Punch: From third-rate anchor to top chef

Chapter 769
While waiting for the food, Li Xiao took out his mobile phone, opened the tourist attraction app, and found the opening history of this "Hot Pot Chuan Chuan Restaurant". There was an explanation of the history of Hot Pot Chuan Chuan on it.

After reading it, Li Xiao had a general understanding in his heart. This hot pot skewer is a replica of hot pot, but some changes have been made in the way of eating. It is more convenient to use skewers. You can directly grasp the skewers with your hands, and you can experience hot pot. You can experience the feel of grilled skewers, killing two birds with one stone.

Li Xiao said to the audience and fans in the live broadcast room.

"Brothers, I just saw that this restaurant has a long history, and there are many customers who come here to eat. It should be regarded as a must-see food in Chongqing, right?"

A female fan on the side suddenly interjected: "I visited this restaurant when I first came to Chongqing. I don’t have too many memories, but it’s delicious anyway.”

The fans in the live broadcast room gave an answer.

"Anchor, you may not know that the predecessor of this restaurant was a hot pot restaurant. You know how much competition there is for this hot pot restaurant in Sichuan and Chongqing, so the boss innovated and changed the way of eating hot pot. It has developed into the current hot pot skewers."

"By the way, this store is an old store. The owner has not changed. It's just that some investors came later, so the management right is not entirely with the owner, but the control of the ingredients and taste is still in the owner's hands."

"The taste of this hot pot skewer is better than that of some hot pot restaurants, and the ingredients are fresh. The most important thing is that it is just like what the young lady said, the portion is huge."

Li Xiao chatted for a few words, then turned his gaze back, took out two big fresh bamboo shoots from the bag beside him, put them in Tuanzi's hands, pampered its fluffy little head, and said : "Little guy, I see that your eyes are straight, are you hungry? Eat quickly."

Tuanzi may be growing recently. The amount of food he eats has been increasing, and his body size is gradually increasing. It won't be long before he can grow into a giant panda.

The female fan on the side also stepped forward and touched the dumpling's head, and soon the two of them were having fun together, as long as it didn't affect the diners around, Li Xiao wouldn't bother.

After a while, two handsome-looking male waiters came over with a big pot. When they passed by Li Xiao, they smelled a strong aroma of oil from the pot.

Li Xiao ordered the spicy butter pot bottom, which has a special buttery aroma, very strong, and also has a spicy taste in it, which directly stimulates the taste buds in the mouth and the smell of the nose.

The bottom of the butter pot pays attention to its fragrance, and a layer of grease will form on the surface of the bottom of the pot. Only good butter can form this layer of grease. Generally, synthetic butter does not have it, so Li Xiao concluded that this shop uses It is pure butter.

This store is quite practical in terms of ingredients, at least not fooling customers.

The taste of good butter is not the same as the taste of bad butter. Although the taste and smell of the two are similar, the taste in the mouth is still different.

Anyone who often eats hot pot can tell the difference, so in Chongqing, once a shop that cheats on butter can't survive.

The two waiters put the pot in the center of the long table, then turned on the induction cooker, and cooked it directly on high heat. Once it was boiled, the ingredients could be placed directly.

As soon as the waiter serving the bottom of the pot left, the waiter serving the dishes followed closely behind. There were too many ingredients, so a cart was pushed over. It was full of ingredients. At first glance, the ingredients were very fresh.

Especially the beef and mutton skewers, the meat looks very bright red, with some blood foam on it, it looks like fresh meat that has just been slaughtered for a long time.

Judging from these aspects, the impression of this store has directly risen to a higher level in Li Xiao's heart.

He said in several previous live broadcasts that whether a restaurant is good or not depends on the taste, and the most important thing is the freshness of the ingredients.

These things are for people to eat, and what people eat is a sense of happiness, not inferior things.

Some unscrupulous merchants will always use some messy things to prevaricate the diners. In this way, it will cause harm to the diners, and once the matter is exposed, it will also be a devastating blow to the store.

After cooking on high heat for nearly 10 minutes, the bottom of the pot was cut open. Li Xiao picked up a spoon and stirred in the pot, and found that the bottom of the pot was very rich in ingredients.

