National Tide 1980.

Chapter 488 True Buddha
"Hey, you've put me in the army like this. Let me tell you what to say!"

"Zhang Dashao" sighed, closed his eyes, and couldn't help expressing emotion.

"You kid, ever since you rented my house, you've paid me a hundred and one respects. Not only did you do what you promised me, but you even sent things over during the holidays. Please remember, these I keep it all in my heart."

"What's more, what does a craftsman want? It's nothing more than relying on craftsmanship to make a living and earn a decent reputation. As the old saying goes, if you learn literary and martial arts, you can sell your goods to the emperor's family. The emperor doesn't need it, but he sells it to know the family. As the saying goes now, it’s about applying what you’ve learned.”

"Thinking about it, I'm already at this age. Maybe I will climb the chimney of Babaoshan in a few years. Rather than letting what I have learned all my life disappear with me, I might as well help you as much as possible, which can be regarded as staying behind." Something. Since you don't dislike me, and what you want to do is something that is good for the country. Then I have to be worthy of you. I won't pretend to be a small person in front of you."

"Let's open up the skylight and tell the truth. I haven't made a name for myself in my whole life, but it's not my fault. Although I can't cook for you, I still have a say in the imperial cuisine, you know You need to be more than others. If you are willing to listen, I will talk about it and give you advice as much as I can..."

The tone of "Zhang Dashao" brought out the desolation of the twilight of life, revealing a taste of Feng Tangyi's old age and Li Guang's unspeakable taste.

However, when Ning Weimin heard it, he was very excited, and he was not happy about it.

So he bowed deeply again, saying "thank you" in his mouth, and hurriedly stepped forward to fill the teacup for "Zhang Dashao".

In this way, "Zhang Dashao" finally opened up the chatter box and gave Ning Weimin advice.

"I think everyone will be curious about the food the emperor ate back then. But there are not many people who really know it. First of all, I have to tell you that there is no serious imperial food now. Don't look at Beihai Fangshan and Tingli Restaurant in the Summer Palace. It’s quite lively, they’re really not authentic. To put it bluntly, it’s only half and half, it’s a matter of taste.”

(Note: Taste thing, not so good thing)

Good guy, the first time I opened my mouth, I couldn't stop talking.

Although he had already decided in his heart that "Zhang Dashao" was absolutely extraordinary.

But hearing these two well-known, well-known court dishes, he actually let him downplay them so casually!
Ning Weimin was also very surprised.

So "Ah..." I couldn't hold back and blurted out.

However, his reaction in this way was exactly what the old man wanted.

"Zhang Dashao" Shoumei raised his eyebrows, and his interest in talking increased greatly.

"Don't shout, I'm not talking nonsense. When Beihai Fangshan was established in the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), the chefs were indeed imperial cooks. They were not called restaurants, but tea houses. The main products were court pastries and snacks, minced meat pancakes, Small Wotou, Pea Yellow, Aiwowo and so on. There are not many stir-fried dishes, and they are added slowly later. Do you know the reason why?"

Where did Ning Weimin know where to go?

He shook his head ignorantly.

"Zhang Dashao" showed a smile that he knew so well.

"That's because the structure of the palace dining room is too large. Except for the 'Zao Chao Wang', who is a master who can cook a few times on the stove, the rest of the imperial chefs are either from the dry vegetable warehouse or the dry tea dining room. Probably I haven't even touched a frying spoon. I know how to do this. Coupled with the operation mode of the palace dining room, it is too expensive to maintain. Even the largest restaurant in the capital can't follow suit. Then you Think about it, even if they hang the brand of Fangshan, how authentic are the dishes?"

"How big is the real royal dining room? Let me tell you, it is collectively called the 'Royal Tea Dining Room', which includes all the huge institutions from storage to production, storage, storage, etc. of food and drinks. Known as the 'dining room' There are 48 places'. There are tens of thousands of practitioners inside and outside the palace at most. The branches at the next level in Guanggong include teahouses, teahouses, external dining rooms, internal dining rooms, fresh collections, compradors, and stalls. , eight warehouses."

