Chapter 307: The Manchu and Han Banquets
"No, he knows that Zuo Dengfeng is joking." Yu Fu said with a smile.
"That's not easy to say, he was scared by Zuo Dengfeng." Iron Shoes shook his head and said.
Between the three of them, there was already a welcome to bring tea, the three of them sat down for a while, and Yufu picked up the teacup and smelled it before taking a sip, "Lushan clouds."
Although Zuo Dengfeng does not understand the tea scripture, but several famous teas still know, Lushan Yunwu is also one of the famous teas, smell the fragrance and wake up, drink it refreshingly.
At the time of a cup of tea, the old manager walked out again and invited the three of them to a separate private room, which was located on the top floor, condescending, with a wide field of vision, and a long mahogany table placed in the middle, which was more than a foot long.
"There is only one chef on duty in Juxian Lou every time, and I have sent people to gather the other seven, please Zuo Zhenren, Cui Zhenren, and Master Mingjing to sit down for a while, and the banquet will start after half an hour, and the matter is in a hurry, and the dishes cannot be served in the established order, but there is no shortage of dishes." The old manager said to the three of them, "You have done a lot of things in the past ten minutes." Zuo Dengfeng said with a smile, the old manager had only left for a while, and he had already found out the identities of the three people.
"Don't dare, don't dare, three of you wait, the banner will be hung out immediately, and the musician will arrive later." The old manager wanted to leave the room as he spoke.
"Don't be so particular about eating, and don't want musicians to hang any banners." Zuo Dengfeng waved his hand and said.
"Yes." The old manager should be quitting.
It didn't take long for a group of young women wearing cheongsams to come up, holding wine pots and teacups, and two of them stood behind each of them, these women were waiters, who were responsible for serving tea and pouring water, passing dishes and serving dishes, Zuo Dengfeng and Yufu were a little better, and two big beauties stood behind the iron shoes made him very awkward, Zuo Dengfeng smiled when he saw this and dismissed them, leaving only two people who passed vegetables and two people who poured tea.
After a while, three more men came up and brought three copper basins to their feet.
"Amitabha, what's the use of this pot?" Iron Shoes asked suspiciously.
"It should be used to store leftover bones and shrimp skin." Zuo Dengfeng said.
"Zuo Zhenren doesn't know, this is used to carry mouthwash, and every dish needs to be rinsed." At that moment, the old manager came up and stood at the top of the stairs.
Zuo Dengfeng coughed twice when he heard this, what the old manager said was right, if you have to rinse your mouth when you go back to more than a hundred dishes, you must spit out the mouthwash, otherwise you don't have to eat anything after drinking more than 100 mouthfuls of water.
"Open the table, go to Junshan Silver Needle." The old manager shouted.
After that, someone immediately came up to pour tea, which was the opening tea of the Manchu and Han banquets.
Then there were four kinds of dried fruits, four kinds of dates, and four kinds of platter, and four kinds of pickles, all of which were very common, and the plates were very small, and there was only a little bit of each.
The old manager has been standing at the staircase to report the name of the dish, and the sixteen dishes came up, and the three of them didn't move their chopsticks at all, because dates, sweet garlic, pickled cucumbers and the like were very different from the Manchu and Han banquets that the three of them imagined.
"Bean noodles are a delicious product." The old manager once again shouted the name of the dish, and as soon as the words fell, a woman who passed the dish brought a plate of dumplings.
"Look at it, it's really a steamed bun." Hearing this, Tie Shoe looked at the plate of dumplings, and then looked at Zuo Dengfeng, his brows furrowed, and he was very unhappy.
"Shopkeeper, do you eat these things at the Manchu Han banquet?" Zuo Dengfeng frowned and looked at the old manager standing at the top of the stairs.
"Zuo Zhenren, please wait, it will take time for the main dish to cook." The old man smiled and said.
"A dish of minced pork and baked cakes." The old manager then reported the name of the dish, and as soon as the words fell, three fires came up from the servant.
