Food starts with noodles

After cooking for about 10 minutes, Xu Zhuo turned off the heat, took the chicken breast out of the pot and put it on the chopping board, then beat it lightly with a rolling pin.

In this way, the freshly cooked chicken breast will gradually spread out along the texture of the muscle.

When the whole piece of chicken breast became fluffy, Xu Zhuo put down the rolling pin and tore the chicken breast on the chopping board into strips with his hands.

The meat strips should be as thin as possible, because the thinner the shreds, the better the taste of the bowl.

After tearing up all the chicken breasts, Xu Zhuo put the chicken breasts in cold water to wash them, which would make the taste of the chicken breasts better.

After finishing these, the shiitake mushrooms are almost soaked.

In fact, it is best to soak shiitake mushrooms in cold water, but it takes several hours to soak them in cold water, and it is too late at the moment, so he chose hot water.

After taking out the shiitake mushrooms and black fungus, cut them into fine shreds with a knife, and set aside for later use.

In fact, this snack can only be considered authentic if it is made with water soaked with shiitake mushrooms, because the soup made in this way will have the delicious flavor of shiitake mushrooms.

But today there is chicken soup, and there is a lot of it, so Boss Xu has a little disdain for the mushroom water.

After all the ingredients were prepared, Xu Zhuo started to make this street snack that has been popular in Hong Kong for decades.

Chapter 1502

The recipe of Wan Zai Chi is not difficult, in Xu Zhuo's opinion, it even feels a bit like cooking Hu spicy soup.

They all boil soup, cook side dishes, and finally add water starch to boil the soup into a thick paste.

However, the appearance of Wanzai's fin is higher than that of Hu spicy soup. The color of Hu spicy soup is too heavy, and it does not have the high-end sense of Wanzai's fin soup that is close to shark's fin soup.

Xu Zhuo set up the frying pan, and after heating it, first use cold oil to lubricate the pan, so that the ingredients will not stick to the pan when cooking.

After sliding the pot, Xu Zhuo added a little more peanut oil to the pot, heated it up on high heat, put two star anises in it and deep-fried until fragrant, which can increase the aroma of the soup.

After frying until fragrant, pour in the prepared chicken broth, pour in a little cooking wine and light soy sauce and cook.

After the fire boils, use a spoon to skim off the froth, remove the star anise inside, then pour the chopped mushrooms, fungus and shredded chicken into the pot, and start to boil.

After 10 minutes, add a little dark soy sauce, which can increase the color and make the soup in the pot closer to the color of shark fin soup.

Next, stir the prepared water starch to make the precipitated water starch uniform again.

Then, slowly pour the water starch into the pot with one hand, and stir in the pot with a spoon in the other hand, so that the starch can be fully stirred into the soup, and the soup will be more even and delicate.

If all the brains are poured into the pot, the soup will easily become thin and uneven or have lumps, which will affect the taste.

After the starch water was stirred into the pot, the chicken soup in the pot soon became viscous and textured, and the surface of the soup even had a slight reflection.

This is because after the soup becomes viscous, the surface of the soup becomes smooth and moist, and the original fat in the pot adheres to the surface, which looks like it will glow under the light.

Xu Zhuo continued to stir and cook.

Don't stop until the soup in the pot has completely turned into a translucent gelatinous state.

He took the soaked vermicelli out of the water, cut them into long pieces with a knife, and put them in the pot.

After stirring twice, pour in the shredded bamboo shoots and continue stirring, so that the thick soup in the pot can completely cover these ingredients, and at the same time, the ingredients can be distributed more evenly in the pot.

Seeing the soup in the pot becoming more and more like spicy pepper soup, Xu Zhuo really had the urge to sprinkle white pepper powder into the pot.

White pepper powder can really be sprinkled, but only a little bit. If there is too much, the taste of this bowl of zai wings will be completely changed.

As for the chili oil or something, this is all added according to personal taste.

But Xu Zhuo doesn’t recommend adding it, because the addition of chili oil will completely cover up the umami taste of this soup. Originally, it’s just a snack for poor people pretending to eat shark’s fin. If the umami taste is covered up, it’s really bad There is no need to drink.

The light soy sauce was left out before, but in order to increase the umami taste and make the seafood taste stronger, Xu Zhuo specially poured a little fish sauce into the pot.

Fish sauce, also known as fish sauce, is a common condiment in Guangdong, Fujian and other places.

