Yokohama Cuisine Event Book

No matter what kind of ramen, the three essential elements are "soup", "noodles" and "ingredients".Hakata tonkotsu ramen, which is popular in southern Japan, is first boiled with pork bones for a long time to make a milky white soup, then add onion, garlic, sesame oil and other sauces and spices to make the soup, add chewy thin noodles and various ingredients , noodle dishes with a strong taste.

As one of the three most famous ramen, the production process of Hakata tonkotsu ramen can be completed with eyes closed.But that doesn't make any sense—an excellent cook will not underestimate any of the smallest tasks, nor will he be lazy to repeat past creations, but should adapt to local conditions and consider the needs of diners in order to pursue self-improvement.

Same this time.Although I decided to make tonkotsu ramen, the rich soup of white soup is not suitable for summer, and Japanese people also prefer light taste for dinner.The two are in total conflict, and at first glance it might seem like a mission impossible - but that's what's interesting, isn't it?

How to make a bowl of soft and delicious Hakata tonkotsu ramen—she has been thinking about the solution to this problem while waiting for Kunikida and Dazai to arrest Almuta.Now she has a plan for the dishes to be cooked.

In order to retain the flavor of Hakata, tonkotsu broth is irreplaceable, so we should find a way to balance the overly rich taste of white soup.

The answer is - with acid.

When kneading the dough, add grapefruit to make the noodles have a delicate fruit acidity; among the ingredients, you should add soft rice vinegar to season the char siew, and the radish that is easy to absorb flavor should be brushed with a layer of vinegar sauce before roasting Juice, and choose red ginger pickled in plum juice and lotus root pickled in rice vinegar.In this way, diners' appetites are opened up, making them more likely to accept tonkotsu soup, and at the same time, it also concentrates the refreshing and strong circulation in one bowl.

But this is not enough.For Gancha, such cuisine is fragmented, and she hopes that the elements in the soup, noodles and ingredients can have a sense of unity.There is no need to mention the ingredients that can directly touch the soup. After the noodles are soaked in water, they can be put into the soup a little in advance to make them absorb part of the soup.

As for the soup, after thinking about it, she decided to add a special condiment - a little pork leg was dried and minced, mixed with plums, perilla and prunes, with a fresh and sour sauce to neutralize the soup. The thick feeling created by fat and gum also echoes with the other two.

Gancha put the two big bags of ingredients and the knife box on the ground, took out the key and opened the door on the third floor.

Here is her exclusive cooking research room.

Because she stayed in the detective agency for a long time, the place where Mr. Joichiro taught her cooking was set in this building.At first, she borrowed the site of the vortex, but later her personal belongings increased, so after discussing with the president, she also rented the vacant third floor. After some renovations, it looks quite professional now Large kitchen too.

Even so, there's still a place for her in the Vortex Café's kitchen, for when she needs it.She does borrow it very often. There is no place more suitable than the whirlpool for baking pastries. The raw materials are at her disposal, and she can get timely feedback from the guests-ah, not to say that the guests are treated as guinea pigs, but after all she It also requires multiple opinions, so this is the only way to do it.However, boiling ramen in the vortex is too much, and the elegant coffee aroma will be destroyed.

Whether it is the kitchen, or the storage room and the utility room are very clean, the cleaning staff employed by the detective agency are very attentive.She cleared out all the perishable materials before leaving Yokohama, so the refrigerator and cabinets were a bit empty.

Gancha tied up her long hair with a rubber band, tied up an apron, took out the ingredients in the bag one by one, put them on the operating table, and was ready to start experimenting.

"Concussion, skull base fracture, comminuted joint fracture, organ rupture... Oh, it's really broken. But it's not enough, Kunikida."

The person who spoke was the female doctor of the detective agency, Yosano Akiko.The short and smooth hair swayed slightly with the movement, and the golden butterfly hairpin pinned to it fluttered its wings.At this moment, she had a creepy and maniacal smile on her beautiful and mature face, wearing only underwear, carrying a hatchet, and slowly approached Kunikida, who was tied to the hospital bed with a restraint belt and looked terrified.

