Punch: From third-rate anchor to top chef

Chapter 556
It was around five o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived in Zhangye. Li Xiao searched on the map and decided to use Zhangye's Wetland Park as his resting place for today.

As a park, the environment here is excellent and the air is fresh. As a place to explore, the Ganzhou Night Market is nearby, so I can just eat here and rest for a night before continuing on the road.

The moment he opened the car door and got out of the car, Li Xiao was washed all over his face by all kinds of fragrant heat.

He turned on the camera and started tonight's live broadcast.

"It's six o'clock in the evening, and it's almost time for dinner. The place where I am now is the Ganzhou Night Market in Zhangye. I'm looking for something delicious here."

"It may be because of the time. It's still quite cold in the evening, but it's been diluted a lot by the heat coming from the side."

Not two steps ahead, the archway with the four characters "Ganzhou Alley" appeared in front of Li Xiao.

"It seems that this is the destination of our trip."

Li Xiao understood that the scent she smelt at the parking lot just now came from here.

The surrounding area is full of modern buildings, only in this archway, the shape of ancient buildings is deliberately imitated.

A long red carpet was specially spread on the ground, and there were antique stalls selling food on both sides.

These food stalls are different from other places. They use a pennant to write their names on the front of the shop.

At first glance, the aisle is three or four meters wide, but it is full of people coming and going.

"I feel that this night market still looks quite like a food street. There are quite a lot of people, but I don't know how the food inside tastes."

Li Xiao, who was walking on the road with a camera installed, was occasionally bumped by a passing pedestrian, who apologized a little embarrassedly and walked aside.

The stall closest to the door says Brazilian barbecue. There are quite a lot of diners waiting in front of it. The smell is not very distinctive. Presumably it is a name, so Li Xiao walked forward without interest.

Before taking two steps, Li Xiao paused when he saw the names on the dazzling flags in front of him.

"In order to avoid the difficulty of choosing in the future, I still want a barbecue now to pad my stomach."

Suddenly, there was a burst of "booming in a trance", "to tell you the truth, I also have a choice of difficulties!", "the anchor really made a decisive decision 2333."

Although there were a lot of diners in front of the stall, the couple did not keep Li Xiao waiting long.

"Ten yuan and four skewers are quite a bargain." Li Xiao weighed the skewers he got, and he still liked the weight of the skewers. "Looking at the shape, it should be mutton."

After all, it is not out of the scope of Gansu, so the famous mutton should be everywhere.

"It smells like a regular barbecue, and the spices on it are nothing special."

Putting the skewers in front of her and sniffing them, Li Xiao looked at the piece of meat in the middle and seemed to see some tricks.

"It's a bit surprising, I didn't expect it to be duck meat."

"The heat is a bit too high, which makes the meat a little old. The skin on the top is too thick. It should be an old duck that is old. Aside from the meat itself, there is too much salt."

"Maybe it's because my tongue has been raised recently, so I can't feel what's delicious."

"It's just below average."

After finishing the skewers in their hands in two or three, Li Xiao continued to walk forward.

"It feels like the style of a food street in an ordinary city. If I really want to say it, it may be a place where locals don't come. So most of the people in front of us may be tourists."

"However, with such a large base, there must be one or two shops with better taste."

Studio:
"What the anchor said makes sense. Locals hardly visit places like food streets and food festivals here. On the contrary, there are more students who come here for tourism or to go to school."

"On the upper floor, when I was studying in another city, I encountered a local food festival and went there once out of curiosity. I was terrified by the outrageously high prices..."

"It feels like food festivals, the street is full of "authentic stinky tofu", "authentic Lanzhou mutton skewers", "authentic fried potatoes". Parts are salty to death, very suspicious that these kebab stalls have cooperated with the "Authentic Raw Coconut Juice" next door!"

"It's so funny upstairs, hahahaha!"

"I laughed so hard it was a real and sad experience!"

"That's right, I haven't gone to the food street for the second time since then, except of course when I'm hungry."

"Even if I starve to death, I will never go to the so-called food street again if I jump from here!"

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As Li Xiao walked and watched, he felt that his nostrils were filled with the scent from these stalls.

"I feel like if I walk around like this, my clothes will get a lot of smell."

