Lian Kecheng was slightly stunned when he heard that the name of the dish reported by Hugo was so simple and straightforward, that it could not be more ordinary.

"Your cooking seems as simple and rustic as yours." Lian Kecheng couldn't help but smile and said: "I'm a federal soldier, and I'm used to dealing with steel and guns all day long, and I don't know how to cook this kind of thing at all." But I just saw that before the steaming tray was put into the steamer, those yellow loaches were not in the center of the tofu, how did you get it? ”

Lao Yang also nodded curiously. In terms of taste, Zuo Minglei's rose loach is full of salty and fragrant, the sauce is rich, and the loach skin and meat are crispy and tender, but it seems that Zuo Minglei's yellow loach tastes a little strange, but I can't say where the blame is; Hugo's loach drill tofu highlights the word tender, the tender feeling when the loach is just sandwiched into the mouth makes people wonder if the loach is still swimming in the tongue, the temperature of the sauce soaked in the skin and flesh under chewing is just right, and the extremely delicious burst out in the mouth, making people involuntarily slow down the intensity of chewing, for fear that the chewing will be too fast to let the taste buds taste the complete taste. Lao Yang is sure that if he lets himself judge, then Hugo's dishes are obviously better, but he doesn't know how these Shangdu people who have been tasting delicacies for a long time taste what their tastes are...... What also puzzled Lao Yang and the onlookers was that they saw that the yellow loaches were only placed on the edge of the steaming tray before entering the pot, and the steaming time was not long.

Hugo smiled slightly, leaned down and picked up a chopstick Zuo Minglei's rose loach and tasted it carefully, as if after confirming something, his face showed a strange expression, some smiles but it didn't seem to be all smiles. Putting down the chopsticks, Hugo helped the chef's hat on his head and said to the audience: "This method was told to me by others." Before the steamer entered the steamer, the loaches were indeed outside the tofu, and I did not completely disembowel the whole loach like the left shopkeeper, but only made a small knife at the tail of the loach and took out the inedible internal organs, so before entering the steamer, in fact, those loaches were not completely dead, so as to ensure the fresh taste of the loaches to the greatest extent. ”

Hugo paused, he saw Zuo Minglei who was tasting his own dishes with a puzzled look in his eyes, Zuo Minglei only lightly chewed Hugo's yellow loach and his face changed drastically, and then he tasted his own rose loach, and his face changed again.

"As the temperature rises in the steamer, the yellow loach that prefers a cold and damp environment will writhe restlessly, and they will naturally burrow into the coldest place in front of them, the huge piece of cold tofu ......" Hugo continued: "The tofu starts at a very low temperature in the steamer, but it quickly becomes hot because of the hollowness. After burrowing into the tofu, the loaches will be submerged in the prepared sauce, and they will instinctively suck the sauce frantically, and the sauce will be transmitted to every inch of the body by the rapidly rising temperature, which is the internal flavor process. When the yellow loach inhales the sauce into its body and penetrates it thoroughly, the excess sauce begins to heat up, and the temperature in the steamer, the tofu and the sauce in the body become hot together, and the loach that penetrates into the tofu is thoroughly steamed. In this way, the final result is a 'steaming tray in the pot, tofu in the pan, and loach in the tofu'. ”

Hugo stood up straight after speaking in a steady tone, with a smile on his face that could not be concealed, as if at this time he could find some of the vigor and demeanor that a twenty-year-old boy should have, and the red sister below waved her hand happily at him, and then wiped the sweat from her palms secretly. "This kid scares me terribly."

Zuo Minglei on the side heard Hugo finish talking about the reason for the loach drilling tofu, his eyes showed admiration, and suddenly he seemed to remember something, his face was very wonderful white and red for a while, and he shook his head and sighed lightly.

After listening to Hugo's words, everyone tasted the two dishes in front of them, and they all showed admiration. The yellow loach that every household has made and eaten is everywhere in the vicinity of Tongjia Town, and chives, green and red peppers, and tofu are also extremely common and ordinary ingredients, but Hugo and Zuo Minglei have combined them in an unprecedented form. Regardless of the rest, the whimsy of the two of them is not comparable to those ordinary restaurant chefs in Tongjia Town.

Lian Kecheng looked at Hugo, then at Zuo Minglei and said, "Little boss, what do you think of the rose loach of the shopkeeper Zuo?" ”

"The left shopkeeper has excellent knife work and deep basic skills. Loach is a cold food, green and red peppers and chives can best neutralize the cold nature of yellow loach without destroying the taste of the meat itself. It's just ......" Hugo embarrassedly dropped the hem of his clothes with his hand, and did not continue.

"I also tasted the rose loach of the left shopkeeper just now, and the taste is indeed rich and delicious......," Lao Yang interjected, and he said with some uncertainty: "But there seems to be a trace of inexplicable taste, which makes people feel uncomfortable......

Lian Kecheng saw that Hugo was embarrassed to speak, knowing that he didn't want to fold Zuo Minglei's face in front of everyone. I can still taste that taste, let alone him? Presumably he knew Zuo Minglei's mistakes in his heart, but he didn't say it to his face, and he was not arrogant or impatient, waiting quietly, but he was a kind-hearted child...... Lian Kecheng thought secretly in his heart.