This is not a murder scene.Yosano possesses the healing ability "Please don't die", which can instantly heal people who are dying.But if the injured patient has not reached the state of near death, she cannot use the ability, and she needs to cut the person to that extent herself.

"No, no, wait a minute—"

Kunikida Doppo let out a voice of despair trying to delay his impending fate.

"Ah? What are you still rambling about, Kunikida. It's a good time for you, let me cut a few knives in peace and order, and I'm going to eat in a hurry. Really, it's all your fault for coming back so late, I'm already in I've been waiting here for 10 minutes—" Yosano said impatiently.

"what--!!"

In the ward separated by a wall, Dazai and Gancha looked at each other listening to the sound of the hatchet cutting into the body and Kunikida's screams.

For some reason, Dazai praised: "The actions with Dr. Yosano are really crisp and quick."

"I always feel that Mr. Dazai is thinking about something terrible." Gancha said.

"Ah, that's not the case." Dazai showed a shy smile like a young girl in Huaichun who was guessed at the center of the matter, "I just thought about it for a while, "If she does it, maybe I can die quickly" or something.But as expected, it is still not possible, it is not at all refreshing to be cut into eight pieces by a hatchet~”

He is really a persistent suicidalist, and he should be regarded as the best among the countless strange people in Yokohama.

But I have seen it once in the car before, so now Gancha just raised his eyebrows indiscernibly, and then calmly pressed the iodophor cotton swab heavily on the scratch on his cheek to stop him physically. suicide statement.

Dazai let out a small cry of pain, and looked at her aggrievedly with those moist iris eyes.

Gan Cha returned his usual faint smile.

"...I'm so afraid of pain."

After looking at each other for two seconds, Dazai lowered his eyes and muttered.

"..."

It seems to be the truth.Oops, my conscience hurts a bit.

Gan Cha silently relaxed his movements.

Scrapes healed quickly.Before Yosano next door finished his work, Dazai had already sat at the small dining table in the cooking room, drinking tea and looking curiously at the overly large kitchen.

There are two sets of sinks consisting of five gas stoves, two sinks, and a three-meter-long console. They are located in the center of the room, facing each other with a short distance.

Against the wall were two sets of tables and chairs for entertaining guests, several refrigerators and freezers, many professional instruments that he could not name, and a large bookshelf that was stuffed to the brim.Most of the above are books and materials related to cooking, and there is only a row of notebooks on the first floor that look like handwritten notes.

In order to ensure the taste, the noodles need to be cooked fresh.The girl stood behind the counter on the right, waiting for the water in the small pot to boil.On the gas stove in front of her, besides the broth bucket and the small pot for cooking noodles, there is also a brown medium-sized casserole. At this moment, the girl lifted the lid through a towel, and the rich and fresh vegetable aroma mixed with the rice fragrance immediately followed the steam. Spread out.

"Huh? This doesn't seem to be something you can use for ramen, does it?"

"Ah, no." Gancha explained, "This is green vegetable porridge. I'm worried that someone might get a stomach injury, so it's probably not suitable for strong-flavored dishes, so I prepared this—"

"...vegetable porridge." Dazai leaned back a little, expressing his rejection with gestures.

I also want to know that this was probably originally prepared for him.Everyone else could be cured immediately by Dr. Xie Ye, except for him—although it smelled pretty good, but with such a bland thing, he was going to make a fuss!

This is not a simple vegetable porridge - after all, although the stomach injury is only suitable for easy-to-digest liquid food, the patient still needs a lot of protein.Therefore, she added fine minced pork when cooking, and put a lot of thought into the seasoning.This is vegetable porridge that even Luanbu would happily eat!

But since it didn't come in handy, she didn't need to explain too much, she just smiled noncommittally, and started cooking the noodles when the water boiled.

A ball of extremely thin pale yellow noodles is put into a mesh net and placed in boiling water.At the same time, the girl puts various seasonings in the noodle bowl, scoops hot tonkotsu soup from the cylindrical stock pot, and pours it into the bowl—the layered and complex aroma immediately permeates the entire cooking room, as if The waves of the sea lapping on the rocks, wave after wave shock the senses.