"There will be more and more details below. Let's not mention anything else, just talk about the internal dining room for the emperor, empress, and empress dowager. It is also called the imperial dining room. It is divided into the Chonghua Palace imperial dining room, fasting There are five palace dining rooms, longevity dining rooms, tea dining rooms, and imperial dining rooms in the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

"Among them, the Imperial Dining Room of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the "No. 400 Dining Room in Tianzi" is of course the most important. There are almost [-] cooks. It is divided into five bureaus: Meat Bureau, Vegetarian Bureau, Meal Bureau, Hanging Stove Bureau, and Dim Sum Bureau. In addition, there are It is rumored from outside the palace that the chef enters the palace to cook, and it is also called Baohuo Bureau."

"And the five bureaus are divided into several categories. For example, the "red case" of the meat and vegetable bureau has frying, stewing, frying, simmering, stewing, cooking, frying, boiling, boiling, stewing, etc. The chef is in charge of frying, Just stir-fry alone, and he doesn’t care about other tasks such as braising, frying, boiling, boiling, and stewing, and the division of labor is very fine.”

"As for another key question, where does the palace food come from? Let me tell you again, except that some daily necessities have to be purchased locally in the capital. Every place has the obligation to pay tribute to the palace. This is' Gongcha', the tribute is food, so it is called 'Food Item'. It is collectively called 'Gongcha Shan Item'."

"It can be said that throughout the year, convoys of tribute food items enter the Forbidden City in an endless stream. From rice, noodles, fruits and vegetables to milk wine and sugar tea, from oil, salt, sauce and vinegar to chicken, duck and fish, all kinds of items are fixed and counted. "

"You know, although the materials used in the palace meals are not much different from those of ordinary people on the surface, they are nothing more than rice, noodles, meat and vegetables. But in fact, the real gap is quite large. For example, white noodles, what the palace eats is called 'flying rice'. Luo mian', every year new wheat comes off the market, finely grind fine lo, and the noodles that ordinary people eat are only ground twice. Feiluo noodles need to be milled six times, where the breeze passes, the flour is like dust and white snow."

"Many places in the country pay tribute to the palace. Among them, Linfen, Shanxi is the best. The deer tail, deer tongue, and deer intestines come from Liaoning. Deep-fried diced white-bellied trout, bell wheat (buckwheat), barnyard rice From Jilin. Kelp, seaweed, and lotus seeds come from Shandong. South China wild rice, betel nut, and cardamom come from Guangdong. Bingtang, tangerine, and Fucheng come from Fuzhou. There are also bad oil from Jiangsu, rapeseed from Henan, candied dates from Zhejiang, white fungus from Lingtong, etc. , were once tributes delivered to the capital on a regular basis."

"Although the price of shad in the south of the Yangtze River is higher than gold, in the old age, the first net of shad must be sent to the palace every spring. After the shad is salvaged, it will be transported to the capital by ice boats and fast horses. Zhenjiang is about 22 miles away from the capital, and the delivery time is limited to 44 hours ([-] hours). The palace has already prepared for cooking. As soon as the shad arrives, it will be cooked immediately. Rest, only eggs are allowed to satisfy our hunger. Can you imagine what it is like?"

"So, in terms of manpower, there is a shortage of manpower. In terms of ingredients and ingredients, the ingredients are wrong. Then, isn't this imitation meal an imitation? It's too different from the real thing. It's impossible to get close The real palace food. I said half and half are considered polite..."

Experts will know if there is one as soon as it is exported.

Based on these words, Ning Weimin was genuinely surprised.

He never expected that his luck was so good that he would meet the true Buddha today by accident.

Frankly speaking, although I can't help being a little surprised, how does this old man know such details.

But what he cares more about now is that he is sure that the old man's words must have extremely high gold content.

So he was full of energy and sat upright, never willing to miss a word easily.

(End of this chapter)