Dali Temple Small Dining Room

  Chapter 91 Crab Race

  Wen Mingtang didn't seem to notice that the sauce in the house was stolen. He neither looked for it in a big way, nor did he make any noise about the thief.

  Everything is as if nothing happened.

  Stole the sauce and sold it to the restaurant in the city to study the recipe. Master Wang waited for a long time but did not hear anything, but couldn't help being surprised: Is this girl surnamed Wen so talkative?

  Wen Mingtang, who was chanted as "easy to talk to", was preparing evening meal with A Bing and glutinous rice balls.

  It rained twice at Zhuangzi today, flooding the road, so we didn't have time to deliver the vegetables.

   Seeing that Zhuangzi didn't deliver any food today, Master Sun, who was making lunch, immediately "unceremoniously" used all the pork meat left over from yesterday for lunch.

  When it was Wen Mingtang's turn to make evening food, there was no more meat dishes to cook.

Today, Ji Caimai, who had been dealing with Zhuangzi all day, returned to Dali Temple after lunch. Seeing that Master Sun, a stingy bastard, started playing tricks again while everyone was in a hurry, he immediately asked Sun The master called out and scolded him.

  Master Sun, who was reprimanded, was obedient in front of Ji Caimai, and when he turned his head to see Wen Mingtang, he sneered, and muttered in a voice that Wen Mingtang could hear, "We'll see!"

   This "wait and see" means that she has no meat to eat tonight.

  A Bing and Tang Yuan jumped angrily, and greeted Master Sun and his family for a long time, but no matter how much they greeted, now that the evening meal is approaching, there is nothing they can do.

   After scolding for a while, the two had no choice but to look at Wen Mingtang: "Master Wen, what should we do now?"

  Wen Mingtang glanced at the basket full of eggs beside him, and said, "It's nothing! Let's just cook!"

   Still washing rice and cooking as usual, and preparing vegetables.

A few vegetarian dishes were quickly washed and cut. Wen Mingtang took A Bing and glutinous rice **** with him, put a few stir-fried vegetarian dishes into the pot, and taught the two people to pay attention to the heat and key points of stir-fried vegetarian dishes. Like a master chef, he stir-fried the good vegetarian dishes into such an unbearable appearance.

After the vegetables were fried, Ah Bing and Tang Yuan looked at the steaming vegetables on the table: In all fairness, with Master Wen’s craftsmanship, the vegetables are naturally fried well, and they look so oily and clear. Refreshing. However, eating only vegetarian dishes always feels a bit too refreshing. Besides, the officials who have been busy all afternoon are already hungry. How can they eat without some meat?

   Just as he was thinking like this, he heard a sound of egg cracking from the side.

   Turning his head, he saw Wen Mingtang cracking the egg, separating the yolk from the white.

What is this doing? A Bing and Tang Yuan looked over curiously.

  Wen Mingtang called the two of them over to help, and then made the sauce with ginger, vinegar, salt, and sugar.

  A Bing and Tangyuan were cracking eggs and watching. Seeing this, A Bing couldn't help asking Wen Mingtang: "Master Wen, what are you going to do?"

  Wen Mingtang put the prepared sauce aside, looked up and smiled at him, and said, "Let's make a crab game!"

What? Sai...crab? Ah Bing and Tangyuan looked at each other, then looked down at the egg yolk and white separated from their hands.

  This... making crab with eggs?

Wen Mingtang didn't say much, just calculated the portion. After the two of them separated the egg yolk from the egg white, they poured the seasoning sauce, and then poured vegetable oil into the pot. Pour the bowl of egg whites into the pot, and quickly spread them with a spatula. After they are formed, they are immediately filled out of the pot.

  The two watched Wen Mingtang's movements, and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Master Wen made the scrambled egg so fast!"

  Wen Mingtang didn't speak, and put in the egg yolk again. The same method, but it was faster than frying the egg white just now. After the egg yolk was poured in, he immediately lifted the pot to the side, and used the remaining heat to fry the egg yolk into shape.

  After the pot is finally started, put the egg whites on the bottom and the egg yolks on top, and the plates of yellow and white egg yolks are arranged on the countertop like this.

   Just... just like this?

  The two of them looked at the egg white and egg yolk. To be honest, if they hadn't seen Master Wen make it with their own eyes, it would indeed be very similar to the plump crab meat and crab roe in the August Mid-Autumn Festival.

  But this taste...

  Wen Mingtang handed over a plate by himself, and said, "Let's eat evening food first!"

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  After working all afternoon, it was finally time to eat dinner. The puppet case was just concluded, and Mr. Zhao took the initiative to take the summary of the case file. Liu Yuan and the others had a rare free time, so they took a few notebooks to pass the time.

  Probably because they read too many cases, they really didn’t have much interest in the book about romance, but it was the book about fantasy and ghosts that interested them the most.

  After watching the stories about ghosts killing people and Taoist priests catching monsters all afternoon, when the bell rang for the evening meal, the two hurriedly dropped their storybooks and rushed to the public kitchen.

   During lunch, the pot of braised pork cooked by Master Sun had a colleague picking the meat stuck between his teeth all afternoon.

   When I rushed to the public kitchen, I glanced at it and saw a few stir-fried vegetarian dishes before. There is nothing to say. Master Wen's craftsmanship is not unpalatable here, but the yellow and white...

  Bai Zhu looked surprised: "It's not yet August, and Zhuangzi sent crabs?"

  A Bing, who had finished his evening meal, licked the vegetable juice at the corner of his mouth eagerly, opened his mouth, and saw the tangyuan secretly waving at him, and immediately closed his mouth without saying a word, only focusing on serving food for everyone.

  A Bing, who talks a lot and can't help but keep silent? Liu Yuan glanced at him, took the prepared dishes, walked to the nearest food table with Bai Zhu and sat down.

  The first chopsticks naturally turned towards the plate of yellow and white crabs.

Crab roe and crab meat are put into the mouth, and the umami taste of the crab meat dipped in the sauce spreads from the tip of the tongue. The crab meat is slightly harder than the crab roe, and the sauce stimulates the tenderness of the crab meat. It really seems to be eaten in the Mid-Autumn Festival in August. The crab meat I got, and the crab roe is still oily, and the taste is softer and tender, with a feeling of crab fat and creamy yellow.

After one bite, Liu Yuan couldn't help nodding, and praised: "What a fat crab! I'm afraid it won't fit in such a big bowl without four or five. Everyone goes down with four or five like this... I'm afraid there are not so many crabs in Zhuangzi of!"

   To be honest, this crab meat and crab roe can really be said to be fake! But after staying in Dali Temple for a few years, everyone knows how many things there are in Zhuangzi. Even when crabs are on the market in August, it is absolutely impossible for one person to share so many crabs, let alone such creamy yellow and fat crabs.

  Although there is really no difference in the mouth, it is impossible to be a real crab. Everyone in Dali Temple still has this inference ability.

   A Bing, holding back his words, finally got permission from the glutinous rice balls, and said, "This dish is called Huan Sai Crab, and Master Wen made it with eggs!"

  (end of this chapter)