There are a lot of dried chilies, prickly ash and some aniseed ingredients in it, the aroma is very strong, and there is a hint of spiciness in the air, which stimulates his taste buds.

Seeing that the bottom of the pot is almost cooked, it is very convenient to put the ingredients on the side directly into the pot. After it is cooked, you can eat it directly with a skewer, and you don’t need to salvage it at the bottom of the pot.

Li Xiao directly let the female fans do whatever they want, put some meat skewers directly, and then directly turned on the fire. According to the waiter, it only takes a few minutes to cook.

There is actually a sequence for eating hot pot, that is, put the meat and vegetables first, so that the bottom of the pot will absorb the aroma of the meat, which will make the bottom of the pot more mellow, and then cook the vegetables, so that the top will be stained The meat is fragrant and the taste will be better.

After a while, the kebabs in the pot were already cooked. Li Xiao was blunt, picked up a beef kebab and mutton kebab, and placed them directly in front of the camera in the live broadcast room.

"Brothers, the skewers in the first pot have been cooked. Looking at the red oil on the meat, you can tell that it is full of fresh and spicy taste. It is said that you don't need to adjust the dipping sauce to eat the skewers, just dry them directly. Just eat, let's try it first."

The meat on the skewer is wrapped in spicy red oil, which looks very appetizing. Before eating, you can smell a fragrance, which is the double combination of the aroma of meat and butter.

Li Xiao took a bite, and the juice inside the meat exploded, and it had penetrated into it when it was cooked on a high fire, and it was completely combined with the meat.

And the meat is very fresh, it tastes very soft and chewy, it is authentic good beef.

The spicy taste at the bottom of the pot is very strong, and it explodes the taste buds as soon as it enters the mouth, bringing a double feeling, which directly makes Li Xiao want to stop.

I just took a bite and felt nothing, but the bottom of the pot is full of stamina. After a while, the spiciness came up directly, but it was not purely spicy, but spicy.

Li Xiao nodded slightly, and said to the water friends in the live broadcast room: "Brothers, the taste of the bottom of this pot is very good, with a sense of layering. When you first eat it, it will be a little bit, and when you chew the meat, your mouth will be full. It's meaty, and you can't taste the spiciness at all, but after you go back, the spiciness is directly reversed."

"This spiciness has a strong aftertaste. It can fill your mouth and nasal cavity with this fragrance, and you can't stop it. So I conclude that the bottom of this pot is pure spicy butter pot bottom."

"Especially the red oil on the surface. It's not good butter, and it won't hang at all, so the hot pot you eat in some hot pot restaurants, whether the red oil is on the top of the hot pot is the problem."

Chongqing is a big gourmet province. Due to its own geographical conditions, the tastes it brings are different. People here prefer spicy food, so everything they make is spicy.

So in Chongqing, whether a food tastes good or not depends on the chili in it, and the experience brought by different types of chili is also different.

The spicy taste that Li Xiao experienced in Guizhou before was pure spicy, with a dry aroma of chili itself, so it didn't have much stamina after eating, but it was very fragrant in the mouth.

The most memorable thing is the improved spicy chicken that Bijie ate. It has a very strong aroma, which can be felt when you eat it.

The spicy food in Chongqing has an aftertaste. When you enter the mouth, there is only fragrance, and there is no spicy taste.

The two have their own advantages and disadvantages. If Li Xiao really chooses one, he should choose Chongqing’s back spicy. This kind of spicy is very layered, not progressive, but all the spicy. Together, then burst out in one breath.

After the female fan on the side ate a few skewers, Xiao Qiao's mouth was already hot, and she kept flapping her hands, trying to relieve the hotness in her mouth.

Seeing this, Li Xiao quickly asked, "Are you not used to this level of spiciness? Do you want to change the bottom of the pot for you?"

This spicy butter hot pot bottom is the hottest hot pot bottom in this restaurant. Li Xiao still has a strong tolerance for this kind of spicy food, and the more he eats it, the more he wants to eat it.

The female fan hurriedly waved her hand and said, "It's okay, I just haven't eaten spicy food for a while, and I can't stand it when I suddenly eat it so spicy, just wait for me to slow down, and you continue to do food tasting."

The female fans are still very sure of Li Xiao's previous food appreciation, and she really got a kind of spicy taste from the bottom of the pot, and it was very good.

