"One king crab, one Boston lobster, two pounds of abalone, and two pounds of these shrimp..."
Lin Zhou picked out some of his favorite seafood; besides making porridge, he planned to have a seafood feast today.
Hiking up mountains and setting up a stall every day, you really need to take good care of your health!
How much is it in total?
"Four thousand one, here's four thousand, come again next time~"
The seafood shop owner kindly packed up the food for Lin Zhou.
Everyone wants a customer who's clean and efficient like this, especially one who doesn't haggle! Who understands that? My friends, we've met a customer who's perfect for us!
Hopefully, all the guests after us will be like this!
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When Lin Zhou returned home, he first kept all the seafood that he wasn't going to cook porridge on.
Then I soaked the rice and started preparing the ingredients.
It's quite troublesome to process so much fresh seafood.
Shrimp heads and shrimp meat should be separated and cleaned separately for later use.
The same process is used for abalone, separating the meat from the shell.
The oyster meat is also removed, and it makes the porridge especially delicious.
You also need to make thick squid porridge. Thick squid is marinated squid. Clean the fresh squid, marinate it, and when the porridge is cooked, put it at the bottom of the bowl, scald it with boiling porridge, add cilantro, and you have a perfect seafood porridge.
Looking at these ingredients makes my mouth water just thinking about them.
Once all the ingredients are prepared, you can start cooking the porridge.
Lin Zhou first turned on the fire, poured in the oil, and then threw the shrimp heads into the pot to stir-fry.
The green shrimp heads quickly turned red as they were stir-fried in hot sesame oil, and then turned golden red, filling the kitchen with a rich aroma of fresh shrimp.
The sesame oil was also dyed a golden, creamy color by the shrimp paste, and the entire bottom of the pot was filled with fine foam.
Afterwards, Lin Zhou scooped out the shrimp heads that had been used up and added crab roe to the pot to stir-fry, making the sesame oil at the bottom of the pot even more fragrant.
The aroma of shrimp and crab blends together so well that it's so enticing that you can't help but inhale deeply.
It tastes wonderful.
Then, the diced abalone was added to the pan and stir-fried at the appropriate time.
Add the ingredients to the pot in order and stir-fry until fragrant. Then add the rice and stir-fry.
The pure white rice turns golden yellow the moment it hits the pot, which looks very appealing.
As boiling water was added, the porridge began to cook. Before the porridge base boiled, the aroma gradually faded.
Once the large pot of porridge was boiling, the freshness of the seafood and the fragrance of the rice blended together perfectly. Lin Zhou was completely absorbed in the process, always paying attention to the heat at the right time, adjusting the flame, and stirring it to ensure the porridge and seafood were thoroughly combined.
Two hours later...
When the porridge was almost cooked, Lin Zhou began to finish up the seafood porridge.
Oysters are added last, so you need to pay special attention to the heat. Once they're in the porridge, turn off the heat immediately when they start to puff up as if they're about to burst. Otherwise, the oysters will turn white and lose their aroma, making them tasteless.
Lin Zhou turned off the heat, put the lid on, and let the residual heat in the porridge continue to simmer the seafood, thus producing a more delicious flavor.
He even saved a little of each type of seafood to make seafood pancakes, which he ate with porridge.
Marinate various kinds of seafood with seasonings, put them in a large bowl, add flour and seasonings, crack an egg into it, add water and stir to make a batter.
Next, in a separate frying pan, pour in rapeseed oil. Once the oil is hot and you can clearly smell the aroma of rapeseed oil, pour in the prepared batter and start frying.
Lin Zhou stared at the thick batter, lost in thought. It seemed like he'd put in too much seafood.
The pancake looks very thick.
It looks like I can't fry it over high heat; the outside will be cooked, but the inside will still be raw.
While the seafood pancakes were slowly pan-fried over low heat with the lid on, Lin Zhou first ladled out a bowl of seafood porridge to cool.
Add two spoonfuls of thick broth to a bowl, then pour in boiling hot porridge, and top with some cilantro for seasoning. A beautiful and delicious seafood porridge is ready!
After it was placed on the table, we waited for the seafood pancakes.
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"Brothers, are you up yet? Ready to go?"
Around 4 a.m., when the sky was just beginning to lighten, Xie Hong had already gotten up and was calling on his friends in the group chat to go hiking.
Today we have seafood congee; I wonder if it will taste even better than abalone congee.
The abalone congee yesterday was so delicious!
He had never eaten such delicious porridge before; it was truly astonishing.
That porridge was so delicious, I never got tired of it; no other breakfast could compare.
Xie Hong and the others wanted to eat their fill before the start of the semester.
Otherwise, we won't be able to eat it when school starts next week.
The rest of the group members also got up one after another and started washing up and getting ready.
I replied to all the messages.
A group of people got ready and headed straight for Qinhuang Mountain.
One of them even brought his girlfriend.
This annoyed the other seven boys who met at the foot of the mountain; they wanted to kick him back.
Everyone comes to hike and have congee, and you bring your girlfriend on a date, to watch the sunrise, and show off your love—what's with that?
"Honey, let me tell you, the sunrise at the top of the mountain is absolutely stunning. Although it might be a bit late to get there now, there's incredibly delicious porridge at the summit. You'll see once you try it; it's definitely worth climbing the mountain just for a bowl of porridge!"
Cao Hongxin smiled ingratiatingly at his girlfriend, making Xie Hong and the others' teeth ache.
How did this guy become like this when he was in love?
"Let's hurry up, it's already five o'clock. The boss will be at the top of the mountain selling porridge at six o'clock."
Yao Chao, who was waiting to eat, paid no attention to the sweet romance between the young couple; he just wanted to eat, then go home and sleep.
He was playing games from night until dawn to earn money, without sleeping, and then came to climb the mountain just to earn money for a bowl of porridge that costs 100 yuan.
Even the King of Hell would have to praise his good health!
Staying up all night and still being able to climb a mountain is impressive.
A group of people climbed up quickly, but today there was a girl with them, so their climbing speed slowed down.
By the time they reached the mountaintop, it was already seven o'clock, and they had long missed seeing the sunrise.
So I went straight to Lin Zhou's stall.
They found the porridge stall crowded with people, many tourists carrying bowls of porridge. They were anxious, afraid they wouldn't get any.
"Boss, boss, we're back again! Nine bowls of porridge, please!"
When Lin Zhou heard the familiar voice, he knew that the group of college students had arrived.
Only college students have the money and time to climb to the top of the mountain every morning just to have a bowl of porridge.
"Okay~"
Lin Zhou chuckled and lifted the pot lid.
The rich, fresh aroma immediately filled the air, instantly energizing the exhausted Xie Hong and the others.
It smells so good!
Is the aroma even richer than yesterday's abalone congee?
It's a combination of various seafood flavors, and you can't tell exactly what the ingredients are, you just know it's incredibly fresh.
Xie Hong and the others watched as the golden porridge, laden with various seafood, was poured into disposable bowls. The marinated squid at the bottom of the bowls shrank and turned white the moment the boiling porridge was poured over it, filling two large spoonfuls.
They found crab meat, whole shrimp, abalone, and many other kinds of seafood in the porridge.
Compared to the sweet potato porridge that cost 100 yuan a bowl before, this seafood porridge is simply worth it!
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