royal family

Shao Yan leaned against the door of the kitchen with folded arms, watching Tian Xiaotian shake pots and spoons, but he didn't do anything himself, but gave orders verbally.

"Hey hey that pepper! Pepper!"

pepper what?Tian Xiaotian held the pepper box in his hand and sprinkled it carefully. Seeing Shao Yan pointing fingers at him, he hesitated for a moment, and sprinkled another half spoonful.

"Pepper! Pepper!" Shao Yan bounced off the door frame and panted, "There's too much pepper! There's too much!"

Tian Xiaotian originally had a calm and calm appearance, but when he heard that the mask on his face burst into layers, he was so frightened that he picked up the soup spoon and hurriedly scooped off the soup where the ingredients were sprinkled just now, and yelled at Shao Yan aggrievedly while scooping it up: " Master, you are too much!"

"It's obvious that you are not good at craftsmanship." Shao Yan entered the kitchen and took off the spatula in Tian Xiaotian's hand leisurely. Facing the hidden eyes of other apprentices in the kitchen and Tian Xiaotian's accusing eyes, he took a spoon to stir the thick soup as if nothing had happened, and scooped out the soup. A small dish to taste.

The banquet did not invite guests who do not eat pork, so the soup was stewed wantonly, with pork bones, fan bones, trotters and chicken feet in the pot, and a layer of finely woven, freshest handmade bamboo nets should be placed on the bottom to avoid all kinds of stickiness The ingredients are stewed until the later paste pot affects the taste.Some people in foreign countries have quite a lot of eccentricities. They don’t eat pig’s trotters, chicken feet, offal, or whole fish. Shao Yan is not too used to their stink. Anyway, he will clearly write down what raw materials are used for the food that he eats later, love Whether he eats or not, he has never seen leftovers on the Yumenxi dinner table.

Naturally, such a thick soup would not be used as an appetizer. The rice cakes from N city airlifted from China had been washed and sliced ​​and placed aside.The rice cakes are produced in a coastal city in China that is famous for its rice products. The quality of the rice cakes is quite good. The selection of materials has been carefully screened. It can only be the best polished round-grained rice produced in the year. It takes no more than half a day before and after the door seats, and it is usually consumed by each store on the same day.

Even if the freshest rice cake is not processed in any way, it will be fragrant after being steamed and heated.Now it has been cut into small slices of uniform thickness, the color is like white jade, and it is soft and elastic to the touch, which is simply very attractive.

This rice cake soup is a very popular staple food in the domestic Yumen seats. Compared with the oldest Luxian ramen, the status is hard to distinguish. The soup prepared by Shao Yan himself is rich and fragrant. Drink it alone It looks greasy, but it is really perfect when paired with the refreshing and sticky rice cakes.

This is Yumenxi's first store outside of country C, and the formulation of the menu on the opening day has really troubled Tian Xiaotian and his son for a long time.The customer groups we face are different. In addition to allergies, foreigners have too many taboos. Just because some people can’t see fish heads is enough to make people feel bad. In addition, some viscera, fermented food, etc. are obvious. The delicacies that will shine with a little cooking will be excluded. Tian Xiaotian struggled for a while, and finally understood why it is so difficult for restaurants in country C to develop overseas.

But when the problem came to Shao Yan, it was immediately and brutally solved.

Taboo?What is taboo?Opening a restaurant is not a hospital, you can do whatever you need!If you don't eat, just don't come in.There are still so many vegetarians in this world. Is it possible that they don’t eat meat specifically for them?

Shao Yan asked them to print the main ingredients of each dish on the back of the menu, and when ordering, just ask each customer's allergens and recommend them.Yumenxi is Yumenxi. There are so many foreigners in country C who come here to eat it. It makes no sense to change after going abroad.The bottom line is that things are constantly giving way. From not serving pig's trotters to changing the seasoning to tomato sauce, it is better not to give up an inch from the beginning, but it is easier to keep worry-free customers.

In order to show his position, Shao Yan made the dishes for the banquet extremely strictly. There was not a single "representative dish of country C" that is widely known to foreigners. Steamed grouper, a stewed goose.

The stewed goose is a famous dish of Yumenxi, and there is no need to repeat the taste. The whole dish, especially the head of the stewed goose with part of the neck, can only be looted by everyone at any table.The essence of this dish is the marinade, the thick and soft goose skin is soaked in the sweetness of the marinade, and the mouth is full of fragrance when you gently instigate it. Some guests who like this taste are reluctant to leave the chewed bones at the end vomit.The group of people outside were so firm that they didn't waver when they saw this dish, Shao Yan still didn't believe in this evil!

