Chapter 32 Eating hot pot
The weather is getting colder and colder, and it is already autumn.
Sima Shao prepares the whole hot pot to come out.
Eating alone, I always feel that there is something less, and there are more people eating hot pot, Sima Shao thought about it for a long time, and decided to go to the city to order the ingredients first.
"Ying'er, Yue'er, you can accompany me to the city to buy some ingredients." Sima Shao said to the maids who were cleaning the house.
"Oh, Your Highness!" The maids agreed in unison and followed Sima Shao out.
The group walked towards the largest restaurant in the city.
On the way, the maids talked a lot.
"Huh? What is Your Highness going to buy? Ying'er asked curiously.
Sima Shao smiled: "I want to make a hot pot." ”
"Hot pot? A fiery pot? ”
The maids looked at each other.
What is this, I have never heard of it, and I have never heard anyone mention it.
"Your Highness, Your Highness. What is hot pot? Jiang Yue asked with a puzzled expression.
Sima Shao thought about it, but patiently explained: "It is to put vegetables, soy products and meat into the pot and boil, with the bottom of the pot prepared in advance, and after the vegetables, meat slices and the like are fully cooked, take them out and put them in a bowl and dip them in some seasonings." "
"Oh." The maids nodded as if they didn't understand.
They really haven't touched this kind of thing.
The two maids chattered about the hot pot that Sima Shao said.
"Your Highness, what ingredients to buy?" The maid asked again.
"Just buy some, don't be too expensive, just normal." Sima Shao said,
"You all see. We'll meet here later. The maids looked at each other, and thought to themselves that this would not be bad, anyway, it wouldn't cost a few dollars, and it wouldn't be too expensive, so let's buy some casually.
So the maids discussed what to buy for themselves.
Sima Shao watched the interaction of the maids with a smile on the side, and he was happy in his heart.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, would you like to eat some fruit?" After the maids had discussed enough, one of them suddenly asked.
"Okay, you can go get some for me, we can use it when we eat later." Sima Shao said with a smile.
"Hmm." The maids nodded with a smile on their faces.
The maids discussed as they headed to the other side of the street.
Sima Shao waited in place for a while. When the maids were far away, they walked towards a nearby vendor.
The stall was very small, like a small shop, with some simple daily utensils in it, Sima Shao looked around, and found no special food, so he walked up to the stall owner.
"Big brother, do you know where to sell cooked food?" Sima Shao asked with a smile.
This is a very simple vendor, he saw Sima Shao's appearance, and smiled honestly.
"I'll take a look, Childe, what do you think of the stuff here?"
Sima Shao looked around and found that there were only a few xiaolongbao, a fried dumpling, and some salted egg yolks or something, so he nodded with a smile.
"Well, that's it."
"Okay, Childe, wait a minute."
Sima Shao was excited when he thought of eating hot pot at night.
Hot pot is almost everyone's favorite in modern times.
After a while, the maids brought over the food they had bought, and it looked very rich.
"Alright, let's go back and get ready, that's all we have to do for a while." Sima Shao said happily.
The maids nodded.
When the group returned to the house, Sima Shao began to instruct the maids to wash and cut the food and put it on a plate.
"Ying'er, Yue'er, you help me move those ingredients to the kitchen, and we'll start preparing later."
"Remember, don't leave for a while, just stand by and watch, and maybe we'll have a meal from time to time. Teach you, and I'll have it much easier. Sima Shao instructed.
When the two of them heard Sima Shao's words, they couldn't help laughing, and their laughter trembled.
Sima Shao was stunned by their laughter, are all girls in this world this virtue?
"Ying'er, Jiang Yue, if you still laugh, if you dare to laugh again, I will punish you for not being allowed to eat later." Sima Shao said viciously.
Jiang Yue and Ying'er hurriedly stopped laughing.
Sima Shao saw that they finally stopped laughing and breathed a sigh of relief, these maids are quite easy to deceive.
Sima Shao sent someone to transfer a cook from the imperial dining room, and with a cook here, it would be much more convenient to get things.
Let the chef make sesame sauce and chili sauce first, which is an essential seasoning for eating hot pot.
Then he made a chicken stew and used chicken broth as the base soup.
Add green onions, ginger, garlic and other seasonings. In this way, the taste of the hot pot is delicious enough.
When the chicken soup was cooked, Sima Shao asked people to find a large ceramic pot, and there was no stainless steel in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so they could only make do.
Then he ordered someone to light a stove on the table in the front hall, put the ceramic pot on it, and then put the cut ingredients bought in the afternoon on the table.
Seeing that it was almost done, Sima Shao began to beckon people to eat hot pot.
At first, the people in the palace still adhered to etiquette, and felt that it was unreasonable to eat at the same table with the prince.
Under Sima Shao's repeated coercion and temptation, Ying'er and Jiang Yue took the lead, and they all finally sat down.
Sima Shao sat on the main seat, Jiang Yue and Ying'er sat on his left and right hands respectively, and the rest of the maids lined up in a circle in turn.
Sima Shao looked at them with a smile on his face.
"Your Highness, shall we begin?" Ying'er asked.
"Well, let's start, don't be restrained." Sima Shao opened his mouth and said.
A group of people began to choose their own dishes.
"I'd like to put the fish on top first, and then I'll put the meat slices later." Ying'er said.
Jiang Yue also nodded in agreement.
"Okay, Ying'er, you can put those slices of meat over there." Sima Shao said.
"Yes, Your Highness." Ying'er nodded and stepped aside with the minced meat.
Jiang Yue watched Ying'er pick up the meat slices, then turned around and walked to the other side, placing the vegetables next to the meat slices.
Sima Shao couldn't help but smile when he saw the movements of the two.
These two girls are quite interesting.
"Wow, Your Highness, this hot pot is delicious, I've never eaten it like this."
Jiang Yue exclaimed, giving a thumbs up while eating.
"Your Highness, the taste of this hot pot is very delicious." Ying'er also said with praise.
"Eun, it's really good." Jiang Yue also echoed.
Seeing these two people so lively, the rest of the people also became lively.
......
Sima Shao was not polite, picked up the chopsticks and took a green vegetable and tasted it.
"It's really good."
"Your Highness, how could you do this? We won't be able to do it well in the future. The maids grinned.
"Well, I'll make hot pot for every meal in the future." Sima Shao said jokingly.
"Hahaha......" For a moment, everyone laughed happily.
Sima Shao also laughed, and he was very happy in his heart.
This hot pot is the most comfortable meal he has eaten since he came to this world.
It's not as good as modern, but it's already very good.
This time it was very successful, and Sima Shao was in a good mood when he thought that he could often eat such delicious hot pot in the future.