Chapter 220
"Sui Sui You" variety show recording (major revision of the second half of this chapter)
At 11:30 am, Ling Suisui was preparing in the kitchen.
Soak the rice in water for an hour in advance, set aside half of it, and put the other half into a blender to grind it into rice paste.
Ling Suisui asked the program crew to prepare a large casserole so that the porridge would be more fragrant. She first poured half of the rice that had been reserved into the pot, and then poured in the rice milk.
The cameraman followed behind and took close-up shots. The white rice milk had a texture a bit like milk when it was poured in, and the surface became clear after standing. Ling Suisui also added a small spoonful of lard to make it taste more delicious.
"Is the bottom of the pot ready like this?" asked Lin Yahan who came in to help.
"Well, when the rice is 80% cooked, you can take it out and set it aside. After we finish the hot pot, we can add the rice to the porridge."
So simple? Lin Yahan, who came from the southwest, scratched her head, feeling that her understanding of hotpot had been somewhat overturned.
She helped Ling Suisui bring out the dishes. Most of what she saw were seafood, including whitebait, scallops, nine-segmented shrimp, swimming crabs, abalone, oysters...
Lin Yahan pointed at the fish fillet and asked, "Senior Sister, what kind of fish is this?"
"This is crispy pork belly." Ling Suisui swallowed his saliva, "Fish fillet and fish belly, it's delicious! I also bought a fish head and cut it up, and put it in the pot later. It's super delicious."
While Lin Yahan was arranging the dishes outside, Ling Suisui took out a few eggs and beat them on the freshly cut beef. She bought diaoluo, sanhua and wuhua beef. After boiling the beef mixed with egg liquid, the taste becomes smoother.
The doorbell rang, Lin Yahan took out the last of the wolfberry leaves and lettuce, and went to open the door. Ling Sui prepared minced garlic, shredded ginger, shredded shallots, chopped green onions, coriander and chili peppers, and then took out soy sauce and sesame oil, and the self-service sauce table was basically ready.
Qi Xuan and Meng Yu came in together. They originally wanted to go into the kitchen to help, but Ling Suisui had already finished the work.
Qi Xuan: "You're so quick that we're left with nothing to eat. How about Meng Yu and I wash the dishes later?"
"No, I have a dishwasher here." Ling Suisui asked everyone to sit down, "Since you are already in my house, it is not reasonable for me to let the guests do it. Come on, teachers, sit down."
She took the opportunity to introduce them to Qi Xuan and Meng Yu: "This is my junior sister Lin Yahan. She is very good. Last year, she participated in the art exams of five colleges and passed all of them. She also ranked first in three of them. I remember that you also ranked first in the cultural score of the Film Academy, right?"
"That's great." Meng Yu praised, "I'm also from the Film Academy, but I barely got in and was almost rejected. I'm not as good as you."
Lin Yahan quickly lowered her head, clasped her hands together and said, "No, no, I'm just lucky."
Qi Xuan raised her eyebrows: "So today is your Film Academy alumni gathering, and I'm the only outsider from the Central Academy of Drama? Yahan, tell me, how is the Central Academy of Drama worse than the Film Academy? Why didn't you choose the Central Academy of Drama?"
Lin Yahan quickly denied it, saying that several major universities in the country are all good and are her dream schools.
"I really like my senior sister Sui Sui, so I chose the Film Academy in the end." Lin Yahan said shyly, "I started to become an actor after watching her performance in Jin Bang Ti Ming."
oh? Ling Sui did some calculations and remembered that "The Name on the List" was a play seven years ago, when Lin Yahan was still in primary school.
She smiled and said, "It seems that I have done a great job for the admissions office. Yahan, take the rice out of the pot."
In variety shows, letting others do the work is equivalent to giving them the camera. Lin Yahan quickly got up and went back to the kitchen to get a large bowl, and scooped out the almost cooked rice for later use.
