Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 251 Teach the Young Boss a Lesson
"Rouge goose breast?" Liu Qingsong looked up at this dish, and thought about it in his mind. He didn't seem to have eaten a dish with this name before, but there may be some other dishes that were given this name. .

Just like in some restaurants, a piece of green onion floating on top of the fish soup is called Yiwei Dujiang, and a pot of seaweed and egg drop soup dares to be called dark clouds covering the sun. What's even more outrageous is that some coriander is sprinkled next to the braised pig's trotters. It's called "Walking on a Country Road".

There are also some messy homophonic broken stems.

But I didn't expect my wife to be interested in this dish, so I couldn't help asking: "Have you eaten this dish before?"

But Mrs. Liu shook her head: "No, but do you remember the thesis I wrote when I graduated from college?"

Liu Qingsong thought for a while: "I don't remember the specific title and content, but I just remember it's from the direction of A Dream of Red Mansions."

"Yeah, my topic at that time was the characters in the Dream of the Red Chamber, and this rouge goose breast happened to be a dish in the Dream of the Red Chamber. At that time, I was going to look for similar pictures for reference, but I only found some text descriptions. Because this dish has been lost, or no one has ever made it."

"I didn't expect to meet you here." Mrs. Liu said.

And Liu Qingsong couldn't help but glanced at Chen Nian inside, at this time Chen Nian also just heard this and raised his head to look outside.

So he said with a smile through the glass: "Madam Liu has good eyesight. This dish is the one mentioned in the Dream of the Red Chamber. Although it has been lost, it may still be available in some places, but it is not very good. Find."

"Then we've come to the right place? I didn't expect to be able to eat lost dishes here. It seems that there is a reason why Teacher An is so happy here!" Liu Qingsong has been in shopping malls for many years, so he is naturally familiar with chatting. Dao, Chen Nian and An Hongdou praised Chen Nian and An Hongdou in a few words.

Even if he hasn't eaten here, and doesn't know how it tastes, there is no harm in saying something that everyone loves to hear.

So he ordered another rouge goose breast.

"Aging, there are 4 dishes in total, mapo tofu, pot-packed meat, Wensi tofu, and rouge goose breast." Then he turned to look at Liu Qingsong and his wife, "Are you two eating rice? Or..."

"Let's eat rice." Liu Qingsong nodded and said.

So An Hongdou turned around and said, "Three more bowls of rice!"

"Okay, wait a minute." Chen Nian said.

So they waited outside, chatting with each other while waiting.

Soon the first mapo tofu was served.

When Liu Qingsong was ordering food just now, he specially ordered one dish from each cuisine.

Wensi Tofu represents Huaiyang cuisine, Mapo Tofu represents Sichuan cuisine, and Guobaorou represents Northeast cuisine. He also wanted to see if An Hongdou was bragging about how powerful he was.

First of all, after the mapo tofu was served, Liu Qingsong just put it there to take a look, sniffed his nose twice and smelled it, and felt that the dish was stable.

Even if the taste is a bit off when you eat it for a while, it will definitely not be too bad.

Scoop a piece of tofu with a spoon and put it in your mouth, and you will feel numb, spicy, and hot for a moment!
And these three feelings still complement each other!

Originally it was just spicy, but under the effect of heat, it will become more spicy!
Originally it was just hot, but it will become hotter under the effect of spicy!

When spicy and hot are stimulated at the same time, the numbness of the pepper powder that has been added to the mapo tofu also begins to attack the tip of the tongue in waves.

The most obvious thing is that his hotness is different from drinking boiled water or eating hot food. Although there is a similar feeling on the tip of the tongue, this kind of hotness does not cause people's tongue to blister.

That is to say, under the action of spicy, a pain similar to hot is produced on the tongue, so this is just a false hot.

Instinctively, he wanted to open his mouth and take a breath, but the person sitting opposite was a woman after all, so it would look a little unsightly, which made him raise his hand to cover his mouth while opening his mouth .

Just when these three flavors were stimulated, as he kept chewing, other flavors also began to spread in his mouth.

After the previous period has passed, all the flavors of mapo tofu burst out together, and during the chewing process, the extremely tough beef cubes that were fried during the production period began to take over the tofu and become the protagonist.

Every time you chew, you can’t stop your tongue from looking for beef grains in your mouth, then send them under your teeth, and finally chew them. This is completely a subconscious reaction. It is a matter of endless enjoyment for the tongue.

And the autonomous behavior of this tongue is like eating popping candy, always inadvertently pushing the tongue carrying the popping candy upwards to collide with the palate.

It's also like a cat will flick its tail at any time, which seems to have two consciousnesses in one head.

"The owner of this store has something." After eating the tofu, Liu Qingsong suddenly had such a thought.

Only now did he fully believe that what An Hongdou said earlier was not bragging, nor was he trying to flatter his friend.

But after thinking about it, he quickly turned his head to look at his wife: "My wife's tofu is very delicious, but you have to blow it a little while eating, otherwise it will be a little hot."

Mrs. Liu glanced at her husband curiously. Liu Qingsong should know that she usually doesn't eat this kind of spicy and oily food, especially at night.

But this time he let himself taste it, which shows that this dish really suits his husband's appetite.

So out of curiosity, Mrs. Liu also scooped up a piece of tofu with a spoon and tasted it.

But before eating, I blew it lightly.

After eating it, his eyes brightened: "It's really delicious. I didn't expect your friend to have such a good craftsmanship!"

An Hongdou has been watching the expressions and reactions of the two of them since just now, and after seeing the satisfied expressions on their faces, she feels somewhat proud: "That's true! I just passed by here by accident, and then it became Regulars here."

Liu Qingsong was a little puzzled when he heard this: "Didn't you and the boss know each other before?"

"No." The corners of An Hongdou's mouth twitched slightly, with a beautiful arc, her eyes were slightly up, and she was a little bit empty, as if she was recalling the scene when she first came to the Red Hotel...

"I met the boss because I came here many times, but I was not famous at that time..."

As she spoke, she couldn't help but look back at Chen Nian who was busy in the kitchen.

And at this moment, Mrs. Liu saw a familiar look in An Hongdou's expression.

(End of this chapter)