So he also walked over, put his hands in his trouser pockets, stood beside Xia Chujian, and watched her nimble fingers fly, quickly wrapping one white and plump bun after another.
He looked at the meat filling and asked curiously, "What kind of filling is this?"
Xia Chujian said proudly: "Black truffle and wild rhino pork filling!"
Zong Ruoan was even more curious: "...I heard that black rhino pork is out of stock everywhere in Mulan City. How did you get it?"
Xia Chujian: “…”
I was careless.
I have forgotten the origin of this thing and cannot tell anyone about it for the time being.
Ye Shijie smiled and patched up, "Last time we went to the Exotic Beast Forest to carry out a mission, we also killed two wild rhinoceroses and brought them back. We couldn't bear to sell them, so we kept them in my big refrigerator. If you want to eat some, just bring some over and ask Aunt Xia to help you cook."
Li Fu also said, "Aunt Xia's cooking skills are truly amazing! Compared to Aunt Xia, most people are like elementary school students compared to PhD students!"
Xia Chujian squinted at Li Fu and said, "...Master Fu, your puns and sarcasm are becoming more and more sophisticated. Who is the elementary school student? - Just tell me my quantum computer number!"
Li Fu chuckled and said to Zong Ruoan in a sly manner, "Colonel Zong, I'm not bragging. You'll know after you try Aunt Xia's cooking."
Zong Ruoan smiled slightly and did not have high expectations.
He knew that in this empire, not to mention the common people and citizens, even many nobles did not have a good foundation in food.
However, these people do not include aristocratic families like their four great noble families.
The food culture passed down from generation to generation by these four noble families could be written into a book.
He was confident that he was no match for Xia Chujian's commoner aunt.
However, after Xia Yuanfang finished cooking all the dishes and arranged them together with the dishes brought by Zong Ruoan, Zong Ruoan realized that he had made a big mistake.
Xia Yuanfang only made four main dishes today.
A refreshing dish of unicorn beef stewed with taro and bodhi fruit, and a dish of unicorn beef tofu that is so tender that it melts in your mouth.
A steamed wild rhino pork meatball, and a pure meat version of braised wild rhino pork.
However, each dish was served in three large bowls, which took up half of the dining table.
Then there were some snacks, such as the fried dough balls that I made for the team last time, the bean curd with meat and three delicacies, and the oil-fragrant sugar cakes, white glutinous rice balls, and the small pancakes with braised pork with preserved vegetables that they had never eaten before.
The staple food is steamed rice using the Tantai Yutian rice sent by Aunt Chen.
At the beginning, Zong Ruoan was not very impressed by the dishes made by Xia Yuanfang, because judging by the appearance, they did not have the delicate knife skills and exquisite plating of his chefs.
But the pot of crystal clear rice that was served attracted his attention.
Since becoming an adult, Zong Ruoan has rarely eaten rice, even the best Tantai Yutian rice.
In fact, because his mother was the eldest princess, his family had never lacked this kind of rice since he was a child, but after eating too much, he felt that it was just so-so.
But this time, when he took the first bite of rice, he found that the taste was simply amazing.
Take a light bite, and the fresh aroma of the rice is like bursting juice, instantly soaking all your taste buds.
Chew it and you will feel the umami flavor.
Chew it again and you will taste the umami flavor again.
As he chewed each bite, the delicious flavor seemed endless, revealing so many levels he had never perceived before...
Zong Ruoan swallowed a mouthful of rice before asking Xia Yuanfang, "Ms. Xia, what kind of rice is this? I've never eaten rice that tastes so good."
Xia Yuanfang smiled and said, "I think this rice is delicious too. It's Tantai Yutian rice."
Zong Ruoan was even more surprised: "...Tantai Yutian rice? I grew up eating Tantai Yutian rice, but it's not as delicious as this."
Xia Chujian was confused.
"Colonel Zong, can there be such a big difference between the same variety of rice?"
Zong Ruoan said: "If it is really the same kind of rice, there shouldn't be such a big difference. It can only be the cooking method."
As he said this, he wanted to ask Xia Yuanfang how he did it, but quickly realized that this was taboo.
Among the four noble families, the food culture passed down from generation to generation is a secret within the family.
If nobles wanted to inquire about other people's ancestral food secret recipes, they had to do it secretly, because once they were discovered, they would be in vain.
So Zong Ruoan didn't ask any further questions, but out of politeness, he took another bite of the steamed meatballs made by Xia Yuanfang.
He didn't know what the filling was, but he felt that the soup was very clear. The pink meatballs were round and floating in the clear soup, dotted with some unknown green vegetable scraps, which looked very artistic.
But after he tasted it, his pupils immediately dizzied.
It’s really hard to believe that someone can cook meat dishes so perfectly!
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