"Lao Liao, you're boring!"

Shen Han was very helpless: "You are purely raising the bar." ”

"Then don't raise the bar with me, find someone else!"

Liao Wendong waved his hand and drove away in disgust.

“……”

When Shen Han heard this, he was suddenly helpless, so he could only look back at Li Yi.

Li Yi looked at Liao Wendong, who was holding his arms and squinting at him, shook his head with a smile, and asked jokingly: "Master Liao, do you want to try my dishes?" ”

"That's right, you just say you dare, right?"

Liao Wendong looked at him impatiently.

Li Yi glanced at Shen Han, who was looking at him, and nodded with a smile: "Okay then!" It seems that Master Liao is not at ease with my level! Then I'll make a little stir-fried meat, please ask Master Liao to comment on it! ”

He took Shen Han a million, of course he couldn't sit back and watch Shen Han being so difficult.

"Stir-fried pork?"

When Liao Wendong heard this, he was stunned and a little incredulous: "You did it on purpose?" ”

"That's right!"

Li Yi spread his hands: "Manager Shen said, what you are best at is fried meat, and you must have a good understanding of fried meat."

Then I'll make sure to make a dish you're best at, let's communicate with each other to confirm it, otherwise wouldn't it be a waste of such a precious opportunity to communicate? ”

“……”

Hearing his words, Liao Wendong was a little stunned.

He thought that Li Yi was ridiculing and provoking him.

But looking at Li Yi's look and tone, it didn't look like he was joking.

For a while, Liao Wendong didn't even know whether he should be angry or laugh.

Hearing Li Yi's words, Shen Han also thought that he had heard it wrong.

Although there is an obvious gap between Liao Wendong's overall level and Li Yi, stir-fried pork is his housekeeping dish, and Li Yi wants to cook his best dish in front of him, are you sure he is not slapping him in the face?

Seeing Liao Wendong's expression becoming strange, Shen Han hurriedly came to Li Yi and whispered, "No, can't you say goodbye?" Do you have to make stir-fried pork?

It's really not good, you can just make that crispy back to the pot meat, isn't that dish also very good? ”

Li Yigang wanted to speak, but Liao Wendong laughed: "Haha! Good! Just stir-fry the meat! Do it! I've got all the ingredients here, you can do whatever you want! Ha ha! I'd love to taste what your stir-fried pork tastes like. ”

Hearing his laughter, Shen Han knew that his temper had come up.

Donkey's friends are often donkeys, and Liao Wendong's temper is the same as his, otherwise he wouldn't be friends.

But this time, Liao Wendong is estimated to kick the iron plate.

Sighing, Shen Han explained to Li Yi: "Old Liao is not bad, he has no heart. ”

What he meant by this was to let Li Yi do it lightly.

Liao Wendong was still smiling happily, and he also called a lotus worker to help Li Yi.

When I heard that someone was going to make fried meat in front of Liao Wendong, everyone in the back kitchen gathered around and looked lively curiously.

And at this look, someone soon recognized Li Yi, and immediately whispered.

"Isn't this the Yi brother?"

"That's right! In the Chinese restaurant, his cooking skills seem to be quite good. ”

"How awesome! His frying skills and knife skills are so good! It looks like a special effect. ”

"Isn't he cooking court food? How do you make stir-fried pork? ”

"Who wouldn't know how to make stir-fried pork? It's nothing more than whether it tastes good or not. ”

"No matter how good he is, he is still too arrogant to make fried meat in front of the boss, right?"

"Don't mention other dishes, it seems that no one in Star City has made it better than the boss, right?"

"Didn't you see the boss laughing? There is a specialization in the art industry, and he makes small fried meat in front of the Hunan chef, I don't know what he thinks. ”

Listening to the whispers behind him, Li Yi didn't care, just checked the materials brought by the lashew, and then ordered: "Replace the meat with small tenderloin for me." ”

When the dealer heard his words, he couldn't help but be stunned: "Little tenderloin? Is the stir-fried pork fried with pork belly? ”

Liao Wendong also laughed again: "Haha! Whether you can cook or not, you can hear it in a word, and this is the first time I've heard of stir-fried meat fried with tenderloin. ”

The cooks and cooks in the rear were also talking, some laughing, some questioning, and some wondering.

