I open a restaurant in Xiujie

The spring is cold and the breeze is gentle.

The cool wind keeps blowing on the cheeks, bringing a slight stimulation to the pores. On such a day, eat a bowl of steaming and delicious three-prawn noodles. The clear soup will spread the fragrance along the throat to the stomach. Department, that is really a kind of fairy enjoyment.

The examiners of the competition felt this way.

In particular, the bowl of three shrimp noodles in front of me is full of spiritual energy, billowing with white mist, and full of vitality in spring.

Someone scooped up a shrimp with a soup spoon. The white and tender shrimp was full and elastic, and the delicious soup overflowed when chewing between the lips and teeth.When you pick up the noodles, the tough long noodles slide in your mouth, sucking one long noodle from the beginning to the end, or picking up a lot in one breath, and biting down hard - eating noodles is such a wonderful pleasure.

"It's delicious, it's delicious. The essence of this shrimp has made you understand." An examiner praised, "It's not ordinary shrimp. Extremely rare."

After receiving the praise, Xu Qing raised his chin slightly, and his eyes overflowed with a little bit of satisfaction: "Of course."

"But where are the shrimp roe?" Another examiner stirred the noodles with chopsticks, "This soup is so delicious, only the prawns are not enough."

Xu Qing said: "Of course, everyone, please turn to the bottom of the noodles."

Several examiners followed suit.

Flipping the long chopsticks flexibly, the secret hidden under the noodles is immediately revealed - a piece of crimson shrimp roe floats under the noodles, it is not a bright red, but a warm orange color, scoop up a little with a spoon, and pass it In the entrance, the wonderful taste spread in the mouth, and several examiners couldn't help admiring.

"These shrimp roe are very pure in color," one of them said. "Only the immature shrimp roe will turn red, and if they have matured, they will turn purple or black. The taste of such shrimp roe is far worse than now, and the appearance will also be different." affect the aesthetics of the dish.”

Xu Qing nodded slightly: "That's right."

"I traveled all over the famous mountains and great rivers of Tianzhou, crossed hundreds of rivers and oceans, and found this kind of shrimp in a clear stream in Wuqing Mountain. The body of the shrimp is only as long as two finger belly, but it is crystal clear, like ice and snow. I also I waited for several months until they had the best taste when they hatched their eggs, and then I took them for cooking..."

He spoke eloquently, and the examiners on the high platform couldn't help nodding. From time to time, they picked up a mouthful of shrimp, shook their heads while chewing, and closed their eyes slightly, enjoying it very much.

Seeing this, Xu Qing was overjoyed.

It is not in vain that he has worked hard to prepare for many years. Now that he can get such a high evaluation from the examiner, he should be the number one in the Eastern Division, right?

The next step is to represent the East Division and go to Central City to participate in the finals.

With the breeze blowing, Xu Qing couldn't help but start to fantasize comfortably. I made three shrimp noodles in this round, what will I do in the next round?In short, he still needs to use this spirit shrimp. The high-grade ingredients with dao charm that he found with great difficulty cannot be wasted.

At this time, the examiners' comments were over, and an attendant stepped forward and took away the plates one by one from the examiners.

Xu Qing glanced at it out of the corner of her eye, and suddenly froze: "Huh?"

I saw that the prawns on the dinner plate were devoured, and the prawn roe and prawn brains were also devoured. Even the soup was drank a lot, except that there was still a lot of noodles left, which sank to the bottom of the water.

Looking at the rest of the noodles, one examiner shook his head slightly, regretfully saying: "The shrimp is of high quality, and the taste is also extremely delicious. Your skill in handling ingredients and cooking dishes can also be called a proficiency, but this noodle... oh, too It's ordinary, it doesn't deserve it."

A flash of inspiration flashed in Xu Qing's mind, and he immediately understood the examiner's true meaning.

—It means that his noodles are not good enough for his shrimp.

Xu Qing's expression was a little stiff.

He really wanted to yell at all the examiners: Why are your mouths so tricky that you can taste subtle differences?

I have traveled all over the mountains to find ingredients. It is not easy to find a kind of shrimp. How can I spare my energy to find high-quality pastry ingredients?

Seeing that he seemed a little dissatisfied, the examiner shook his head again and said, "The sense of splitting the quality of the ingredients is like a piece of yellow sand suddenly mixed in in the lush spring breeze and misty apricot rain, extinguishing all elegance. If you are in a hurry to serve, this side is also The taste is not enough, the taste of shrimp and noodles is too separate, if it can be stewed for a while, maybe it will be better?"

"...No, not necessarily. After stewing for a long time, I'm afraid the shrimps will not be as crisp and smooth as they are now."

Xu Qing's face turned red and then pale, and he opened and closed his lips a few times, but in the end he didn't dare to speak nonsense in front of the examiner, so he walked off the stage with a sullen face.

Seeing that his complexion was not good, the crowd watching in the audience looked at each other in amazement: "Could it be that Sanxia Noodles didn't get good reviews?"

