Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 4 just here

"It's normal if you don't understand. These things can't be learned overnight. Practice slowly. Get up early tomorrow and go shopping with me."

Xue Xiangshun left after speaking.

From coming in just now to explaining to Chen Nian, and then leaving later, Xue Xiangshun kept the same expression on his face.

But Chen Nian, who has learned the secret script, now feels that Xue Xiangshun is still cute even if he keeps a straight face.

Strike while the iron is hot, and cut up all the remaining tofu according to the new method in the old age that night, and finally found that the yield rate is indeed much higher than before.

But this is only relatively watchable. Compared with Master Xue, it is still the loli who sees Yujie, which is not fierce enough.

In this day and age, people still send messages by sending telegrams and writing letters. There is no entertainment for sleeping alone at night, let alone falling asleep listening to Guo Degang and Yu Qian's cross talk with headphones.

The only thing that made Chen Nian a little bit interested was listening to Master Xue who lived next door getting up several times at night, and listening to the rooster crowing several times in the middle of the night.

Every time he heard the rooster crowing in the middle of the night, Chen Nian wondered why Master Xue was good at Mapo Tofu instead of Kung Pao Chicken?
"Nature is amazing."

Early the next morning, Chen Nian got up early to wash up, got dressed and waited for Master Xue downstairs.

Last night, Master Xue asked himself to go shopping together.

I have to say that the morning weather in Chengdu in October is still a little bit cold.

Wearing a single gown, Chen Nian shivered the moment he went out, almost throwing his nose out.

But in the face of a firm will, all Feng Mo Han Gui are paper tigers.

Walking out the door followed Chen Nian and jumped up and down for about ten seconds, and the situation improved a little.

When Master Xue came out, Chen Nian saw that the other party was still wearing the blue cloth clothes with oil wax flakes, but it seemed that there was an extra layer of fur coat inside, but in fact, the fabric was slightly thicker, similar to autumn clothes. General clothing.

"Let's go."

While talking, Xue Xiangshun handed the big basket in his hand to Chen Nian, while walking with his hands behind his back, humming a little song that Chen Nian couldn't understand, and walked leisurely towards the vegetable market.

Chen Nian hurriedly followed, and he knew in his heart that Master Xue recognized him. Yesterday he told him how to cut tofu, and today he took him to buy vegetables. Otherwise, it would be impossible for an ordinary master to show his heart to a new apprentice who has been recruited for seven days. Take out your lungs.

After all, I learned that the apprentice starved the master to death.

Many masters will hide their skills when they guide their apprentices, either seasoning, heat, or key ingredients, anyway, they will not let the apprentices learn everything.

Unless it's time for him to retire soon, at this time the apprentice basically has to raise a son.

This is also the reason why many apprentices have been studying for decades before they can become teachers.

"When I go to the vegetable market, I mainly buy meat and vegetables. Tofu is delivered directly to the store every day before noon and evening," Xue Xiangshun said.

Chen Nian knows this, at least he has been here for a week.

Chen Mapo Restaurant has been selling Mapo Tofu for nearly 100 years, and it can't be justified without its own purchase channel.

The vegetable market is not far from the restaurant. The road along the way is flat, and there are basically brick houses on both sides of the road. Occasionally, you can see some old houses built of stone and wood, as if you can urinate against the wall. Collapsing in general.

But after all, it is in the city, and there are not a few buildings.

Chen Mapo Restaurant is on the first floor of a white-walled building.

The vegetable market in this period is not so much a vegetable market as it is a market. Dozens of vendors either stand or sit on a small horse, or lean on a flat cart waiting for customers to come to their door.

"Rice rice, one thousand and two yuan per catty, come and see~"

"Five hundred vegetables, three hundred fungus vegetables, guaranteed freshness, six hundred shallots, guaranteed freshness~"

"Pork—beef——[-] pork, [-] beef!"

The sound of hawking one after another is endless, mixed with the sound of bargaining from time to time, which is quite lifelike.

Xue Xiangshun walked in front of the stalls of various vendors with ease, his gaze was like a falcon, and his eyes swept across their stalls quickly.

Finally, he stood in front of a stall with Chen Nian. The stall owner was wearing a gray cloth padded jacket, his complexion was dark, his face was covered with dimples, and his smile showed the unpretentiousness unique to people of this period. He glanced at Chen Nian, and then he was happy He looked at Xue Xiangshun anxiously: "Master Xue, buy some yellow beef? It's cheap, only [-], and it's all just here. See how fresh the meat is, ten catties?"

Xue Xiangshun was obviously familiar with the other party, and when he heard the other party's words, he laughed and cursed: "You just came? Mom, I'm also new here. I want twenty catties, it's cheaper."

"Twenty catties, okay, [-] pounds, no matter how little it is, you won't let it~"

"Okay, cut the meat."

The butcher drew out his knife and cut the meat swiftly, looked at Chen Nian and asked, "Is this your apprentice?"

"En." Xue Xiangshun was pulling the butcher's weight at this time, and nodded when he heard the other party's question: "A new apprentice from the restaurant, take him out to buy vegetables."

After finishing speaking, he squatted down as if he had just remembered: "When choosing yellow beef, you must first look at the color. It is uniformly dark red, shiny, and a little dry on the outside. The fat part is usually white, and the color of stale beef is not bright enough. , the fat ones are yellow-green; the meat of old beef is dark red in color and thicker in texture.”

"After seeing the color and then touching it, it's like picking a wife. Look for ones that are elastic, tender, and non-sticky to the touch. Finally, you can smell them and buy them if they smell fresh."

After finishing speaking, he added: "Old Li's beef is good, but they don't always talk about the real price, so they have to make people eat more."

Lao Li, the butcher, had a bitter look on his face when he heard this: "I have to eat when I sell meat. Both sons are playing with each other. They always need to save some money when they get married. Give me some face in front of young people."

Chen Nian didn't say much, but wrote down all these.

It's all knowledge points, very important.

After that, I bought garlic sprouts, some bean tendons, some stinging shreds and other common dishes and side dishes in restaurants, and I also bought a piece of cooked beef about six catties.

These are all dishes on the menu of Chen Mapo Restaurant.

Vinegar sting.

Stewed beef.

Red oil bean tendon.

In addition to mapo tofu, tofu also has bear paw tofu, braised tofu, soy sauce tofu, etc.
Tofu dishes are specialties.

Carrying thirty catties of meat and vegetables like this, Chen Nian returned to the restaurant with sore and sore shoulders, as if a little daughter-in-law had carried Zhu Bajie on her back, and even ran a mini-marathon with Zhu Bajie on her back.

　The price was checked from the Internet by vinegar. The price information at that time was a bit messy. At that time, the first version of large-denomination banknotes was issued, but there were also some materials that said that the salary of ordinary people was 18-50 yuan at that time, and with the The release of the second edition has also been adjusted back, so it is directly unified here for easy reading.

　　11.15 ps: Some people said too much before, so I changed it, but in fact, the conversion of the old currency is also simple, just divide it by [-].

　　And, Master Xue Xiangshun was indeed a real person in that era, and the information about Master Xue was basically obtained from Baidu, as well as "Sichuan Cuisine Miscellaneous Talk" by Che Spoke reporter.

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