Chapter 175: Buying Ingredients
In the afternoon, Sophie opened two rooms directly in the hotel of Mais, and the three of them stayed here, and the time he agreed with Meiss was in the evening, when the store had the most customers, so he and Meiss each made a dish of their own in the back kitchen, and tasted it for the guests in the store, and won the most votes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Before Su Fei came to this world, he often cooked at home, but it was very simple home cooking, and he didn't learn how to cook, so he ...... He wasn't too sure about this competition.
Su Fei's advantage is that he can directly purchase all kinds of spices from the earth from Taobao, and he is from the Celestial Empire, a country of foodies.
You must know that the level of civilization in this world is probably equivalent to the medieval Europe of the earth, and in Europe at that time, the cooking methods were nothing more than this, frying, frying, stewing, Roasted, take the dish that Sophie ordered in Mais's shop at noon, the pickled vegetable and fish soup is to stew the fish and pickles into a pot, and the venison is simply grilled directly over the charcoal fire, as for the green vegetables, it is just soaked in hot water, the reason why Sophie thinks it tastes good is also because the fish itself is delicious enough, and the mushroom soybean sauce is well done.
However, in the Great Celestial Empire, cooking techniques were first divided into two types: cold and hot, and just hot dishes included stir-frying, bursting, boiling, frying, cooking, frying, boiling, pasting, scooping, burning, stewing, simmering, baking, grilling, roasting, salting, smoking, mud roasting, boiling, boiling, steaming, drawing, honey, sugar water, shabu-shabu...... And so on more than 30 kinds.
Sophie recalled how many dishes he would probably make, and soon, he made a decision.
Braised pork, this is a dish that is very widely spread in the Celestial Empire, almost every household has made it, and it is not complicated to make, but the taste is very good, and the practice of braised pork alone can be subdivided into more than 20 kinds in the Great Celestial Empire.
People in this world mainly eat all kinds of barbecued meat or stewed meat, and presumably braised pork will definitely make them refreshed.
But when it comes to Raphael, Sophie plans to go to the town this afternoon, since it is a place where food is the main industry, there must be other interesting places, eh...... For example, the market.
Su Fei has been to the Fang Market in King's Landing City Commercial Street more than once, and has a certain understanding of the situation of the Fang Market, because King's Landing City is near the sea, so there are a lot of fresh sea fish for sale in the Fang Market, and there is a strong fishy smell in the Fang Market every day, and then there are common vegetable farmer stalls, most of them come from the villages around King's Landing, and every morning they bring their own vegetables to King's Landing City to sell, and then buy other daily necessities.
Sophie walked out of the inn and into the streets of Raphael.
Raphael's town was not large, and the core area of the town was not much larger than the commercial streets of King's Landing, and he soon came to the town's market by asking passers-by.
Raphael's survival is the catering industry, so the market here must also be particularly developed, otherwise how can it support the daily needs of all the restaurants and restaurants in a town?
Raphael's market is not in a huge building, but an open-air market, with two rows of shops on the side that have a façade to shelter from the wind and rain, and the stalls in the middle can only be held up with a wooden frame and a black cloth to block the sun.
Walking in the middle of the small stalls, listening to the sounds of selling and bargaining, Su Fei suddenly had the feeling of visiting the market as a child, which was different from the feeling of King's Landing, and the market in Raphael Town seemed to be more in line with Su Fei's impression of the word "market".
Rows of vendors with their belongings, spread a cloth on the ground, sat on the ground, and began to sell their goods when they saw someone.
Most of the stalls on the ground sell vegetables, fruits and some daily necessities, after all, if you put the meat in this kind of sunny place, it is easy to spoil, or it will be dried directly, and fruits and vegetables, as long as you sprinkle a little water on them from time to time, you can maintain a good appearance.
Since he decided to make braised pork in Meis's shop at night, Su Fei also had to come out to find the ingredients, although he has Taobao, but you must know that just talking about the ingredients, all the ingredients in this world are pure natural and pollution-free green food, whether from the perspective of health, or from the taste, they are much better than the animals on the earth that grew up eating feed, the reason why Su Fei feels that the food here is not delicious, on the one hand, because the cooking level of the people here is really not high, on the other hand, it may be that Su Fei has not adapted to the eating habits here。
Braised pork, naturally indispensable meat, Su Fei walked around the market, and then walked to the store specializing in selling all kinds of meat, the price of meat is not cheap, after all, in the era when everything is fine when everything is fine when food and clothing are satisfied, most people can not enjoy the taste of animal muscles every day, after all, the grain is directly eaten by people, and the livestock are raised with grain, and then the meat is given to people to eat, the former can feed more people.
Of course, except for the fish, the fish in the lake feed almost all the villages around the lake, so far, the fish in the lake are still inexhaustible, just like the Celestial Empire decades ago, the poor farmers around Yangcheng Lake are living by eating hairy crabs, the preservation technology is not mature, even if there is delicious fish and meat can not be transported over long distances, only the fishermen can eat it themselves, and after making salted fish, the delicious taste of the fish itself will definitely be missing a lot.
In the butcher shop, pork is very rare, after all, pork needs to be artificially raised, and it is better to cultivate a wheat field to raise a pig, so the game in the butcher shop accounts for the majority.
There are no wildlife protection laws in this world, and since wild animals are everywhere, you can get more delicious venison with a bow and an arrow, so why raise pigs.
Money is not a problem for Su Fei, although he is not a rich party now, but he can still afford to buy some pork, the pork in this butcher shop looks like it has just been slaughtered, Su Fei directly asked the butcher to cut a large piece of meat in front of the belly of the pig's front leg, the pork fat and lean meat in this position are staggered, the proportion is the most perfect, it is suitable for roasting braised pork, and the pork meat is pink, without the influence of drugs, this bright color represents that the pork belly is very fresh.
After buying the pork, Su Fei didn't need other ingredients, such as light soy sauce for braised pork, rock sugar, and several spices, so Su Fei decided to buy it directly from Taobao.
Walking through the entire market, Su Fei secretly sighed, Raphael Town is really a town with food as its main industry, and the huge market is actually full of buying and selling ingredients, Su Fei can also see people buying and selling whole baskets from time to time, presumably they are all guys sent by the restaurant to purchase.
After picking up a large piece of pork belly tied with straw rope in his hand, Su Fei walked towards Mais's hotel, there is nothing to visit in this other part of Raphael Town, and the people who come here are nothing more than to taste the craftsmanship of chefs from all over the kingdom, but Su Fei is not idle to go to every restaurant to experience it now, and when he returns to the hotel room, Su Fei still has to remember the steps of cooking braised pork.