Dali Temple Small Dining Room 2

Chapter 259 Popcorn ([-])
As soon as the corn brought by A Bing showed up, Liu Yuan let out an "ah", pointed at the corn in surprise and said, "This corn...isn't this corn sold by foreign merchants in Luoma City?"

Wen Mingtang nodded, glanced at Liu Yuan who didn't know much about grains in surprise, and said, "That's the corn!"

Liu Yuan, who can't even tell the difference between garlic leaves and leeks, was able to accurately identify the "variety" of this corn not because his knowledge suddenly soared in just a few days, but because he couldn't resist when he visited the luoma market first. The Hu businessman boasted about it, so he couldn't help being curious and bought some back, and then...

Liu Yuan pointed to the corn kernels which were smaller and firmer than ordinary corn kernels, and at a glance, he could vaguely see the somewhat transparent corn kernels with a frightened look on his face: "This corn is so unpalatable, Master Wen Mo Xin Those Hu merchants are talking nonsense, it is better to use our own corn!"

Wen Mingtang looked at Liu Yuan with a terrified expression, and couldn't help laughing: "Hu Shang, it's not all nonsense. If this corn is cooked and eaten normally, it won't be as soft and sweet as our Darong corn. But if it’s a snack called popcorn, it’s perfect!”

After all, I took a piece of prepared butter and put it in the pot. When the butter melted and the fragrance of milk permeated, I immediately scooped a small bowl of corn kernels and poured it into the butter.

Liu Yuan looked curiously at the corn kernels poured into the butter, and was about to ask Wen Mingtang if the corn was fried for eating, when he heard a "pop" sound, and one of the corn kernels visible to the naked eye burst open suddenly. A white flower like a "cloud" appeared in everyone's field of vision.

Liu Yuan was dumbfounded: This is...is this a trick?

Just as he was about to speak, Wen Mingtang in that room quickly picked up the lid of the pot on the side and put it on when the first corn kernel burst.

Then, there was only a burst of "cracking" explosion sound like firecrackers coming from the pot. As the sound became louder, Wen Mingtang lifted the pot and shook it back and forth on the fire.

When I finally felt that it was almost done, I suddenly lifted the lid of the pot. Before the lid was closed, it was only a small bowl, and the corn kernels that could not even cover the bottom of the pot had completely swelled to fill the entire pot. After pouring all the popcorns that bloomed like clouds in the pot onto the oiled paper to cool, Wen Mingtang quickly started to make the second pot of popcorn.

The people on the side couldn't help but gather around the pile of freshly made popcorn: the bursting popcorn is light and soft, exuding a strong fragrance of corn and frankincense.

The scent is really attractive, Liu Yuan swallowed subconsciously, and was about to reach out to take it, but heard the glutinous rice balls shouted: "Wait a minute, Sicheng Liu!"

Although he was hooked by the rich corn fragrance and milk frankincense, he wanted to reach out, but Tangyuan still remembered what Wen Mingtang said before, and fixed his eyes on Liu Yuan, who couldn't help but try something new, and stretched out his hand like protecting a calf. General protected the popcorn on the table, said: "The popcorn is not ready yet, just wait!"

While talking, the caramel in Wen Mingtang's pot had already boiled. He poured the popcorn on the table into the pot, weighed the pot, and let the caramel coat every popcorn before pouring it out again!

Walking around in the caramel sauce, the white popcorn "body" has been covered with a layer of yellow-brown caramel syrup. The already strong aroma of corn and grains, and the aroma of milk are mixed with a strong caramel aroma. The aromas are mixed and fused together, just like the aroma of the caramel milk tea that day, forming a unique aroma unique to popcorn.

Smelling the sweet and rich aroma of popcorn in the air, Liu Yuan swallowed and asked the glutinous rice balls: "Little ancestor, can I eat now?"

Tangyuan rolled her eyelids, quickly picked up a piece of popcorn, and quickly threw it into her mouth: "Well, you can eat it, you can eat it!"

The caramel syrup on the surface of the freshly made popcorn has not yet solidified, and it is slightly sticky to the hand. The sweet aroma of caramel is in the mouth. As for the taste of the popcorn... it is really unexpected.

Different from the sweet, glutinous, sweet and soft of ordinary corn, the taste of this popcorn is crispy, and there is a "click" sound when biting, but it is crispy and different from ordinary crispy things. It is probably puffy, Due to the cloud-like "body", it seems extraordinarily "fluffy".

One bite at a time, the glutinous rice balls really like the taste of this sweet snack called popcorn.

Seeing that the glutinous rice balls were eaten, Liu Yuan immediately stepped forward and grabbed a handful into his hands, and then impatiently threw one into his mouth.

The crispy, fluffy and sweet taste made Liu Yuan, who had been craving for a long time, narrow his eyes comfortably, and took a bite. When the last piece in his palm was put into his mouth, he couldn't help but sigh: "My hands are not small, I also grabbed a lot in that handful just now, but this thing is too fluffy, so I ate up such a big handful in a short time!"

The pot of caramel popcorn just out of the pot piled up high when it was poured on the oiled paper, like a hill, and now there are only a few sporadic ones left!A Bing, with sharp eyesight and quick hands, immediately reached out and swept them all into his arms, and then... quietly handed them out to the glutinous rice balls beside him.

Liu Yuan: "..." This action is to pretend that they can't see it?

He let out a sigh of emotion, and was about to speak, when he saw another pot of popcorn made by Wen Mingtang poured out the popcorn, and started making caramel sauce!

It's just that in addition to the sugar and water just now, Wen Mingtang actually put a pinch of salt into it.

Liu Yuan was taken aback by this move, and immediately exclaimed and tried to stop him: "Master Wen, it's wrong! It's wrong!"

"That's right!" Lin Fei, who was slowly eating a handful of popcorn, was looking down at Wen Mingtang's fried syrup. Hearing this, he said casually, "It should be salty and sweet, and the sweet caramel sauce aroma Rich, if you add a little salty taste, it should be delicious!"

All flavors in the world are never black and white. Why can't sweet and salty coexist at the same time?Just like salty meat dishes, there is a reason why a little sugar is added to enhance the freshness.

Wen Mingtang, who had almost fried the syrup, looked at Lin Fei subconsciously when he heard the words, and said, "Lin Shaoqing is right! Don't worry! This salty and sweet one will definitely not lose to the sweet one!"

While talking, the popcorn wrapped in salty and sweet syrup is already out of the pan!Compared to everyone who only squeezed a grain to try something new, Lin Fei reached out and grabbed a handful, and then ate it slowly.

The few people who had tasted the early adopters had already reached out to grab the popcorn on the table again at this time: Master Wen said it was right, this sweet and slightly salty taste seems to be richer than the original caramel taste Some, if this is a mouthful, I am afraid that I will love this taste very much!
Just thinking like this, Lin Fei who was eating salty and sweet popcorn in the other room said, "Master Wen, can milk tea have such a taste?"

(End of this chapter)