The Days of Opening a Restaurant on an Abnormal Earth

Really, it was all ruined in one fell swoop. You said that as a middle and senior official of Huaihai City, why did you come to this small shop to join in the fun with us people. You, Huang Gang, shouldn't you be going to eat at No. 7 on the Bund, or the revolving restaurant of the Economic and Trade Building?

Don't you think it's a bit of a shame to come to a small shop to eat lentil stewed noodles? A couple of men and women and Zhang Moxuan are thinking so. I thought Huang Gang would leave soon, but I didn't expect Huang Gang to eat it himself? ! This time is going to be tough.

"Fortunately, I just made an extra serving." Zhang Tong didn't mind Huang Gang's willingness to eat his own noodles. He made an extra serving to give Xiao Xiao a taste... Well, for Xiao Xiao, a bowl The noodles are really just taste. Because Xiao Xiao has never eaten this kind of braised noodles. Only after she tasted the taste can she understand why Zhang Tong did this and why he used these techniques when making this dish.

What Zhang Tong said was to teach Xiao Xiao how to cook. Now she is not good enough to go to the stove in person or even to do white cases. But from now on, she needs to be educated on some thinking logic in cooking. For example, there are several ingredients in a dish, but the maturity of each ingredient is different. How to make all the ingredients of this dish at a suitable maturity level when it is ready. It's not that some materials are too rotten, and some materials are not cooked yet.

These basic theories such as how to divide the pot and cut the ingredients all need simple teaching. Just like stewed noodles with lentils, the noodles are easy to cook, but the lentils are not easy to cook. If it is overcooked, the noodles will be rotten when the lentils are cooked. And if the time is not up, the noodles are cooked just right, but the lentils are not cooked. Beans need to be cooked thousands of times, and many beans are slightly toxic if eaten raw (undercooked).

Another point is that the secret to delicious braised noodles is that the noodles absorb the soup into the noodles just right, so that the texture and taste will have a plump and full feeling.

"There are still three minutes. Wait a minute, everyone." Zhang Tong turned the noodles over in the back kitchen. There was no need to shake them or anything, just a simple flip. The bottom of the pot is lentils and shredded pork belly. The noodles are covered on top to prevent the noodles from directly touching the bottom of the pot and sticking to the pot, and also to better absorb the taste of the soup.

Zhang Tong asked Xiao Xiao to start peeling garlic. It would be too uncomfortable to eat northern noodles without garlic. There is a diner in the north who likes to eat noodles with garlic. Said this: smooth noodles with raw garlic, you can eat a bowl and a half. If you eat noodles without garlic, the fragrance will be reduced by half.

However, there are also vinegar-loving noodle lovers in Shanxi who put forward different opinions. For some people, it is intolerable not to add vinegar to noodles. Therefore, there is an old saying: Eating noodles without vinegar is like eating rags.

The war between the garlic pie and the vinegar pie is not as fierce as the sweet and salty tofu nao war. But there have been debates about whether garlic or vinegar is more important when eating noodles. Later, the discussion became too intense, and the chef in the back kitchen ran out and said: Don't make a fuss, noodles are the most important thing. If I don’t make noodles, you can only eat Laba garlic soaked in vinegar.

So Laba garlic with noodles became a compromise between the two parties.

However, for Huang Gang, it doesn’t matter whether it’s eating noodles with vinegar, eating noodles with garlic, or eating noodles with Laba garlic. He really wants to eat northern-style noodles now. There are also many places selling noodles in Huaihai, but most of them are Soviet-style red soup noodles.

The taste of this kind of noodles is refreshing and sweet, but for Huang Gang, the taste is too bland, and it feels like there is nothing to eat, and a bowl of noodles is gone. As a native of Henan who grew up eating stewed noodles and pan noodles, the noodles in Huaihai are really not good for him.

Xiao Xiao peeled a lot of garlic, put three bowls in small white porcelain bowls, and delivered them to a table of guests. Most people eat a bowl of noodles with one or two cloves of garlic. It is still rare for Huang Gang to say that he wants to eat a head of garlic. Huang Gang is really greedy for a long time.

