Chapter 47
Lu Shiyu took out a large piece of pork tenderloin, cleaned it, removed the fascia, and cut it into five large slices. He used the back of a kitchen knife to loosen the meat fibers. After beating both sides, the thick slices of meat became noticeably flatter and larger.
Then put salt, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar and pepper in a bowl, mix the seasonings evenly in the bowl and then mix them with the patted meat slices to make the seasonings better blend with the meat slices.
While waiting for the meat to marinate, you can cook the rice.
Lu Shiyu took out a bag of rice from his bag, scooped out the amount for five people, hesitated, and scooped some more. After washing the rice, he poured it into a large iron pot, making sure the water level was just above the height of one finger joint.
Cover the iron pot and simmer for a few minutes. After the water boils, open the lid and stir the rice. At this time, most of the water has evaporated, and the rice in the pot is like half-cooked porridge. Lu Shiyu takes out a few sausages that he just made today and puts them on the rice, then covers the pot and continues to cook.
Lu Shiyu cracked a few duck eggs into a bowl, beat them thoroughly, and set aside. He then placed a few tablespoons of starch on a plate. Since he didn't have breadcrumbs, he initially planned to coat the dish with just a layer of starch. However, realizing the texture wouldn't be the same, he devised a compromise. He took out a plate of flour, wet his fingers, and sprinkled them on the flour. He then used his hands to roll the wet flour into small pieces to use as a substitute for the breadcrumbs.
Place the marinated steak on the starch and flatten it gently, coat both sides with starch thoroughly. Lift up the steak covered with starch and shake off the excess dry powder. Then put it into the egg liquid and coat the steak evenly with egg liquid. Finally, place the steak covered with egg liquid into the small dough. Just like with starch, both sides need to be coated completely, including the edges. Continue until the entire steak is covered with the small dough and gently shake off the excess. A steak to be fried is ready.
Use the same steps to cook the other four steaks. Take out a small pot and pour cooking oil into it. When the oil is hot enough that when you insert chopsticks into it, it starts to foam. Then you can start frying the steaks.
Lu Shiyu carefully picked up a piece of steak covered with egg liquid and flour and put it into the oil pan. The hot oil in the pan instantly began to bubbling with dense bubbles. After the steak was put into the pan, it was necessary to wait for a while. Only after the steak was shaped could it be turned over with chopsticks, otherwise the flour on the steak would spread out.
When the steak turns completely golden brown, it means it is fried. Use chopsticks to pick out the fried pork chop, put another steak in and continue frying. Repeat this operation until all the other steaks are fried.
While frying the meat, you can also prepare the sauce for the fried pork chop rice. Mix dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, pepper and a bowl of starch water. Pour the sauce into a small pot and heat until it becomes thick.
Lu Shiyu opened the big iron pot for cooking. At this time, the rice and the sausages placed on the rice had been thoroughly cooked. The fat in the sausages had escaped from the casings through the holes and merged into the rice. The rice had added a bit of luster because of the oil.
Lu Shiyu served the rice, cut the freshly fried pork cutlet and placed it on the rice, cut the sausage diagonally and placed it next to the pork cutlet, poured a spoonful of thick sauce on the fried pork cutlet, and a big bowl of freshly fried pork cutlet rice was ready.
"eat……"
When Lu Shiyu was about to call a few people to eat, he turned around and found that they were already squatting in the back waiting.
"Can I eat now?" Shaoxing Yang squatted on the ground and begged for food like a hungry stray dog.
Lu Shiyu: “…”
Don't act like you haven't eaten!
"You can eat now."
"Wow! Pork chop rice!" Shaoxing Yang couldn't wait to take the bowl and looked for chopsticks anxiously, which made Lu Shiyu find it a little funny.
"Here are the chopsticks. Be careful, they're hot."
Shaoxing Yang didn't listen to Lu Shiyu's words at all and stuffed a steak into his mouth. The hot gravy in the steak instantly burned his mouth.
"Can you please stop being so stupid?" Yan Hong said, picking up a piece of sausage. "Eating a meal can be so dramatic."
Then she was also burned in the mouth by the juice from the sausage, and successfully matched her teammates to join the ranks of cooking with their mouths.
Chen Yunliang: “…”
"You guys are making me afraid to eat."
Tang Zeyu picked up a fried pork chop and blew on it to cool it down before taking a bite of half. Even so, the temperature of the fried pork chop was still very high just out of the pan.
The layer of flour wrapped around the outside of the steak has been inflated and turned into a hollow structure after being fried at high temperature. It makes a crisp "crunch" sound when you bite it, and the juice of the steak is locked under the two layers of flour. The slightly salty gravy flows freely on the tip of the tongue. The thick-cut steak is firm but not dry, which is basically due to the gravy.
The tender cutlet is paired with a rich sauce that doesn't overpower the flavor, but rather accentuates the freshness of the cutlet. The aroma of the fat also neutralizes some of the sauce's flavor. The cutlet's crust has been slightly soaked in the sauce, softening the originally crispy shell. The more sauce it absorbs, the stronger the flavor. Eating too much at once can be a bit greasy, and a staple food is often needed to help alleviate the greasiness.