"Why, it looks delicious to me."

"Oh, after all, this year is the conference, and this time it seems to be extra strict. It's different from the small fights in previous years. Mr. Xu is still young, so he can't do it this year. Come back in ten years."

There was a lot of discussion, and someone served food again.

This time it was an old man with white hair. Although his face was old, his steps were still vigorous.All the examiners seemed to know him, and they laughed and joked when the old man came on stage: "Old Zhao, are you here again this year?"

"Or the Eight Treasure Duck?"

Seeing the old man smiling and nodding, the examiner smiled helplessly: "It's been so many years, are you still unwilling to change the recipe?"

"Your dish is very good, really good, but the ingredients limit its upper limit, unless you can find an extremely high-quality spiritual duck, and you also have to match it with corresponding vegetarian spiritual materials, it is difficult to collect As soon as you think about it, it’s better to change to a simpler recipe.”

The old man stroked his beard and smiled naively: "Guys, how do you know that I can't find spiritual materials?"

As he spoke, he picked up the upside-down pot lid on the tray in front of him.

In an instant, the steam surged and rolled sideways like water waves layer by layer. Several examiners saw wild ducks fluttering and flying in the spring water, with soft hair and neck upturned, and their mouths uttered crisp cries like birds.

The illusion was only for a moment. When they blinked and looked carefully again, there was only a complete duck on the tray. The skin had been roasted until it was browned, and the surface was oozing with fine oil, shining in the sun.

Just looking at it, you can imagine the crispy outside and tender inside, plump and refreshing deliciousness.

Especially when the old man cut open the ruddy and shiny skin of the roast duck with a knife, the stuffing gushes out with a slight sound of "pooh". A strong and irresistible aroma.

Seeing this, the examiners also salivated, picked up a little bit with their chopsticks, and put it in their mouths.

The duck meat is tender and smooth, and the filling is even more glutinous, salty, fresh and mellow.The examiners couldn’t stop mouthing once they ate it, and their eyes sparkled when they ate it—the duck is full of aura, and the stuffing is also fragrant, even the glutinous rice mixed in the stuffing is actually a rare spiritual material!

The old man's craftsmanship is impeccable. The meat and vegetables are blended in the filling, but the flavor is consistent. The thick and viscous juice flows out of the mouth, but it doesn't make people feel greasy.

The examiners chewed a few times, and their eyes lit up: "Sunjian, you added bamboo shoots to the stuffing. It is its crisp and refreshing taste, which counteracts the greasy mouth of the meat stuffing. It is a good idea."

The other person also nodded frequently: "That's right. Not only the ingredients and fillings have been improved, but compared to last time, your duck has also deliberately removed the bone. This knife skill is amazing."

"Old man Zhao, you Babao duck is really strange, where did you search for so many spiritual materials?"

Seeing the high evaluation of the examiners, the old man is also smiling: "Maybe it's God's blessing, I don't want me to waste my life. In fact, I haven't collected all these ingredients last month. I wanted to give up, but I happened to be passing by a remote mountain village. At that time, I met a pair of strange young people."

"I exchanged some ingredients from them, and that's how I got today's Eight Treasure Duck. It seems that they are also going to participate in the Lingding Conference. They should be in the southern division..."

The examiner was surprised: "There is such a thing?"

The examiners in the southern division are also very lucky!

In fact, limited by the conditions of Tianzhou, it is also a wonderful opportunity for every examiner to be able to eat such aura-rich ingredients.

Several examiners ate up the eight-treasure duck, drank mouthwash tea comfortably, and said with emotion: "If I knew it, I would have gone to the South Competition District. With so many spiritual materials in hand, those two young people must have extraordinary cooking skills."

"Yes, yes, it's cheaper than those people in the south."

Hearing the discussion of the examiners, the old man surnamed Zhao seemed to have remembered something, and his expression was very strange.

But he still didn't say anything, he just saluted the examiners and walked off the stage unsteadily.

After the old man surnamed Zhao, several people served the dishes one after another.

There are young people who are full of ambition, and there are also middle-aged people who are calm and prudent, but with Babao Yazhuyu in front of them, none of their dishes satisfied the examiners, and they only got a marginal evaluation in the end.

The onlookers saw it, and were a little disappointed: "What's the matter, the spirit chefs in the Eastern District are not very good this year."

"What are you talking about? Don't we still have Mr. Zhao?"

"How many conferences has Mr. Zhao participated in? A dish has grown from a teenager to a few decades, and it has the addition of spiritual materials. Even the elm head should be made. But look at the young people in our Eastern Division, Are there not many who can fight?"

"This……"

Amidst the discussion, Yu Xiaotan at the cooking station finally lifted the lid of the pot and began to serve dishes.

The few people who had been paying attention to him immediately cheered up and poked the people next to them with their elbows: "Look, look, the surname Yu in Fengshan City is about to serve."