Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 831 Surprises

Although Chen Nian couldn't come to the front, he could still hear some feedback from the waiter who came back from serving the dishes.

Customers like the dishes served earlier, which is also a good sign.

Chen Nian is now continuing to prepare the next dish in the kitchen.

After the Buddha jumped over the wall and brought it up, he began to ask people to bring down the lotus-flavored caged duck and prepare to put it on the plate.

While preparing the plate, Chen Nian asked people to put the remaining Buddha jumping wall into the freezer for quick freezing. Of course, he didn't want to freeze the Buddha jumping wall into ice, but let the Buddha jumping wall cool and solidify quickly through the air conditioning.

The strong aroma of duck combined with the fresh aroma of mushrooms and the fragrance of lotus leaves will whet your appetite.

The chefs in the messed-up kitchen were all groaning in their stomachs.

"Sigh, I don't know when we will be able to eat, I'm hungry now." Huo Fuyun's eldest apprentice said with a sigh.

"Soon, we can go eat with a dozen more dishes." Chen Nian smiled.

Next, Chen Nian directed the crowd to arrange the dishes one by one, while he started to make the soup filled yellow croaker.

This dish is one that Chen Nian is looking forward to. He learned it from Master Sun when he was in the martial arts school, but he never had the chance to make it.

One reason is that it would be much less interesting to cook it with ordinary-quality yellow croakers, and the other reason is that few people will pay for such an expensive dish even if it is placed in a store.

After all, even if such a fish is not produced, it will cost more than 7000 yuan just to put the live fish here. With the tonality of the guests of the Honghong Hotel, basically one cannot be sold in a month.

You must know that whether it is the Huaiyang cuisine banquet in the store or the Lu cuisine banquet, it costs three to four thousand for a table.

At present, there is finally a boss willing to pay the bill, and aging is also very enjoyable.

First of all, put fine salt on the inside and outside of the yellow croaker that has been deboned, and simply put it aside for about 5 minutes, then take it out and wash it with clean water, and then spread it evenly on the fish with green onions, ginger, and cooking wine, and then put it in the refrigerator Continue to marinate, this step is also to remove the fishy smell.

Immediately after aging, I went to cut some ginger, garlic slices and chopped green onions from the green part of the shallots.

In the middle, he also took the time to ask He Hai to go together and put the snacks that had been kneaded earlier into the oven to adjust the temperature.

After coming back, the fish was almost marinated, and the old man took out the fish meat, and then took out the frozen Buddha Jumping Wall and poured it into the fish belly.

If it is just a common practice, it is also possible to add yellow croaker to other soups, but Chen Nian just thinks it is meaningless to do so.

"Master, is this dish so expensive? You actually want to pour a Buddha into the belly of a fish?" At this time, Xie Yu asked curiously while busy.

"This is the first-class dish in the Man Han Quan Feast. If you haven't seen the movie Man Han Quan Feast, you can go and watch it later.

In addition, this kind of large yellow croaker is very precious even now. In the past, the value of such a fish was equivalent to a carriage, and eating a dish was equivalent to eating a carriage. Basically, only the royal family and important officials could afford it. "

"Then how much is this fish now?"

"Ours is 600 yuan. This is a friendly price given by others, and it is not the most expensive. I know that someone got a giant yellow croaker a few years ago, and it sold for [-] yuan per catty. The price was finally sold for [-]."

"Good guy! So expensive? We have twelve here, and if one is seven thousand dollars, wouldn't the twelve be more than 8 yuan?"

"That's right, otherwise, how could this dish be the top dish in the Man-Han banquet?" Chen Nian said.

"It's amazing, I just thought that this case of Buddha jumping over the wall was already expensive enough, but I didn't expect this fish to be not bad."

While speaking, Chen Nian had already filled the fish belly with the soup of Buddha Jumping over the Wall, and then put the mushrooms in to seal the fish mouth.

After handing over the work of stuffing the fish belly to Xie Yu, Chen Nian boiled a wok to heat up the oil and prepared to fry the large yellow croaker.

But even frying is just a simple oil, so that a layer of meringue is formed on the surface of the fish.