Tang Zeyu then took a few mouthfuls of rice. The rice was cooked soft and chewy, with each grain distinct and some sauce on it. The sweet rice and the salty sauce formed a sharp contrast but also an incomparable harmony when put in the mouth. The sauce mixed with the rice was eaten mouthful after mouthful.
The sausage seems to play an inconspicuous supporting role in this bowl of fried pork cutlet rice, but only after eating it can you feel the pure and original taste of pure meat.
Not a lot of seasoning is added when making the sausage, so the taste is kept at just the right level, neither too salty nor without any taste.
The sausage has the best taste with a ratio of three fat and seven lean meats. It is chopped by hand so that some meat particles are retained. The meat particles still retain a slight chewiness after steaming. The moment you bite it, you can feel the fat and lean particles bouncing in your mouth. The meat paste is chewy and elastic, and paired with the tough casing after steaming, it is like a fruit wrapped in a shell, waiting for someone to take a bite and express surprise at the deliciousness.
Unlike fried pork chops, sausages are simply steamed with rice. There is no complicated process, but it also gives the rice the aroma of fat.
Just as Lu Shiyu expected, the steak and sauce that went well with the rice made them unable to stop eating, and the seemingly huge bowl of rice was eaten up completely.
Not long after dinner, everyone returned to their sleeping bags and fell into a deep sleep, their stomachs full of warm food, and they greeted the next morning with new expectations.
As usual, they got up early, packed up and prepared to set off, but as soon as they walked out, they saw something standing on the beach in the distance.
Chen Yunliang took off his glasses and looked at something black from a distance.
"That thing wasn't there yesterday," Shao Xingyang said, "and I don't know when it appeared."
"I'm not sure what it is," Chen Yunliang said, putting on his glasses and shaking his head. "It's something I haven't seen before."
In fact, some time ago, several people began to walk into an area that almost no one had set foot in. This place was far away from the base and there was almost no information recorded, which meant that they no longer had much experience to rely on. Even they were in this area for the first time, so they needed to be more careful with everything, especially when facing unknown deformed creatures.
"Want to take a closer look? Or do we need to take a detour?"
Tang Zeyu spread out the map and said, "Just go straight across the beach. If there's no threat, ignore it."
It's not that Tang Zeyu intentionally underestimated the deformed creatures, but the cost of taking a detour was a bit too high. If they wanted to take a detour, they would at least need to go back to the woods and then go around in a circle without any landmarks. Not to mention whether they would get lost, it would take several more days just to walk.
If you don't choose to go around the woods, you can only walk on the sand, but there is almost nothing on the sand to cover yourself. Once you step on it, you will be exposed. There is no possibility of not being discovered if you are farther away.
After comprehensive consideration, Tang Zeyu chose to cross the beach as soon as possible, believing that a short pain is worse than a long one.
Several people walked onto the sand with uneasiness in their hearts, and tacitly put their hands on their weapons, ready to guard against attacks from the deformed creatures at any time.
Only when they got closer could they see clearly what the deformed creatures that had appeared on the beach this morning looked like.
To put it bluntly, insert two bamboo sticks into the seaweed ball.
If one had to find an ordinary normal creature to compare with this deformed creature, Lu Shiyu felt that this thing looked somewhat like a flamingo or an ostrich, but only somewhat similar in appearance.
Its body looks like a huge black furry ball, and it is impossible to tell whether it has wings or not. Its two bamboo-like legs look long and thin, but are actually as thick as a human arm.
The strangest thing was its head. It looked like a young sprout, with a soft, slender neck and two leaf-like parts on its head. It was unclear what they were or what their function was. Its mouth was also strange; it was a thick, thin tube.
Lu Shiyu couldn't help but frown when he saw it clearly. Why would a creature have a mouth like a tube? How does it eat?
Creatures like butterflies have tubular mouthparts and eat liquid food. However, since these creatures live by the sea, the food they eat must also be from the sea. Is there any liquid food in the sea or on the seashore that they can eat?
Lu Shiyu was so focused on the appearance that she didn't notice that the height of this creature was also terrifying, as tall as two floors!
There was no time to think, as they were already not far from the deformed creatures. If these deformed creatures were not aggressive and ignored them passing by, that would naturally be the best, but if they took the initiative to attack, a fierce battle would be inevitable.
The legs of that thing were obviously extraordinary. Being able to support such a tall height and such a huge body, its leg strength certainly couldn't be weak. If it got kicked, it might die on the spot.
As the few people gradually approached, the groups of deformed creatures also discovered them. They watched them gradually approach, but then avoided them.
The deformed creature took the initiative to move closer to the few people, lowered its head and watched them walk forward. Looking at the ridiculously tall long legs around them, an uninformed person might even think they were telephone poles. The few people felt very pressured.
In this tense atmosphere, a more lively deformed creature took the initiative to lower its head and stretched out a long, hard and thick tube towards Lu Shiyu.
Just when several people thought that the deformed creature was about to attack Lu Shiyu and were about to draw their swords, the deformed creature actually hit Lu Shiyu's head twice with the pipe.
Boom boom boom.
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