National Tide 1980.

Chapter 81 The Crab Race

Master Liu has cooked food all his life.

Especially in the last 20 years of his career, he has been working as the head of Ruibinlou.

Don't look at the time of retirement, Qinxing has not yet implemented the chef level, and Master Liu in the small restaurant does not even have an official title.

But the fineness of the old man's craftsmanship is definitely much higher than that of the culinary master 30 years later.

Because the masters 30 years later are all masters born under the word-of-mouth economy, and it is more important to be able to brag than to be able to do it.

Write articles, be a judge, one is better than the other.

But really let them do it, and the level is just average.

Even in order to hide the clumsiness or put on a show.

These masters seldom do it themselves, and they have to refer to their disciples to make it appear piety.

But Master Liu is different. His craftsmanship started as an apprentice and was trained one by one under the master's stick.

It is also what he has honed with the time and fire of his life.

He is using the experience accumulated in a lifetime to meticulously cook his best dishes for his relatives and friends.

This kind of craftsmanship is not only integrated into the flesh and blood, but has almost become a belief in his life.

That is, you have to do what you want, without any discount.

Not to mention other things, as long as the old man responds to others, he must do it himself. This is called faith.

Take a look at the two apprentices he brought, and you can see the rigor again.

Because even though the younger one is already the second stove of Ruibin Building, he can cook any kind of dishes in the store.

Can follow Master Liu to fight, but only with steamed buns, as a staple food.

The other one is five years of study.

Now I have been transferred to Duyiyi to work, and I am doing the same job as Erzao, and my professional title is also set to be advanced.

But that only has the power to make steamed dishes and soup dishes, and can't touch the small stir-fry.

This is the rule among the elderly, and the master of craftsmanship strictly controls it.

If you say you can't, you really can't.

Then think about it, what kind of taste is it in your mouth when you eat such a craftsman's attitude and make a banquet?

Facts have proved that the tongue can't deceive people, and there are no guests who don't know the goods.

Regardless of each table, the dishes on the table are quickly swept away by the guests.

So at the request of Uncle Bian and Kang Shude, Master Liu had to temporarily agree and added two more dishes to each table.

One is shredded potatoes, and the other is cabbage with oil residue. It's not for anything else. The ingredients are easy to find.

But that's it, there's not much left in the end.

Some people may say that people in these years have never seen the world, and their stomachs are too vegetarian, so this is the case.

It doesn't necessarily mean that there is such a big gap in the level of chefs.

But such a reason would be unreasonable.

why?

It's the same with Ning Weimin, who claims to have eaten a lot of food because he came here from time travel.

In a word, there is no harm if there is no comparison, and Master Liu's crab game will be eaten by him.

People didn't give the elbow to make the taste of dragon meat, but made the egg and fish meat to make the taste of crab.

Speaking of which, Ning Weimin had really eaten this dish before.

At that time, he was inviting an out-of-town customer at a time-honored Beijing restaurant.

When customers flipped through the menu, they felt that this dish was very fresh, and they heard that it was a traditional dish in Beijing.

As a result, they ordered it, but they were both happy when the dishes came to taste.

It was actually a scrambled egg with no shape and no shape, like broken tofu.

It is said to have a little crab flavor, but in fact it is only because the ginger vinegar sauce, which is indispensable for eating crabs, is poured into the dish.

No matter how you say it, it's not worth more than 80 yuan.

From then on, Ning Weimin didn't like this dish much.

I think it is a gimmick to deceive people, the same as the price of 58 yuan for tomatoes mixed with sugar called "volcanic snow".

It's not even like the "three non-stick" fried eggs with Heju, don't look at the price of [-] yuan.

After all, it's real kung fu, and it's delicious.

So this experience was also considered by him to be a great shame in his life.

He is a dignified business veteran, who has always been the only one to be fooled by others. He was actually hacked by the restaurant. Can you not feel aggrieved?

But today is different.

Because Master Liu's crab race is completely different from that shitty restaurant.

People use yellow croaker as the main ingredient, eggs as auxiliary ingredients, and then add various seasonings to marinate in advance and stir-fry dishes.

Yellow croaker meat is as white as crab meat, and eggs are golden as crab roe.

Master Liu's crab, not to mention the appearance is very similar to crab meat, the soft, smooth and delicious taste is even more crab meat.

Completely do not crab, better than crab flavor.

Compared with the fat crabs that are currently on the market, it is not only much cheaper, but also very enjoyable to eat.

Can Ning Weimin not pick his thumb?

Speaking of which, this is still the case where he doesn't know the real origin of this dish.

If he had known, this crab race was created by the seventh master of Wu Erhun Wu during the reign of Tongzhi, and it was originally an authentic imperial meal.

Later, through the mouth chef He San'er kneeling and begging, Wu Qiye moved the art of compassion, and was able to spread it to the people.

If he still knew, the mouth chefs in the capital are now almost extinct, and only the crab races handed down from the Ruibinlou lineage are the real taste.

This kid is probably more fortunate to be lucky.

Because this is an absolute "intangible cultural heritage", if you say you can't eat it in the future, maybe you really can't eat it.

Look at his blessing, how big is it!

In short, if today's shot is going to end with a scene at the banquet.

The scene of eating and drinking at the end must make Westerners who see it even more misunderstand that our Chinese people are very rigid.

Because the banquet's banquet is actually a special case, the dishes are really delicious.

So that the guests sitting on the table can't put down the chopsticks.

No one cares about being polite, they just care about eating.

Rarely did anyone raise a glass to drink, let alone chat.

Everyone is quite engaged, even if strangers sit together, they don't show up, and they fill their mouths with big mouths.

It is still the standard way of eating these days, eating large pieces of meat, fat and thin, and no one touches vegetables.

It's hard to wait until I have time to remove the plate and take a breather.

With Ning Weimin at the same table, Master Sun, who has a bathhouse to issue bills, even couldn't help expressing happiness.

"Mom, it would be nice if someone gets married every day..."

As a result, this sentence made Ning Weimin take over.

He speaks in public a supreme truth that is irrefutable.

"The key is to have good wine and good food. Otherwise, it's useless to get married a hundred times."

There is no doubt that this incisive answer caused a burst of happy laughter in the hall.

Even Master Sun picked his thumbs up.

Just because of this, he patted Ning Weimin on the shoulder and raised a glass of beer.

In this way, the two of them giggled and clinked glasses, and the atmosphere on the table was very good.

In addition to being seduced by the stomach, everyone is very excited, and the wine is also getting stronger.

It's just a pity, just when the cups are being exchanged, when everyone is finally interested in chatting.

A completely unexpected accident stopped Ning Weimin from waiting for the hot dish to be served, forcing him to retire early.

Even because of this, he missed the following two dishes, dry croquettes and shrimp in tomato sauce.

Afterwards, every time I hear people mention the wonderfulness of these two dishes, it is quite a pity.

(End of this chapter)