Chapter 2032 It’s a Pity that It Can’t Be Used

Anchovies must be steamed. Zhao Heng, a great gourmet and philatelist, came to ZJ in the 1970s. On the Dragon Boat Festival, he met a retired cook who was indifferent and spent 7 yuan to eat an authentic steamed anchovy dish. Don’t think it’s 7 yuan. It was very cheap. 7 yuan at that time was equivalent to a month's salary for many workers.

After eating, Mr. Zhao Heng commented: Anchovies must be steamed with scales on. I am afraid that most people in the world are not used to this method! What's more, the anchovy has so many spines that the crucian carp can only kneel down and call it "grandpa" when it encounters it. Only people from the Jiangnan water towns know how to pick it up with chopsticks and put it in their mouths to sip it. When they meet rough guys from the north like me, they will eat this stuff. It’s really like a tiger eating the sky and having no way to eat it!

But the delicacy of shad is undeniable. Wang Anshiyun said, "The fat is sweeter than milk." This metaphor is not only wonderful but also the reason why Zhang Ailing hates the thorns of shad.

Yang Cheng was very satisfied with the meal, and Luo Yue also narrowed her eyes, but Yang Cheng shook his head. This dish is not suitable for a wedding banquet. There are too many thorns. The clumsy foreigner may have to eat it with the meat and thorns. It is delicious. Delicious, but definitely not a good experience!

But it doesn’t matter, it’s enough to satisfy your appetite today. You must know that this serious anchovy costs three to five thousand dollars in China, and I’m afraid it will cost $2,000 to send it to Los Angeles!

But the deliciousness is definitely worth the price!

The third dish is also the GC to try today - Yangtze saury

Seeing Chef Chen serving the dishes in person, Yang Cheng couldn't help but play the BGM in his heart - He's coming, he's coming, he's coming with delicious food!

Nowadays, some restaurants in China deceive customers by saying that the three delicacies of the Yangtze River are "puffer fish, anchovy, and catfish." However, catfish is certainly delicious, but compared with saury, it is an ordinary five-star hotel restaurant and one with three Michelin stars. the difference.

The swordfish must eat the Mingqian sword! It is as dense as silk before the light, and as hard as iron after the light. This refers to the small spines of the saury.

A person who doesn't know how to eat can't handle such a small 2-3 tael catfish in half an hour. There may be more than a dozen thorns waiting for you in a piece of meat the size of a fingernail!

The Jiangnan lady who knows how to eat still uses the most elegant posture you can imagine to pick up the saury fish while sipping her wine. The autumn water flashes in her eyes. In an instant, her white teeth and fragrant tongue can take away those terrifying and dense little ones. All the thorns were swept out.

If you don't want to be embarrassed, just be rough and chew the thorn as hard as you can, swallow it with water, and then pray that it won't get stuck in your throat and wipe out your good mood.

Eat two saury fish. Chef Chen took out the big thorn in the middle in advance because of the trouble of picking out the thorns, and made a dish of salt and pepper fish bones. It was crispy and fragrant, which was very interesting.

Such a dish,

The price starts at twice that of anchovies. No doubt about it, at this price, do you want to eat it? What? Too expensive to eat? SB, if you want to eat it, you may not have it!

For people who grew up along the Yangtze River, many of them just like this mouthful of Yangtze saury. It is the taste habit they have had since childhood, and it is the memory on the tip of the tongue passed down from their ancestors, just like the New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve and the glutinous rice balls on Lantern Festival. When I eat it, it feels like something is missing.

It is generally said that the saury before the Qingming Festival is the most "plump but not greasy, and extremely delicious".

During this period, which coincides with the second and third months of the lunar calendar, the fish bones on the saury are relatively soft and will harden after the Qingming Festival.

Therefore, "before Ming Dynasty" and "after Ming Dynasty", the price of swordfish is in the sky and on the earth. However, even the swordfish with spines as small as soft hairs must be eaten with broccoli to prevent the fish bones from choking the throat.

Liu Zai of the Song Dynasty described the taste of Jiang Dao in "A Letter of Thanks to the King for Removing Intangible Cultural Heritage and Presenting Jiang Dao": "The bright and clear silver ruler, the clean seal is not the tail of a grasshopper. The deafness of the shoulder is thunderous, and the gills are red and the water is fresh. The root is made of ginger, cinnamon and pepper. The unripe fragrance floats on your nose. The pufferfish is ashamed to be poisonous, and the perch is ashamed of its taste."

Such a poem undoubtedly promoted Jiang Dao to the status of Jiang Dao. Later generations rushed to taste the freshness of Jiang Dao, pursued the tenderness of Jiang Dao, and praised the fatness of Jiang Dao to the sky. This is not surprising. After hundreds of years of spring saury eating tradition, the real saury catch is becoming less and less.

The Yangtze River saury is a very magical species. It eats fat in the sea in winter and grows up. In spring, it enters the Yangtze River from the East China Sea and goes upstream. It spawns as far away as tidal lakes in AH, HB and other places. As time goes by, the saury grows slightly longer. When the water is big, it goes down the river to the sea again, and the cycle starts again.

The reason why the Yangtze River saury is as expensive as jade is because overfishing has led to a decline in swordfish production and demand exceeds supply. This has directly led to the price of so-called wild Yangtze saury in restaurants reaching tens of thousands per catty. The key is that there is none! It’s not like you can have it anytime you want, you just have to try your luck!

Regardless of whether others could eat it or not, Yang Cheng and the others were happy to eat it. The fish meat melted in your mouth, and was delicious and slightly sweet. It left a lingering aroma in your mouth after you swallowed it. The deliciousness instantly overshadowed the previous two types of fish.

It's a pity that the wedding is held in July, so the guests at the wedding will not be able to eat such delicious food.

After finishing the saury, Chef Chen said that everyone should take a short break to chat and enjoy the delicious food before tasting other dishes.

Otherwise, with the delicious taste of saury in front, everything you eat will feel tasteless.

Of course Yang Cheng agreed. In fact, he was a little full after eating and had to slow down to make some room in his stomach before he could continue eating.

Luo Yue ate so much that she couldn't help but rub her belly with a sad face. Unexpectedly, she thought she had been hungry for a few days. Who would have thought that she was full.

The restaurant owner promptly asked the waiter to bring tea leaves, and today he also took advantage of it, eating a lot of delicacies that he may never taste once in his life.

While chatting, Chef Chen asked, "I heard that Mr. Yang also invited Chef Gordon Ramsay this time?"

Yang Cheng smiled and nodded, "Yes, Chef Chen likes him? I will introduce him to you then, so you can communicate more~"

"Thank you very much, but I would like to discuss with him even more. I always feel that the cuisine of country Z is the most exquisite cuisine in the world. The so-called French cuisine and Italian cuisine are just a combination of ingredients."

There are no foreigners here, so Yang Cheng doesn’t have to worry about it, nodding in agreement, “Of course, the Z country’s cuisine is the most awesome, whether it’s ingredients or cooking techniques, foreigners can’t match them.

But Gordon Ramsay still has his unique features, which cannot be underestimated. "

Chef Chen is still very humble, "As a recognized first-class chef, his skills are definitely not bad. In fact, I have also eaten his food, but I have never had the opportunity to communicate in person."

"Oh? In France?"

"Yes, one year he visited a restaurant in France. As a result, a distinguished guest was very angry because of the mistake of the restaurant chef at that time. Gordon Ramsay was so angry that he fired the chef on the spot, and he took over the cooking himself. Got the head chef position for a day.

That's when I tried his signature dish, Beef Wellington.

Apart from anything else, the use of heat is no worse than that of a Chinese chef. "

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