Chiba Salted Fish Legend

Chapter 149

In the end, Xia Zhi left his apartment with a very ordinary meal and worried about what to eat for lunch. Xia Zhi did not have such happy worries. The lunch he made completely depended on what he had eaten yesterday or the day before yesterday. What ingredients you buy in the supermarket are slightly limited by the recipes you know.

Why you are slightly limited by your own recipes is more particular, because almost all common meats and vegetables, almost all, can be processed casually and put into a big pot to stir-fry, boil, or steam.Any questions?Isn't this the legendary hodgepodge?As long as there are ingredients, wouldn't it be fine? The so-called most basic delicacies are probably nothing more than that.

Although the taste of the lowest delicacies is also dominated by the cooking skills of the craftsmen, it is equally determined by the selection of ingredients, so it also depends on the ingredients.Just like you can't stew radish and cabbage together to taste like a sacrificial bird's nest, right?Therefore, the selection of ingredients is also a relatively advanced knowledge.

Fortunately, Xia Zhi is temporarily out of the category of only making the most basic delicacies, and every meal will not be a hodgepodge. Otherwise, over time, he may not even know what the ingredients taste like.This is too real. Even for ordinary people whose future dreams are not to become a special chef, this is still a sad thing.

Xia Zhi was sitting in the classroom and suddenly felt that he didn't want to read. His mind was still stuck on the snack-making methods he had read on his mobile phone in the morning - it was surprisingly interesting.

Xia Zhi hesitated for a while, but finally put down the book in his hand and continued to indulge in the world of fancy snacks on his mobile phone.I have to say that there are actually many similar blogs in Japan, and many people are actually quite keen on developing such interesting snacks, either in terms of raw materials, procedures, or image processing. Yes, but because the scope of application of snacks is actually very broad, such as biscuits and cakes, they are all foods that have room for further processing, so Xia Zhi does not find it strange that there are so many strange derivative snacks.

This is like a game with only a basic skeleton, but players can make their own MODs and add them to it to transform it into the game they like.And these snacks are added to biscuits and cakes like MOD, and become chocolate cookies, strawberry cakes and the like. This is a relatively simple innovation.

The cakes sold as merchandise in the store where Xia Zhi works are actually the same. The more common ones are matcha cakes.Although matcha cakes are probably sold in many places, the taste will actually vary greatly depending on the quality of the cake itself.A more superficial understanding can be that you put some matcha powder on charcoal and use it as a matcha cake, and you put matcha powder on a serious cake to make a matcha cake. There is an almost insurmountable problem between the two.

Therefore, although the matcha cake is based on the taste of matcha, if the quality of the cake itself is too poor, you will not get a good consumer experience.

Although the snacks are flashy, there are quite a lot of interesting things, and they may involve many fields. If you add some health-preserving ingredients to make them, it can be called a health-preserving biscuit, and add some fruit ingredients. It can be said that it is a fruity biscuit, and there is no big restriction on this one.

But what Xia Zhi didn’t expect was that someone would actually try to innovate on the common main course menu. For example, for the curry that has become popular throughout Japan, someone has come up with recipes and recipes with relatively unique and good flavors in almost all large regions in Japan. The production process includes all the sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty aspects.Although this is naturally the result of people's own modifications to adapt to regional flavors based on different people's tastes, it is precisely because of these simple things that the taste tendencies of each region will be revealed.

Not only that, because the differences in taste across large regions will lead to changes in the production process of a dish.Take Mapo Tofu, for example. Originally, Mapo Tofu in the South had both spicy and spicy flavors, and was mainly hemp. But when it comes to the North, because the locals don’t seem to be particularly good at eating spicy food, the spicy taste will be diluted. Although Mapo Tofu is the same It’s red, but even the mapo tofu in some areas is made to have a slightly sweet taste...

Although the taste is not necessarily authentic, it is the result of a certain food adapting to the local environment.You can’t expect a person from an area that prefers sweet food to set up a hot pot with others as soon as he arrives at a certain event, and then pour extremely spicy chili peppers into the pot for free. Maybe the locals will enjoy it, but the person involved You may end up in the hospital.

Although curry was used as an example, Xia Zhi was not interested in this food, but the dumplings that he had become accustomed to.For dumplings, hold a piece of wrapper in your left hand, use the chopsticks in your right hand to pry the stuffing bowl, put it in your left hand, close it with a little force, and the dumplings will come out as soon as you place it.Generally speaking, many people have made dumplings by themselves. Although the first time you make them, the wrappers won't close because you don't know how to make them, and the dumplings will crack during cooking, it's still quite fun after you get familiar with it.

Xia Zhi saw that the name of this dish was hollow dumplings.Very strong. There is no filling in this dumpling. Although it is still round after being cooked, there is actually no filling inside.It was proposed as a trick recipe, and the operation process is also quite complicated, because the dumpling skin will soften when cooked, and if the dumpling is hollow inside, it will easily cause the two sides to stick together and not be able to change. It has to expand, and the blogger himself doesn’t have any good solutions, so this is a recipe with a very high failure rate, and it’s not very useful.