Listening to their whispers, Li Yi smiled and explained: "The origin of small fried pork in Hunan Province can be traced back to the Qianlong period, and it was changed by an imperial chef named Zhu Erguan according to the fried tenderloin, and the first thing used was small tenderloin.

Later, the imperial chef of Hunan Province returned to his hometown and changed to stir-fried pork belly with local sea pepper and tempeh, and this practice gradually spread with the expansion of the cultivation range of peppers in Hunan Province.

Many locals in Hunan Province have also learned this method of stir-frying, and it has gradually changed to the common small fried pork. ”

"!"

Liao Wendong laughed disdainfully: "Small fried meat appeared in the Tang Dynasty, how could it be that it only appeared during the Qianlong period?" ”

Li Yi smiled and explained: "If you are talking about roasted meat and fried pork without chili peppers, it is indeed in the Tang Dynasty."

But chili peppers were only introduced to China in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, so it was impossible for the Tang Dynasty to have chili peppers, and fried pork was not fried meat. ”

“……”

Liao Wendong hesitated.

He wasn't sure if what Li Yi said was true, but he remembered seeing it before, and chili peppers were indeed introduced to China in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

After hesitating, he said: "That was also from the end of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Qin pepper from the north came in, and it was first imported from Lu Province, but the sea pepper eaten in Hunan Province was introduced from the eastern part of Zhejiang Province during the Kangxi period."

Li Yi said, took out the green pepper brought by the Hegong, and ordered: "Replace the chili pepper with sea pepper for me, the most authentic fried meat must be made with sea pepper." ”

The worker hesitated and glanced at Liao Wendong, but found that Liao Wendong was frowning and thinking.

Seeing this, Shen Han waved his hand and ordered: "Go and change quickly." ”

As he spoke, he patted Liao Wendong again and said with a smile: "Old Liao, don't think about this, you will know how professional they are when you look back at a few feature films." ”

Liao Wendong was not convinced, looked up at Li Yi and asked, "Why do you say that the sea pepper in Hunan Province is later than that in Lu Province?" Did you see it with your own eyes? ”

"I didn't see it with my own eyes, but it's written in the books."

Li Yi explained while handling sea peppers: "The earliest record of peppers in the literature is in the Ming Dynasty's agricultural masterpiece "Qunfang Spectrum".

It is recorded: Pepper, also known as Qin pepper, white flowers, seeds such as bald pen heads, red and fresh color, very spicy taste, seeds.

This name is common in North China, Northwest China, and even Northeast China.

However, in the county chronicles of various parts of the south, the earliest record of chili pepper is in the tenth year of Kangxi, in the "Shanyin County Chronicles" in Shaoxing, eastern Zhejiang.

The name recorded in it is spicy eggplant, which is red in appearance and shaped like a water chestnut, which can be used as a substitute for pepper.

As can be seen from the description of the appearance, this pepper is obviously different from the pepper in the "Qunfang Spectrum", and it is obviously a different variety.

In the twenty-third year of Kangxi, that is, thirteen years after the county chronicles of Zhejiang Province recorded the chili pepper, the sea pepper was recorded in the "Baoqing Mansion Chronicles" and "Shaoyang County Chronicles" of Hunan Province.

This is the first time that the name sea pepper has appeared in a book.

The so-called sea pepper is the pepper imported from the sea.

Hunan Province is not a coastal area, and the closest area where it can come into contact with imported goods by sea is Zhejiang Province.

Therefore, it can be inferred from this that the sea pepper in Hunan Province should have been transmitted from Zhejiang Province, and the time of introduction should not be earlier than the tenth year of Kangxi. ”

Listening to Li Yi's series of analysis, everyone, including Liao Wendong, was already stunned.

As a big province that eats spicy food, as well as professional chefs, even they don't know that people in Hunan Province began to eat spicy food, and it actually started during the Kangxi period.

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