"Wow, this is so delicious! It's amazing! Half a plant can make a whole pot of seaweed and egg drop soup?"
Xu Milu found it simply unbelievable.
Once the soup has boiled sufficiently, crack an egg into the pot, whisk it, and slowly pour it along the edge of the pot. The golden egg liquid will immediately start to swirl and churn in the pot. Sprinkle some chopped cilantro on top, and the golden yellow and emerald green colors will intertwine, bringing the soup to life instantly.
"This smells amazing!"
Xu Milu sat in the courtyard, holding a bowl and taking a deep breath. The fresh aroma wafted over her, filling her nostrils. Before she even started drinking, she was already feeling a little dizzy.
Before she could even pay attention to Kaka, who was complaining about eating alone, Xu Milu took a delicious sip and her eyes widened instantly.
This is so incredibly fresh!
The first sip was at just the right temperature, so it wasn't too hot.
The moment her tongue touched the soup, Xu Milu had no other thoughts but one word in her mind: Fresh!
It's not the artificial umami flavor created with MSG, but the genuine sweetness of seafood. It warms your throat and truly gives you the feeling of being by the sea.
Although there wasn't a single piece of seaweed or a single dried shrimp in the soup, Xu Milu swore that the soup was far more delicious than real shrimp and seaweed soup.
Take another sip, and the umami flavor explodes again, like the soup dancing a disco madly on her tongue.
She wanted to shout, "I know the taste of the sea!"
When Xu Milu came to her senses, she had finished the bowl of soup completely, leaving the bottom of the bowl shiny.
She then realized what was happening, poured half a pot of water for Kaka, who was wailing incessantly, and poured a bowl for herself.
"It's delicious. One blade of grass makes a whole pot of soup. There's actually a grassland in that dimension. Even if you were to do wholesale, you could make a profit. Just selling seaweed soup could cover the surgery fees."
Xu Milu was overjoyed, feeling that she had found a new way to get rich.
"Maybe that fruit we saw last time was also an ingredient for soup. We should go pick some next time."
Xu Milu thought she would bring some for Liu Hongmei to try, so she cooked another pot and put it in a thermos.
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Sun Zhi wasn't at the hospital, but Xu Milu's aunt Liu Hongjun and uncle Hao Xu were. There were several bunches of bananas on the cabinet next to the bed, and two boxes of milk under the bed.
Liu Hongmei was scolding her younger sister while eating:
“They said I was fine, but they still called Da Mi back. Hao Xu too, he should rest more now that he’s back. It’s not like I have a serious illness, but the two of them still rushed over to see me.”
Liu Hongjun was four or five years younger than her older sister Liu Hongmei, and was already used to her older sister's tendency to scold people. When she saw Xu Milu come in carrying a thermos, she sat down on the bed to greet her:
"The rice is here! Oh, you brought food because you were worried your mom would go hungry? You're so thoughtful."
Xu Milu waved her hand, sat on another empty hospital bed, and put down the soup:
"Auntie, can Xiaomi come to your house for meals these next few days? I have some things to take care of these days and can't go home to cook for him."
Liu Hongjun readily agreed:
“Sure, I’ll cook for your cousin every day anyway. Whether it’s one sheep or two, it’s all the same. Just let him stay at my house without worry.”
Uncle Hao Xu also happily said that Xu Minian could stay as long as he wanted.
Xu Milu smiled but didn't reply. She couldn't take advantage of someone's politeness. She made up her mind to let the chubby little Mi Nian go home after she finished her work in the next few days.
"Mom, try the seaweed and shrimp soup I made today."
Following her words, Xu Milu unscrewed the thermos. The overpowering aroma of the soup was impossible to contain, and within seconds, the entire ward was filled with its irresistible fragrance.
It was dinnertime, and many family members complained that the food in the hospital cafeteria was terrible, so they went outside to buy food, such as braised chicken and chicken stewed with ginseng. Even the smell of instant noodles being made by a family member in bed was overshadowed.
"What's that smell? It smells so good!"
"What's that smell? It smells so good!"
"Old Li, what's that smell like?"
The ward was only so big. Everyone looked over after smelling the odor, glancing over suspiciously from time to time, as if wondering what could be so powerful.
"Wow, it smells so good! Is it seaweed and egg drop soup?"
Liu Hongjun glanced at it and asked directly.
"Yes, seaweed and egg drop soup, it's still hot."
Xu Milu smiled. She filtered out the black needle grass and added some dried seaweed. The taste was still just as delicious.
The other patients in the ward were all praising Liu Hongmei's daughter for being filial, but their eyes were all fixed on the thermos.
If it were anything else, I could swallow my pride and ask for a little to try, but who doesn't have seaweed and dried shrimp soup at home? You can just soak some dried shrimp and add a little chicken bouillon, how did this family manage to make it smell so good?!
Several people swallowed hard, feeling that the chicken soup and steamed buns in their hands no longer tasted good.
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"This soup is delicious and flavorful. Sister, you should try it."
By the time Liu Hongmei realized what was happening, only half of the soup remained in the thermos.
Liu Hongjun really didn't stand on ceremony with her sister. She urged her sister to drink the soup, and then quickly served half a bowl to her husband Hao Xu, leaving only half a thermos.
"Well, it tastes alright. What does a little kid like her know about cooking?"
Liu Hongmei's wildly upturned lips contradicted her words; she basked in the envious glances of others, her face glowing.
"I remember we ran out of seaweed at home, didn't we?"
“My roommate’s family sent her some seaweed, saying it was sun-dried by themselves. Isn’t it delicious?”
Xu Milu casually made up a lie: in reality, all three of her roommates were locals from Sichuan and Chongqing, so there was no such thing as family members sending seafood from the coast.
A kind-looking middle-aged woman standing nearby chimed in:
"The seaweed that we dried at home must be wild, right? Now everything is farmed and has a fishy smell. Wild is better."
Uncle Hao Xu nodded in agreement: "Last time my company organized a trip, the local wild oysters were just like that. They're not fishy at all when eaten raw, and they're sweet, but they're expensive."
"There's no way around it, these days anything that's labeled 'wild' costs twice as much. But you know what, this wild seaweed is just different, it's really delicious."
Liu Hongmei sipped the soup with relish. The warm seaweed and egg drop soup was so delicious that the first thing she felt upon swallowing was the smoothness of the egg drop, followed by a burst of freshness on her tongue. Her entire mouth was filled with the unique freshness of seafood.
Dried seaweed softens after cooking, which Liu Hongmei doesn't usually like. But today, the seaweed in the soup absorbed all the broth, making it incredibly delicious. In the end, she ate a whole serving of braised chicken and rice with half a bucket of seaweed soup.
Even the empty soup buckets still exude a faint fragrance, drawing glances from passersby.
This smells amazing.
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