Chapter 289: Eight Treasures Exquisite Soup
Ling Xiao glanced at the Eight Treasures Exquisite Soup, and said meaningfully: "Shopkeeper Duan is polite, the word 'master' is ashamed to be ashamed. β
With just one glance, he could see through the method used to make this soup.
Eight kinds of high-quality ingredients, including his familiar "prawns", "snow needle beef bones", "spirit grass" and so on, are boiled through a variety of complex processes and heats, which can be called the culmination of the chef's painstaking efforts, and the taste is of course extraordinary.
Ling Xiao took a sip and nodded secretly.
This soup is delicious, thick but not greasy, and the taste of each ingredient is clearly retained, and it really deserves the name of "signature dish".
But that's about it!
This soup places too much emphasis on taste, but ignores the most fundamental goal of spiritual foodβthe efficiency of spiritual energy absorption.
Such a soup, no matter how delicious it is, is difficult to enter the eyes of Ling Xiaofa.
Duan Guangxiong closed his eyes and tasted for a while, then opened his eyes and asked with a little meaning: "Daoist Minggu, how is this soup?" β
Ling Xiao knew it in his heart.
It's time to get down to business.
This banquet is fake, and it is true to test Ling Xiao's cooking level.
I don't know what the purpose of this man is.
Looking for your own chef?
Ling Xiao smiled secretly, put down the spoon, and asked rhetorically, "What does Shopkeeper Duan want to hear?" β
Although it was only a superficial taste, Ling Xiao already had several plans to improve the Eight Treasures Exquisite Soup in his mind.
It's not hard for him at all.
After all, he was born on the earth, and he has an extraordinary vision in terms of food, plus he has learned the seven cooking techniques of the Xuangui Sanren, and he cooks soup almost every day, and his cooking attainments are no less than the Xuangui back then.
Thinking of this, Ling Xiao also had to sigh that in the hundreds of years after the death of the Xuangui Sanren, the cooking skills of the Immortal Cultivation Realm were not stagnant.
For example, the Eight Treasures Exquisite Soup, although it has many defects, is also the best food that Ling Xiao has eaten outside so far, and in terms of recipes and skills, it still has great potential.
He admits that he became interested in the recipe for Babao Linglong Soup.
Duan Guangxiong said with a smile: "Duan naturally wants to listen to the opinion of the Taoist leader, is there any deficiency in this soup?" β
Ling Xiao smiled and said meaningfully: "High-end ingredients often only need the simplest cooking methods - this sentence is well known in my hometown. β
Duan Guangxiong raised his eyebrows and said thoughtfully: "What does the Taoist mean is that the Eight Treasures Exquisite Soup can be simplified a little more?" β
Ling Xiao snorted and said with a smile: "Poor Dao said casually, Shopkeeper Duan doesn't have to take it to heart. β
Duan Guang snorted coldly in his heart.
In just three or two sentences, Ling Xiao had already turned passive into active, which made him feel a little unhappy, so he could only say with a straight face: "Dao Leader might as well speak up." β
"I won't tell you anything, since I saw the Dao Chief's soup cooking technique that night, Duan Mou admired it very much, if the Dao Elder can really improve the Eight Treasures Exquisite Soup, you and I can cooperate!"
Duan Guangxiong's tone was sincere, and he looked straight at Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao asked, "What kind of cooperation method?" β
Duan Guangxiong said: "It depends on the level of the Taoist, for excellent cooks, we are in the restaurant business, will we still be lazy?" β
"That's true."
Ling Xiao smiled and nodded yes, but there was no follow-up.
Duan Guang's ambition was secretly annoyed.
The attitude of the other party is clearly that there is no rabbit and no eagle.