After frying one by one, Chen Nian carefully put the fish into the plate, put two slices of ginger on the body of the fish, and sprinkled some white and green scallions around. It's the green part.

After aging, take the casserole, pour the previously boiled chicken soup into the casserole, place a stand in the middle of the chicken soup, and finally put the plate containing the fish into it.

After all twelve fish were put in, Chen Nian put the lid on and started steaming.

As time passed, the waiter also brought out one dish after another from the kitchen.

Since the yellow croaker still needs to be steamed for a while, Chen Nian went to get some dim sum at this moment.

There are two kinds of dim sum prepared here at Chennian. The first dish of white jade rabbit with lotus paste is a sweet dessert that needs to be baked in the oven, but the second dish of honeycomb double treasure dumplings is a salty snack that needs to be fried in a frying pan. .

But the dim sum is basically one per person, so a dozen of them can be deep-fried in one pot. After these dim sum are fried, they are put aside to cool naturally. These are the last two dishes to be served.

During the period, Lu Xiao also came here to take a look. She was making cakes in another kitchen. She has been doing this since the morning and finally finished it, so there is nothing else on hand. No help needed.

"It's okay, sister, we can come here busy, you take a rest for a while, and in ten minutes or so, we will be completely fine, and then we will go out for dinner together.

Boss Xue asked us to prepare a few more tables before, and now those are vacant, so we can go out to eat these directly after a while. "

"Chen Nian, does that mean we can also eat this food that costs tens of thousands per person?"

"Yeah, anyway, what's left is what's left. Although Boss Xue has money, he doesn't want to waste it. After the wedding is over, we, as the main staff, can of course eat something."

"The boss is grand!" Lu Xiao said happily.

But since Chen Nian didn't need help here, she went back to the kitchen where she made cakes.

After the white jade rabbit with lotus paste and honeycomb double treasure dumplings are finished, Chen Nian will go to see the yellow croaker in soup, which is almost stewed now.

So first use clips to clamp the fish out, and then carefully place it on another beautifully shaped fish plate.

Immediately afterwards, some food was used to decorate the surroundings, and finally the chicken soup in the casserole was scooped out and poured on the fish.

The chicken soup mixed with the delicious fish meat was shining with crystal light at this moment, and it was poured on the fish, making the already golden fish look even more dazzling.

"Come on, serve!"

After the dozens of fish were placed on the plate, Chen Nian yelled at the waiter outside and immediately came in and started serving the dishes.

The customers outside, after serving each dish, first moved their chopsticks to taste, and then began to look forward to the next dish.

It's not that some of them have never eaten a more high-end banquet, but even if it is a high-end banquet, the taste is not as good as the dishes on the table today.

It's just that when they saw a golden fish being served on the table, they all started to show off their knowledge: "I know this, big yellow croaker is very precious, and it tastes especially delicious when it's just steamed." , and there are very few thorns inside.

But usually more powerful chefs will remove the fish bones in this dish, that is, just remove the fish bones inside, but also ensure that the fish meat will not break. "

"Indeed, but I think the outside of this large yellow croaker seems to have been fried. I don't know how it tastes."

"Do you need to ask? It must be delicious. Just say which of these dishes on the table today is not delicious."

"That's true."

However, the old age told the waiter how to eat this dish.

So the waiter repeated Chen Nian's previous words when serving the dishes.

"When eating, you can use chopsticks to pierce the belly of the fish gently, because the name of this dish is soup-filled yellow croaker. It looks like there is only one yellow croaker on the surface, but there are still good things in the stomach."

But this kind of thing has always been done by people with relatively high status at the Chinese table, so basically every person sitting at the head of the table picked up the serving chopsticks at the same time and gently poked the fish maw. break.

In an instant, the soup like a fine nectar flowed out of the fish maw. The soup was put into the fish maw in a semi-solid form before, and when it was rolled in the golden oil, the ingredients in the fish maw It dissolves when heated, releasing unparalleled deliciousness.

Then it was put into a casserole for steaming, and the chicken soup at the bottom of the pot evaporated into steam, carrying the aroma to the top of the lid, and then gathered together and finally fell on the fish.

This delicious soup slowly enters the fish along the extremely small gaps in the fish, making the fish itself more tender and juicy.