The grouper was put on a plate, sprinkled with the sauce prepared by Shao Yan and marinated for a while, without moving its head, it was directly pushed into the steamer.

The steaming steam was coming out, Tian Xiaotian stared at the door of the steamer and couldn't help but muttered: "Master, who are you having trouble with..."

Shao Yan ignored him.

"You said what if you removed the fish head? It won't affect the taste of the dish, and it will scare people..."

"I don't like it!" Shao Yan raised his chin and said, "Don't eat if you can't see it, don't come if you can't see it, how can a fairy who descended from the mortal world ask me to give him such a big face? You can't see a fish head today, and you can't see a pig tomorrow Blood, I glanced at the chicken feet the day after tomorrow and fainted, what do you think we sell? Yumenxi can be converted into a stew restaurant."

In this regard, Shao Yan's attitude was really tough, but Tian Xiaotian couldn't say no to him, so he had to sigh and fight.When a restaurant is opened abroad, the taste cannot be changed, but some changes still need to be made.For example, many people in the West cannot accept sharing meals at the same table. Tian Xiaotian thinks this is reasonable out of personal hygiene and safety considerations, so compared to domestic menus, there are many more choices for single servings, and serving chopsticks are also available. The table is arranged on the table.

The wine cups, bottles, pots and pans of Yumenxi are all custom-made. The small stew pot with golden decorations is leaning against the lid. Sea cucumbers are fished out of the pot. The formed jelly, the short whiskers even tremble with the shaking of the spoon.The dark brown sea cucumbers collided with the snow-white walls of the bowl, and then covered with a thick thick soup that had been thickened with cornstarch.

The fire side is shredded, as slender as a hair, and it moves slightly, floating on the top of the soup as if out of gravity.

Shao Yan watched his apprentice cut the goose with his hands behind his back. The stewed goose marinade was brought from China, and it has been used since the first Yumenxi opened. It is already an out-and-out old soup.The daily nourishment of new goose and fresh ingredients makes the soup more luscious. Not to mention Yumenxi's exquisite method, it is to give ordinary people a bowl of stewed meat, and the aroma is by no means comparable to that of ordinary star-rated restaurants.

For so many years, there are countless people who have been coveting all kinds of secret information about the imperial gate seats, and they have all come up with unique tricks to achieve their goals.Sneaking into Yumenxi to help work as a waiter, buying apprentices, and making friends with Shao's father or Shao Yan in private... Shao Yan never thought about guarding against them from the beginning.Just like this stewed goose soup, instead of keeping it secret, he even sells it.The regular customers of Yumenxi know that Yumenxi is generous, and after taking care of the business to the point of familiarity, they can basically buy some stewed soup when they take over.The price of this stewed soup is high, but it is definitely worth the money. If you take home stewed meat mince or stewed chicken legs and chicken feet, even the children who don't like to eat at home can shake their cheeks and have three bowls of rice.The only thing to pay attention to is that you can’t add anything to the stewed soup except salt, even if you add more chicken essence, the taste will be messy.

Many restaurants took great pains to get some of this stewed soup back home. They came to eat several meals and bought a small bowl at a time.Some people also thought of using the shipped soup to replicate Yumenxi’s stewed goose, but the soup that was bought back was stewed and dried up, and new water and ingredients were always added in the follow-up.The stewed water becomes dilute as soon as it is washed, and it becomes spoiled as soon as it is left out, as if it loses its spirit after leaving the Imperial Gate Seat.As time goes by, those thoughts fade away. It is not cheap to go to Yumenxi to have a meal, and the cost of getting stewed soup after a meal is too high.

There are two kinds of stewed goose at Yumenxi. One kind of stewed goose is wet and watery when it is served on a plate. When you sip it, the bones and flesh are separated, and there is a strange fragrance in the bones.

The other is much more complicated. Before the goose is marinated, it needs to be smoked and roasted to force out a little fat inside, and the skin is also roasted until it becomes dry.After entering the marinade, stew until it is transparent, then take it out, filter the soup, and bake it in the oven for the second time.After the second baking, return to the marinated soup for a short time to pass the water again. The last baking also needs to be carefully measured. The skin must be baked until there is no moisture, but the taste must still be soft.There is no need to soak another spoonful of marinade when it is finally cut off and placed on a plate. The deliciousness of the marinade has already been tightly locked in the goose meat by several degrees of roasting.