Fish sauce is an extremely delicious juice obtained from small fish and shrimp after pickling, fermentation, and refining. It is amber in color and has a salty and umami taste.

This condiment is originally produced in Fujian, Guangdong Chaoshan and other places, and was spread to Vietnam and other East Asian countries by early overseas Chinese. Now it is gradually becoming popular in Europe in the 21st century.

Now Xu Zhuo is pouring fish sauce into the pot to add seafood flavor to this snack as much as possible.

In fact, in the orthodox practice of Wanzai’s fin, fish sauce is not used. After all, this is a street snack for ordinary people, and the cost of adding fish sauce is too high.

The normal way is to boil the shiitake mushrooms with water, and put a lot of monosodium glutamate in it, so that you can feel a strong umami taste when you take a bite.

However, eating too much monosodium glutamate makes you thirsty, and it is not good for your body, so this practice has been gradually eliminated.

In addition, when making bowls of fins in Hong Kong, some fish meat is usually added in, which can not only increase the umami taste, but also enrich the taste of the soup, and at the same time, people can eat meat.

Get more in one fell swoop.

After pouring in the fish sauce, Xu Zhuo boiled it for another minute, then turned off the fire.

He scooped out the soup in the pot with a spoon and poured it into a bowl. Because he has the skill of arranging the dishes in his hands, the value of the soup is somewhat higher.

The light amber soup is served in a small white porcelain bowl, with strands of vermicelli looming in the soup, it really looks like shark fin soup.

"Hey, the shark fin soup you asked for is ready."

Xu Zhuo put this small bowl of soup in front of Yu Keke who had been playing with her mobile phone, and the girl's eyes widened.

She looked at Xu Zhuo, then at the shark fin soup in the bowl, with shock written all over her face.

While waiting just now, Yu Keke even conceived the words to ridicule Xu Zhuo, and even rehearsed in his heart several times which sentence to say first and which sentence to say, and the pause in the middle.

But unexpectedly, this shark fin soup was really made.

Although I couldn't believe my eyes, the bowl of soup in front of me was exactly the same as the one I drank just now, regardless of its appearance or color.

Can my man do magic?

When Xu Zhuo was making it just now, this girl had been thinking about how to ridicule Xu Zhuo, so she didn't even see what ingredients were used.

If you can see Xu Zhuo's soaking fans, you can understand it in an instant.

Unfortunately, she didn't see it, so there was a short circuit in her brain at the moment.

I always feel that Bingxue's smart self is suddenly not enough.

"Try it while it's hot. It won't taste good when it's cold, and it will have a fishy smell."

Only then did Yu Keke put away her thoughts and picked up the small bowl in front of her. She smelled it first, it was very fragrant and fresh, and it tasted like the three shredded shark's fin that she ate just now.

Smelling this smell, the unhappiness in her heart disappeared immediately.

Foodies, you can let go of everything if you have food.

In front of delicious food, all sorrows and troubles will disappear.

Yu Keke scooped up a little soup and put it into his mouth to taste it, and his whole body was shocked: "Wow, this taste is exactly the same as before."

After speaking, he drank a big gulp.

In fact, the soup in the bowl at this moment has a slightly lighter taste than the Sansi Shark Fin I made before.

Because the ingredients used at that time were all simmered in chicken broth, which had a strong taste, but the ingredients used this time did not have such treatment.

However, because of the fish sauce added to the soup, and because Yu Keke himself did not report any expectations, he just drank it in his mouth at this moment, and he felt a strong sense of surprise.

Under the psychological effect, it will naturally feel that the taste is the same as before, or even better.

Yu Keke happily finished the shark's fin soup in the bowl. She smacked her lips and said, "The shark's fin soup is not eaten. The cost of this bowl of soup alone costs hundreds of dollars, right?"

Xu Zhuo sat down, played with his mobile phone and said, "No way, the cost of this bowl of soup is less than one yuan. You can drink as much as you want."

Yu Keke was stunned for a long time, and looked at Xu Zhuo with some doubts: "Isn't this shark fin soup?"

"This is a popular bowl of wings in Hong Kong. The ingredients are shiitake mushrooms and fungus. As for the main ingredients..."

He pointed to a packaging bag in the trash can not far away and said: "The main ingredient is mung bean vermicelli, two yuan and five packs."

Chapter 1503

Yu Keke felt that his brain was completely insufficient.

