Chapter 716 Beggar Chicken and Erhu
The diameter of the fish tank is about thirty centimeters, and a lobster is lying in the fish tank.
Lobsters are not uncommon. This year, there were tens of thousands of lobsters with broken ditches just in Ganbao Marine Ranch. Han Xuan saw a lot.
However, the whole body of this lobster is blue-colored, even with beard and tentacles, which is a bit strange. Han Xuan asked: "f1yish (Florida lobster)?"
The f1yish he mentioned refers to a small freshwater lobster native to Florida, USA, with a bright blue shell.
It is usually used as ornamental shrimp, and is generally sold in the flower and bird market, and is called Blue Magic Shrimp.
In China, there is also a dyed blue demon. The parent shrimp it uses is the scientific name "Keyuan Crayfish", which is the shrimp used in "spicy crayfish".
People select newly hatched crayfish cubs, mix food pigment, raise them in blue liquid, and feed the blended pigment feed, so that the protothecatacin of shrimp body changes.
This is the same as animals such as glass shrimp and green sea turtles. They often eat aquatic plants, causing the body to turn green, and they are not born blue.
And at this moment, this is different in front of Han Xuan.
The restaurant manager grinned and said with a smile: “It’s not Florida freshwater lobster, the little boss.
It is a rare genetic variant of American lobsters. On average, it will mutate and produce a blue lobster in every two million.
According to a biology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who often come to eat here, this is because a certain protein in the lobster is excessive, forming a blue complex called "cruscyanin", which makes the lobster's shell look blue.
After cooking in a pot, it will still turn red like ordinary lobsters.”
Han Xuan suddenly felt the illusion that the Qing Dynasty officials were given to others to please.
American lobsters grow in the East Coast Atlantic Ocean and are now artificially raised in coastal areas of California. It is not surprising that they appear in Los Angeles.
I heard from the restaurant manager that it would turn red after cooking. He wanted to know which one had his head stuck by the door and would cook this rare variant of blue lobster.
This lobster has two huge front turtles, with a slightly different size, the size is almost the same as the body.
Considering that the American lobster can grow to more than one meter in size, the lobster that is less than 20 centimeters in front of me is just a shrimp grandson.
He spoke, "Thank you, I like it very much.
I will stay and raise it, or send it back to the sea to release it."
“That’s good, I’ll help you get the menu.
I'll move this lobster back to the kitchen first and wait for you to take it away?"
"No need to worry, just put it here"
Open the exquisite menu of cowhide cover.
Han Xuan suddenly wanted to eat some home-cooked dishes today, so he ordered braised pork and West Lake vinegar fish. He saw that beggar chicken was added to the menu. He wanted to try it out, so he ordered one.
Anthony was not picky about food, but was just a foodie. When the boss said a name he had never heard of before, he asked, "The dishes here are very large, are you ordering too much?"
"It's okay. I want to taste what I see, but I can't finish it and take it away.
Dawson, you come and sit together, you can't eat it."
On the table next door, Dawson heard Han Xuan call him.
I wasn't very polite, nodded and walked over. After being together for so long, he knew that the boss really didn't care about these qualities
When the beggar chicken was delivered in a tray, the layer of mud outside had not been removed.
Han Xuan and the waiter asked for a small copper hammer, and gently tapped it, and the fragrance immediately spread out.
The sound of dry mud falling into the tray, revealing the bottom layer of lotus leaves.
Unlike the original beggar chicken, which directly smears mud on the surface of the feathers.
After the beggar chicken in front of me was finished, I wrapped it with a few layers of lotus leaves, and then wrapped it with a layer of black mud on the outside.
Be cleaner and hygienic.
The people at the table next to him smelled the smell, stretched their necks and looked at Han Xuan's movements, called the waiter over and asked him what he was eating.
After learning about the recipe for beggar chicken, I kept saying it was interesting. Although some people were already full, they still wanted to take it away.
