Chapter 150: A bowl of water is level
Bai Renzong picked up a piece of steamed pork with rice noodles and showed it in front of the camera: "Look at this meat, it is fat and thin, soft and delicious, and the chopsticks are broken by just picking it up. You may feel it is very greasy, but in fact it is not. Because the potatoes below absorb the excess oil..."
As he said that, Bai Renzong turned up the potatoes below: "The potatoes are very soft and glutinous, and they are not dry at all. This is actually very difficult to grasp. The amount of oil must be just right. Otherwise, the meat and potatoes will be very dry if there is less oil, and the oil will be particularly greasy if there is too much oil. In addition, the pork belly itself will also produce oil, which can easily affect the chef's judgment, so it can only rely on experience."
Bai Renzong ate the potato and sighed: "A master who can do this level must have decades of craftsmanship."
Han Jiayi also took a bite and raised her eyebrows: "Hmm? This... is really delicious. My serving is taro, which tastes more delicate than potatoes. It is really good to match this steamed fish..."
"Pearl Round Slices are also very delicious..." Wang Bei sighed, covering her mouth, "The meat is very crumbly but elastic. The fragrance of the glutinous rice outside matches the meat aroma... It is obviously a piece of meat, but the taste is so light."
"Do you know pearls?" Bai Renzong said, picking up a meatball and putting it in front of the camera. "Pack the conventional meatballs with a layer of glutinous rice and steaming it in a steamer. The meat must be steamed and the glutinous rice is just right."
After explaining, Bai Renzong took a bite and nodded with satisfaction: "The heat is very good, the glutinous rice has not been steamed. To put it bluntly, steaming vegetables is just a battle with time. If you don't steam it less, you will be steamed dry if you have more, which will greatly affect the taste."
Then, Bai Renzong tasted the steamed fish again: "The fish meat is not very salty and not fishy at all. Overall, it is very good to eat Mianyang Sanshi steamed rice plate. There is no need to use it to serve, because the potatoes and sweet potatoes below are also a staple food."
At this moment, the following dishes were also served, including osmanthus glutinous rice lotus root, steamed buns of vegetarian beans and steamed edamame.
"This is actually sweet." Bai Renzong explained with a slice of osmanthus glutinous rice lotus root, "Put glutinous rice inside the lotus root, wrap it with osmanthus syrup on the outside and steam it in the pot. It sounds very simple, but in fact, the heat requirements are also very high. The lotus root must taste just right and the sweetness must be just right. Come and try it."
As he said that, Bai Renzong took a bite, savored it carefully before saying, "Well, the lotus root is just right, with a certain crispy feeling, but it is not as crisp as raw. The softness and glutinous rice are just right."
"I think it's good to choose lotus roots." Han Jiayi added, "The chef must have a lot of experience to know what kind of lotus root to choose and how long it will take to steam it. This is really amazing, because experience can only be accumulated by time. Even if I started shopping in the vegetable market at the age of sixteen or seventeen, it is difficult to grasp 100% accurate..."
Bai Renzong frowned and always felt a little unhappy: Damn, can't you even find fault?
Now only steamed edamame and roe are left, and Bai Renzong first turned to steamed edamameme.
This steamed edamame is not steamed, but steamed with fermented black beans and dried chili, so the taste is quite heavy and very good. Bai Renzong took a bite and drank a whole bowl of rice.
"Can you think the steamed dishes can be so spicy?" Bai Renzong shook his sweat and frowned. "It steamed all the spicy flavor into the beans, but the edamame has the aroma of beans, and it is crispy and chewy... Oh my god, it's so spicy."
As he said that, Bai Renzong took another big sip of water, and Han Jiayi immediately added a cup to him, and then took advantage of his chance to drink water to wipe the sweat from his head, looking at the strong affection between his eyebrows and eyes.
In the end, only the steamed bun was left.
"The turtle bream is a unique freshwater fish that we have. Because Beichang City is close to the Yangtze River, there are many aquatic products. So there is actually a small cold knowledge here..." Speaking of this, Bai Renzong smiled mysteriously, "The turtle bream looks very similar to the turtle bream, so how to distinguish them? The turtle bream has thirteen bones, while the turtle bream has thirteen and a half."
Han Jiayi gave him a charming look: "Let's count after we finish eating!"
Bai Renzong tasted a bite of the steamed bun, then shrugged: "It's normal, just add steamed fish soy sauce, green onion, ginger, cooking wine and other ingredients. The heat is not bad, but there is no special highlight."
Bai Renzong realized that this store was actually a bit similar to Licorne, without any interesting creativity or tricks, and relying solely on powerful and solid basic skills.
Speaking of this, Bai Renzong turned to Wang Bei and nodded: "Okay, let's start eating?"