"Donor, he doesn't have a good temper." This time, he couldn't even look at the iron shoes, and stretched out his hand to point at Zuo Dengfeng and said to the old manager.
Zuo Dengfeng couldn't cry or laugh when he heard this, and the iron shoes were not satisfied, so he buttoned the black pot on his head and scared people with him.
"Master, the Manchu and Han Dynasty banquets are indeed these, the three Xuanmen masters are here, how dare the small shop fool." The old manager hurriedly explained.
"It seems that the emperor doesn't eat well." Iron Shoes spent the night last night, and this morning he didn't eat, and he was already hungry at the moment, so he muttered and picked up the baked cake and ate it.
"You two have a taste too." Iron Shoes is still very satisfied with the fire.
Zuo Dengfeng and Yufu looked at each other and smiled when they heard this, they both waved their hands and shook their heads, the good dishes are all behind, who will eat the fire.
The so-called minced meat cakes are the size of wine cups, a total of three, and the iron shoes will wipe out all the baked cakes with the sauce and cucumbers.
Then there was another dish served below, and it was driven away by the old manager's hand, and this time it was Cixi's small nest head, if it was served again, there was a danger of being beaten.
The old manager of "Pearl Tofu Yipin" finally waited for a hot dish.
When the dishes were served, Zuo Dengfeng tasted a mouthful of soup, which should be boiled with unsalted old soup, the tofu is round, the taste is good, and the entrance is smooth.
Zuo Dengfeng and Yufu tasted it at the end of the day, the iron shoes were monks, and the monk had a great preference for tofu, and a bowl of pearl tofu made him move his eyes.
"Master, take the tofu floating on top of the broth, the flavor of the lower layer is heavy." A kind reminder from the old manager.
Iron Shoes nodded at him when he heard this, but he didn't listen to him, and he still fished under the sea with a spoon.
"A taste of pine lion's mane mushroom." The old manager reported that since the chefs were not all in place, the dishes that were easy to cook were served first.
This time, Yufu and Zuo Dengfeng both moved their chopsticks, and the lion's mane mushroom is the most precious in the mountains, the yield is scarce, and the taste is extremely delicious.
"Zuo Zhenren, the yin and yang of lion's mane mushrooms are paired, and only by eating one of them on the left and right can you taste its deliciousness." The old manager explained again.
Zuo Dengfeng nodded when he heard this.
Then most of the dishes that came up were vegetarian dishes, and the old manager kept explaining and guiding on the side, and finally annoyed Zuo Dengfeng and drove him away, this guy stayed by the side, and the three of them would not eat.
But soon Zuo Dengfeng asked people to call him back again, because without his explanation, the three of them didn't know what they were eating.
Vegetarian and vegetarian dishes are relatively easy to cook, so at the beginning they were all vegetarian, and the three of them did not eat a dish to rinse their mouths once, and at the end of the meal, they had numbness in taste, and they had no choice but to rinse their mouths every time.
Because he knew that there were more than 100 dishes in the Manchu and Han banquets, Zuo Dengfeng and Yufu were all shallow to taste, and the iron shoes could not be wasted, and each plate had to be eaten a lot before it was willing to be served.
"The Manchu and Han banquets are divided into six meals in three days, if you eat it all at once, you can taste it, otherwise you won't be able to eat it last." The old manager spoke.
Zuo Dengfeng and Yufu nodded when they heard this, eating is best done within half an hour, it is easy to lose appetite after eating for a long time, but the Manchu and Han Dynasty are full of tricks and tastes in the later stage, and there are always a few products that are especially for the appetite of the two, and they are already full if they don't pay attention.
The speed of frying and frying is about the same, these categories are mixed, fat cows, lambs, elk, hares, chickens and ducks, shrimp ginseng, abalone mandarin fish, a brain on the top, Zuo Dengfeng and Yufu sat on the side, the two used the same copper basin to accept mouthwash, and the remaining two copper basins became the thirteen and the boss's food basin, and the meat was poured in one go.
