Food: I Am A Cartoonist In Totsuki

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Six: Saury in Soup

This “saury fish ball” made by Erina did not feel much when I took the first bite, but as the second fish ball was put into the mouth and chewed, the deliciousness and taste changed obviously.

“The meat of saury itself is not so soft, but because it is presented in the form of puree and it is also integrated with cod and other ingredients, the taste becomes soft and chewy, and there is a faint black tea on the tip of the tongue. The fragrance further enhances the flavor of the fish balls. With the continuous chewing, the appetite in the depths of the heart is awakened little by little, Leonora commented again in a super-fast speed.

“Crocodile seeds, burdock, cod, Nangui carp, these ingredients are mixed into this fish ball, and they still appear in different forms, and the deliciousness of various ingredients is completely inspired. Especially the burdock and Nangui carp bring The chewing feeling is completely unstoppable.” Dojima Gin said and put another saury ball into his mouth.

As Leonora and Dojima Gin said, the biggest feature of Erina’s dish is the chewiness, which is the stimulation of the senses brought by the fish balls.

Fresh fish roe stimulates the appetite, burdock and nangui carp enhance the chewiness (touch), and cod softens the fish balls and further enhances the umami (taste) of the ingredients.

This is a dish that has an impact on taste, touch and smell at the same time. The three-pronged approach of the three senses allows consumers to experience the highest taste.

Soon Dojima Gin finished eating all the fish balls on the plate, then put down his chopsticks and looked at Erina: “Cod and nangui carp are also seafood ingredients, you mix them with saury, you are not afraid of turning against customers and destroying the saury itself. Is it delicious?”

“There is no problem with the taste. I have tried this dish many times, and it is only the first time that there is a deviation in taste.” Erina said slowly.

Erina said it easily, but Dojima Gin and others who have eaten this dish know how difficult it is to do it.

This dish of Erina is similar to the French foie gras she made before. They are all blended with multiple ingredients by the talent of “God’s Tongue”. The deliciousness of the main ingredient.

And the main ingredients are only presented after they have undergone morphological transformation.

The original shape of saury is not the shape of balls, but Erina made it into this shape and presented it in a more delicious way.

This way of cooking is simply not something that ordinary chefs can drive.

The innate ability of “Tongue of God” is best demonstrated in this dish.

Although Leonora and Dojima Gin praised Zhang Yu’s cooking, they also sighed at the power of the “God’s Tongue” talent, which can present the dishes deliciously in such a form, but Senzaemon commented after tasting it from the beginning. After a sentence, nothing was said.

It may be that Dojima Gin and Leonora have already “preempted” the words they want to comment on, so I don’t want to repeat them.

However, that’s not the case. The question Senzaemon is thinking about at the moment is about the unexpected thing about this dish.

– Time divider

After Erina’s dishes were tasted, Tong Yu was slow to present his creations.

Not only that, when the full moon was about to walk through the “way of the moon”, he was still cooking.

I saw a whole saury that had been deboned in each of the four Chinese iron pots.

Tong Yu picked up a spoon and kept pouring the boiling soup over the fish. This process lasted about ten minutes.

After waiting, Tong Yu carefully removed the four saury from the pot and placed them in the middle of the decorated plate.

After placing the saury on the plate, Tong Yu attached the kale heart cut into small discs on the saury, adding another layer of “color” beauty.

Onions, cucumber slices, etc. are used as decorations on the plate in advance, so that after the plate is placed and decorated, the aesthetics is no worse than Erina just now.

“Welcome to taste my dishes, saury in soup!”

Tong Yu brought the finished dishes to the judging table, and sent three of them to Senzaemon, Dojima Gin, and Leonora respectively, and sent the other to the side, staring at his finished dishes. Erina sizing up.

“This one is for you, I hope you can taste this dish well, maybe it will let you understand something…

After putting the dishes in front of Erina, Tong Yu returned to the judging table.

Filling the soup “Saury, is this the delicious soup that was stewed with eight kinds of seafood just now sealed in the stomach of the saury? It’s really a rare cooking method.” Leonora looked at the cooking in front of him.

Dojima Gin stared at the dish in front of her with a look of surprise: “If I remember correctly, this dish should be one of the chief dishes of the “Man-Han Banquet” in Chinese cuisine, right?”

“What Dojima-senpai said is right. The inspiration for my dish came from the yellow croaker in soup, which is one of the top ten dishes in Chinese cuisine.” On the basis of this dish, it has been improved, adding his own creativity and idea. ” Tong Yu explained.

In addition to Leonora, Dojima Gin and Senzaemon have a certain understanding of the dish “Yellow Fish in Soup”.

Especially Senzaemon, who has eaten food from all over the world, has heard of this dish, but only heard of it.

Yellow croaker in soup, this is the top dish in the Manchu and Han banquets of the Qing Dynasty where Liu Angxing and others belonged.

The ingredients used in this dish are expensive and the workmanship is cumbersome. Even in the royal kitchen of the court officials at that time, few people would make this dish. Although the preparation method has also been passed down, there are very few chefs who want to make it well, and there are almost no places where you can eat this dish.

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Because of this, the folk legends about this dish are even more magical, and even people like Senzaemon have only heard of it and have never eaten it.

“The chief dish of Chinese cuisine? Sounds great

With a hint of disdain in Leonora’s words, he picked up the chopsticks and poked the fish maw first.

The chopsticks pierced the fish maw, and the soup inside seemed to have found a vent, and slowly flowed out from the broken opening.

It’s not accurate at all to say it’s the soup, as the soup that flows out seems to be packed with tiny pearl balls.

With the outflow of the soup like a pearl, a white gas rose from the pierced hole, and the indescribable aroma also penetrated into the nostrils, deeply stimulating the taste buds.

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After a while, the soup sealed inside the saury overflowed the entire bottom of the plate, and merged with the onions and cucumbers that had just been placed on the bottom of the plate as a decoration.

The fragrance has been enhanced, constantly impacting Leonora’s defense line.

“Hmm.”

Leonora made a strange noise just by smelling the scent.

Dojima Gin and Senzaemon also picked up their chopsticks and pierced the fish maw. Once again, they saw the clear soup filled with small pearl balls slowly pouring out. This scene also happened to be captured by the camera. Other people in the audience also Can see clearly.

“It’s so beautiful, the soup in the fish maw is as beautiful as pearls!”

“Boneless saury is soaked in a top-quality soup boiled with eight high-quality seafood ingredients. Just thinking about it makes me feel delicious!”

“Ah, delicious? I don’t think so. I wasted a lot of time in order to boil the delicious soup. The saury was only processed halfway through the cooking time. The freshness of the saury has been exhausted, no matter what you use. Soaked in soup, it is impossible to taste delicious.”

However, as soon as the student finished speaking, Leonora’s exclamation came from the review stage.

“Ah~ the deliciousness of saury and the taste of this soup are completely integrated, the unprecedented deliciousness hit the taste buds, and the brain almost stopped thinking!”

After Leonora, Dojima Gin and Senzaemon also heard news.

Senzaemon was relatively straightforward, the black long clothes on his upper body fell off again, and his face was shocked. His right hand holding chopsticks kept sending pieces of saury into his mouth.

Dojima Gin was also shocked, and at the same time couldn’t think of a passage: “The deliciousness of the saury has not been lost at all, and the moment I eat it, I feel that there is a live saury beating in my mouth, and the freshness and deliciousness are all in the cooking just now. above!”

(To be continued..)

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