Flower Banquet (2)
The guest's surname is Sun, and his single name is a white character. For as long as he can remember, he has felt that his grandmother has always been sad between her eyebrows. His grandfather left early, and his grandmother lived with them. One day, he finally couldn't help it and asked, "Grandma, what's on your mind?"
His grandmother trembled and took out an old photo album and wiped away her tears in an instant: "Good grandson, grandma made a mistake when she was young and lost your little aunt!"
Only then did Sun Bai know that he also had a little aunt.
For so many years, the lost little aunt has become a grandmother's heart disease, and she no longer tortures her all the time. My grandmother died the year before last, and when she was dying, she still thought about her little daughter. In fact, the family has been trying to find it, but there has been no news of the little aunt. Grandma passed away with great regret.
Not long ago, he suddenly had a reply under the content posted on the family search website. There is an IP that someone abroad left a message for him, maybe his mother is their long-lost relative.
Sun Bai hurriedly contacted the other party, and after several verifications, he finally came to a conclusion: it was his aunt!
My aunt still has sporadic memories of her childhood, and she is constantly preparing to go home to recognize her relatives, and also to ...... Burn a stick of incense for your parents.
Flowers and dishes are the birthday banquet specially prepared for her by her grandmother when her aunt celebrated her fifth birthday. My aunt has been beautiful from the bottom, and my grandmother hopes that she will bloom like a flower in the future.
Yu Jian silently listened to Sun Bai's story, and probably had an idea in her heart, she smiled slightly and comforted him: "I understand, you go and pay the deposit."
Sun Bai's eyes lit up, he stood up and bowed to her: "Little boss, then thank you first!"
The first time he came to Yu's restaurant happened to be the final of the food competition, he had just undergone a sixteen-hour operation, and he was tired and hungry. Originally, he just wanted to go back to catch up on his sleep after a simple meal, but the waiter enthusiastically served him tea, and then he was nourished by the hot mutton soup, listening to the applause of the diners around him, and then looking at the few meals left in the bowl. For the first time, he felt that chefs, like other doctors, could really save people from life and death sometimes.
Later, he inadvertently talked about Yu's restaurant in the office, and the intern who was sorting out the patient's information instantly became interested and described to him all the delicious dishes in the restaurant. Only then did he know that the Yu family restaurant was so famous in the catering circle of the capital.
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Two days later, on the last Saturday before the Chinese New Year, Sun Bai took his aunt and a family to step into the door of the Yu family's restaurant.
Zhou Xiaoyan waited at the door of the big box, pursed her lips and smiled: "Please come in—"
Pushing open the door, Sun Bai's alarm clock instantly appeared with two poems: one is "the grass is green and willow is yellow, the peach blossoms are chaotic and plum flowers are fragrant", and the other is "the lotus leaves are infinitely green, and the lotus flowers are different red in the sun".
Everyone was shocked by this prosperous beauty, and their eyes were entangled among the flowers and plants, and they were reluctant to look away for a long time.
It was Sun Bai who settled down first, "Let's sit down." said to Zhou Xiaoyan again, "I'm bothered."
This room full of scattered flowers and plants, in the harsh winter wind and snow of this lunar month, is like a fresh warm current, wandering in everyone's veins.
On the dining table, six cold dishes have been placed, and the names of the dishes are written on the small wooden pieces, and the small Kai is upright, and the delicate atmosphere is like the plum blossom bones that are budding in the spring of this garden.
Vinegar sauce hibiscus, lotus pigeon slices, magnolia with jellyfish, morning glory and braised cabbage, and a rose salad. Sun Bai nodded secretly, and also took into account his aunt's eating habits abroad.
Just thinking about it, Zhou Xiaoyan came in with a teapot, "Clove ginger tea, drink a small cup to warm your stomach first."
The color of the tea is bright, Zhou Xiaoyan raised her hands with some elegance between her head and feet, scooped out the brown sugar foam from a small jar, stirred into the tea, and the sugar-stained tea turned red.
Sun Bai took it, only felt that the spicy ginger was mixed with the fragrance of flowers, and there was honey with sugar, which was slightly hot in the hand, but it was fragrant. Take a sip, but the taste is unexpectedly soft, slowly flowing through the throat, leaving a mouthful full of sweetness and fragrance.
Aunt Sun was also treated with this kind of flower material
Attracted, drank a cup but was not enjoyable, poured another glass and rubbed it in his hand.
"The guests will eat the cold food first, and the hot food will be prepared immediately." Zhou Xiaoyan refilled the teapot with water and withdrew, leaving a private space for the family.
Sun Bai first tasted the vinegar sauce hibiscus. Peel the hibiscus into petals, leaving only the most tender part, such as rinsing in clean water many times, draining and mixing in seasonings, and soaking the petals with juice, it can be eaten. Originally, Sun Bai didn't have much expectations for this flower banquet, but in winter, when the flowers withered, it would be good to barely be able to get some petals.
Unexpectedly, just a dish of flower tea opened his eyes, and the hibiscus flower in his mouth ......
Sour, sweet, and salty, the three flavors alternate repeatedly in the mouth. The sourness makes the sweetness clearer, the sweetness makes the saltiness more profound, and the salty aroma makes the acidity more refreshing. This layered taste stimulated his taste buds and went straight to his heavenly spirit cover.
Rose salad alone pierces the heartstrings from the morphological point of view. The color combination of lettuce leaves, carrots, gherkins, asparagus and bright red roses made Aunt Sun, who already has a strong sense of aesthetics, admire: "God, this is simply God's art!"
Crispy.
It was the first feeling that this dish gave to Aunt Sun. The rose petals are frozen in ice water, with a hint of coolness, and after chewing, the fresh taste becomes long. Carrots and cucumbers are cut into tasty little cylinders that crunch when you bite into them.
There was also the faint sweetness of fruit in the sauce, mixed with floral fragrance that lingered in her mouth.
She sighed faintly, "It turns out that flowers can still smell like this."
Meat dishes have a completely different texture.
The pigeon wrapped in lotus leaves is soaked in floral spices, and the whole body is filled with a special aroma. Poke with chopsticks, the meat is softly pulled into a silky shape, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as soft and crispy.
Aunt Sun put this shiny and glossy pigeon meat in her mouth, with a steady stream of floral fragrance in the salty freshness, and the fresh aftertaste of summer lotus leaves, as well as the charcoal gas after the flame erupts after roasting. Just this bite, I really want to make people look up and sigh, how can a delicious one describe it!
"Knock-"
The waiter tapped on the curtain, and when he was answered, he walked in with a cart.
Aunt Sun and Sun Bai looked at the dining car at the same time, and their eyes were instantly misty.
The dishes on the porcelain plate may be red or yellow, blue or purple, but without exception they all say the same thing: "Come and taste it, I'm delicious—"
"Boom."
I don't know who it is, swallowing clearly and loudly.