Food is full of favorability [Interstellar]

In the interstellar future, the virtual world and intelligent interaction have been very developed, and most of the mechanical labor in the real world has been replaced by intelligent machines.Except for some advanced educational institutions, laboratories, etc., which need to be conducted offline, more and more people choose to seek new job opportunities and virtual entertainment in the star network.

There are too many races in the Galaxy Interstellar Alliance, but in the thirteen planets of the empire, there are more than 300 billion residents engaged in star network virtual industry related work, and the rest are purely for entertainment and "online social interaction" Come.

When Luo Bai put on the goggles according to the steps he remembered, and put the magnetic sensor on his forehead, he was immediately stunned by what he saw——

Although the body is still staying in his own room, the brain is deceived by the weak electric current, the whole person has been freed from the heavy shackles of the body, and the spiritual body has turned into a stream of light and merged into the vast sea of ​​stars. The "spiritual body" of the meteor is heading towards the boundless universe, and finally suspends quietly in the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way, waiting to go to the next destination.

This is the "screen-opening animation" of Interactive Star Network. Every imperial person who logs in must stay in the solar mother galaxy to feel the vastness of the universe and the insignificance of human beings, which symbolizes that exploration will never stop.Luo Bai had only briefly watched the star map of the universe in BBC documentaries before, and it was too shocking to see all this when he actually experienced it himself. The ethereal female voice next to his ear repeatedly asked him about the destination three times before he came back to his senses.

"I'm going to the largest food market in the empire."

"Addresses that meet the criteria were retrieved: "Central Fresh Cultivation Base", "Geshunu Seafood Fishery", "Polaris Trade Center", what is your choice? "

"Central fresh cultivation base." Luo Bai's original plan was to buy some basic ingredients to fill the vacancy in the storage room, and if he still had time, he would stop by the fishing ground to see if he could buy high-quality seafood.

"Positioning: "Round Island Star Cluster 193.224.867", start the transition. "

As soon as the words fell, Luo Bai's eyes flashed, and the sea of ​​stars in front of him was immediately replaced by a bustling giant market. He seemed to have opened the door to a new world, and plunged into the crowd to start exploring a new map.

The Central Fresh Cultivation Base is the largest vegetable and meat trading market in the interstellar. Because it relies on the Imperial Agricultural Research Center, it has a wide variety of dishes and excellent quality. A large number of imperial people come to buy the required ingredients all the time.

Pure natural ingredients (vegetables, fruits, chicken, duck, fish, beef, mutton, etc.) are expensive and troublesome to cook. Ordinary people seldom choose to buy and enjoy them. They usually choose synthetic ingredients or more convenient nutrient solutions for consumption.The nutrient solution is processed by mixing unsightly natural ingredients with starch and other ingredients. It can supplement the energy needed by the human body, but the taste is naturally not flattering.

Luo Bai walked through the dense crowd of people all the way, but he didn't really touch anyone, and he even watched helplessly that his arm would be inserted into the body of the person next to him while walking (...).

Because the coordinates of the launch are different, people passing by each other will only produce overlapping images, and no physical collision will occur. ——To put it bluntly, what gather here is just a string of data codes, not a real crowd.

Luo Bai wished he could grow ten more pairs of eyes, he looked around all the way, trying to get all the fresh shops and vegetable racks into his eyes.

The tall man next to him muttered that the devil peppers were out of stock again, and caressed the empty basket several times with his hands reluctantly.The fruit shop obliquely ahead exudes a peculiar aroma unique to tropical fruits—guava, plantain, jackfruit, tamarind, and mangosteen are crowded behind the window. If Luo Bai reads correctly, these fruits have all happened A large degree of variation, the original fist-sized mangosteen has been improved for several generations, and now it is the size of a basketball.

...is this heaven? !

Luo Bai couldn't help but let out a cry from the depths of his soul. He didn't expect that he would also think about whether he could finish eating a mangosteen one day.He immediately ordered a large basin full of fruits by himself, and waited for them to be delivered to his home through space folding technology.

There are also shops that sell novel products that Luo Bai has never heard of, which are probably species cultivated later or special products of other planets. The ground is full of tuber vegetables with strange colors, vine-shaped root vegetables, black fruits and prickly ball-shaped dried fruits are piled together...

The central area of ​​the entire fresh food base is a ring-shaped meat display screen. In order to take care of the adaptability of some customers, the bloody scene of food being slaughtered will not be shown, but the meat inventory and specific parts will be played on the display screen in a loop.

Luo □ □ Xin selected all kinds of meat needed for cooking, from large chunks of fresh beef tenderloin to fish fillets sterilized by ultraviolet rays, from neatly divided chicken diced to huge and plump chicken legs... He spent It took a lot of effort to drag myself away from the meat section, turn around and continue buying all kinds of spices and vegetables needed.

Summoning the virtual screen, Luo Bai checked the list and nodded in satisfaction. As expected of the interstellar age full of supplies, he has all the ingredients he wanted, and he also bought extra novel ingredients. The next thing is seafood up.

At this time, he was not as excited as before, but he still showed no signs of fatigue. After shouting "Aller!", he walked to the next large market under the surprised eyes of the people around him.

Rather than a seafood market, the Koshunu Fishing Ground looks more like an underwater world.Customers coming and going walk through the ant nest-like passage, and shallow sea creatures of various sizes and shapes swim leisurely, seeming to have gotten used to the phantom of the crowd.I don't know how technology can control all kinds of fish, shrimp and crabs with different living conditions to live in the same sea area, but in his eyes, this is basically a piece of sashimi, crab stew and shrimp slide...