As he spoke, he pulled up his collar and sniffed it, and a faint spicy smell came from the material.

Most of the streets are snacks, and Li Xiao didn't see any place for dinner after looking for a long time.

After walking for nearly 10 minutes, he knew that the smell of barbecue in his mouth was about to dissipate before he saw a beef and roe restaurant.

"I feel that this thing is quite rare, but I can give it a try."

Then he walked to the store.

Only when I got closer did I realize that the tables in this store were already full of customers, and Li Xiao who wanted to order food would have to wait for a while.

"Looking at the traffic, I feel like I stumbled into a pretty good restaurant by mistake?"

Li Xiao ordered a medium portion of beef and fish roe at the front desk, and successfully got an electronic waiting card.

"Not to mention anything else, I feel that such a waiting list is quite convenient."

The number displayed on it is 7, which means that there are still seven guests picking up food in front of him.

After putting away the waiting menu, Li Xiao continued to walk forward.

Seeing a steamed noodle stall, Li Xiao stepped forward to have a look. It was a staple food that was steamed after beating rice flour.

The shopkeeper handled it deftly, but Li Xiao, who had just ordered the staple food, didn't plan to order another one.

The latter one that interested Li Xiao was gray bean porridge.

He thought he drank too much porridge, but it was the first time he had seen gray bean porridge. He saw that it belonged to the category of staple food, so he skipped it.

"Since we come to the night market, we naturally want to try snacks, and ordering a staple food is almost enough."

As he walked, Li Xiao saw Sichuan dishes with eye-catching colors.

When passing by this store, the hot and spicy air rushed straight to him, and Li Xiao couldn't help coughing due to the hot air.

"I didn't expect that such a strong spicy smell could be smelled so far from Chengdu, Sichuan.

Before he took two steps, a warm smell of soy sauce floated in front of him.

"It still smells pretty good."

When I looked closely, what was hidden behind the white steam was ordinary stewed pork.

"It is said that dragon meat is in the sky and donkey meat is on the ground. I didn't expect to see it today. The smell is really attractive."

Donkey meat is compared with dragon meat because it has the effects of nourishing blood and Qi, nourishing the liver, calming wind and calming the nerves.

Put green onion, ginger and the required medicinal materials: cloves, amomum, jade fruit, grass fruit, angelica dahurica, star anise, etc., into the pot, press it with a bamboo operator, cook on high heat until foaming, and remove the floating foam on it. Skim off and remove to a simmer over low heat.

When the meat is cooked, take out the skin and let it cool down. Boil the soup in the pot and skim off the slick oil and let it cool.

When I walked to this braised pork stall, the price of the donkey meat was clearly marked on the sign above.

Nine yuan a tael, which is equivalent to 90 yuan a catty. In addition to sauced donkey meat, there is also yak meat, which costs eight yuan a tael.

The proprietress of the stall was very enthusiastic when she saw Li Xiao's expression of interest when she chipped in the money: "Would you like half a catty?"

Behind the proprietress was a pot of steaming marinade, and the aroma from it made Li Xiao salivate uncontrollably.

"The proprietress is very skilled, do you have any recommendations?"

"If you want to eat yak, you can eat tripe. The taste of tripe is richer and stronger. If you want to eat donkey meat, I recommend thigh meat and sausage. One is delicious and the other is tough."

"Then bring half a catty of donkey thighs and half catty of flat intestines."

"no problem."

The proprietress who responded took out the intestines and donkey meat, cut them into small pieces with a few clicks, and scooped the hot stewed soup into a small bowl containing the meat.

Seeing the elastic intestines bouncing up and down under the proprietress' knife, the expression on Li Xiao's face became more expectant.

"The temperature has dropped, so we use hot soup at home, so as not to spoil the stomachs of customers who can't eat cold, but this may reduce the strength of some donkey meat, and the taste is actually not much different."

The small bowl that Li Xiao got was about the size of a palm, and the fresh and hot sauce and marinade smelled fragrant.

Poke a slice with a stick, and the fragrant sauce and marinade immediately rushed to Li Xiao's nose.

"It's very fragrant." The smell of spices is very strong, and the unique bitterness of medicinal materials can be smelled inside.

The first bite was the intestines, and Li Xiao was so greedy watching the intestines bouncing on the chopping board.