And after the fish maw was punctured, all kinds of ingredients inside also poured out slowly, and the lights and lights seemed to be a picture scroll of classical and elegant Chinese dishes.

For a moment, many people even forgot to blink, and the shouts resounded throughout the hall.

"This dish looks so advanced!"

"Yeah, I've never seen it eaten like this before."

"This dish seems to be called Jinyu Manmen? Now it seems quite appropriate. It looks like golden light on the outside, but there is a mystery hidden inside."

Someone took the chopsticks and analyzed, but after analyzing a few sentences, he stretched out the chopsticks impatiently.

After all, this fish only weighs more than a catty, and there is nothing left if one person goes down with one chopstick.

If you are fast, you will have it, if you are slow, you will not have it, and they don't care about their demeanor at the moment.

Put your own in your mouth first and then speak.

And Jinyu Manmen is another name given to this dish by Chen Nian. After all, if it is directly called Guantang Yellow Fish, it sounds ordinary on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is a bit incompatible with the names of other dishes.

Other dishes are either dragon and phoenix, or jasper hydrangea, or mandarin ducks playing in the water, but when it comes to this dish, it is called a yellow croaker.

This is like Zhou Shuren, Qian Zhongshu, Huo Qubing, Xin Qiji and other names suddenly appearing Li Goudan. Even Li Goudan is not weaker than the previous few literati, but just such a name puts the Looking at it together, there will be more violations and more violations.

After the guests ate the fish meat and the ingredients in the fish belly together, the rich aroma of Buddha Jumping over the Wall and the fresh aroma of the fish meat worked together, making people feel as if they forgot everything while eating, leaving only the ingredients in their mouths.

This piece of fish has chicken soup on the outside and Buddha jumps over the wall inside, which makes the meat extremely delicious. After savoring it carefully, you can even detect the sweetness carried by the fish itself.

"I love this dish so much, no, I have to find out who this chef is and see where his restaurant is. Next time I treat guests to dinner, I must choose his restaurant as the address."

The person who spoke was a middle-aged man. He was Xue Yan's friend. He was invited to the wedding banquet this time. He originally wanted to simply come and have a sit and chat with Xue Yan about the cooperation later, but he didn't expect Had such a delicious meal.

But as soon as he finished speaking, another friend of Xue Yan, who was sitting next to him, explained: "Mr. Zhao, I know the owner of this restaurant. He is quite famous on the Internet and he is still very young." Well, he does own a restaurant, but it's just a small family restaurant, if you go to his restaurant, you probably won't be able to eat this dish."

"Family restaurant?"

"Can a family restaurant owner cook this level of food?"

"Aren't you kidding me?"

"Although I don't eat much in this kind of restaurant, I also know that in those small restaurants, a dish is only a few dozen yuan, and it is considered expensive if it can be hundreds of dollars. Not to mention the large number of yellow croakers, it must be worth at least seven or eight thousand yuan, right?"

"Are you talking about the kind of private restaurant?"

"It's really not a private kitchen, it's a small restaurant, the kind opened in a residential area. Although I haven't been there, I have heard of it. The owner is very individual. One dish in his restaurant only costs one yuan. If you sell one copy, you will lose money, but it has been sold for nearly a year like this, and Mr. Zhao, look at the one who sings above."

"An Hongdou, I know that."

"Boss Chen of this restaurant is An Hongdou's boyfriend. I heard that he participated in the Chef King competition before."

"So good?" Mr. Zhao began to ponder after hearing this, because Chen Nian's cooking skills made him feel very satisfied, but if the other party opened a family restaurant, he is not suitable to take those partners Go eat, because they eat together not only for eating, but also for cooperation.

Everyone is worth hundreds of millions or even billions. Even if the food in the restaurant tastes mediocre, even if they can skip a bite of food, they still have to consider the environment of the restaurant.

That's why there are no scattered seats in many high-end restaurants, only private rooms.

And as long as you go, there are minimum consumption and service fee restrictions.

The main thing is a high-end.

"Forget it, let's see if we can find an opportunity to invite him out to cook in the future. If it's a small restaurant, it's okay to take the family to eat."

(End of this chapter)