She looked at the packaging of vermicelli in the trash can, and then looked at the shark fin soup that Xu Zhuo had made, and couldn't believe that this delicious shark's fin was faked from vermicelli.

In fact, the taste of vermicelli is almost not as good as that of shark fin.

But Yu Keke didn't taste the difference because of the psychological effect just now and the fact that he was anxious when he drank it before.

She was not even mentally prepared at all, and she always felt that what she was eating was shark fin, which caused the current situation.

If she really wanted to calm down and savor carefully, she would be able to taste the difference between shark fin and vermicelli immediately.

Xu Zhuo saw Ke Ke standing there blankly without moving, so he asked curiously, "Didn't you drink enough just now? How about I get you another bowl?"

Yu Keke pouted: "I don't know why, but I suddenly don't want to drink."

Probably some can't accept such a big psychological gap.

I have always fantasized that what I drink is shark fin which is difficult for ordinary people to touch, but after drinking it for a long time and praising it for a long time, it turns out that it is two yuan five packs of mung bean vermicelli.

Yu Keke didn't want to experience this psychological gap again.

Seeing that her expression was getting more and more disappointed, Xu Zhuo couldn't help but put down the phone and asked, "What's wrong? Are you upset? Think I've fooled you with fans?"

Yu Keke pouted and nodded.

She was too excited and proud just now, so she didn't know whether she should regret that she didn't taste it, or complain that she was spoiled by her man.

Xu Zhuo said with a smile: "You should think about the good side, don't think about shark fin, but think about it, just drank a bowl of vermicelli soup that tastes infinitely close to shark fin, doesn't it feel better?"

Yu Keke was stunned for a moment, thinking about it in this way made her feel much more comfortable.

If Xu Zhuo used fans as shark fins to fool people, it would be unsatisfactory no matter how you think about it, but if standing in front of Xu Zhuo and making fans look like shark fins, that dissatisfaction would turn into pride.

After all, not everyone can make vermicelli into the taste and appearance of shark fin soup.

After thinking about this, Yu Keke happily picked up the small bowl she used, and continued to drink from the bowl.

After Xu Zhuo rested for a while, he also drank a small bowl, then cleaned the kitchen utensils, and restored the whole shooting scene to the way it was before the shooting, and then left work with Yu Keke.

Then, life returned to normal.

The decoration of Sifang Restaurant has come to an end, and the house that Xu Zhuo and Yu Keke bought has also been renovated, and they will be able to move in after autumn.

As for the Sifang Yangxiezi restaurant invested by Xu Zhuo, after the last promotion, the business is full.

Not only fans from Beijing and other places went to check in, but even Internet celebrities from all walks of life also rushed to check in, some criticizing, some praising, and some offering suggestions.

Anyway, I tried my best to catch the heat.

There is no way, who made Xu Zhuo famous, and now he squats on the hot search almost every day, and it doesn't make people bored or angry, because the reason why Xu Zhuo is on the hot search is basically related to food.

Everyone can dislike a person, but who doesn't like food?

Because of this, now Xu Zhuo has become a large WIFI, and anyone wants to use it twice.

Xu Zhuo is very calm about this, after all, he is famous, that's all he has to do.

Since one wants to obtain benefits through fame, one has to bear the negative effects of fame.

Just because he figured this out, his life was basically not affected.

After the renovation of Sifang Restaurant was completed and passed the inspection, He Guoan immediately asked the chefs and waiters in Linping City to come to work in the capital.

We won't be in a hurry to start the business right now, but let everyone come over to familiarize themselves with the environment first.

The provincial capital had already been prepared, so as soon as He Guoan's order arrived, all the employees began to move in an orderly manner.

He Guoan was in the provincial city where the special employees moved, while Xu Zhuo came to the community behind Sifang Restaurant with a few people from the company, and knocked on the door of Lao Yangtou's house.

In the past period of time, Old Yang has been arguing with his tenants, and now he has finally taken back all the houses.

Xu Zhuo, on the other hand, came to sign the rental contract with Lao Yang.

Except for Lao Yangtou, Xu Zhuo also took over several other houses. Anyway, there are many employees, so there is no need to worry about no one living there.

Among other things, with such a short distance to work, Xu Zhuo wanted to get a house for himself in this community. It took him two to three minutes to get to his work place, and he didn't have to squeeze the subway or catch the bus.

Getting at least an extra hour of sleep a day is exciting to think about.