This kind of braised goose is called old goose. It tastes a little harder than water goose, but the more you chew, the more flavorful it becomes. It's quite like the spicy rabbit legs that Shao Yan used to make.But the thick goose skin tastes more moist than rabbit meat, and is full of marinade essence. Every bite is a double enjoyment for taste buds and spirit.

The stewed goose was almost chopped, and the other end was turned on to cook other dishes. Shao Yan looked at his watch and nodded to Tian Xiaotian: "Come on."

-

The crowd outside for the banquet had already broken up.

The menu was placed on the table, Shao Yan went too far, and even made a booklet, and posted everything from the raw materials to the pictures clearly. People shouted that they couldn't bear it.

All the guests who came here were from Yumenzun, and those who were addicted to alcohol and bad food would definitely not rush all the way to country C to patronize Yumenxi.There are also guests who have eaten at Yumenxi. When they were in country C, they didn't dare to order these things with feet. Now when they saw the list of ingredients, they suddenly fainted.

Half of them couldn't see it, and the other half thought they were hypocritical. Some people yelled to ask Shao's father to go to the back kitchen and say, don't bring up things like pig's trotter soup and steamed fish. Now the silent part can't do it. , immediately began to argue with reason.

"God! How can you eat their heads!!"

"this is too scary!!!"

"Please don't let me see the pig's feet, I will pass out! I want to throw up now!"

"Come on, why don't you just give up meat? Aren't you trying to lose weight? You don't eat meat, why are you throwing up because of pig's trotters?"

"I can't see this!"

"That's just soup!"

"But there are pig's trotters in it!! God, why can't you understand me?! Also! And these dead fish..."

A female guest pointed to the steamed fish on the menu and the stewed goose with the neck attached, and broke down and yelled with an expression that she was about to faint.

People who can eat these things are naturally unwilling to give up the delicious food. The two sides come and go, and there is no victory or defeat.Shao's father was very embarrassed, and reassured them that there would be other dishes without heads and tails on the table at that time, and it would be good to eat those, but those who disagreed would just quit!

They don't eat!Can't watch either!I'm going to vomit!

It was just a few words of princess sickness, which made everyone at the table lose their appetite, and Shao's father didn't bother to talk to these people anymore, and went to other places to greet them with a smile.The guests who didn't compete for the ugly Yinmao were aggrieved, and they all took photos of the menu and posted news——

——As a result, a large number of people complaining about the dishes of Yumenxi suddenly appeared on the most popular social software on several continents.

"Oh my god!" These accounts took clear pictures of the dishes, and posted the comments on the raw materials next to the dishes, expressing their dissatisfaction in words, "I regret coming to this place!!"

There was a sudden commotion outside, and all kinds of complaints about Chinese cuisine suddenly became popular.

"They especially love to eat offal. God, there is no one in this world who loves to eat offal more than them. I once ate lamb tripe from country Y, and when I smelled it, I wanted to spit it out! People in country Y only eat it A goat tripe, but the people of country C even eat goat intestines!"

"Not only sheep, but also pigs, cows, and all kinds of disgusting poultry. They even eat chicken hearts! And blood!"

"It's terrible! What a bunch of savages!"

"People in country C still eat stinky eggs, which have turned black and are countless times more stinky than stinky cheese. They like to stinky tofu and meat before eating, stuffing them into their mouths together with pili! !"

"Please stop talking...I'm going to throw up..."

"I thought they were just putting oil on..."

"Is it true that pig's trotters don't smell like feet..."

"Come back sweetheart, don't stay there if you regret it, I almost can't stand seeing your picture."

Naturally, there were voices howling that the various ingredients in meal C were very delicious, but they were basically ignored.

Seeing people who share the same hatred as their own united front made some guests feel better.Celebrities gathered in one place to exchange comments criticizing C national cuisine under their own accounts, covered each other's mouths and laughed, and some even whispered: "I will never come to this place again in my life."

"Oh... my dear, but the other things here are very delicious..."

"But they refused to remove the trotters, how disrespectful they are to us!"

"It's not that exaggerated, I went to country C to patronize Yumenxi and it's...wow." Halfway through the conversation, a girl turned her head to look in the direction of the kitchen, and took a deep breath with a slight frown, "It's braised goose! "

It is indeed braised goose.

The placement of stewed vegetables is very particular. The special plates are divided into left and right sides. One side is slightly concave, which is used to place water geese, which can better preserve the soup, and the other side is flat. in.The goose head is cut into two halves, spliced ​​together, and served together with the goose meat. It looks like a complete goose, which is really neat.