Her hands are very steady, and the full spoonful of bone soup did not splash on the cooking table on the way from the pot to the bowl; but her speed is extremely fast, like flowing water in the clouds, even after the soup is prepared By 20 seconds, the impermanently cooked Hakata-style ultra-thin noodles had just cooked to the hardness she needed.

Gancha immediately lifted the net and drained the hot water.The extremely elastic noodles jump in the net, are picked up by long chopsticks, and put into the milky white noodle soup.She put all the carefully prepared ingredients one by one, and brought the dishes over on a tray.

In the black pottery bowl, the milky white noodle soup exudes a mellow and attractive aroma, and the light yellow and slender noodles soak up the soup and slowly spread out in it.The edges of the four thick char siu are stained with a slight sauce color, and the soft-boiled eggs cut in half have a translucent, jelly-like golden heart.In addition, there are fresh and tender bean sprouts, roasted white radish on one side, and refreshing lotus root belt and red ginger.

The color is pure and harmonious. If you want to describe it, the food in front of you is like a white sanctuary with stained glass.In the dense white mist, there seems to be a little bit of starlight swirling upwards, which is unbelievably dreamy.

The girl with long hair put away the tray and smiled at him: "Please use it."

Feeling overwhelmed by a sense of ecstasy that came from nowhere, Dazai, who had always been very lively, was rarely silent.He picked up the spoon and took a sip of the soup first.

Intense and refreshing delicacy - on top of the rich and mellow tonkotsu soup, layers of flavors are gradually added, and at the top is a hint of fruity acid that is endlessly memorable.This exquisite sour taste shakes people's spirits, and the mellowness of the soup base is condensed to make it more prominent.

The noodles and ingredients are also delicately processed.The thin noodles are dipped in soup, moderately soft and hard, with a hint of freshness coming from nowhere.The soft-boiled eggs are smooth and moist, the char siu is boiled soft and glutinous, sweet and delicious, and even the fat is not greasy; the bean sprouts seem to have only been blanched, but they seem to be precisely caught at the moment when they are just cooked. The mouthfeel is crisp and crisp when bitten.

He felt as if he was walking slowly up a tower.Looking out from the tower, every floor has a wonderful view.The wind blowing over his cheeks carried a fresh fruity fragrance, gently and warmly dispelling all the exhaustion—and it was only at this moment that he vaguely felt that he was really tired.

Ahh, I want to melt into this gentle wind.Just go with the wind, maybe the place where he falls has the scenery he expects——

The sound of chopsticks touching the bottom of the bowl sounded, and he came back to his senses.As if the shock of the electric current passing through the brain has not subsided, the noodles in the bowl have disappeared.

Dazai looked at his hands with a rare bewildered expression—he seemed to have only picked up noodles with chopsticks just now?

Ah, the noodles seem to be missing a bit?After all, there are still about half of the soup and ingredients in the bowl——

"This is your replacement jade." The girl's smiling voice sounded from the side.

Tiyu is a unique way of serving Hakata ramen.This is not just a formality - because the noodles used are very thin and have little water content, if you cook too much at one time, the noodles will gradually absorb the soup in the bowl, and eventually may absorb the noodle soup, leaving only the noodles in the bowl. Soft noodles.Therefore, when serving the dish for the first time, the chef will deliberately reduce the portion of noodles, and wait until the guest has finished the first portion, and then serve freshly cooked noodles as needed.

Like a chef in a star-rated restaurant entertaining distinguished guests, Gancha stood upright, and lightly placed a small plate of noodles with a little milky white soup on the table, and then kindly suggested: "But where In the past, Dazai-san should tidy up his clothes first, okay?"

"...Ah, that's true."

Dazai buttoned up his shirt, and stretched out his hand to touch his hot cheek with a strange expression—you don't need to ask him to know that his face must be flushed now.

Of course he couldn't blush spontaneously from anything, so this incident was all the more strange.Obviously he can control the heartbeat, but he can't control his expression?