After pondering for a moment, Duan Guangxiong waved his hand and said, "Please come over Master Huang." β
After a while, a middle-aged man with a good bearing stepped into the wing, came to Duan Guangxiong, and arched his hand: "Shopkeeper, are you looking for me?" β
Duan Guangxiong got up with a smile and introduced, "This is the head of Minggu Dao, a distinguished guest, who has a lot of research on soup dishes. Dao Chang, Master Huang Shi is the head of the restaurant, and the eight treasures exquisite soup is Master Huang's best dish. β
When Huang Shi heard this, his face flashed with pride and pride.
In his life, he relied on Babao Linglong Soup to make a name for himself, and before he entered Zhenlong Restaurant, the five major families all threw olive branches to him.
"Hello, Michido Mingya." Huang Shi said hello lightly.
Seeing that Ling Xiao looked poor and despaired, he despised it a little at the beginning, secretly thinking that you, a poor Taoist priest, can you taste what delicacies from the mountains and seas, and dare to say that you have studied soup cuisine?
"Hello." Ling Xiao smiled, unimpressed by Huang Shi's contempt.
Duan Guangxiong said with a smile: "Master Huang, Daoist Minggu is full of praise for the Eight Treasures Exquisite Soup. But listen to what he meant, there may be a simpler way to cook this soup, Duan thinks you are an expert, so I asked you to come over and ask for advice. β
When Huang Shi heard this, his face suddenly fell, and he said gloomily: "Although Huang's soup is difficult to be elegant, it is not something that a cat or a dog can comment on!" What advice does the Taoist have for you? β
Ling Xiao swept his eyes at Duan Guangxiong, and there was a hint of coldness in his eyes.
The other party openly offends people with words that he has not said, and he really doesn't take himself seriously.
If he doesn't show his hand, I'm afraid the other party will continue to kick his nose in the face!
Duan Guangxiong was originally smiling, but as soon as he came into contact with Ling Xiao's eyes, a layer of cold sweat suddenly appeared behind his back, and he was secretly shocked in his heart.
He originally wanted to find Huangshi to provoke Ling Xiao and force him to show his hands, but it seemed that he offended this Taoist priest.
Before he could think about it, Ling Xiao had already said lazily: "Eight treasures exquisite soup, hmm! The shrimp is sweet and loses its freshness, the meat is rotten and tasteless, the deer tendons are weak, and the autumn bamboo shoots are not crispy...... The soup base is even more free from the whole dish! There is also the lion core grass added at the end, which only cares about refining the aroma, but evaporates all the aura in the grass, which is a waste! β
Huangshi was suffocated.
At first, he didn't think so, but when Ling Xiao revealed the defects of the Eight Treasures Exquisite Soup, Huang Shi's heart had already set off a monstrous wave!
The Taoist priest in front of him saw through these after only a few sips?
Huang Shi gritted his teeth and said: "What you said is indeed the shortcomings of the Eight Treasures Exquisite Soup, but these problems are not only flawed, but also beyond the scope of your and me's capabilities, and it is impossible to improve them at all!" β
It's easy to ask questions, but it's hard to solve them!
Huangshi has optimized the recipe of Babao Linglong Soup for so many years, but it has always been difficult to improve, and he thinks that he has reached the limit.
Ling Xiao laughed and said, "What's so difficult about this? Anyway, you don't want the aura of the spirit grass, isn't it more affordable to replace the lion core grass with the cat core grass? β
Huang Shi sneered: "The frog at the bottom of the well! You haven't tried it when I have? The cat's core grass spirit is thin and thin, and it can't withstand the aura structure in the soup, so it's useless! β
Ling Xiao squinted at him and said, "You still know the aura structure, it's not hopeless. Who said to change only one ingredient? In addition to the lion core grass, the deer tendon is replaced with the hoof tendon, the green lamb belly is replaced by the white lamb belly, and the Xuanwang clam is replaced by the Yunxi snail. β
"You...... What did you say?! β
Huang Shi couldn't help but take a step back and looked at Ling Xiao in surprise.
What Ling Xiao said was to change the 4 second-order ingredients to first-order ingredients, and they were also the most simple first-order ingredients!
In this way, the aura structure in the soup is simplified, and the cat's core grass is bound to be integrated into it.