I am practicing in Tokyo

Chapter 100 Oden cooking must be done with heart

On the evening of the second day, Fujii stood in front of the closed small oden shop, frowning and looking at the closed iron door. Yesterday's oden tasted good, and he planned to buy another batch.

"Mother-in-law, can you rest today? It's rare!"

He muttered to himself and was about to turn around to leave when a drunken young woman stumbled from behind and lay down in front of the iron rolling door. The high street is out of place.

"It's just Chrysanthemum's authentic sake, I can still drink... drink a lot, vomit!"

This woman vomited all over the floor in front of Grandma Noto's shop in a very unreasonable way. Fujii couldn't stand it, and if she wanted to be drunk, don't stay in front of other people's shop, which would affect other people's business.

"Miss, please get up and go home? Do you need to call a taxi for you?"

He patted her on the shoulder as a kind reminder.

"Come on, this is my home, here is the key, do you see it! Little devil."

Kiko Noto, who was so drunk, took out a bunch of keys, held them in her hand, and showed them to Fujii.

"Are you a relative of Grandma Noto? A niece or something?"

Fujii tree shook his head. To have such a flamboyant junior, is it a bad thing for the kind and kind Granny Noto?
"Ah, yes! I am... Noto Miko, her niece, Aunt Noto, she has returned to her hometown in the country, and I will come to visit the store these days."

After vomiting, Noto Kiko's spirit recovered a lot. She slept in a five-star luxury suite last night, so she wasn't sleepy. After she regained consciousness, she began to fabricate her background. Anyway, it was only three days. No!It's been two days.

He opened the iron rolling door with the key in his hand. When Noto Kiko pulled up the rolling door, Fujii helped him and easily lifted the rusty rolling door.

"Thank you, Fujii-kun."

Noto Kiko subconsciously spoke, which is what she usually called Fujii who came to buy things.

"You know me? Can Deng mother-in-law tell you?"

Fujii felt strange, he had never seen this woman before, although after a closer look, she was indeed a bit similar to Granny Noto, especially her eyes, especially when she looked at herself after waking up.

"Hi! Yes, are you here to buy Kanto cooking? I'll make it for you right now."

Noto Kiko sensed something was wrong, even though Fujii would never have dreamed that he was actually Noto Kiko, and quickly changed the subject.

The production of oden is not complicated, and it is even easy to popularize because of its simplicity, but Kiko Noto's mind is empty, and her hands have become clumsy. She has a bitter face, remembering the words of the smiling salesman.

"You should need this, and as a price, I will get your excellent cooking skills."

Do you have to start from scratch, the cooking skill that you depend on for a living?
After all, Kiko Noto has lived for decades, and this price can still be borne. She turned her head to look at Fujii who was waiting with a little apology, and said sorry.

"I'm very sorry, but I got drunk. I don't know how to cook oden at all."

I knew, just by looking at your hands, it's not like you usually cook.

Unsurprisingly, Fujii thought that the young Noto Kiko's fingers were white and tender, and she looked completely untouched. He probably never cooked, right?

Noto mother-in-law is not here, relying on her to run the store, wouldn't it smash the signboard!

Today is Friday, if there are only two days, he can still help with the cooking. Noto's mother-in-law will always charge less money on purpose when he buys Kanto cooking.

Candeng's mother-in-law lives alone, relying on this small shop to make ends meet, even if it closes down, it's better than asking this woman to come to the shop, right?
Looking at this unreliable woman, Fujii opened the cooking item in the golden finger panel.

"Cooking; LV3/81%."

You can also exercise your cooking skills and get some free attribute points.

It's a pity that as a high school student in an island country, he has never had a day's odd job, and he feels a little incomplete in his life experience.

Thank you for my great mercy.

Fujii took one last look at Kiko Noto who was at a loss, rolled up his sleeves, and asked.

"I know some cooking skills. After you eat my oden, talk about the price of part-time work during the two days when Noto's mother-in-law is away."

"Huh? Is that so?"