The aroma of marinade has been tempered, and there are definitely only a few people who can resist this temptation.The people who were chattering just now immediately fell silent. After the dishes were served, the people who had just shouted that they would vomit when they saw their heads didn't really turn their heads away.

There was no aperitif, no pre-dinner salad, and the silent majority began to eat immediately in a very orderly manner.

Enjoyment and art know no borders, and food, a massage that acts on the taste buds, is naturally accepted by most people.

Especially the old goose, it is very popular.Yumen seats do not provide knives and forks. People who frequent here are usually able to use tableware skillfully. As soon as the braised goose is on the table, customers who know the goods start to fight for it. The two halves of the goose head are missing at the very beginning.The half-cut head of the goose is connected to part of the neck. Here is the essence of the lo-mei, wrapped in the thickest and thickest goose skin, and a small amount of neck meat is thoroughly eaten. The more the bones are sucked, the more delicious it will be.

Gumbling—

The guests who not long ago shouted loudly that they would never touch this dish couldn't help swallowing.

Especially for female guests, they have to abstain from all kinds of meat all year round to lose weight. For them, goose necks, which can eat enough flavor without eating too much fat, are perfect for them.It's just that the pair of goose eyes on the plate were still circling in my mind, and the female guests hesitated for a long time holding the chopsticks, but they still couldn't pick them up.

The next dish turned out to be another tortured dish.

The grouper was served on the dining table with the body full of heat. The fish meat was white and firm. The sauce prepared by Shao Yan before steaming gave off a unique aroma after a little heating. Combined with the fresh seafood of the grouper, it was simply breathtaking. The moment I smell it, I am shocked.

The girls stared at the fish eyes and made a lot of determination before pushing the turntable to slide the dishes to others.

The male companions around them were disgruntled, but the rest of the table was happy.There are few grouper thorns, except for the big thorns that can be clearly picked out, there is basically only one main bone left.This is undoubtedly a boon for guests who are not very good at picking.

In order to fear that everyone will not be able to use the chopsticks well, there are tongs and spoons on the table besides the serving chopsticks.The fish was poked apart with a spoon, and the meat was clumped together like garlic cloves and fell into the soup.

There is a little scallion and ginger in the soup, which is the most common way to steam fish in country C.But the sauce that the grouper marinated before obviously made this ordinary dish extraordinary.I don’t know what is put in the slightly sauce-colored fish soup, but it can enhance the deliciousness of the fish to the utmost extent, and even the onion and ginger soaked in it become extremely delicious.The taste of the freshest sea fish is impeccable, and everyone is amazed at eating it, and the frequency of picking up dishes is getting faster and faster.

The guests who made up their minds not to eat this dish looked at the fish head, desperately repeating the disgusting and disgusting comments in their minds, and finally restrained their desire to have a bite.

The next dish, the next dish will be fine.

They comforted themselves like this, looking forward to the next dishes more and more, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the waiters coming out with golden stew pots. The next second, they heard another thunderbolt——

——The chef wearing a snow-white hat came out and introduced with a smile: "This is hoof soup rice cake, the freshest water-milled rice cake brought by air from country C, and a thick soup made with collagen-rich pig's trotters, chicken feet, and pork bones , is one of Yumenxi's signature staple foods."

The stew pots were distributed in front of the guests according to their heads, and the lids with golden patterns were lifted, and the strong aroma immediately wafted from the nearest distance.

The color of the soup is snow white, and there are no oily spots on the surface. Green shallots and diced ham are evenly sprinkled on the rice cake.The rice cakes were obviously put on a plate right after they came out of the pan. The sections were distinct and hadn’t had time to stick together. The aroma of the rice mixed with the rich aroma of the meat was like a fresh flower blooming in a thick and colorful oil painting. Everyone loved it. Shocked by this just-right finishing touch.

Pig's trotters...chicken feet...

Pig's trotters...chicken feet...

The surrounding companions have already consciously started to munch, but there are a few vacillating guests at each table who are looking at the bowls and cups and hesitated.

The guests who were chewing rice cakes looked up and exchanged amazed eyes: "This taste is amazing!"

"It's like mochi from country R, ​​but it's more refreshing and delicious than that!"

“This soup is simply outstanding!”

Pig's trotters... pig's trotters... here... I don't seem to see any pig's trotters...

The person who was shaken first began to use chopsticks to pull the bottom of the bowl, turning left and right, and then made sure that there was no soup in the thick soup.

