Chapter 377 Extraordinary Effect
The salty, fragrant and delicious taste can't help but seep out from the cracks in the steamer.
Baoya's small nose moved, it was almost time.
She stood up from the chair, put a handkerchief on her hand, and took the steamer down.
The maid next to her was very considerate and went over to help her cover the flames rising from the small stove.
The lid of the steamer was slowly opened, and a small bowl of rice, studded with fat and meat, with each grain plump and round, came out of the pot steaming hot.
The people sitting in the front row couldn't help but stand up when they smelled the tempting aroma wafting down from the stage. They couldn't help but want to go forward, even if it was just to smell it.
The lone wolf king's eyes were sharp, his tail stood up, and he made a "woohoo" warning sound from his mouth.
The people in the audience who were ready to make a move suddenly came to their senses and became quiet.
Baoya slowly divided the small bowl of rice into three delicate small plates before saying, "Sorry to have kept you waiting. The gold inlaid jade is ready."
"As agreed before, the first three diners to arrive will be lucky enough to taste tonight's delicacies firsthand. Everyone, please be quiet. Uncle Chang will distribute the dishes to those three people later."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and was about to leave the stage. She had been cooking for half a day and her small body was already tired.
Moreover, there was fat soup stewing in the casserole next to it. The aroma kept drilling into her little nose, and her saliva was almost flowing.
"Hey! Stay, young boss!"
"Only for three people? What about the others who didn't get any?!"
"Yeah, will we still make this gold-inlaid jade tomorrow?!"
"How much does this dish cost? I'll come and make a reservation tomorrow, okay?"
Seeing that she was about to leave, the audience started to quarrel again.
Chang Li on the side was sweating. The response was good, but gold inlaid jade was so difficult to make, so the boss could only do it once a day at most, right?
With so many people clamoring for food, the supply can’t keep up with the demand!
Baoya had one foot almost off the stage, but after hearing their quarrel, she pulled it back.
She frowned and said, "I'll make the Gold Inlaid Jade again tomorrow, but only once a day, for a maximum of three guests. However, Shanhailou has many other dishes besides the Gold Inlaid Jade. Those who haven't tried it can try other dishes."
She will definitely make it again in the next few days. When she went to the backyard this morning, she saw that several fat fish had popped out of the water tank. However, the gold-inlaid jade one is difficult to make, so she only makes one a day.
After Baoya finished speaking, she hurriedly carried the clay pot of stewed fat soup upstairs. Her parents and brother on the second floor must have been waiting for a long time.
After Baoya left, Chang Li asked several maids to bring up the dishes that had been prepared earlier. There were several special side dishes and a plate of snacks, all of which were prepared by Baoya in advance.
It was a good opportunity to take advantage of the popularity of Jin Xiangyu to introduce their Shanhailou dishes.
The dishes and snacks were made by several maids who knew how to cook, as taught by Baoya.
Dishes like fairy bird tofu, caramel yam, fairy chicken skewers, etc. may look ordinary, but the ingredients used are actually different from those in ordinary restaurants.
For example, for this dish of fairy bird tofu, she used some delicate shredded meat from the fat remains and stewed it with soft tofu; for the caramel yam, she specially fried the sugar of the ordinary candied yam until it was browned, which gave it a more caramelized flavor than the ordinary candied yam.
The material used for the shredded chicken skewers is naturally not ordinary chicken, but fatty meat.
The snack was a plate of fresh milk pastry, which was full of milk flavor and had a crispy outer skin. When you took a bite, the filling inside actually flowed out. It was said to be called "lao xin", which was quite novel.
After tasting these side dishes and snacks, everyone's eyes lit up. They had never eaten such delicious stewed tofu, and the taste of these shredded chicken skewers was somehow different from ordinary shredded chicken skewers.
The texture is firmer and chewier, the flavor is moderately salty and fragrant, and it has an indescribable umami flavor compared to ordinary chicken.