The wife of the family is strict about his eating garlic, and he does not use garlic in cooking at home. Except for Huang Gang, no one in the family eats garlic, or even buys it. Even if Huang Gang wanted to eat garlic, there was no food that matched it well. For example, noodles and dumplings, it is rare for the family to make noodles once a month, and they are ordinary noodles in clear soup, which are bland and tasteless.

If he was going out to have dinner with others, Huang Gang is now a deputy director anyway, not to mention a high position and authority, but at least he is a group of people with social status. If you order noodles with garlic or something alone when eating with others, you are afraid of being laughed at by others. I still need to pay attention to my own image problem. Talking about things with others is not good, no matter whether the other party is my boss or subordinate.

When Xiao Xiao put a small bowl of garlic in front of him, Huang Gang suddenly sighed inwardly: Hey, this official deserves...

The garlic has just been served, and Zhang Tong's stewed lentil noodles are already ready. The heat is just right, the soup is just absorbed, and the noodles turn into an attractive sauce color after absorbing the soup. Because there is no excess soup, the whole noodles appear dry and tough. Stir the lentils and shredded pork belly at the bottom of the pot evenly and it's ready to go.

A white platter filled with sauce-colored stewed noodles, dotted with lentils and shredded pork. The same white porcelain stew pot contains kelp pork rib soup. The kelp is neatly tied into kelp knots and floats in the soup, and the five ribs have a meaty aroma at the bottom of the bowl. There are sporadic yellow oil flakes floating on the soup, which is the wonderful change of the fat from the stewed pork ribs after it hits the kelp.

The stewed noodles and pork rib soup were served at the same time, and Huang Gang couldn't help swallowing his saliva. Good, fancy food he's had enough of over the years. But high-end food is like this after eating for a long time.

My wife is a particular person. She said that the more high-end the food, the more the original taste should be eaten. As a result, the taste becomes blander as it is cooked. Huang Gang felt that sooner or later his family would eat raw food. Huang Gang feels that he can't eat any particularly high-end food. After all these years, he still loves to eat these strong-flavored food, especially pasta. This is a memory engraved in the bones. In his opinion, Laoganma noodles are much more delicious than sushi, but sushi is really tasteless. Anyway, I just love seasoning flavors, there is no way out, Huang Gang’s self-evaluation.

Bite down half a clove of raw garlic, and the spicy taste of garlic spreads in the mouth. Unlike the spiciness of chili peppers, the spiciness of garlic is presented in a milder but more persistent way. The stimulation brought by the smell of garlic can be felt from the mouth to the nasal cavity.

Then under this kind of stimulation, I took a big mouthful of stewed noodles. The sauce-flavored meat-and-bean-flavored noodles are fragrant, chewing seemingly ordinary noodles but giving people an unusual sense of satiety. Each noodle fully absorbs the flavor of the sauce, releasing a strong aroma with each bite. The toughness of the noodles, the crispness of the beans, and the tenderness of the shredded pork, three different textures explode in the mouth.

Foods with strong flavors can easily paralyze people's mouths, making people feel greasy after eating. So here comes the light kelp pork rib soup. The seafood flavor from the kelp and the meat flavor from the pork ribs, the combination of two completely different flavors is natural. I don't know which genius invented this simple but delicious dish how many years ago. His (her) invention is greater than Einstein's theory of relativity to the diners.

The pork rib soup dilutes the aftertaste in the mouth and refreshes the mouth again. Then you can start to attack the taste again! A small shop like this made Huang Gang very addicted to eating. This is more in line with Huang Gang's appetite than going to No. 7 and spending thousands of dollars for a western meal. Now Huang Gang is like shouting: cool!

Zhang Tong looked at Huang Gang eating very well, eating noodles with great enjoyment. Zhang Moxuan was also eating silently, without speaking. And the man and the woman looked at each other, then secretly looked at Huang Gang behind them, and then ate noodles without a bite. Zhang Tong suddenly sat in front of the man and woman with a thermos cup soaked in goji berry water, and then said without warning: "Have you not eaten this in a foreign world for many years? Now I am not used to it?" Zhang Tong smiled all over his face. .