Chapter Twenty-Eight: Cooking

Lao Zhao's biggest secret in making fish soup is not the selection of fish meat and bones, nor the ingredients and secret recipes, but ...... Pressure cooker!

Lao Zhao said that with a pressure cooker, the fish bones are prefabricated before making fish soup, so that the bones will soften under the action of high temperature and high pressure, crispy, and become less prickly, thus solving the fatal shortcomings of carp soup. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, using a pressure cooker to process fish bones also invisibly increases the difficulty of making soup, because to make fish soup, you can't press the fish bones too much, in that case, the bones and flesh will be sparse, and it will become "paste", which will not only indistinguishable the fish and bones, but also affect the dining experience.

Therefore, using a pressure cooker to prefabricate and turn off the heat and simmer requires extreme precision control, not only to make the fish bones crispy, but also to make the fish bones and fish flesh full and distinct, so that they do not "melt" in the soup.

And all this exquisite control has become possible in the hands of Zhao Haipeng.

With Lao Zhao's superb pyrotechnic skills, we can "smash" fresh fish bones into a semi-gelatinous shape, under his prefabrication, those fish bones seem to be independent one by one, but once eaten, they will decompose into a crispy and then glutinous "bone crisp".

In this way, the fish soup made with bone crisp will not hurt the throat, but will increase the consistency and chewiness of the soup, so that customers can better comfort them at 12 o'clock, and it will gradually enter the customer's stomach.

Lao Zhao's craftsmanship is exquisite, so our crispy bone fish soup is naturally popular, although the customers who taste it did not say, but the smiles on their faces speak for themselves.

Shui He was very attentive, and when the voting and tasting stage was about to end, she pushed my shoulder and said, "I counted it just now! We have more than one hundred and thirty votes! Wufenglou soup came late, at most fifty! Other stalls were even worse, especially Hu Mad Dog's Sanjing Hotel...... There's no one going anymore!"

Hearing this, I smiled, looked up at our Luweiju banner on the table of the game, and suddenly had a feeling of high spirits.

Bowing my head, I asked Shui He with the tone of who is competing: "Then today's interim champion is ours, right?

Originally, I thought that Shuihe would respond to my excitement, but I didn't expect this careful Nizi to shake her head at that time and said: "Our current results, it should be no problem to enter the top five, but I want to win the championship......"

Instead of speaking, Shui Lotus pouted and motioned for me to look in the direction of the southeast corner of the exhibition.

Following her point, I turned around, looked diagonally across the booth, and ......

I saw a booth with a crowd of people on a par with us, and a banner in the middle of the crowd.

On the flag of the competition position, there are three clear big characters written, I know all the words, not only do I know, but I am also very familiar with it!

And those three words are nothing else, but they are...... Xiantang Building.

When I saw the banner and transcendent popularity of Xiantanglou, I didn't feel surprised, because Xiantanglou must be a time-honored brand that started with soup, and the soup dishes are good, which is understandable.

But even so, I'm still very curious, curious about why those people are so eager for the soup in Xiantanglou, and what different tricks do they have for making soup?

With the mood of exploration, I turned to Zhao Haipeng and said, "That...... Brother Zhao, the voting session of the event is almost over, you and Shui He will rest first, I will go out to see the craftsmanship of Xiantang Building, and by the way, take a look at their ballot box!"

Lao Zhao nodded, first followed me to see the popularity of the Xiantang Building, and then thought about it a little, and gave me a preventive injection: "The Xiantang Building is good at soup dishes, it can't compare to normal, don't be red." ”

I nodded, smiled, and then left my booth, went around a few times, sneaked into the crowd of people waiting in line at Xiantang Building like a thief.

After following the diners to the seat of the Xiantang Building, I saw that the father and son of the Shen family were busy. Although I was low-key, so low-key that I couldn't be more low-key, this sharp-eyed Shen Shen still recognized me from the crowd after just glancing at the team.

In the end, it is the chef of Lu cuisine, his eyes are ...... It's really poisonous!

After seeing me, Shen Shen was stunned for a moment, and then turned to me as if he had caught a long worm and smiled: "Oh! Isn't this the boss of Lu Weiju?

When Shen Shen recognized me, I was quite bored, because what did I say? I can't say that I came to "inspect the enemy's situation," right?

Therefore, after thinking about it, I smiled slightly and said sloppily: "That...... I came to sell soup at noon, I was hungry, come to you to find something to eat, pad, pad!"

"Oh, this is fresh!" Shen Shen smiled, "Isn't there soup and vegetables there there is also Boss Huo, why did you come to me?" ”

Shen Shen's question is enough to make me unable to get off the stage, and we are afraid that Shen Shen will ask me this.

However, fortunately, we reacted quickly, and as soon as he said it, I immediately changed my tone and responded: "I thought about it a long time ago...... Oh, no...... I sold out a long time ago! My place was so hot that all the soup was snatched up by the customers, and I regretted not keeping it for myself!"

Seeing my remarks about returning to the store, Shen Shen lowered his head and smiled, and then personally served a bowl of soup and handed it to me.

Holding the steaming food, Shen Shen half-teased me: "If this rice seller starves himself to death, won't it be a joke?" Boss Huo eats it while it's hot, don't burn it." ”

I nodded, took the hot soup, looked at it, and was stunned.

I blurted out, "Smash the fish soup!"

"That's right!" Shen Shen's son Shen Wang replied to me, "Where is Boss Huo?"

Hearing this, I nodded awkwardly.

Hitting the food in this food competition is as embarrassing as hitting the shirt in the fashion competition, because the meaning of the call is too obvious.

But fortunately, I don't have any grudges with the Shen family father and son, and the Shen family father and son don't seem to be the kind of people who love hypocrisy.

In response, everyone wisely chose to smile and remain silent, and they continued to sell the soup, while I stepped aside, how to walk and feel like a thief.

After that, like a spy on the military, I quickly studied his bowl of soup after everyone's attention deviated from me. Blow off the heat and flakes slightly, then take a bite to chew.

I want to see what is so special about the craftsmanship of this fairy soup building.

When the fish soup was imported, I was filled with the sour, spicy and fresh aroma, and I felt the taste of those fish bones melting in my mouth, and at the same time, I was desperately aware of ...... I lost the championship.

In all fairness, the father and son of the Shen family are the same as Lao Zhao in the craftsmanship of making fish soup, and the two of them unanimously chose the production method of crispy fish bones, less fish meat, and original juice and milk soup, which is inseparable in terms of craftsmanship and heat.

However, the Shen family is a chef from "Ginkgo Fruit", and Xiantanglou is a time-honored brand that specializes in soup dishes, and it is even more unique in cooking.