When she came here to eat before, she only ordered a slightly spicy hot pot, which tasted like nothing, so this time she wanted to challenge a hotter hot pot.

It will not slow down for a while.

Li Xiao quickly asked the waiter to bring iced milk and put it in front of the female fans, and then continued to make food tasting.

"Brothers, just now the female fans can't stand the spiciness, so I'll change the bottom of the pot later, otherwise, so many ingredients will be wasted."

Then Li Xiao ordered a clear soup pot and put it on the other side of the bottom of the pot, so that female fans can switch back and forth, and they can eat the bottom of the clear soup pot if they can't stand the spicy.

Li Xiao ordered some meat in succession, and tasted it carefully. Most of the evaluations he gave were good, spicy, and mellow, and the evaluations were very high.

Fans and viewers in some live broadcast rooms posted bullet screens one after another.

"Seeing the anchor eat such spicy food, I really can't bear to watch it while I'm at work. I don't care. When I get off work, I'll go eat hot pot skewers and have a good spicy time."

"Tsk tsk, why does my mouth water every time I see the host eating spicy food? But when I go to eat by myself, I can't eat spicy food very much. I really don't understand myself."

"I belong to the kind of food that loves to eat. I didn't expect a hot pot skewer to be called a delicacy by the anchor. I have eaten it so many times, but I haven't tasted the taste of this skewer. It's really useless. For Chongqing people."

Li Xiao glanced at the barrage in the live broadcast room, and took a few questions to answer. This is his habit of live broadcasting.

Every time when tasting food, there will always be fans asking questions, and then asking some questions about food, Li Xiao naturally answers all questions.

"This hot pot pays attention to one ingredient. Some hot pots look spicy, but they are actually not spicy. This has a lot to do with the butter in it."

"This butter is a kind of animal oil. This oil is different from vegetable oil. It can stimulate the taste of chili peppers very well. However, the butter used in some hot pot restaurants on the market is synthetic oil. It looks oily, but it is delicious. It doesn't taste spicy at all because it doesn't stimulate the aroma of chili."

"This hot pot skewer restaurant uses authentic butter, and before making the bottom of the pot, it puts a little fried dried chili to fry all the aroma of the chili, so that it can leave a bottom flavor in the pot."

Fans in the live broadcast room heard the words and sent question marks in the live broadcast room one after another, expressing that they did not understand the explanation.

"Anchor, don't some of the hot pot base ingredients in hot pot restaurants use semi-finished products? Why use butter to fry dried peppers? Wouldn't that be superfluous? And now there are many businesses that produce hot pot base ingredients, some of which are Use this off the shelf."

"Yes, I have eaten many hot pots, most of them are made with semi-finished seasonings, only a few are made by myself, and the brine hot pot seems to be one of them."

"Anchor, if you say this, is it because those manufacturers of hot pot bases have cut corners in the use of oil? So it doesn't taste very spicy?"

Faced with these problems, Li Xiao put down the skewers in his hand, wiped his lips with a tissue, and explained one by one.

"Brothers, I'm not very sure about the issues you just mentioned. After all, the manufacturers of hot pot base ingredients are formulated according to the tastes of consumers, so the taste is more popular and not very spicy, but I can't say that the oil used not good."

"It's just that some merchants choose semi-finished seasonings for convenience and to cater to the tastes of the public. This can indeed save costs and time to a certain extent, but they are not competitive in terms of taste."

"Everyone knows that this is Chongqing, a big province of hot pot restaurants. No matter which street you go, you can always see a hot pot restaurant, so the introversion is very serious. If you want to stand out from the same hot pot restaurants, you must be in It has a great advantage in terms of taste.”

"Let's take this hot pot restaurant as an example. The bottom of the pot is very special and very spicy, which has a great advantage in terms of taste. In my opinion, the biggest advantage of this restaurant is the ingredients. The freshness is what any diner hopes for, and this restaurant has achieved it, so it can be full."

After answering these questions, Li Xiao continued to join the food industry. After a while, all the meat on the table was eaten.

Li Xiao asked the female fan if he wanted to add some meat, and the latter chose vegetables.

The soup base of the hot pot has been shabu-shabu, and there is already a smell of meat mixed in it. Now this is the best time to add vegetables.

(End of this chapter)