How about... just... have a taste?

Who knows what the order of the next dish will be, if there is another strange dish, will they have to wait hungry for the whole banquet?

The pig's trotter soup, which does not have any visual impact, is undoubtedly the most acceptable of the three dishes served. The guests who have been lowered to the bottom line are really stimulated by the reactions around them. The female guests want to stuff themselves into There are people who have been hungry for a long time in advance, and at this time the first one can't hold on.

When the soft and smooth rice cakes are put into the mouth together with the soup, the warm enjoyment makes people almost sigh.

This is without a doubt the highest quality rice, and the fresh aroma is simply irresistible.The heated rice cake is so soft that it is unbearable to chew, and can even be squeezed into various shapes with the pressure of the tongue.What is rare is that such soft rice does not stick to the teeth. It is so smooth that it does not look like a processed product, and there is no rough place to eat.

The rice cake itself is slightly sweet with starch, and the taste of the soup is naturally adjusted to be extra rich in order to overwhelm its limelight.The taste alone is thicker and smoother than the cream soup. The feeling of changing from liquid to substance and sliding over the tip of the tongue is very wonderful. The rich meat flavor mixed with soft rice cakes instantly fills every corner of the mouth.

What does pig's trotter taste like?Almost no one knows.

But this soup obviously can't drink any flaws, from the texture to the taste, and even the combination with the original tasteless rice cake, it is so just right!

The guests who realized that the pig's trotters were not what they thought were almost in tears. The prejudice against various ingredients seemed so unreasonable at this moment.The people who were busy eating rice cakes had no time to settle the two remaining dishes on the table, put down their chopsticks, and the girls who missed them just now decided to try their best to recover some losses.

I don't know why, but now the stewed goose doesn't look as scary as it looks in the pictures.The goose's head has been pinched away, and the remaining goose pieces naturally don't look anything special from the outside.The scent of the slightly cooled goose meat is no longer as strong as before, but the sense of smell is slightly unsatisfactory. How can it compare to the amazing taste of the marinade splashing like fireworks on the tip of the tongue?

The thick goose skin makes people can't stop chewing. They have no time to think about lymph and fat, or how high the calories are in such a piece of meat. The salty meat that penetrates into the shredded meat occupies their brains. After swallowing the chewy goose meat, they stared at the plate of fish on the table almost subconsciously.

The meat on the belly and back of the fish has been clamped almost clean, leaving the meat in the parts connected to the fish head, and the guests other than them are also deliberately avoiding these places.

eat?Still not eating?

There is a bag of water in the fish's eyes, so bright... so attractive.

When he came back to his senses, the fish was already in his mouth.

That kind of feeling that makes people can't help letting go of their guards... If they could figure out earlier that what they ate was the belly or back of the fish, how great it would be! ! ! !

People who were still active on social software suddenly found that several posts they had just commented on had been deleted one after another.

N City socialite Xiao Tiantian deleted her post about regretting coming to the opening of Yumenxi, and it also disappeared. Fans were shocked and angry, and they asked what happened under her latest post, wondering if it was because of The news that was too straightforward just now was embarrassing.

Xiao Tiantian was silent for about 10 to [-] minutes, and then sent an overhead shot of the empty bowl, along with a few photos of the leftover plates on the table——

——"Pig trotters...chicken feet...fish heads and goose heads...it's very good. Let's come to the gate seat once."

No! ! ! !

There was a frying pan underneath, and they all condemned how she could betray etiquette and civilization and eat such a terrible thing!

However, the gunpowder of the war has not yet formed, and soon, those accounts that have deleted their feeds have drilled out one after another, and began to attract the flames of war.

Much the same photos, some with gorgeous selfies of the girls.

All kinds of tones that seem to be confessing in church can be summed up in one sentence - it's not that our side doesn't struggle, the enemy army is too cunning.

Xiao Tiantian stood up, holding her male partner's arm in one hand, and holding a silk scarf in the other, trying to stand up straight, covering her waist and abdomen with the silk scarf in a casual gesture.

The stomach is distended, and the dress is visibly taut.

Except for the female guests who were originally obese or wearing loose clothes when they exited, the rest of them moved similarly to her.After going back, I looked through the new news and saw a lot of voices swearing at myself for being unsteady and degenerate, and while I was wronged, I quickly dragged them into the blacklist.

The one who should be most angry is obviously herself, okay?It's okay to say the wrong thing and lose face, how long will it take for her to lose weight after eating this meal? !