Zhang Mingfang had a strong palate when she was young. She had visited her hometown of Rongzhou when she was young, and she could completely accept the spiciness there.
Shen Qingqing handed out chopsticks to everyone who wanted to try the food.
"Who goes first?" Shen Qingqing took a sniff and was immediately hit by the pungent, spicy aroma. Because she was so close, she choked a little. "Cough, cough cough cough!"
Wu Fangyi and Chen Man quickly patted her on the back.
"I'll do it!" Lin Ziyang took the lead.
The other children all stared intently at him as he ate.
Zhang Mingfang sat there happily watching them.
Lin Ziyang is a true Chaozhou native, and he even thinks that satay sauce is indeed spicy.
He swallowed hard, and slowly reached for the plate of cold-cooked rabbit with his chopsticks.
Avoiding the bright red and glistening chili peppers, the chopsticks landed precisely on the rabbit meat chunks, which looked very tempting, coated in a rich, dark sauce.
Unfortunately, Lin Ziyang was filled with tension and fear. The drool in his mouth was not from craving, but from fear.
Everyone stared intently at the piece of rabbit meat that had been picked up, but the next second, Lin Ziyang pulled a fast one, shoving the meat into his mouth and starting to chew.
"Mmm! It smells so good!" Lin Ziyang originally thought that the spiciness would make him feel like he was going to die, but after chewing a few times, he was instantly captivated by the oily, fragrant, tender and bouncy texture.
"Isn't it spicy?" Shen Qingqing blinked and asked him curiously.
That whole plate was covered in chili peppers!
No sooner had he asked the question than Lin Ziyang suddenly cried out in pain, "Ah..."
It felt like being suddenly hit on the head with a stick.
His face instantly turned bright red, and he couldn't close his mouth anymore. He kept gasping for breath, and the spiciness made him unable to speak.
Wu Fangyi quickly unscrewed a bottle of peanut milk that Shen Qingqing had just ordered and then retrieved from the refrigerator, and handed it to him.
Lin Ziyang immediately put the icy-cold substance into his mouth.
"Hold it in your mouth for a bit to relieve the spiciness!" Shen Qingqing blinked slightly, and he had already downed a third of the bottle of peanut milk. She hurriedly shouted.
Lin Ziyang paused for a moment, then took a big gulp of milk and held it in his mouth. The cool taste suppressed the burning pain, and his tongue felt much better.
Lin Ziyang's forehead was covered in beads of sweat.
But after calming down, he picked up his chopsticks again—
"What are you doing?" Wu Fangyi raised her eyebrows and raised her hand to block him when she saw his action.
Lin Ziyang gasped twice. "I feel like you guys can't handle this level of spiciness, but if I drink milk with it, I can still eat it."
"Is it really that delicious? So delicious that you still want to keep eating even though it's this spicy?" Wu Fangyi asked in surprise.
Before she could hear Lin Ziyang's reply, she saw Shen Qingqing next to her impatiently reach out with her chopsticks, pick up a piece, and stuff it into her mouth.
"Delicious! It smells so good!!" Shen Qingqing understood Lin Ziyang's reaction just now.
However, having learned from Lin Ziyang's experience, Shen Qingqing had already opened a bottle of yogurt and was holding it in her hand. When the burning sensation swept over her mouth, she directly poured a big mouthful of yogurt into her mouth, forcefully suppressing the spiciness.
She swallowed the yogurt after the symptoms subsided, and then said, "Yangyang, Chunchun and Xiaohong, don't eat it. It's too spicy, you can't handle it."
Shen Yangyang is a big foodie, and as soon as she heard she couldn't eat, she immediately protested, "No, I want to eat! I can eat too!"
As he spoke, he quickly reached out with his chopsticks, grabbed a piece from the plate, and stuffed it into his mouth.
Surprisingly, Shen Yangyang's reaction wasn't as strong as Shen Qingqing's and Lin Ziyang's. Although she also gasped, it wasn't so spicy that she needed milk or yogurt to relieve the spiciness. She even smacked her lips and said, "It's pretty good. It's not as spicy as I imagined."
Shen Qingqing fell silent. Indeed, she had forgotten that Shen Qingqing was the one in their family who could eat the spiciest food besides Shen Rongzhou. It could be said that she inherited eighty percent of her taste from Shen Rongzhou.
When Shen Rongzhou cooks at home, he often unconsciously incorporates some of the local flavors of Ganzhou, such as spiciness. Shen Qingqing has never been used to it since she was a child, but Shen Yangyang has always adapted to it well.
With the three of them reacting differently, the adults who had initially said they wouldn't eat it became curious and started picking up their chopsticks to try it.
The results were naturally varied. For example, Chen Yanfeng's entire body turned red from head to toe from the spiciness. Just like Lin Ziyang at the beginning, he kept drinking milk to relieve the spiciness. Even when it was time for his main meal, he still felt the spiciness and refused any spicy food afterwards.
Regardless of my tolerance for spiciness, I eventually finished the whole plate of cold-cooked rabbit.
Zhang Mingfang and Shen Yangyang ate the most, because it was really spicy, but it was also really delicious!
If spiciness isn't an obstacle, then only the aroma remains as an advantage.
With this cold-served rabbit appetizer, everyone started moving around as soon as the hot pot was served. As native Cantonese, they all took a small spoonful of the mushroom broth after it boiled.
Because there were so many people, we opened two hot pots, both of which were divided into two yin-yang pots. There were four pot bases, but only one was spicy. And that spicy pot, from beginning to end, only two or three people put their chopsticks into it; the rest of the people didn't touch it at all.
We enjoyed a hot pot meal for almost two hours.
"Have you all eaten enough?" Li Xunli, having recovered somewhat, stood up, looked around, and asked.
"That's enough, that's enough. Let's go back to the hotel now! Don't we have to get up early to go to the scenic area tomorrow? It's almost eight o'clock now. Let's go back, take a shower, and chat. It's getting late."
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