champagne, so it must be white wine, and only white wine can bring the umami of seafood to life. ”
The old man Qiu Long first took out five wine glasses from the box, and then a bottle of wine, much larger than the ordinary wine bottle, it was actually a three-liter bottle, seeing the LOTU**AX on the wine label, Zhang Li was slightly disappointed, "It's a bit ordinary." ”
The old man glanced at her with a smile and said, "With the bluefin squid, it's good to have a little white wine, what else do you want to drink?" ”
Shangguan Yu smiled: "But it's okay, it's also a big bottle, and the quality should be good." ”
The old man Qiulong gently pushed, and the wine bottle moved to Shangguan Yu, and at the same time, a seahorse knife used to open the wooden cork was thrown over.
Shangguan Yu skillfully uncorked the bottle, picked up the wine bottle, buckled his thumb into the bottom of the bottle, supported his four fingers underneath, walked to the old man Qiulong, and poured him a little first.
The old man shook the wine glass, sent it to the tip of his nose and smelled it, then drank it in his mouth, and after a slight aftertaste, he nodded to everyone and said, "Although this bottle of liquor is only at the village level, it is in good condition, which is the advantage of large bottles." ”
"How good is the big bottle?" Kai Yuan asked curiously.
Shangguan Yu said with a smile: "The larger the bottle of wine, the more liquor there is, and the longer it can last if it is preserved, if it is an ordinary 750 ml bottle, it can only be stored for 30 years, then a point of 5 liters can be stored for more than 40 years, and this 3 liters can be stored for a longer time." Moreover, when tasting it, because it is the same bottle of wine, the amount is large enough, so that the contact time between the wine and the air becomes longer, and the drink changes differently. Therefore, the same wine, the same large bottle of the same style must be of higher value and better quality, especially for old wine. ”
Shangguan Yu said while pouring wine for everyone, and when he walked in front of Kaiyuan, he said to Kaiyuan with a smile: "Manly wine should be cultivated from an early age, drink less, it's okay." ”
"Well, my uncle is right! A real male god, you can't be cowardly! Kaiyuan said with an old-fashioned look.
Kaiyuan learned from the old man Qiu Long shook the wine glass, the faint fragrance of white wine echoed at the tip of his nose, took a sip, and suddenly a clear and sweet taste came down his throat, making people feel as if the body was transparent, although the little face became red, but the eyes became bright!
Inside the hand roll is pink minced meat. The appearance is not very attractive, and when I smell it on the tip of my nose, there is not much else to smell, which is very surprising!
"Grandpa Qiulong, tell me why this fish is so distinctive!" Kai Yuan asked like a curious baby.
The old man said with a smile: "Since Xiao Kaiyuan asked so, I will also introduce it to you!" ”
"Bluefin tuna lives in the deep sea of the far north, is a variant of bluefin tuna after evolution, weighs more than 500 catties to be considered an adult, after catching ashore, it is not fresh to be the most delicious, but needs to be transported during the process, frozen and preserved for five days before it is the most delicious. Give it a process to release amino acids, and after five days of acid depletion, its taste will reach its most perfect state. That is, what we are going to eat now, the fattest place on the bluefin kunfish is the belly, which is the position of the belly of the fish, and the belly of the fish is the most belly, although these minced meat are not the most essential part of the belly, but it is definitely delicious in the world! ”
Flavor! This is the first feeling of opening the rim after the big belly hand rolls into the mouth. He didn't even know how he ate a whole handroll, and when he took a sip of the crisp and sweet white wine, the fragrance was pushed to the extreme.
After a long time, Kaiyuan came back to his senses, and couldn't help but shout: "It's delicious!" ”
"There's something better to eat later, don't get excited!" The old man said with a smile.
Not long after the first hand-rolled was eaten, when everyone was still in the aftertaste, the second dish came up with small copper hot pots. One per person, and below is an alcohol lamp. The small hot pot is a very simple kelp soup. As for how the kelp is selected, that's another story.
A plate of pink rectangular fish fillets, slightly darker than the belly, was brought out of the second floor of the cold jade cart by the old man Qiulong.
"Midbrain, eat shabu-shabu, just pass the water, the color will turn white, don't soak it for too long." The old man sat down as he spoke. Shangguan Yu poured him a glass of white wine.
Shangguan Yu said to outsiders such as Kaiyuan: "The middle belly is also a part of the fish belly, not as fatty as the previous big belly, you can eat it with shabu or raw, in order to neutralize the taste of the previous dish, it will not feel greasy, so this dish will be eaten shabu." ”
Stacks of sauces are sent to everyone, kelp soup boiling, fish meat in the pot, almost the instant when the fish goes down the color from red to white, the fish fillet is sandwiched, dipped in a little seafood vinegar, added to the sauce made of various ingredients, sent to the mouth to take a bite, the bite can be seen, the fish outside a circle is white and red inside, just like a hawthorn cake covered with a layer of hoarfrost.
It is not as fragrant as the belly, but when it is served with sauce, it is more delicious and has an excellent taste.
A few refreshing side dishes were also placed on the stone pier for everyone to eat.
The hot pot is followed by sashimi and eaten raw. Large belly, medium belly, and fish meat are divided into three colors, light pink, light red, and dark red. The three colors of fish are cut into the same size and served with freshly ground green wasabi from wasabi.
A bluefin mackerel weighing more than 500 catties is too big. There is no way the five of them can eat. So the old man selected the best part to make this feast.
"The last course is the grilled fish head and neck." Old Man Qiulong brought out a giant tray from the fifth floor of the cold jade cart. The huge head and neck of the fish on the tray were grilled brown and presented to everyone.
The fish head looks a bit hideous, and compared to the previous dishes, this appearance is really a bit flattering.
"It's so ugly, can it be delicious?" Kai Yuan asked suspiciously.
But as he spoke, two men had already taken the lead. Two pairs of Chinese chopsticks poked out almost at the same time, each snatching a fish's eye, and then the chopsticks flew up again and plunged into the fish face meat the size of a basin. One of these two people is Zhang Li, and the other is Shangguan Yu.
"I'll go, do you want face?" Happy and open edge, although I don't know if the fish head is delicious or not. But they all know that Shangguan Yu and Zhang Li are veterans. I don't know how delicious this thing is.
After knowing that it was delicious, the father and son also began to divide the battlefield with the old man Qiulong, and the huge fish head was taken away by these five people in a blink of an eye.
The old man said with a smile on the side: "People who know how to eat know what is the best, and ordinary people will never be able to eat fish heads and necks." Because these delicious parts are eaten by gluttonous cooks. Bluefin mackerel is a deep-sea fish, and in this head, no matter what kind of fish it is. All of them are rich in gum, the taste is the most delicious, and it is the best of the best. ”
Sure enough, when the first bite of fish face meat was in the mouth, Kaiyuan felt a mouthful of strong fragrance mixed with delicious gum filling the mouth, and the taste buds began to explode! Compared to the previous fish, this time the fish face meat was much sweeter, and the feeling of explosion was deeply imprinted in his mind.
Addicted, they began to scavenge the head and neck of the fish for all kinds of flesh, and after a long time, the giant head and neck had been eaten clean. Everyone touched their round stomachs, with a satisfied look on their faces, and a look of comfort!
This is the perfect end to this gluttonous feast! Everyone was happy, and they sat on the small stone pier with satisfaction, smashing and smashing their mouths to recall the delicious food just now.