"Okay." Wang Bei responded happily, putting the camera next to him to capture the angles of Bai Renzong and Han Jiayi.
"Mumu, eat fish belly?" Bai Renzong laughed softly and grabbed a fish belly for Han Jiayi.
"You called me Mumu again in front of everyone..." Han Jiayi hummed unwillingly.
Bai Renzong touched her little head: "It's okay, my voice is very small, they can't hear it clearly. Come..."
"I'll just eat it myself, so you can eat more? I'll have to broadcast it until twelve o'clock in the evening..." Han Jiayi said, picking him up a piece of steamed pork with noodles, "The steamed pork noodles taste really good, it feels like it's homemade."
Wang Bei, who was beside him, had already become accustomed to the two of them, and he looked as usual and had a big mouthful of food.
After dinner, Bai Renzong carefully counted several balls of thorns on the head.
"Twelve, Thirteen... Have you seen the last one?" Bai Renzong said, pointing the camera at the main trunk of the fish. "The last main thorn is only one towards the fish's belly, but not towards the back of the fish, so it is called Thirteen and a half. When you come to Beichang City to eat, you can count after eating. If you lack this half, you can complain to the store."
When he said this, Bai Renzong actually felt sincere admiration for the chef's skills in this store.
He has the special ability of "tasting dishes and identifying people". In these dishes, he can feel the sincerity of the chef who makes these dishes, repeated and accumulated over the decades, just to achieve the ultimate "steaming" technique.
It is clearly a restaurant under the Fantasy World Group, but Bai Renzong couldn't help but want to express his respect to the chef of this restaurant.
But some words still need to be made clear to the audience, so I added at the end: "Anyway, we eat like this. I can't guarantee whether this will happen after you come. After all, this is a business cooperation, and people already knew that we were coming in advance."
After the meal, Bai Renzong paid the order. The three of them had a total of more than 400, and the steamed bun alone cost more than 200 yuan. In terms of this craft, Bai Renzong believed that it was worth the money.
At this time, the chef of the restaurant also came out of the kitchen. This was an old man who was supported by someone. He was already in his sixties or seventies and was walking tremblingly, and he didn't look like he could cook in person.
Seeing this, Bai Renzong seemed very confused, and he immediately stepped forward and said hello to the other party.
"Hello, are you the chef of this restaurant?" Bai Renzong asked tentatively.
A middle-aged man in his forties next to him smiled and introduced: "This is Chen Duofu, the chef of our restaurant. He is old and usually doesn't cook in person, but today he has broken an example for you."
The old man said hoarsely, "I wonder, are you satisfied with my skills, old man?"
"Um... um." Bai Renzong nodded reluctantly, "The essence of steamed dishes is simple to say, the heat, seasoning, but the simpler the things are, the harder it is to make, so... it's really amazing. It must be decades of craftsmanship?"
Old Man Chen Duofu nodded: "I started learning with my father at the age of sixteen. I took over my father at the age of forty. I am already sixty-six this year..."
"It counts nearly fifty years of accumulation..." Bai Renzong was secretly surprised, and then asked unwillingly, "Why should you cooperate with Fantasy World Group for an excellent chef?"
"Just you see." The old man sighed, "I'm sixty-six and haven't trained my own successor. In the past, I couldn't make money by opening a restaurant, so I could only open a small broken shop. My son was unwilling to follow me and went to learn finance. The apprentices I accepted couldn't stand the accumulation of decades, and they started their own business after half of their learning. Only by making money can this craft be passed on..."
Bai Renzong was speechless when the other party said this. It actually makes sense to think about it carefully.
"I heard that you came to visit the store on behalf of the TV station and the Tourism Bureau, so I have a reluctant request, old man..." Chen Duofu suddenly held Bai Renzong's hand, "Please help our store put on the local tourist brochures so that everyone can know our steamed dishes and let this craft be passed on smoothly..."
At this time, Bai Renzong finally knew the other party’s purpose.
The store first wanted to enter the Beichang City tourist brochure and invited him to do this business cooperation. Of course, to be fair, this store does have this strength. First of all, these steamed dishes are indeed the characteristics of their Beichang City, and secondly, these steamed dishes are indeed very well-made and fully meet the requirements of the Tourism Bureau.
Although it was a good thing for Bai Renzong to complete the tasks assigned by the Tourism Bureau, Bai Renzong felt like he was morally kidnapped by this old man, which made him a little unhappy.
"I will tell the truth." Bai Renzong replied, and then changed his subject, "But, you just said that the old man cooked and steamed these dishes for me today, right? Then I have a reluctant request next."
As he said that, Bai Renzong sat down again, held his chin and smiled, "Give me a copy of Mianyang Sanshi that you usually make for other guests. Can you understand what I say?"
Chapter completed!