"This yellow loach is firm and delicious, and I still remember when I was a road soldier in Tongjia Town, our whole team liked to eat this thing. However, there is one, the yellow loach grows in the puddle of the mire for a long time, and a large amount of sediment will inevitably accumulate in the body, so the yellow loach can not be eaten immediately after catching, it must be stocked in clean water for two or three days, and so it will spit out the sediment and loess in the body, and cover it with side dishes when cooking to reduce the earthy smell, but it can not be completely eliminated, which is also the fundamental reason why the yellow loach is not widely loved. Lian Kecheng stood up and looked at Zuo Minglei, "The yellow loaches used by the two of you today are all fresh goods that I sent someone to catch near noon, and the difficulty of this topic is naturally how to deal with the earthy smell of fresh yellow loaches." The left shopkeeper has actually done a very good job, rinsing and removing organs are very fine and thorough, and the taste of green and red peppers and chives also covers the earthy smell of yellow loach, which is indeed worthy of the title of chef. Zuo Minglei on the side was sweating profusely, bowing his head again and again, not daring to answer.

Lian Kecheng looked at Hugo with a smile again: "Unfortunately, the little boss you met today not only made a dish with good color and flavor, but what surprised me the most was that he was able to completely cover the earthy smell of the yellow loach." Little boss, can you tell me how you did it? I'm really curious. ”

"I didn't try to hide the earthy smell of the yellow loach...... Hugo scratched his scalp embarrassedly, "even what you said earlier, staff officer, is good, it's just ...... You say that the earthy smell of yellow loaches cannot be completely eliminated, but this sentence is not true. ”

"What do you mean?" Lian Kecheng was puzzled, he thought that Hugo used some method to perfectly cover the earthy smell, but he didn't expect Hugo to give an answer that was completely unexpected to him. "This earthy smell is the smell of the yellow loach itself, how can it be completely removed?"

Hugo turned and took a few steps back into the console where he had been, scooped up a bowl of water from an empty bowl in the pool, and picked up something from the pool and held it in his left hand. He put the bowl of water in front of the table and said, "This is the water I just used to clean the yellow loach, please wait a moment." ”

Everyone stared at the bowl on the table, and as the water in the bowl slowly stopped, they saw that the sediment that had been washed out of the yellow loach slowly began to deposit, forming a faint layer of loess at the bottom of the bowl. Lao Yang's eyes were sharp, and he saw that there seemed to be some white particles the size of needles on this layer of sediment, and wondered: "What are these white particles?" ”

"It's meteorite radioactive fallout. Tongjia Town and many places in Xiaye are built in or near the craters, although the huge craters on these home planets were left countless thousands of years ago, but from the previous meteorite impact to the present, there will still be a trace of meteorite dust left at the bottom of the muddy puddle where the yellow loach grows. This thing may have a trace amount of radiation, which is not very good for the human body to eat...... Although the amount is very small, it has little effect, but the strange smell of yellow loach that cannot be removed is the smell of these meteorite radioactive dust. Hugo reached out a finger to the bottom of the bowl and gently pinched a few tiny white particles and placed them in front of his eyes.

Lian Kecheng looked at the particles on Hugo's fingertips, and then looked at the bowl of water that Hugo scooped out of the pool of the operating table, and said: "No wonder the left shopkeeper started early just now, but you didn't seem to be in a hurry to watch from the side...... But how did you get all this pinpoint-sized meteorite radiofallout out of the yellow loach? ”

"Use this." Hugo stretched out his left hand, which he had been clasping, and spread out his palm, revealing what he had just fished up in the pool.

"It's ...... Ice mushrooms? Lian Kecheng looked at the white mushrooms lying quietly in Hugo's palm and couldn't believe it, these ice mushrooms are also things that are everywhere after the rain. How do you get those meteorite radioactive dust out of ice mushrooms? ”

"Those meteorite radioactive dust are relatively heavy, but the volume is very small, and it is difficult to clean out the body of the yellow loach. When the yellow loach is placed in the water soaked in the ice mushroom umbrella cover, the yellow loach feels the ice mushroom mycelium in the water, which is invisible to the naked eye, and will quickly expel the sediment and radiation dust in the body by itself, which is one of its habits. As he spoke, Hugo bent down and picked out a yellow loach from the straw basket and threw it in the pool, and broke a few ice mushroom umbrella covers and put them in. In front of everyone inside and outside the mediation hall, they saw that the yellow loach writhed on its own after a while, and a faint wisp of yellow dust rose in the water, and began to expel the sediment and radiation dust from the body.

"I see, little boss, you really opened my eyes!" Lian Kecheng sighed sincerely, and Adjutant Xu on the side also looked at Hugo and nodded again and again, his eyes full of admiration.

"I admit defeat, little boss Yu, I am convinced of the loss." Zuo Minglei, who had been silent, raised his head and said to Hugo sincerely: "I always thought that my cooking skills were almost the same as yours, and I even thought that if the chef of Canglanju changed me, business might be even better than now, I was really wrong...... Even if it's a simple competition, you can use the touch screen to precisely control the temperature inside the steamer, so that the loaches can keep the tofu cold and the environment inside the pot hot when they drill into the tofu. After the loach drills into the tofu, the temperature in the steamer is instantly increased to steam the loach to ensure that the loach will not writhe due to the high temperature and destroy the integrity of the tofu. I am ashamed of this operation and accurate calculation of temperature. Zuo Minglei hugged Hugo deeply, lowered his head and said, "I will definitely keep the gambling contract and leave Tongjia Town tomorrow." Saying that, Zuo Minglei's eyes seemed to be crystal clear, and he was a little reluctant.

Although he moved to Xiaye from Xihai Prefecture, after all, he has lived in Tongjia Town for more than ten years, and he has long had feelings for the simple people of Tongjia Town and this place. He dared to pat his chest and say that food is for the sky in Tongjia Town for more than ten years, and he has never done a bad deal, even if he has cut prices and profits in the past two years because of competition with Canglanju, he has never sold a bowl of rice in the store that cut corners...... I am willing to gamble and lose, the old man will not turn back, Zuo Minglei didn't think about it anymore, and he bowed his head and turned around to leave.

"Wait, the left shopkeeper, I have something to say." Hugo hurriedly called Zuo Minglei in the back.