Chapter 396 Star Style
"What's the abridged version? And it's bloody?" Su Yuchen suddenly became curious.
"I advise you not to listen. If you must listen, don't listen while eating." Zhao Xiaojing picked up the chopsticks and glanced at Su Yuchen, "Unless you want to eat vegetarian food today too."
"I won't listen!" Su Yuchen made a choice instantly and picked up a large piece of chopped pepper fish head for himself with chopsticks.
"Look, this is what it means to really want to eat." Guo Gaoang also picked up some chopped peppers with chopsticks and smiled at Wan Yuyue and Yun Yongyuan. "Don't regret it if you don't eat. I can smell the aroma of stir-fried chopped peppers in the front hall. I'm so greedy."
"Oh, it smells so good!" Su Yuchen exclaimed.
"It has the aroma of the altar, but it's not salty. The flavor is really well-adjusted, and the fish is fresh too. Fresh fish really makes a difference."
"It's different because it's wild. The meat is a little finer. This pickled fish is also very flavorful."
"The fish oil turns bright yellow when steamed, and the soup base is enough to go with two bowls of rice."
Amidst the praises, Yun Yongyuan and Wan Yuyue looked at each other with aggrieved expression.
The surface of the finished chopped pepper fish head is bright red, mixed with yellow garlic, wild pepper and green chopped green onion. There is a layer of brown soup in the middle of the bright yellow oil at the bottom of the plate. It looks delicious. Seeing five people picking up the fish with big chopsticks, the most delicious and delicate part of the fish head is almost snatched away.
Do you want to eat? Wan Yuyue asked Yun Yongyuan with her eyes.
"How about giving it a try?" Yun Yongyuan asked with a troubled look.
Try it! Wan Yuyue took a deep breath, stood up, picked up the spoon, and scooped a spoonful for herself and Yun Yongyuan respectively.
The two men put the fish into their mouths without even looking at it, and almost started chewing it with their eyes closed.
Nie Xiuqi lowered his head without changing his expression. The remaining four people looked at each other silently, their eyes full of ridicule.
"Is it delicious?" Da Zhuang asked with a smile as he saw the two of them eating with tragic expressions on their faces.
“It’s delicious…”
"I just can't get rid of the image in my head. The mental pollution is too strong..."
Everyone burst into laughter.
"Eat this. It has no bones and you can't see the fish. It should be okay, right?" Zhao Xiaojing saw the two people sighing, and smiled and scooped a spoonful of pickled fish fillets for each of them.
The pickled fish has a little dried chili in it, but it is mainly for enhancing the flavor. It has only a slight spicy taste and a fresh flavor. The meat is tender and delicate, and the aroma of pickled cabbage is fully immersed in it. There is no fishy smell. It is sliced thinly and coated with batter, so it has a lighter fish smell than the chopped pepper fish head.
Wan Yuyue carefully peeled off a bit of skin from the edge of the fish fillet, chewed it for a while, and then sighed. "I still can't do it..."
Yun Yongyuan carefully peeled off the fish skin and then mixed in some chopped pepper with his chopsticks. "My tongue knows it's delicious, but my brain is strongly resisting..."
Su Yuchen's curiosity was now piqued. "Tell me about it after you finish eating! What could have shut these two foodies' mouths? I'm so curious. But why are you guys okay?"
"Because we were the main targets of attack, they specifically talked about it while we were eating. Now, whenever I eat, especially when it comes to fish, I can't get this scene out of my mind." Yun Yongyuan said quietly.
"What's wrong with the fish?" Su Yuchen was puzzled.
"Alright, alright, stop asking. If you cause trouble again, I won't be allowed to come next time." Da Zhuang waved his hands, feeling both amused and helpless. "I didn't expect it would hurt you two so much mentally. Next time I see fresh fish, I'll buy it for you two as an apology. I'm sorry for today."
"I'll buy it next time! Just order whatever you two want to eat and I'll buy it for you." Guo Gaoang bowed embarrassedly.
"Then I want to eat...Whose phone is it?" Wan Yuyue was about to order food when someone's cell phone rang.
Su Yuchen immediately took out his cell phone and answered it.
"This week? Too rushed, right?...Okay, then I'll go find them tonight...Yeah...you're not letting people have a day off...Okay...Okay."
"Hey, I have to go back after eating. I said I could take a break today." Su Yuchen stood up, added a few spoonfuls of chopped peppers to the bowl, and scooped a spoonful of pickled fish slices.
"What's wrong? Another job?" Zhao Xiaojing asked.
"Well, the company said they will officially release the album this weekend. We haven't recorded three songs yet, and we still need to re-record the previous ones. There's no time for that!" Su Yuchen said as he quickened his eating pace.
"It has to be released. I saw your video, the one cut out from the variety show. When I clicked on it, there were also some videos of your band's performances. The traffic is pretty good. It has to be released quickly while the popularity is still there." Senior Internet blogger Da Zhuang analyzed.
"Yeah, I saw it too. He looks like a big star! Next time when I go out, I will brag that all my classmates have become stars and I even had dinner with them." Guo Gaoang joked with a smile.
"Then you should invest in some celebrities. When the album is released, I'll ask you to help repost it."
"No problem, after all, the three of us have almost one million followers between our new and old accounts combined!"
While chatting and laughing, everyone present, whether they were fans or not, expressed their support for Su Yuchen and said they would repost her album as soon as it was released. Su Yuchen happily agreed and quickly finished two bowls of rice. She also took the sweet soup that Zhao Xiaojing had packed for her and hurried away.
Wan Yuyue and Yun Yongyuan basically only ate the vegetarian dishes in front of them at noon. Zhao Xiaojing saw that they really couldn't get rid of the psychological trauma today, so she didn't let them stay in the store in the afternoon. She advised them to go back and rest early. She and Nie Xiuqi continued to stay in the kitchen, waiting for the pig's head to come out of the pot.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the hot pig's head came out of the pot. Nie Xiuqi placed the pig's head on a plate and poured out the marinade, which he poured into an iron pot and brought to a boil. Then he added the bean dregs, a little MSG, mixed well and stir-fried it until it boiled again.
Afterwards, pour the bean dregs and marinade on the pig's head on the plate, and the bean dregs braised pig's head is ready.
Zhao Xiaojing looked at the pig's head in a daze.
Plating is to put all the pig head meat together again to form a complete pig head, and then pour the bean dregs around the pig head in a circle.
It’s a big dish, but it feels a bit rough?
It's rough, but the process is quite complicated. More than twenty kinds of spices are used and it takes four hours.
"This dish is a coarse dish made with great care. In the past, bean dregs and pig heads were not considered presentable. But there was a shortage of materials back then, and ingredients couldn't be wasted, so this dish was created." Nie Xiuqi seemed to know what Zhao Xiaojing was thinking and explained.
Zhao Xiaojing nodded. It was the same idea as folk dishes. The original intention of many dishes that have been passed down was to "make the best use of things".
"Do you want to eat it with some dip?" Zhao Xiaojing couldn't tell anything from just looking at it, so she picked up her chopsticks and picked up a piece of pork head.
"It will be all right."
Zhao Xiaojing dipped the top layer of bean dregs with some pork head meat and put it into her mouth.
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