Ling Suisui poured the shabai into the pot, and did not forget to take out the lettuce leaves on the plate.
"There is a particular order for putting the dishes in porridge hotpot," Ling Suisui explained to these non-Cantonese friends, "First put the shellfish, then the seafood, and then the meat. After these three dishes are finished, you can drink the porridge. The vegetables should be cooked after the porridge, otherwise it will affect the sweetness of the porridge base."
Qi Xuan sighed: "You Guangdong people really know how to eat... You really never tire of fine food."
"Of course." Ling Suisui raised his head proudly. "We like to eat the original flavor of the ingredients the most. At most, we will dip them in some seasonings that can better stimulate the original flavor of the ingredients. I use light soy sauce, shredded shallots, and a little sesame oil. You can adjust it according to your own taste."
While they were chatting, the white shrimp in the pot had already been cooked to the point of bursting. The texture of rice milk as the base of the pot is very close to that of plain water, which really tests the quality of the ingredients. Fortunately, Ling Suisui is particularly good at choosing. Just dip it in some sauce and it will be extremely delicious.
"Delicious." Meng Yu ate several of them before she remembered to ask Ling Suisui, "Should we talk about something? Otherwise, it will become a food show."
Yes, everyone is working...
Several female stars who were addicted to porridge-based hotpot looked up at the same time and reached a consensus within a few seconds of looking at each other.
Qi Xuan: "Yahan, you have been in school for a semester, right? How do you feel about it?"
As soon as she opened her mouth, the other two pairs of eyes looked over, their eyes filled with love and care from their predecessors.
——When you don’t know what to talk about, just talk about the newcomer first, because she is the youngest.
Lin Yahan: ...
Lin Yahan was like the student who was chosen to recite in class. Even though she had some knowledge, she still couldn't help but feel nervous.
After she shared her own college experience, she quickly turned the topic to Ling Suisui.
"I'm living in 404 this year too," she said, "which is the same dormitory that Senior Sister Suisui lived in before. Originally our dormitory numbers were randomly assigned, but later because there were too many people who wanted to live there, the school changed it to the top four female students in the performance major who passed the art exam, as a kind of incentive."
"It's a pity that I'm not from the capital, so I was a little late when I got to school... I didn't choose the bed that my senior sister slept in before."
Ling Suisui was a little surprised. She even knew which bed she had slept in before?
Before, when Lin Yahan said that she was her fan, Ling Suisui thought it was just a compliment, but it seems to be true.
"Alas, you are really the pride of the Film Academy now." Meng Yu sighed, "You are only 26 years old, and you have already won the Best Actress and Best Actress awards. You have brought honor to the school and set a good example for the younger students below you."
Unlike her, she is almost 40 years old this year and has only won the Popularity Award and the Audience Favorite Award so far.
All the whitebait had been caught, and Meng Yu put the cut fish heads and swimming crabs into the pot.
"I can't catch up with the old wave like Teacher Qi, and I'm being beaten to the beach by the new wave like you."
"That's not the case." Qi Xuan said frankly, "I have been filming for many years, but I didn't win my first Best Actress award until I was 41, and I wasn't nominated for the Berlin Film Festival until I was 43."
Meng Yu: "But you already have representative works at the age of 22, and the audience knows you."
"Yeah, so awards can't prove everything."
Qi Xuan glanced at Ling Suisui, "If she gets cocky after winning the award, Tang Bing will teach her a lesson. When she was young, she had a very hot temper. She could scold you until you cry. You have to be careful in front of her."
Ling Suisui didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Why did these two teachers like to gossip about each other behind their backs? She wanted to organize a party and invite two people at the same time, but they didn't want to!
Following this topic, the following discussion revolved around performance and actors. Although several years have passed, Ling Suisui has not forgotten his comedic skills. He never lets any of his words fall flat and even threw in several jokes in the middle, which made the guests laugh.