A meal was not eaten until the palm of the lamp, stews and baking were more difficult to cook, ranked last, and in the end came up either meat or soup, in fact, by this time the three of them were already full, and the thirteenth and the eldest had already left the copper basin, but the Manchu and Han Dynasty were full of gold, a thousand taels of gold, and they had to eat to the end anyway.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the three of them really couldn't eat, and saw that the roasted brown and dripping hares and ducks had vomited **, and asked, there were more than 20 dishes, some of which required a variety of processes to make, and there were also ingredients that were not ready and were being quickly transported elsewhere.
"Let's go." Zuo Dengfeng got up and said.
"It's long overdue." Jade Fu smiled and stood up.
"Wait, wait, take some with you, you won't be able to eat in the future." Iron Shoes sat reclining in his chair and did not immediately stand up.
"Summer food is not easy to preserve, don't bring it." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said.
"With you, it can't be broken." The iron shoes stretched out his finger and pointed to Zuo Dengfeng's right hand, which meant that Zuo Dengfeng would send out Xuanyin True Qi to freeze and cool down.
Zuo Dengfeng shook his head helplessly when he heard this, and after waiting for a while, the roast suckling pig came up, and the iron shoes asked for paper and string, and they were lifted up after the bundling.
The old manager of Juxian Lou was already exhausted, and when he saw that the three of them were leaving, he immediately went to Yang He Chunlu to send off the three of them, and the remaining twenty or so dishes were all the rarest and most difficult to cook, if the three of them really had to wait until the end, Juxian Lou really couldn't take it out, the time was too hasty, and the ingredients were not prepared.
In addition to the jade whisk to eat less, Zuo Dengfeng and Iron Shoes, including the thirteen and the boss all ate it, leaving Juxian Building, the three of them found a high-end hotel to rest, Zuo Dengfeng asked for two rooms as usual, all of them were on the top floor, north and south.
"Zuo Dengfeng, I have something to tell you." Yufu shouted to Zuo Dengfeng, who wanted to enter the room.
Zuo Dengfeng glanced at Yufu, turned around and followed her into the room.
"What's the matter?" Zuo Dengfeng sat on the sofa opposite the bed.
"What's next for you?" Jade Whisk untied his Dao robe and began to disassemble the protective gold armor on his body.
"At present, there are only two Yin earth branches left, a fire snake and a earth cow, the fire snake must be in Lop Nur, the earth cow should be in the territory of Qi State, that is, the area of my hometown, I don't want to touch Jiang Ziya's mausoleum yet, I want to go to Lop Nur." Zuo Dengfeng said.
"Lop Nur is a desert Gobi, and it is all a no-man's land." Jade Fu pondered for a moment and spoke.
"I know." Zuo Dengfeng nodded.
"A few days will be the birthday of the patriarch of the Chenzhou faction, and in addition, the taboo of my parents and my sister is also coming, I have to go back." Jade Whisk placed the disassembled gold armor aside.
"Well, don't worry about going back, Master Mingjing and I will go to Lop Nur first, you leave the green worms, and we can exchange news when the time comes." Zuo Dengfeng nodded and said.
"Okay." Yu Fu took out a bamboo tube from the inside of the robe and handed it to Zuo Dengfeng.
Zuo Dengfeng took the bamboo tube, and then took out a rune paper from the jade whisk's robe, folded it in his hand and closed his eyes, "This rune paper contains my peak aura, if you encounter difficulties, you can set it on fire, I can feel it immediately." ”
"Okay." Jade Fu smiled and took the paper talisman.
"When are you leaving?" Zuo Dengfeng asked.
"Tomorrow morning." Jade Whisk raised her hand again to unbutton her little coat.
"I'll send you away tomorrow morning, I'll go back first." Seeing this, Zuo Dengfeng hurriedly stood up and walked to the door.
What he didn't expect was that Yufu quickly shook his body to block him, his eyes were staring straight and his eyes were burning, "If you are still a man, you will stay tonight." ”