Doubt, surprise, interest, anger... even Dazai himself can hardly describe his current mood.So he felt even more dazed—could this happen to him?

In the end, he just stared at the girl on the side, and asked a question from the bottom of his heart:

"Isn't Miss Gancha really a psychic power?"

"?"

The girl who was in a happier mood than usual showed a puzzled expression.

Seeing the bewildered (stupid) (stupid) expressions on other people's faces that he is most accustomed to, Dazai finally felt that things were back under control.Although he doesn't usually hate this kind of feeling, he doesn't like it at all, he just finds it boring.But at this moment, it actually gave him a sense of joy to meet an old friend in a foreign land.

It's a little regrettable that the runaway situation is going to return to the right track, but it's not bad?

Thinking of this, he quickly returned to his usual state: "Huh? Isn't it?"

He opened his beautiful iris-colored eyes: "But I really saw the tower just now? It's like a fairy tale world, a white tower in the forest, huh? Surrounded by colorful clouds and mist, you can see the rising sun from afar Treetops—"

"Your literary talent is good, Mr. Dazai." Gan Cha didn't stand still, and leaned on the back of the chair with the tray in his arms, listening to him with a smile.

Dazai became more and more enthusiastic: "The surroundings of the sun are also colorful! But the best thing is that there seem to be fruit trees around. I can smell a very sweet smell in the wind. I should really go out from the tower and take a walk around , maybe I can pick a grapefruit to eat—but maybe I’m actually Snow White, who fell asleep in the tower and couldn’t get down by myself..."

The person who falls asleep in the tower is Sleeping Beauty, and the one who cannot get down from the tower is Rapunzel.However, the princes in fairy tales all look the same. If the princess is also the same person, it seems more reasonable, otherwise the pure heart of the child will be hurt.Gancha thought about it leisurely, and said casually: "There are still peeled grapefruits in the refrigerator, do you want to eat them?"

"...Huh? Is it okay?" Dazai paused, then raised his head happily.

"There's nothing wrong with that."

Of course, there is no reason to refuse the request for food. Rather, she will involuntarily take care of others in this regard. This is a common problem of chefs and housekeepers.Gancha walked towards the refrigerator and reminded: "However, it's better to eat Tiyu as soon as possible. There is some soup on it, and it won't be good if it becomes soft."

"Oh." The voice of the promise was very obedient, but the next sentence began to reveal a hint of enthusiasm, "Hey, so Miss Gancha really hasn't thought about it?"

"Thinking about what?"

"Multiple powers?" Dazai said confidently, "Using cooking to bring people into a fantasy world—otherwise the scenery I saw is really hard to explain. I have never experienced this kind of experience before, okay? And Gancha Miss's cooking will shine, how can ordinary cooking achieve this level?"

At the end, he showed a shy expression, and whispered coyly: "I-I also unbuttoned him..."

"...I always feel that Mr. Dazai is more like a female high school student than me." Gan Cha said.

"Oh, I won the prize~"

"I'm not complimenting you." Gan Cha still put a bowl of peeled grapefruit in front of him, "But aren't what you just said are normal things?"

"...Those, mean?" Dazai asked cautiously.

"Glowing, hallucinations and so on." Gan Cha took it for granted, "Isn't this a very common thing? Needless to say, my teacher, many students can do it too. It has nothing to do with supernatural powers, let alone Mr. Dazai himself It is the anti-supernatural ability, even the supernatural ability cannot work on you."

The girl's expression was a little happy: "It's okay to just say it's delicious?"

"...Then, where are the clothes?"

"I still want to ask this. Is there any relationship between Mr. Dazai and the Nakiri family? I thought you were going to tear your clothes just now."

Osamu Dazai felt a little confused again.

Yes, he was a little bit reluctant to see the disappearance of the rare situation just now, but it wouldn't be so soon for the second time, right?

Although he didn't go to school for a long time, Mr. Sen took him to read a lot of books anyway.Why does it seem like he can't even understand Japanese now?