The regret of not being able to eat Jin Xiangyu was naturally made up. Everyone licked their lips and scrambled to reserve a seat for tomorrow.
Coincidentally, two of the three lucky diners who got to eat the gold-inlaid jade dish were Rong Bing and Yin Qiu.
Rong Bing ate very seriously. There was not much rice in the small dish of gold inlaid jade, but he chewed it very carefully, wishing he could bite every grain of rice embedded with fat and meat with his teeth and taste the fragrance of rice and the salty aroma of fat and meat to the extreme.
But Yin Qiu was different from Rong Bing. He first scooped a small mouthful of the gold-inlaid jade rice with a small spoon, straightened his body, and held it in front of himself to examine it carefully.
Looking at the crystal clear snow-white rice grains after steaming, with the pale pink fat meat embedded in the middle, he was amazed.
This doesn't look like a dish, but more like a finely crafted work of art.
Chen Dai stood by and watched him staring blankly at a small spoonful of gold inlaid jade. The dishes were getting cold, and he couldn't help but remind him: "Master, it's time to eat. If you meet this gold inlaid jade again, this spoonful of rice will be completely cold."
Yin Qiu came back to his senses, glanced at him coldly, and then slowly put the rice into his mouth and savored it carefully.
The soft and elastic rice grains are distinct, and each one is soaked in the salty fragrance of the fat and meat and the glutinous rice aroma, which is very memorable.
After finishing the meal, Yin Qiu slowly savored the soup while taking out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, staring meaningfully at the now empty table.
After a while, he said, "Book a table for me at Shanhai Tower. I want to be the first one there tomorrow morning."
"Yes." Chen Dai stared at the profile of his master. He seemed to have only seen Yin Qiu's focused and serious eyes when his master was reviewing documents from the Ministry of Justice.
On the other side, Baoya happily went up to the private room on the second floor with a clay pot of fat leftover soup, and snuggled up with Yun Sanlang, He Chunxiu and the little dumpling Yun Chengxi. The family of four drank the fat leftover soup happily.
Feiyi Soup is different from ordinary pigeon soup. It tastes delicious and the meat is firm. The milky white soup leaves a lingering fragrance on your lips and teeth, making you want to take a second sip after taking one.
Yun Chengxi was still young, so He Chunxiu served him a small bowl of soup and slowly fed him with a small spoon.
Yun Chengxi smacked his lips and drank with great concentration, which made everyone laugh.
Baoya finished the soup in her bowl, licked her lips with satisfaction, and said to Yun Sanlang and He Chunxiu:
"Dad, Mom, this soup tastes good, right? Shanhailou will definitely be full tomorrow!"
Yun Sanlang saw through the half-drawn gauze curtain that Chang Li was surrounded in the lobby on the first floor. The diners who had reserved tables for tomorrow began to worry.
"But with so many guests, how can you handle it all by yourself?"
"Of course I can't do it all by myself." Baoya blinked, "I will teach the recipes of some special dishes to sisters March, July, and September. They are all good cooks, so they should be able to learn it quickly."
"This way, I can let them cook the usual dishes. I will only make one rare dish every day to entertain three lucky guests."
If you want to cherish the ingredients of the dish, you must use those exotic ingredients that come out of the water tank, and the method is complicated, so it is impossible to make it in batches.
In this way, she only had to cook one dish every day, and she could save the afternoon to go to the academy in Kuizhou City to study.
Mr. Xiao Qi once said that learning is boundless and never-ending. She is so young and there is still a lot for her to learn.
Baoya was happily imagining the future when she heard He Chunxiu's voice:
"By the way, Baoya, a big eagle just delivered a letter, and it seems to be for you."
"For me?"
When Baoya came to her senses, He Chunxiu had already handed a thin letter to her.
Her name was written on the envelope. She quickly opened it and saw the handwriting inside was Nan Xuan's.
The letter said: Tomorrow the fifth prince will leave the capital and lead his troops to garrison the northwest border. At noon, he will bid farewell to the emperor, the crown prince and others outside the city tower.
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