Siheyuan: Fatty’s Counterattack

The two of them searched for people all the way and finally found Master Qin's home.

Master Qin was at home. When he saw Fatty and Yu Li, he was a little confused: "You are looking for me?"

The fat man called him uncle, but Master Qin quickly said that he didn't dare to take the title. The fat man introduced himself again and said: "I am a disciple of Mr. Lu Xingbanglu..."

Before he could finish speaking, Master Qin suddenly realized: "It turns out to be the owner of Qili Pavilion! Please come quickly."

Entering the house, Fatty found that the house Master Qin lived in was similar to his own, with a courtyard and two rooms.

Master Tan made tea for him and Yu Li. The fat man took out the snacks made by Fatty Aunt and said, "I heard that Master Tan's imitation meat dishes are one of the best in the capital. We, husband and wife, came here this time. To be honest, we wanted something from Tan." Master, I was afraid of being rude when bringing other things, so I had to ask the kitchen to make some snacks, and I beg Master Qin to try them."

Master Qin's first reaction was that this guy was here to poach!

But I gave up the idea after thinking about it.

How can I put it, 1984 cannot compare to 2023. At this time, there was no market for vegetarian banquets and vegetarian meals.

The audience is only among a specific group of people. Common people are generally not able to eat meat every day. Who would like to eat chicken legs made of noodles and fish and shrimps made of mushrooms?

As the saying goes, when you are polite to others, you must ask for something. Master Qin was not sure what the two people were asking him for, so he did not dare to agree rashly.

I had no choice but to open the dim sum, took one look at it, and praised: "Your store has an amazing pastry chef."

When someone praised the fat aunt, the fat man also felt proud and introduced: "This is my aunt's craftsmanship. We used to work in the third canteen of the employees of the Red Star Factory."

Master Qin picked up a piece of pea yellow, finished it in small bites and said, "Yes, it's the craftsmanship of a state-owned enterprise canteen. It uses enough ingredients and is willing to add sugar, but my teeth can't stand it."

The pea yellow made by the fat aunt is very particular about the ingredients. It only uses peas, white sugar, maltose, water, and agar.

Agar is a vegetable glue extracted from seaweed. The purpose of adding it is to make the pea yellow solidify into lumps.

This is an old-school recipe, and it is very in line with the taste of the people in the capital. It is a bit sweet, and people who are sensitive to sweets will really have toothaches after eating it.

Master Qin made a joke, and the atmosphere became more harmonious.

Fatty told him some things in the industry, which made Master Tan even more convinced that he was not here to poach people.

But I feel a little lost for no reason. What's going on?

After all, Gongdelin is a new restaurant that just opened this year. Although the business is still good, it is definitely not as good as those time-honored restaurants.

Although Qili Pavilion is also a new restaurant, it is now a well-known restaurant in the capital with the closed disciples of Lu Xingbang in charge.

It wouldn't be a bad job if I could work in Qili Pavilion.

Master Qin also means to be outspoken: "Master Chen, please don't be polite. Just tell me what the purpose of today is."

The fat man then told the story about an elder who couldn't eat big fish and meat because he had diabetes, but he was greedy.

After that, he explained his purpose: "If possible, I would like to learn two imitation meat dishes from Master Qin. If it is inconvenient, could you kindly ask Master Qin to come to my place and cook a spoon?"

It turned out that I wanted to learn how to make vegetarian sea cucumbers and vegetarian sausages.

Master Qin said frankly: "Sea cucumbers are easy, but the difficulty lies in the fat intestines. Fake ones are fake, and they can't be real no matter what. If you want to use vegetarian ingredients to imitate the taste of large intestines, you have to let me think about this." .”

Master Qin did not refuse to teach. After all, Mr. Lu had the face of him. He had been favored by the old man in the past and had been favored for thousands of years. This man was also a person who valued affection and righteousness.

What ingredients should be used to make vegetarian large intestine? The answer is gluten flour.

Also called gluten, we have all eaten roasted gluten, right? It is made from this powder.

What Master Qin said is true, it is really not easy to make large intestines in the form of plain meat.

It’s true that the large intestine can’t help fat people. The difficulty lies in cleaning the large intestine.

Washing with salt and vinegar, then scraping and peeling, even Gao Xiang can do these tasks very well.

But how to do imitation?

The fat man watched Master Qin kneading the noodles, then rolling them, and gradually making them look like fat intestines;

The next step is brine. If this thing wants to be delicious, it must be brine, so that the brine juice can completely soak it.

The most difficult thing is that each one has to be made by hand. Since it is called nine turns, it also sums up the number of nine. Master Qin made nine in a row before stopping.

Then he gave his seat to the fat man: "It depends on you, Master Chen, whether you can cook the nine-turn large intestine."

The fat man was also unambiguous, and the operation was smooth and smooth, and soon the "Nine Turns of Large Intestine" that looked fake and real was ready.

Master Qin gave Yu Li a pair of chopsticks and motioned for her to taste it first.

Yu Li carefully picked up a piece, put it in her mouth and chewed it gently. After a while, she shook her head slightly: "It smells like raw beans."

Master Qin and Fatty also tasted a piece each. Yu Li's words were true. This was considered a failure for the first time.

Next, Master Qin improved the formula and tried it three times in a row but all ended in failure.

The fourth time, he thought for a moment and said, "The problem may be my marinade."

What could be wrong with the marinade? The fat man hit it with a spoon and tasted it, then he suddenly realized.

Chef Qin specializes in making imitation meat dishes, and Gong Delin sells Buddhist vegetarian dishes, so his marinade doesn't have that much meaty flavor.

This time, he innovatively added some garlic and rolled it up. After stewing it, he let Fatty and Yu Li taste it first.

Yu Li only took one bite, and her eyes lit up: "It's so delicious, it feels like eating garlic-roasted fat sausage!"

The fat man heard this and quickly took a taste, and found that it was indeed the case.

After burning oil again, the operation was as fierce as a tiger; when the dish was finally finished, both the color and aroma were different from the previous times.

Master Qin couldn't wait to take a chopstick and put it into his mouth. After a long time, he took a breath and said loudly: "Okay!"

Yu Li also tasted it, and excitedly grabbed the fat man's arm and exclaimed: "It's amazing, it's really amazing, it really tastes like the nine-turn large intestine!"

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Now that the most difficult dish is solved, the next step is to make vegetarian sea cucumbers.

There is a ready-made replacement for this thing—sea eggplant!

Sea eggplant is actually a kind of coral and a Chinese medicinal material. Its scientific name is Solanaceae Solanaceae.

Because it is similar to sea cucumbers, it is often passed off as sea cucumbers by unscrupulous traders.

But Fatty didn't plan to use sea eggplant. It was fishy and smelly, so he couldn't deceive the experts at all.

The plan given by Master Qin is to use fresh mushrooms, black sesame seeds, peppercorns, green onions, and shredded ginger.

This method is really simple. Master Qin only taught a little bit about the techniques, and the fat man was able to do it in style.