Therefore, every country actually has no shortage of people who are so idle that they have nothing to do.

After thinking about it carefully, Xia Zhi seemed to have not eaten dumplings for a long time. Maybe he could buy some ingredients and make them himself when he went back.And dumplings really don’t require many things, but one thing that’s a bit troublesome is that Xia Zhi doesn’t have a rolling pin and has no experience in making dumpling wrappers.

Don't underestimate each dumpling wrapper. Hand-made dumpling wrappers actually require a lot of skills. The dumplings are no more chaotic than hand-made dumplings. The skin is so thin that you can see the fillings inside. It needs to carry more contents. So the dumpling skin needs to be thicker.But it cannot be particularly thick, because that will inevitably affect the taste. A suitable dumpling wrapper actually requires a lot of effort. Only chefs with particularly skilled hands can easily pinch a small piece of dough and use a rolling pin like in the documentary. Just roll it.

There are no tools, nor does it take a lot of time to contact, which is too boring.Although there are such things as quick-frozen dumplings here, no one goes out of their way to sell dumpling wrappers.Maybe some stores selling Chinese food will have them, but it will cost too much where to buy them.

Is there any way to obtain dumpling wrappers easily and simply? Xia Zhi thought hard.Although the store manager can make cakes, he is not a professional pastry chef, and he probably only makes matcha cakes, so there is basically no way to expect to get any good quality dumpling skins from him.

So in the end I still have to buy my own flour and rolling pin and practice slowly?Even if Xia Zhi has to eat dumplings every day for some time in the future...or dumpling wrappers.Although if the soup is good, it doesn't matter even if you eat the dumpling wrappers. After all, the dough itself is the basis of many things, but Xia Zhi basically only makes the same soup - that is, add vegetables to the water and add some salt and MSG. , heat the vegetable soup until it bubbles.That's too miserable. Do you eat cabbage dumpling wrappers every day and feel that you are living a life that seems to be unsatisfactory?

So we still have to find a way.

At this moment, it seemed that an angel was waving to him.

"Good morning, Xia Zhijun."

Baishi Lihua greeted Xia Zhi, and Xia Zhi himself probably wanted to incorporate this link into his daily life.Although she didn't know that Bai Shilihua, who was supposed to greet her as usual, was blushing "abnormally", but she should have no major problems, what if it was because it was too cold and the wind outside was blowing?

"Good morning, Lihua."

As usual, Xia Zhi also returned the gift to Shiraishi Reika.Then Xia Zhi suddenly remembered that the person standing in front of him was a genuine successor to the five-star chef!Is Rika Shiraishi, who is already a confirmed super chef, also good at rolling out beautiful dumpling wrappers?It's possible.

Xia Zhi looked at Shiraishi Lihua and her eyes instantly became fiery.

"Which..." X2
Both of them were stunned for a moment, and Xia Zhixian responded: "You go ahead and say it first."

"Well...actually, there's nothing wrong. I just wanted to ask if I could ask Xia Zhijun to teach me...to learn Chinese."

"Learn Chinese?" Xia Zhi was stunned for a moment: "This is really rare. I thought that if there weren't similar jobs there, few people would learn Chinese. After all, compared to English, Chinese is really rare. It’s hard enough to learn.”

A word with multiple sounds, a word with multiple sounds, a word with multiple meanings, and a word with multiple words are all basic operations.For those who want to learn Chinese and pass the Chinese proficiency test, just the words and sentences we learned in elementary school can make them doubt their lives.Then most people will choose to learn simpler English... Anyway, more people can speak English now. The acquisition of second language in China is mainly English, and learning English is much more convenient than Chinese.

Because of this, many foreign companies will go out of their way to find Chinese translators when negotiating business with Chinese businessmen. And because Chinese is particularly difficult to learn, such translations are also more expensive... and as As China's economy develops and foreign trade becomes more and more frequent, you won't suffer any loss if you learn Chinese, even though it is very difficult to learn.

"Well... I want to learn it because it may be used in the future." Shiraishi Lihua recalled what her mother said when she gave her advice last night, and tried her best not to expose her flaws.

"She has a vision." As expected of the eldest daughter of a famous family, she has a long-term vision: "I don't have any big problems, but there are many more professional people that I may not be able to teach."

Teaching Chinese as a foreign language is already a specialized subject. This also proves from the side the demand of foreigners for learning Chinese and how difficult it is to teach formal and systematic Chinese language.The expertise required is not small.

"no problem, no problem."

"...If you don't mind it, that's fine."

"Great! (Yah! Ta!)"

"Ok?"

"Ah nothing nothing!"

Seeing that Shiraishi Lihua was happy because she picked up a Chinese teacher for nothing, Xia Zhi didn't think much about it.

"So, Xia Zhijun, do you have anything to tell me?" Baishi Lihua seemed to be in a good mood, and Xia Zhi struck while the iron was hot.

"I want to ask, Lihua, can you roll out dumpling wrappers?"

"……what?"

(End of this chapter)