Chapter 264: A Divine Guest Who Is Easy to Serve
"It'll be done soon. Do you want to do your hair or cut it? Do both or just one?" The blue-haired sister turned her head and nodded with a smile and asked the two of them.
"Let's do both. Let's start with her. Let's have curly hair that's easy to manage and can be tied up." Su Yuchen said.
"I don't……"
"No what no!"
"time……"
"There's plenty of time. Sister Hong and Sister Blue are both very quick. They don't do anything fancy when cutting hair. It'll take two and a half hours at most, and it's not even two o'clock yet."
"But……"
"But what is it? What did we talk about this morning?"
Zhao Xiaojing closed her mouth.
"Xiao Jing, wash your hair." Seeing that the two had reached a consensus, the blue-haired sister shouted to one of the energetic young men who had just opened the door.
"Sister Lan, I found a few hairstyles, take a look!" While Zhao Xiaojing was being taken away by the energetic young man to wash her hair, Sister Lan's flying hands had stopped and she untied the cloth in front of the customer. Su Yuchen hurried forward and raised her mobile phone with a bright face.
"This style suits her. She has a short, round face and big eyes. Choosing this kind of bangs or a direct middle part to reveal her forehead and lengthen her face will make her look incredibly beautiful.
This style suits you. You have a clear jawline. If you cut your bangs long and tuck them behind your ears, and make the top of your head a little fluffy, you'll be just as beautiful." Sister Lan scrolled through the photos on Su Yuchen's phone and picked out two of them.
"Okay." Su Yuchen took a look and nodded happily.
This barber shop is a treasure shop she found after coming to Jiangcheng. The owners are a pair of Red and Blue. Sister Hong is cold and Sister Lan is kind, but both of them have excellent professional skills.
For the same hairstyle, they save two-thirds of the time required to cut it compared to other meticulous barber shops, but the look is just as good. In fact, since they are all girls, they understand girls' needs better. Every hair they cut is in the right place, and their aesthetics surpass that of male barbers by a long way.
Therefore, although the shop is located in a back street, the price is not affected at all, and a haircut can be comparable to that in a barber shop in the commercial center.
After the hairstyle was decided, another energetic young man took Su Yuchen to wash her hair. After Zhao Xiaojing accepted the order, she lay down and let the hairdresser gently manipulate her head. She closed her eyes and entered the virtual space.
This activation function of the system is really great. The hints given are to the point every time, but they are not given directly for you to copy the answers. It is more like a direction that can only guide you, but in the end, you still have to rely on yourself to solve the problem.
Zhao Xiaojing's current problem is the system's tip for cooking pork elbows in a pot: the eggs should be thick and mushy.
After a lot of practice in the virtual space yesterday, Zhao Xiaojing discovered that the thick egg batter is a very important step in making a good pot-roasted pork elbow. It is indeed as the system said, it is the key to whether the pork elbow tastes good or not. However, she knows nothing about the dosage, proportion, and details of adding seasonings. Although she can make it according to conventional methods, she always feels that the taste cannot live up to the title of traditional famous dishes.
The scene of food preservation includes fresh pork elbows. After Zhao Xiaojing slightly burned off the pig hair with fire, she cleaned the pork elbows, put them into the pot with cold water, skimmed off the foam as the water boiled, and then added cooking wine, green onion, ginger, angelica and other seasonings at will. She covered the pot and simmered it slowly, and then continued to experiment with the egg paste.
As usual, two eggs were beaten. After adding enough starch and water to make a thin batter at one time, Zhao Xiaojing kept shaking the chopsticks quickly in the container to stir. When the batter turned into a yogurt-like smooth milky liquid, she carefully increased the amount of starch.
After a while, the liquid became thicker and thicker, and Zhao Xiaojing stopped when she could feel obvious resistance with the chopsticks.
The batter has reached the thickest level I tried yesterday. If I add a little more starch, it won’t form.
After another forty minutes, the elbow was taken out of the pot. Zhao Xiaojing carefully rolled the elbow in the thick batter, and poured the remaining batter on the areas where the elbow was not touched, until the entire elbow was not exposed at all and was coated in a uniform light yellow color.
The pot-roasted pork elbow I ate last time was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. The crispy part was only the batter on the outside. The pork elbow inside was not eroded by the high temperature. Instead, it was very soft, tender and smooth. I think the thick batter was to protect the pork elbow inside, locking the oil temperature firmly in the outer layer, and then creating a layered contrast with the crispy outer layer and the soft and tender inner layer.
Therefore, Zhao Xiaojing only used 50% of the oil temperature. Since the pork elbow is already cooked, it is enough to fry the outer batter thoroughly. However, if the outer batter of the pork elbow is too thick, the oil temperature will be too high, which will cause the surface to burn quickly, while the batter inside will still be raw. Therefore, low temperature and slow frying are more suitable.
Zhao Xiaojing watched the pork elbow take shape in the pot, and the light yellow outer layer immersed in the oil slowly darkened. She turned it over, took it out of the oil, cut it into pieces and put it on a plate.
Tiger Sauce had been tested on Lu Hongwen last time, and he had created the version closest to his memory, with simple pepper and salt.
After preparing both sauces, the whole dish was completed, and Zhao Xiaojing opened the system collection page again.
Well, it's still 5.2%, the same as yesterday's practice. It's a famous dish indeed. Two days of dozens or hundreds of practice sessions, except for the initial 2% added to the tiger sauce and the paste, the rest was just wasted time.
With a sigh, Zhao Xiaojing sat down and put a piece of pork elbow into her mouth.
The taste was average, not bad. The batter didn't seem crispy or fluffy enough. Even though she had tried her best to make it thick, it was still not as thick as the one I had that day, and it was still a bit greasy.
The taste of the pork elbow inside was quite similar to what I had that day, just as bland, but the overall flavor was not as good as the one I had that day. Even Lu Hongwen said that the one he had was average, so it was obvious that the version he made was even worse.
Zhao Xiaojing immediately lost interest in trying it again and sat there thinking.
Although Lu Hongwen said that the food he had eaten in Shandong Province was more delicious, Zhao Xiaojing himself had never eaten it. He was relying on his memory and description, so the direction was not precise enough and the reference value was not that strong.
Moreover, this kind of famous dish must have countless details and tricks. It is difficult to imitate it remotely. It is better to refer to the pork elbow that Su Yuchen bought. At least you have your own standard.
By then, as long as the activated recipe percentage reaches 60, she can directly purchase the recipe and learn to make it according to the recipe.
The idea was finalized, and Zhao Xiaojing cheered up again, reset the scene with one click, and re-seasoned and stewed the pork elbow...
"Hey, sister, wake up!" The blue-haired sister patted Zhao Xiaojing gently. Zhao Xiaojing, who had repeated the elbow punch dozens of times in the virtual space, hurriedly exited and opened her eyes.
"I've never seen a girl as calm as you. It's done. Come and see!" The blue-haired sister shook her head in amusement.
This girl kept her eyes closed throughout the entire process of washing, styling, and cutting hair. She moved whenever she was asked to, and did whatever she was told. She was at my disposal the entire time without a single complaint. Even the hairstyle was chosen by her friends. If the barber shop had such a good customer every day, she would be so happy to be in this line of work!
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