People who dare to come to the Meet restaurant for dinner are not short of money. They are tired of lobster steak. These Chinese foods have a unique flavor in their eyes.
Han Xuan took the chopsticks to peel off the lotus leaves, and the golden and shiny roasted chicken was exposed to the air, and the fragrance became stronger, with the attractive smell unique to the lotus leaves.
Seeing that the chicken's belly was full of bulging, he asked the Chinese chef standing by the table: "What are those inside?"
“Cooked rice, some lean meat.
There is a dish called winged rice in our treasure island. I feel that eating chicken alone is boring, so I added that method to beggar chicken, and you can taste the taste?"
"Okay." Han Xuan picked up the spoon, dug some rice from the chicken's belly and put it into a bowl. After eating, his eyes lit up, and he raised his thumbs and praised: "It smells very good!"
The chef smiled and said, "I added special chicken sauce and seasonings. I was satisfied with it after experimenting hundreds of times. Americans also like it. The simple rice doesn't taste like this."
Anthony and Dawson were drooling for a long time. Although people in the East and the West had different eating habits, their understanding of fragrance was the same.
The tempting smell made them saliva uncontrollably exudate. Compared with Western food that emphasizes exquisite appearance and original ingredients, Chinese food is countless times more fragrant.
At the table next to it, there was a girl who was only four or five years old. She was attracted by the smell of food that she had never smelled before. She turned her head with a spoon, and saliva flowed out from the corners of her mouth.
Her mother helped clean it and made some beef soup to feed her. The girl shut up and turned her head hard, pointing at the beggar chicken: "I want that!"
Han Xuan was happy when he saw this, picked up a clean bowl, dug some rice and signaled the waiter to give it to her.
The girl was also a sweet-mouthed person and said thank you several times.
Her dad was embarrassed and smiled awkwardly, and expressed his apology to Han Xuan for disturbing them to have dinner.
Han Xuan smiled and shook his head, saying it was okay.
I tore some tender meat and threw it into the fish tank to feed the lobster. The blue lobster trotted and bitten it in a few steps. I don’t know how to eat it, and the meat disappeared.
When Han Xuan heard the familiar tune of "Liang Zhu" sounded, he couldn't help but look back.
The restaurant manager made some new tricks, playing piano and violin in other Western restaurants. In order to pursue the authentic oriental flavor, he found a Chinese man wearing a black long gown to play the erhu!
The vicissitudes of Erhu are born with tragedy.
Music can express emotions. This young man who plays the erhu has very good skills. Even if he doesn’t know the love story, there are many people who put down his chopsticks and applaud.
Liang Zhu's song is not only famous in China, but also the most famous repertoire in China. It entered the world stage with the transformation of the violin concerto decades ago.
Nowadays, no one who engages in traditional Western music knows "the-buttey-love-vio1in-erto". Now listening to the erhu version has a unique style.
Han Xuan hummed in a low voice, not knowing how serious he was in the off-tune. Dawson looked speechless and wanted him to shut up, but after all, he was his big boss, so why dare he blame him...
Others in the restaurant kept talking lightly and tried not to let the bowl and spoon come into contact with each other.
A song of Liang Zhu is less than ten minutes, and the sound is melodious and tortuous.
After the man put down his erhu, the warm applause rang for almost two minutes before stopping. The young man playing the erhu had a little flattered expression on his face.
Like movies, the length of applause represents the degree of people's love.
They don’t applaud out of politeness now, they really like it!
After Lei Dong stopped applause, he kept bowing and thanking him. Facing the sound of others shouting that he would give him another song, he didn't say a word and stepped down with the erhu.
Han Xuan was interested in waving to the restaurant manager and signaled him to call the person who had just played over.
A few minutes later, the young man playing the erhu came over, with a question-looking look on his neck, pointing to his neck and shaking his hand, indicating that he could not speak and was a mute (to be continued.)8
Chapter completed!