I am Qinxing No.1

Chapter 169 The Most Fascinating Xi Shi Tongue
If it is the "Jade Flute Who Listens to Luomei" recorded in the novel, it should be five kinds of meat, sirloin, mountain muntjac, rabbit, pig ear tip, and lamb rump meat. Coupled with the blending and changing of each other, various tastes are produced.

Among them, lamb rump and sirloin are the most tender, mountain muntjac and rabbit meat are the most romantic and wild. Although pig ears are ordinary, they can guarantee a crisp taste. They are really perfect. If there is such a person as Huang Laoxie in the world, it is definitely No less foodies than the 'Big Four'.

As Huang Rong said, if the order of this dish is not counted, there should be five to twenty-five variations in total, which coincides with the number of plum blossoms, hence the name.

However, the book does not explain what method Huang Rong used to connect the five kinds of meat, whether they were crushed and kneaded together, or stitched together with something like gut thread. Even a veteran of Hong Qigong's level can only It is said that she kneaded "roe leg meat and rabbit meat together", but it was still vague, because he could only eat but not cook.

Since Yuan Zidan did it himself, he is naturally better than Mr. Jin's Huang Rong. After all, he is a real top chef, and he is much better than Mr. Jin, a layman.

Gently picked up a strip of meat, Zhou Dong first bit off one-fifth, then two-fifths, and swallowed it in one last bite; then took another strip of meat, this time biting off three-fifths in the first bite .

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Dong had already eaten seven or eight meat sticks, each time he sipped carefully, either near or far, or chewing carefully, or lightly tasting. At the same time, he closed his eyes slightly, as if he was feeling something.

Lao Guo and Mr. Yu were sweating watching this. My good guy, are you so particular about eating a piece of meat?
It's also fortunate that brother Zhou was invited. If an ordinary gourmet came, I'm afraid Yuan Zidan would have been stunned by him long ago, right?

The Yuan family father and son also sat down at the moment, drinking the ancient tea soup with gusto, while looking at Zhou Dong with a smile.

"Mr. Yuan is worthy of being the owner of the new generation of Suiyuan. The handcraft of tenoning the meat strips requires not only a good knowledge of the characteristics of various meats, but also a very skilled carver.

Compared with this method, the method of sewing various ingredients with gut thread is like a child's play. "

Zhou Dong bit off another piece of meat, and showed the cross-section in front of everyone. He even changed the angle so that Lao Guo and Mr. Yu could see it more clearly.

I saw that the meat of this section was dark red. In the dark red meat, there was a piece of "convex"-shaped white meat. White and tender.

"Using the carpenter's method of mortise and mortise to fasten wood to connect different meats, I'm afraid even Mr. Jin didn't think of this idea?"

Zhou Dong glanced at Yuan Zidan, whose color changed slightly, and said: "Beef loin is dark red when heated, and lamb buttocks are white when heated. Both cattle and sheep are mutton. Mr. connects them with mortise and tenons first, and then cooks them in the pot." To control, this requires the mastery of oil, fire, pot, and spoon.

"clever!"

Yuan Zidan's face straightened, what surprised him was not Zhou Dong's later evaluation, but Zhou Dong had only eaten a few meat strips, and he was able to figure out that he used tenon joints to connect various meat strips.

Forget it, but to bite into the tenon and tenon joint, revealing the cross-section, so that laymen can see clearly, what kind of sensitive tongue and teeth are needed to do this?
Before he met Zhou Dong, he thought that even if a top gourmet could see through the secret of his technique, he would have to eat two or three plates of 'Who's Listening to Luomei' in Yudi, but he never thought that Zhou Dong would discover the secret so quickly ?

"The King of Huaxia Noodles is the King of Huaxia Noodles, but Brother Zhou shouldn't only be able to see how I connect all kinds of meat, right?

An outstanding gourmet, not only must eat how many ingredients are used in this dish, but also tell me what is unique about my cooking technique, otherwise it will not count as your breakthrough? "

Even if Zhou Dong could see through his mortise and tenon joint technique, Yuan Zidan would never believe that Zhou Dong could tell how many ingredients and cooking techniques he used.

This dish is said to use five kinds of meat, so that it fits the number of plum blossoms, otherwise it would not be named 'Yudi whose house listens to plum blossoms'; but how can a cultural person like Yuan Zidan be limited by the number of plum blossoms? ?

He didn't use more than five kinds of meat in this dish. As for how to use this nice name of the dish, Yuan Dacai can think of a thousand ways in the blink of an eye!
"Hey, I heard that Mr. Yuan is from a scholarly family and heir to poetry and books. I didn't expect that even a person like you would try to make things difficult for others. How many kinds of meat are used in this dish? I'm afraid I'll have to eat them all. Only then can I know.
However, I have already eaten beef loin and lamb rump in this piece of meat, and these are all meat materials recorded in the original book, which is not unusual, but what is rare is the meat that follows."

Zhou Dong bit off another piece of meat on the chopsticks, chewed it carefully before saying: "The ingredients used in this section are really unexpected, it's actually 'Xi Shi Tongue'?
"Xi Shi Tongue", many people misrepresented that it was clam meat, even Mr. Yu Dafu, a great writer and gourmet, once mistook the big clam meat as Xi Shi Tongue. In fact, the real Xi Shi Tongue has obvious characteristics. Its shell length should be the length of the shell. Twice as wide, as long as a human tongue, white and tender, delicious and juicy in the mouth, like a beautiful woman's tongue, the most ecstasy, definitely not comparable to ordinary clams.

That's why Zhou Lianggong in the Qing Dynasty said in "Min Xiaoji" that "Min Zhonghai is wrong, Xi Shi Tongue is a divine product!" Li Liweng also wrote in "Idle Love Occasionally" that "the sea fault is so beautiful that people envy it but can't eat it, it's the tongue of the west of Fujian!" "

Can this be eaten?

With Yuan Zidan's composure, he couldn't help but change his expression on the spot. The 'Mr. Yuan' looked at Zhou Dong in surprise. He knew how difficult it is to cook the Xishi tongue in this meat stick, and how biased the ingredients are, and said It is not an exaggeration to say that it was the big hole that his father dug for Zhou Dong, but he was eaten by others in the end?

How did the Yuan family know that after Zhou Dong's taste-tasting skill was upgraded to the perfect level, it was like an open sky, and all kinds of food-related information came at his fingertips. ?

Lao Guo and Teacher Yu stared blankly at Zhou Dong and Yuan Zidan, always feeling that the surname Yuan was very unkind, no wonder they said intellectuals were the most difficult to get along with.

Zhou Dong looked at Yuan Zidan with a smile: "Even in Li Liweng's time, Xishi Tongue was envied but not eaten, let alone the current era where fakes are rampant.

Mr. Yuan was able to find this kind of ingredients, and the richness of Suiyuan's collection is really amazing.

But it's not too difficult, the most difficult thing is Mr. Yuan's way of cooking this Xi Shi tongue, it's really fantastic."

(End of this chapter)