The signed intestines were still dripping with boiling hot marinated soup, and the steam from them made him move his index finger.

"Very springy and pliable mouthfeel."

"To be honest, I was a little surprised to see the rich bouncing power of the intestines when they were sliced ​​by the proprietress. I have almost never seen intestines that can be made so elastic."

"The banchang is not spicy, so it tastes like the fresh and tender banchang besides the taste of spices and herbs."

"Smooth, with a little crispness in the middle, the heat is just right, and it will not become dry because it is too old."

"How to put it, it feels like the taste of such a springy sausage is dancing in the mouth."

“Very good stewed sausage with sauce!”

"I can get a high score of 80 points here."

"Try it with the fish roe in a while, and eat it as a side dish."

Studio:
"Crying and crying, looking at the juicy sausage, I can't even eat a bite, it's so sour!"

"Did you hear the "creaking" sound in the anchor's mouth when eating? The taste is unimaginable!"

"On this sad autumn day, my tears kept gushing from the corner of my mouth..."

"It's the first time I've seen sauced donkey meat in this food street. Seeing how the anchor eats is really... my stomach is going to protest!"

Feeling a little hot after eating, Li Xiao covered the food and put it back, deciding to eat it later.

It will soon be time for him to pick up his meal, and it is really inconvenient to just eat while walking on the road, after all, he still has to hold the camera in one hand.

Seeing that there were still about twenty meters to go before the end, Li Xiao decided to continue walking to see if there was anything else he could think of.

Another fish roe restaurant appeared in front of him.

Out of curiosity, he walked inside and saw two aunts rubbing the flour on the plate by hand.

Use the special iron chopsticks to "swipe" the white noodles on the board into the pot, and strips of noodles shaped like small fish are quickly formed in the pot.

Picking fish roe, also known as tipping, just like what Li Xiao sees now, the iron chopsticks are quickly moved on the board, and "small fish" appear one by one in the boiling boiling water.

"It looks very interesting."

Seeing that the aunt's hand skills are getting better and better, the iron chopsticks are almost danced by her.

"I feel like this project of fish roe has been given a lot of momentum by this big sister!"

"That's not true, this is our specialty." After a few words, the white flour "little fish" on the aunt's board started to swim one after another.

Seeing this posture, Li Xiao was full of admiration.

"It's amazing to be able to talk to people while poking the roe, without delaying your work at all."

Li Xiao, deeply impressed by the eye-opening, continued to walk to the next store. After all, he ordered beef and fish roe before, and it would be a waste to order another one if he couldn't eat it.

The table in another store is full of small noodles, which is almost the same as the poached fish roe I saw just now.

The proprietress kneaded the strips of dough with both hands into the length of two fingers, and there was even a small pile of colored noodles beside it.

Li Xiao looked at this noodle shop called Ru Yuzi, and was a little puzzled.

After walking a further distance, I have almost reached the end of the food street, and there is another noodle restaurant full of small noodles on the table.

This one is called Xiangtou Noodles, and it looks very similar to the "caviar roe" and "caviar rubbing" seen earlier.

"I've never heard of noodles made from Xiangtou... By the way, what is Xiangtou?" Could it be vegetables or meat?

"Xiangtou noodles are the ones that are fragrant." Hearing Li Xiao's muttering, the boss inside explained, pointing to his semi-finished noodles.

The shopkeeper spoke with a sub-accent, and pronounced "Xiang" as "Xin", which made the listeners even more confused.

"Sanxian's head?" Li Xiao was stunned and even more confused.

He had never heard of three delicacies and heads.

The boss next to the soup pot looked at Li Xiao's expression with helplessness on his face. Is it because his accent is too heavy that the other party can't hear clearly? "It's the kind of incense head when offering incense in temples."

"Oh, so it is."

Embarrassed, Li Xiao thanked the boss, and suddenly the waiting card in his pocket vibrated.

"It's almost finished shopping, we should go back and eat the staple food."

Studio:
"Rub the fish roe and pick the fish roe fragrance from the head and face, so I can't tell the difference hahaha."

"It feels like they all look alike."

"Rub the caviar and Xiangtou pasta. The fish roe was "picked" with chopsticks. I can't tell the rest."

(End of this chapter)