Noto Kiko said in surprise, do you think she is stupid?Came to cheat salary?Is a well-behaved boy like Fujii, this kind of salary thief?
After her body became younger, her thinking was much more lively than before, and she was no longer a slow old woman thinking.

After washing his hands, Fujii took out two white and tender radishes from the kitchen refrigerator behind the counter on the first floor, the size of an adult's upper arm.

Also wash the white radishes, pick up the kitchen knife and quickly slice them into standard three-centimeter-thick discs, hold the edge of the rotating disc, and use the blade to peel off the outer skin with one hand. Open your mouth, then cover it to avoid gaffes.

I feel that I am more skilled in cooking than before!How did he practice this cooking skill?

Although the cooking skills are gone, Noto Kiko's vision is still there. After Fujii finished processing the radish slices, he boiled a pot of hot water and fried the semi-finished products in the Kanto cooking until golden brown, and the aroma of the food was overflowing. Noto Kiko, who had just emptied the five internal organs temple, smelled his stomach growling.

"Want to try it?"

Fujii picked out two meatballs of slightly inferior quality, put them in a bowl and handed them over.

"Thank you, Fujii-kun."

The body became younger, and the appetite became bigger. Noto Kiko put his hands together, took the bowl respectfully, and tasted it with squinting eyes like an old woman.

The ingredients and kitchen utensils are the same, but why is the food he fried better than mine?

Noto Kiko couldn't figure it out, Fujii gave her a weird look, she was obviously a young man, but she ate like an old woman, a strange guy.

To make oden delicious, knife skills and heat are not enough. Fujii tree opened the iron bucket containing the broth, filled it with a long spoon, and drank it.

It is close to the level of LV3 professional-level cooking skills, and it is not bad in terms of the positioning of the store alone.

He commented objectively, if it wasn't delicious, he wouldn't come to repurchase it the next day.

But it's not enough, it can be more delicious!
Once he has made up his mind to do something, he will not be perfunctory. This is the case in football and baseball, and the same is true in kendo and cooking.

The oden shop has a lot of food ingredients. Noto's mother-in-law has been making oden with all her heart, and the whole process is done by hand as much as possible, instead of heating the whole bought finished product to fool customers.

Find out two pieces of palm-sized dried bonito, a large handful of shiitake mushrooms, a few kombu strips, and a base packet for oden.

Crush the shiitake mushrooms one by one by hand, then crush the kombu (seaweed head) and add it, put it into a gauze bag together with the dried bonito, fill it to the brim, turn over the opening and seal it with a string, and cook it in advance The water was also half boiled, and it was thrown into a large iron pot with six liters of water together with the base material bag.

"Is there any secret to putting dried bonito?"

Noto Kiko asked puzzledly after watching Fujii's smooth operation.

"It's just to enrich the taste, there's nothing special about it."

Fujii answered truthfully, turned around and picked up the boiling water bottle in the kitchen, and poured it into the frying pan that he had just fried. This step is to remove the oil, a routine operation of professional chefs. In the small details that are not conspicuous.

Then cut bamboo wheels (a kind of food that looks like young bamboo shoots), konjac slices, and slice all three centimeters thick white radish, and use a kitchen knife to cut off water chestnuts. In the food culture of island countries, water chestnuts are not very good Meaning, this is not to enhance the taste, but a kind of doing as the Romans do.

In the next step, gently draw a half-shaded cross in the center of the white radish slices. This step is to make it easier to cook until soft and absorb the flavor of the broth.

Put the completely processed white radish slices into the pot separately, and add a small handful of rice. This will make the boiling point higher and the taste of the white radish slices will be softer.

After all the ingredients were prepared in advance, the water surface of the broth also boiled. Fujii tree did not stop for a moment, tasted the taste of the broth with a long spoon, shook his head, found an unopened bottle of Chrysanthemum Masamune Ten Years Brewed, poured Enter about [-] mg.

"Wait a minute, that's nearly [-] yen in wine!"

Noto Kiko's 600 million yen dress was ready to buy, but when she saw the old wine in her collection being wasted like this, she couldn't help but snatched the bottle, hugged it in her arms, and complained sideways.

"If you do this, you will lose money!"

(End of this chapter)