Chapter 104: Back to Basics (Part 1)
About ten minutes later, several pots of hot oil were placed in front of Bai Chang.
"Now, I need some service staff to help me with this hot oil and pour it on top of these semi-finished dishes. But be aware that the oil to be poured on each dish is different, so don't make a mistake. ”
The Shao family's private club naturally will not be short of manpower, and there will be waiters who will come forward to help immediately.
Bai Chang stood at the chief table, scooped up a spoonful of hot oil from the first oil pot, and poured it on top of the plate of cold radish skin.
The hot oil was poured on top of the dish, and with a snort, the hot oil spread rapidly.
Suddenly, a hot and spicy pepper fragrance, mixed with a special radish fragrance, came to the nose.
Those originally crumpled radish skins actually stretched out in the hot oil, giving off an attractive sheen.
The guests at the table invariably took a deep breath.
Such an ordinary cold radish skin, just the aroma emitted, actually makes people feel refreshed.
A guest raised his nose again and again, and couldn't wait to pick up a piece of radish skin and put it in his mouth.
Crisp, refreshing, sweet, slightly spicy with radish, but not uncomfortable.
Moreover, the skin of this radish has obviously been salted for a long time in advance, and the taste is very full, and at this time, it is poured with hot oil, which makes the salty taste even better.
Chewing and chewing, two lines of tears flowed from the man's eyes.
"I remember that a few decades ago, I lived in the countryside with my parents. At that time, life was very hard, and the family would often use wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, and this radish was also a good thing. ”
The eyes of the people around him were fixed on him, obviously waiting for him to continue.
"In a year of famine, sometimes I don't even have to eat wild vegetables and turnips. That day, I couldn't stand the hunger, my mother went outside, I don't know where to pick up the radish skins that others had discarded, mixed them with salt, and our whole family survived with the pile of radish skins, and went to the county to distribute relief food. ”
"However, I ate too much radish skin, my stomach was spicy every day, and I didn't even have oil at home, so I often thought at that time, if I had a good life, I would put a lot of oil in it when mixing the radish skin, so as not to make it taste so spicy."
"But then things got better, and I never ate it again. Come to think of it, this is probably the most memorable dish in most of my life. ”
"But I never expected that such an ordinary cold radish skin that is not elegant at all can be so delicious. I believe that a chef who can make such a small dish with his heart must be a person who loves life and is full of sunshine in his heart. ”
As he spoke, he slowly stood up and bowed deeply to Bai Chang.
"Thank you, little chef, if I have the opportunity in the future, I will definitely visit your restaurant, and I will bring my elderly mother and tell her that in the current materialistic era, there are still people who remember such a dish, although it is very inconspicuous, but it once saved the lives of our whole family."
There was silence in the hall.
For a long time, I don't know who took the lead, and suddenly thunderous applause rang out.
Most of the people who can sit here today are middle-aged, or even more than half a hundred years old, with gray temples.
Who hasn't survived those hard years?
Let's ask, who has not suffered and been tired when starting a business is hard?
Coriander root, radish skin, celery leaves, wowotou, mixed vegetable porridge......
These dishes, which seem insignificant and even contemptuous today, are actually the most memorable foods in the depths of their hearts among these celebrities, officials and businessmen.
The man who was noisily leaving just now looked at the table in a daze, and suddenly picked up a nest head of cornmeal mixed with elm leaves.
"When I was a child, my family was poor, and there was a shortage of materials, and the children had no snacks. This kind of nest head is also often eaten. I haven't eaten it in over 40 years. ”
He stared at the head of the nest in his hand and took a bite.
The soft cornmeal, mixed with the sweetness of elm money, tastes like it is at this moment, back to forty years ago.
"It's delicious, it's so delicious, the cornmeal was dry and hard, you must drink water frequently when you eat, otherwise you will be choked, but this nest, this nest...... It's the best wowotou I've ever eaten in my life. ”
As soon as these two people took the lead, the hall suddenly boiled.
"I remember that in the past, my family was reluctant to throw away the coriander root, so I often mixed it with salt and sesame oil."
"Yes, and celery leaves, and this watermelon rind, I've eaten them all."
"This thing, I remember that the Northeast is called oil poof? This is the most gluttonous thing when I was a child, I boiled oil with fatty meat, and the rest of this is a snack, which tastes fragrant and crispy, and you can also make dumplings, which is really a fragrance. ”
"I eat this mixed vegetable porridge the most, but at that time, the family bought it with food stamps, and everyone's rations were not enough.
The hundreds of characters in this hall, who were either rich or noble, actually began to reminisce about the bittersweet and sweet memories at the same time, recalling the years that had long passed.
Bai Chang smiled slightly, and said loudly: "Don't worry, this is just the first dish, now, let's work together to finish these dishes, I believe that in everyone's years, there will actually be such a dish that will be unforgettable for a lifetime." It may not be the most expensive ingredient, nor is it a delicacies of the mountains and seas, but it is an indispensable memory in our lives. If you feel that the food I made today is still to your taste, then if there is anything that you can't eat in other restaurants in the future, you are welcome to visit the Baijia Hotel. ”
This time, no one refuted, and there was a round of applause in the hall.
Immediately afterwards, Bai Chang scooped up a second spoonful of hot oil and poured it on top of the boiled soft cabbage.
"This is actually a whole cabbage, remove the outside of the cabbage, only the center of the cabbage heart, with a knife cut into 32 parts, so that the most flavorful, and from a distance, it is still a whole cabbage, but after pouring hot oil, it will change."
As soon as he finished speaking, after the cabbage was heated, it slowly separated, 32 cabbages were neatly stacked on the plate, and under the cabbage, there were boiled dark brown chestnuts, and the hot oil slowly flowed down, and the chestnuts emitted a sweet fragrance.
This dish not only looks good in color, but also has a fresh and tender cabbage and a fragrant chestnut, which makes people can't help but have a great appetite when they see it.
When the dish was fully formed, there were countless exclamations around him.
This is called the real transformation of decay into magic.
This is the back-to-basics of cooking.
The ancient food culture of the land of China has been vividly brought into play at this moment.
The attendants around were also stunned, and then, under Bai Chang's command, they hurriedly concocted the same.
In the hall, everyone's attention was attracted by these eight inconspicuous dishes.
Bai Chang poured spoonful after spoonful of hot oil, and each dish had an amazing effect.
In the end, Bai Chang also added a spoonful of hot oil to the pot of mixed vegetable porridge.
The sweetness of the rice grains, mixed with the fragrance of mixed vegetables, filled everyone's sense of smell and taste buds at this moment.
Shao Tiezhu's face was full of spring breeze, and he seemed to be very proud.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I now declare that the banquet has officially begun."