Xiaoyu was beside Gu Yunru, rubbed her arm, and said in a low voice: "It's over, Boss, the real chef is here."
"What? A real chef?"
Gu Yunru had never heard of Xiang Ping, but she had only heard from others that Sumu Zhai had an amazing chef who could make some obscure ingredients extremely delicious, like a very rare ingredient. She had thought that it was this old Hu who cooked it himself, but today, seeing that he had to walk with a cane, it was obviously impossible for him to cook it himself.
It should be only Hu Laotao’s granddaughter Xiangping.
Looking at the uncles and elders, Xiang Ping bowed and said, "Hello, uncles and elders. I heard that Hua Jian Lou is going to have a peach blossom feast today, so Xiang Ping naturally came to take a look. Who is the owner of Hua Jian Lou?"
Everyone shifted their gaze to Gu Yunru. Xiangping looked at her with a smile on her face, her eyes turning into crescents. Gu Yunru saw that her sleeves and skirt were covered in dust, and she must have come in a hurry, and must have been to some mountain area before that.
"You don't look that old. I wonder who the chef hired by Huajianlou is? Can the dishes be served? I'm so hungry!"
Xiangping sat aside. He didn't expect that the little girl's status could be equal to those of the elders, and he was just convincing them with his cooking skills.
"I'll be on the small fish soon to inform them. Hurry and serve the dishes one by one."
Gu Yunru was busy managing the overall situation, but she was a little overwhelmed by this little girl who disrupted the situation. It seemed that she didn't come here to enjoy herself, but to find fault.
"The first dish is the Braised Deer Tendon from Prince Yong's Mansion. The main ingredients are sika deer tendons, cabbage, wolfberry, old chicken soup, and pheasant. Two game dishes were selected and cabbage and wolfberry were added to make up for the lack of elegant flavors." Gu Yunru thought about the recipe for a few days and thought of this famous dish. It has a great origin in the secret history of the palace, so it was just the right time to make up a story for everyone. Unexpectedly, Xiangping didn't even listen and picked up the chopsticks directly. It seems that her seniority is still quite high among these people.
"………" Gu Yunru wanted to introduce the origin of this dish, but Xiangping put down his chopsticks, frowned, and said, "The sika deer tendon is a bit hard. It should be made from young deer and mixed with venison. The sika deer tendon tastes dry, and it tastes even more strange when mixed with cabbage, wolfberry and old chicken soup!"
Hu Laotao looked at his granddaughter Xiangping, who was so rude to others, and gave her a few looks. Xiangping frowned and said, "Grandpa, you know I am against the matter, not the person. If Huajianlou wants to survive,
You must use the chef well and not mistreat the ingredients. Look at the sika deer tendons and wild wolfberries, which one is not a precious ingredient?
Uncles and aunts, don’t you think so? "The other men also took a small bite, and one of them said, "I think this dish is very fresh, without any fishy smell, and the soup is also very rich and mellow. Xiangping girl, you are too picky, you can handle the ingredients like this, it is very appropriate."
"Yeah, yeah, even the top chefs might have a hard time mastering this dish!"
Everyone was whispering, but Gu Yunru's face looked a little ugly. She watched Xiaoyu and one of the kitchen helpers prepare this dish. Every step was done very carefully, including the knife skills and the heat, which she watched personally, just to please these people.
Hu Laotao took a bite and thought his granddaughter's words made sense, so he stopped talking. Xiangping continued to insist, "You don't have any fishy smell when you eat it because it is covered by the aroma of the pheasant soup.
But if you taste it carefully, you will find that the taste of the pheasant and the domestic chicken stewed together is different. It has a wild aroma without being greasy or fatty. This wild aroma just satisfies your sense of smell and taste.
Deer tendons are good for health and can help with the stomach and intestines and eliminate rheumatism, but I don’t recommend stewing them with these things because it will turn into a hodgepodge! ”
Gu Yunru stood aside blankly, feeling a little pain on his face. Xiaoyu felt so inferior that she wanted to bury her head between her knees. This Miss Xiangping was really too disrespectful. How did a good peach blossom feast turn into a criticism meeting?
"Okay, okay, granddaughter, you should also stop talking!" Hu Laotao noticed that the atmosphere was not right, and lowered his voice to say something to his granddaughter beside him. Xiangping frowned and said, "Grandpa, you have taught Xiangping that people should tell the truth. I believe the boss should not mind, right?"
Gu Yunru didn't know whether to accept or not, so she could only smile awkwardly. The waiter brought another bowl of braised pork. Gu Yunru said stiffly, "This is the Qing Palace Wanfu Meat that the chefs of the imperial kitchen used to make at the 60th birthday celebration of the Empress Dowager of the previous dynasty.
It contains carefully selected pork belly, Huairou chestnuts, golden thread dates, and West Lake lotus seeds. The flavor combination is very good, exactly the same as what I ate back then, you all should try it..." Gu Yunru accidentally talked about her life in the palace and quickly covered her mouth.
Everyone just smiled and said nothing. Xiangping tasted a chestnut and quickly spit it into the bowl, "Why is this chestnut so hard? Didn't they blanch it in water before cooking? And this pork belly is too sweet. I think if the saccharin could be separated first and then poured on the meat at the end, it wouldn't be like this."
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Everyone was embarrassed, looking at each other, indicating that they didn't want to talk anymore. Rong Zhen had come back with his people at this time, and saw everyone sitting not far away. He thought the atmosphere should be very good, but he saw everyone sitting there blankly.
He went up to the attic first, and saw the woman he met in the mountains...
"But I first extracted all the fat from the pork belly, so it's not greasy at all. This kind of pork belly is fat but not greasy, and it won't make you fat. I also used star anise, cinnamon sweet bean sauce, soybean soy sauce and other spices and simmered it over low heat. How could it be like what you said..." Xiaoyu hurried to explain. It was really outrageous for Xiangping to talk nonsense at such a young age.