Luo Bai's eyeballs were glued to the king crabs and butter crabs crawling around above his head, and he decided, dinner is for you!

He called the smart clerk and registered the seafood he wanted to buy.I saw that the selected unfortunate fish and crabs disappeared out of thin air, and the large fish group did not notice that there were a few fewer members silently, and they were still swimming freely.

So it's not a real symbiotic sea area, but a time-lapse photography superimposition of different oceans... Luo Bai nodded thoughtfully.

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In the evening, the burning blue "sun" was about to fall to the horizon, Luo Bai hummed the song of a Hawaiian girl and placed the ingredients with Butler Anyou.To be honest, the mountain of Yuanxing Express packages that piled up big and small packages shocked the housekeeper, but Luo Bai's sentence "I bought it with my own savings" successfully blocked his hesitant mouth.

What else could the butler do? Naturally, he helped him unpack the large and small packages together, and put them into the freezer and sink after simple handling.

The cooking robot, which has lost its qualification as a kitchen assistant, is placed in a corner, its electronic eyes flickering lonely twice, wondering if it understands that it will soon lose its job.

With a knife in his hand, Luo Bai chopped off eight crab legs of a 20kg king crab, and even large pieces of crab meat could be seen in the transparent parts.The butler has also eaten steamed crabs, so he naturally knows that this is a delicious ingredient that can be easily processed, but he can't eat such a luxurious meal every meal.

If he ate less, he would naturally not be very proficient in cooking techniques. After Luo Bai opened the steamer, he thought that this was all the way to deal with it, and presented the plate to prepare for serving.

"Don't worry, it's just been steamed, and there's still follow-up to be done," Luo Bai used scissors to completely cut open the huge red crab claws, "Heidi is in poor health and can't eat too much crab meat, I'm going to make it into a king crab Butter rolls."

I saw that he was skillful, the crab meat he took out did not fall apart at all, and he could even splice it into a complete crab shape. He picked up a piece and tasted it, and his mouth was full of the unique sweet taste of seafood. up.Then Luo Bai took out butter, low-gluten wheat flour and milk, mixed them in the pot, heated it over low heat, added three egg yolks and steamed crab meat, and stirred it into a paste.

Housekeeper An You didn't have time to stop it, and watched helplessly as a large pot of tempting red crab meat turned into a creamy yellow paste, and stood beside him with a heartbroken expression.

What is this little prodigal son doing!

Luo Bai used a spatula to spread the crab paste evenly on a baking tray, put it into the processor for 3 minutes and freeze it into blocks, then gently cut it with a spatula, divided it into many strips as thick as two fingers, and took it out.

The next process was something the housekeeper had never seen before—Luo Bai raised a pot of hot oil, dipped the crab meat sticks in the batter, whole egg liquid and bread crumbs, and quickly deep-fried them until golden.He smelled the fat aroma unique to fried food, looked at the little bubbles bubbling up in the pot, and swallowed involuntarily.

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The King Crab Butter Roll is considered a creative dish, because Luo Bai specially made a milky taste that children and old people like.

The crab meat rolls that absorb the slick oil are golden in color and attractive. When you bite down, the crispy sound is transmitted to the brain along the teeth. The sweet and semi-melted crab meat sticks are wrapped in butter and crispy shells, which is almost a taste and hearing experience. and visual triple stimulation.And there is no need to manually remove the shell. When eating, put a few big mouthfuls into your mouth and chew slowly, feeling the slightly hot crab meat and the noodles dancing in your mouth.

Tasting this brand-new taste for the first time, Steward An couldn't help but eat more food than usual, and Heidi also ate four or five in a face-saving manner, but because her appetite was too small, she could only hold silently in the end. Looking eagerly at the remaining King Crab Butter Roll, the desire in his eyes is almost overflowing.

"I'm so full, can I eat such delicious food tomorrow..."

Luo Bai couldn't help but rubbed the little girl's soft blond hair, and said warmly: "I'll cook something delicious for you tomorrow, so don't be greedy today. I'll bring onion and mushroom soup, but I can only take a small sip. It's not good."

It was at this time that Xi Weier stepped into the house and saw Luo Bai coming out of the cooking room with a soup bowl in his hand. The two of them looked at each other, feeling a bit of inexplicable unease, and embarrassedly missed their sight.

"Uncle Xavier is back!" Heidi shouted excitedly when she saw Xavier in military uniform, "Come and taste Luo Bai's cooking, it's delicious!"

"That's right, Second Young Master. Master Luo practiced his cooking skills hard for you, which is why he made dishes that are a hundred times more delicious than cooking robots." The butler also echoed.

In the usual working days, other people are busy with government affairs, only he accompanied Heidi to drink cold nutrient solution in the empty old house, and Luo Bai's arrival not only allowed them to taste the delicious food, but also added to the cold house. Somewhat popular, although it is not easy to express gratitude to him directly, An You actually hopes that Luo Bai can maintain such a gentle and friendly disposition, so that this marriage can last a little longer.

Xi Weier suddenly turned from embarrassment to a little surprise, he looked at Luo Bai with a half-smile and said, "Practice cooking hard for me?"

"That's not it..." Luo Bai was about to refute, but remembered the bad deeds of the original owner before, and his voice dropped suddenly, "Well, it's because I practiced hard on cooking."

Luo Bai secretly rubbed it into the small notebook in his heart and wrote down another note to the handsome major general. What he didn't know was that Xi Weier's self-love index and favorability were also rising at the same time.

The author has something to say: aller, French "Chong ah".The normal king crab is 2kg, which is enough for one person, and the 10kg interstellar king crab is enough for them.