Xu Milu enjoys making food with ingredients from another world. For example, the "star dish" of Huaxia Night Market - grilled squid can also be prepared in a different way in the Food Continent.
【Thousand-legged Deep-Sea Squid: A non-venomous mollusk with sharp teeth. Mature squid can reach 15-28 meters in length. They generally live in the deep sea and have a thousand soft tentacles. They are a favorite ingredient for fishermen and are rated four stars for catch.】
The squid caught by fishermen early in the morning from the deep sea are astonishing in size, with some stretching as long as ten people when laid flat on the ground. Just looking at them is incredibly impressive, not to mention how troublesome they are to process.
Yang Shu simply lay down on the ground and took a picture with the giant squid:
"We definitely have to take pictures of this, to remember it! I'm planning to start a thread dedicated to food guides, specifically documenting photos of these ingredients. It's sure to be a hit!"
The dehydrated squid lazily moved its tentacles and sprayed out a glob of sticky mucus, covering Yang Shu's head.
"The young boss is planning to make grilled squid? Such a big squid must be difficult to handle."
Xu Milu looked at the giant squid on the ground with satisfaction. The most distinctive feature of this animal was that it had more than a thousand soft tentacles, making it the perfect ingredient for grilled squid tentacles.
She deftly knocked the giant squid unconscious with a knife, then cut open its head and removed the cartilage inside.
"I'm a chef, so I'm used to handling all sorts of strange and unusual ingredients. Besides, this squid is just a bit big—the Orok people don't like its soft tentacles because they think they don't have much flavor after cooking, but they're perfect for making grilled squid tentacles. Stir-fry them with pickled radishes and celery with pickled peppers until dry, then add the squid tentacles. The squid tentacles are very chewy after being cooked at high temperature, plus the slight sourness of the pickled radishes and the crispness of the celery..."
Her description was so vivid that Yang Shu and Fu Xuan couldn't help but swallow, their eyes burning with desire as they looked at the giant squid on the ground.
The giant squid that was brutally dismembered: Yes, yes, no one is speaking up for me, right?
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Remove the teeth and internal organs from the deep-sea squid, peel off the outer membrane, and wash it clean. Cut the squid legs into small pieces about five centimeters long. Marinate them for a while with ginger slices, minced garlic, chopped green onions, a little cooking wine, and mandolin chili powder. Set aside for later use.
Cut the pickled radish into thin strips of "2×4", and cut the fresh celery stalks into sections for later use. Compared to pickled white radish, which has more moisture, Xu Milu prefers to use pickled carrots because pickled carrots have a richer flavor and will not lose their original crispness after being stir-fried.
Place a layer of iron plate on the fire, wipe it with oil, then pour in two tablespoons of cooking oil and heat it. When the oil starts to smoke, add chopped green onions and pickled peppers to sauté until fragrant. Then add the marinated squid tentacles and stir-fry quickly. Under high heat, the squid tentacles will turn a light pinkish-white color.
Stir-fry the squid tentacles on the hot plate with a spatula until they are cooked through. Then add salt, MSG, a little bit of Flame Glazed Leaf Sugar Powder, cumin powder, and fermented bean paste and stir-fry together. Finally, add pickled carrots and celery strips and stir-fry until just cooked. A different world version of "Sizzling Deep Sea Thousand-Tail Squid" is now complete.
This was Xu Milu's first time making deep-sea squid with long legs. She served a full plate of it in front of Fu Xuan and Yang Shu:
"Try it first. Don't look at me like that. I'm not a cooking machine. Cooking is fun, but working at a high frequency all the time would be torture."
She was the first to pick up a piece of squid tentacles and put it in her mouth. The freshly cooked squid tentacles were still incredibly hot. The hot plate cooking process allowed each squid tentacles to be perfectly coated with the seasonings, making the squid meat springy and firm. It even bounced slightly when you bit into it. The spiciness of the pickled peppers was just right, and the slightly sour pickled radish and the crisp celery made the whole dish quite charming—heavy oil, heavy salt, and heavy spice.
Fu Xuan's eating manners were noticeably more elegant:
"The processed squid tentacles are crisp and delicious, and the best part is that they have a slightly sweet aftertaste. The combination of pickled peppers and pickled radishes is quite appealing. The owner is very skilled. He can make such a simple dish so wonderful. Being able to taste the owner's cooking in the game is definitely worth the trip."
"Whoosh—it's so hot, but it smells so good! The squid tentacles are delicious, the pickled radish is delicious, and the pickled peppers and celery are absolutely amazing!!"
Yang Shu's speech was slurred from the burn, and compared to Fu Xuan's evaluation, his evaluation was much simpler and more direct.
A cultural commentator remarked: "The texture is springy and firm, the combination is unique, and the design is ingenious."
The highest praise an average person can give to food: Wow! It's delicious.
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Yang Shu and Fu Xuan nestled in the strawberry float, enjoying the food. Xu Milu, on the other hand, took a plate of spicy grilled squid tentacles to feed A Chou, and every now and then she would tear off a big strawberry and take a bite to quench her thirst. They admired the parade floats on the street, and their days were leisurely, like a dream.
"Huh?"
A commotion suddenly broke out in the street. Ah Chou stopped eating, and Xu Milu couldn't help but frown.
"Why is it so noisy on the street? What are those people shouting up ahead? They look... like they're possessed!"
The crowd surged into the city like a tide, everyone looking dazed, walking forward without a care in the world.
"Something's not right. There's something wrong with the rose scent in the air."
She sniffed and felt a sweet taste in her throat. The air was filled with a pungent rose scent, so strong that it made her nasal cavity hurt. The aroma of all the food was masked by the rose fragrance.
Yang Shu desperately inhaled several large breaths of red mist, but there was no reaction:
"No, I think it smells quite nice, a bit like rose essential oil. Lao Fu, do you feel the same way?"
Fu Xuan shook his head: "I don't feel anything, I just think the smell is too strong."
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