In this relaxed and happy hot pot atmosphere, Meng Yu began to reveal her true feelings: "I am also very confused now. There are many projects looking for me, but I don't know what to play. It is difficult for me to find a script that is suitable in all aspects."
For Meng Yu, a suitable script must meet the following conditions: it must be a key project of a platform/large company that can afford her salary; she must be the leading actor, and the cast of leading male and supporting actors cannot be too weak, otherwise it will seem that her resources are downgraded.
The above two points are mandatory conditions, while subject matter, content, and character setting have become optional conditions. But even so, her choices were still narrow.
Meng Yu picked up some crispy meat for herself and said, "Nowadays, the heroines are generally between 18 and 25 years old. There are even those who are 15 or 16 in costume dramas. Even in fairy tales, the protagonists are hundreds or thousands of years old, but she still dresses like a girl."
"When I was in my thirties, I was still playing teenage girls, and sometimes I felt awkward. Forty is a threshold. After this age, I will never play the leading role of a teenage girl again."
"Of course there are forty-year-old heroines. But as I said just now, there is no one who is suitable in all aspects."
"You are very courageous and capable." Meng Yu commented on Ling Suisui, "When I was 26, I was focused on popular themes in the market. I felt that I was still young and wanted to shoot more popular things. I played too many homogeneous roles, and my performance became routine."
The reason why Meng Yu spoke so bluntly about her shortcomings is because many people in the circle knew that she was ready to take a break.
Meng Yu hasn't figured out what to do in the future. Maybe it's studying abroad for further studies, or maybe it's taking a break from the entertainment industry to experience life. Anyway, for an artist like her, income has long been not just from film pay. She holds shares in several film and television companies.
Meng Yu joked: "Young actors should learn from Teacher Qi, but they should use me as a negative example."
Qi Xuan shook her head again: "Don't do that. I was also very stubborn when I was young, not much worse than you. Otherwise, why do you think I started winning awards at the age of 41? I missed a lot of good opportunities that others talked about, but it doesn't matter. I just need to live up to my professional ethics."
Ling Suisui caught some abalone for Teacher Qi Xuan, but she seemed to have not received her signal at all. She still had to say what she was going to say.
Ling Suisui thought, okay, this issue brings together Meng Yu, who is about to retire and is indifferent to worldly affairs, and Qi Xuan, who always dares to say anything, so the material library should be very rich.
She doesn't have any pressure from public opinion. If she is afraid of this or that, she shouldn't do the show. Let the actress tell the truth, the sky won’t fall.
If they don't even dare to record "entertainment gossip", then when they chat with women working in other industries in the future, they can only make it into a food show.
Ling Suisui calmly joined their discussion. Lin Yahan next to her looked at her with envy, but she was still a little timid and was trying hard to reduce her presence.
However, she couldn't help but think that it was such a pleasant thing to speak so freely in front of the camera. When will she be able to achieve a status like Qi Xuan, or have a retreat like Meng Yu?
——And Ling Suisui, who organized this program and provided them with a platform.
Lin Yahan couldn't imagine how much courage and determination she needed. After all, with her achievements, she could have been a stable female star who "followed the rules".
After the ingredients were cooked, Ling Sui poured the rice he had scooped out earlier back into the casserole, and also added preserved vegetables, dried squid pieces and scallops to enhance the flavor.
Lin Yahan couldn't wait to take a bite. The sweet and delicious taste reached her nerves faster than the word "so hot", it was so delicious!
No one expected that after this episode was broadcast, regardless of the controversy caused by the content of the conversation, porridge-based hotpot quickly became popular.
Moreover, when the program automatically played the preview of the next episode, the audience was drooling over the coconut chicken hotpot. Ling Sui also made Chinese sausage rice for the guests. The moment the lid was opened, the sound of swallowing could be heard in front of countless screens.
Ling Sui looked at the new "food" label that Fruit TV had added to its program and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
As we all know, Ling Sui has been good at everything she does, and now she has even entered the field of eating broadcasting.
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