gourmet restaurant

Chapter 269 Beggar Chicken

In the afternoon, with nothing to do, Jiang Yang made a plan, and time passed, and it was time for dinner again.

Jiang Yang left the hotel and went out to look for something to eat.

While walking, Jiang Yang was thinking.When he arrived in Hangzhou, his originally planned journey was almost half way through.

I have seen half of the eight major cuisines of Huaguo here.

What Jiang Yang is thinking about now is actually only one thing, and that is whether the rest of the journey can go or not.

After being out for so long, he missed Rongcheng.

How should I put it, traveling alone is fine for a short time, but after a long time, I feel lonely.Especially when a person keeps coming to one strange city after another, the feeling of no fixed place and loneliness becomes more and more serious.

Therefore, Jiang Yang was only halfway through the journey, so he wanted to go back.

Regardless of what Jiang Yang thinks in his heart.

He has a detailed plan for the dinner arrangement.

However, when he was halfway there, he was suddenly bumped into by someone.

Walking on the road and being bumped by someone, it is not a big deal at all, everyone has time to be distracted.

But embarrassingly, his clothes were wet.

In this weather, Jiang Yang only wore a casual T-shirt.

Although the weather is not particularly hot, pedestrians on the road are also wearing thin clothes.

Jiang Yang is in good health, and he doesn't feel cold in a T-shirt.

It was a cup of milk tea that wet his clothes!
The milk tea is not at room temperature, but rather warm.

The person I bumped into was a young girl, and she still didn't understand the situation at the moment.

There is a lid on the milk tea, and a straw is inserted on it.

When the two collided, the milk tea was not knocked down. The reason why Jiang Yang's clothes got wet was because the girl squeezed the milk tea out after being hit.

Jiang Yang frowned, his clothes were so wet that it was impolite to go to dinner, so he had to go back to the hotel to change.But it took longer to come and go.

Jiang Yang didn't speak, turned around and was about to leave.

"Hey! That, I'm sorry!" The girl seemed to have just realized it.

"It's okay, walk carefully next time." Jiang Yang said.

"That..." The girl grabbed Jiang Yang's clothes all of a sudden.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Yang turned around and asked.

"Well...that's the one, how much is your clothes, I'll accompany you." The girl said.

Jiang Yang was amused by the girl, and said, "What? Are you rich?"

"It's not very rich, it's just... I just wet your clothes, I'm sorry." The girl said with her head down.

For some reason, looking at the cute girl in front of him, Jiang Yang felt much less uncomfortable.

"It's okay, the clothes are worthless, I'll just go back and change. You go, be careful next time you walk, or you won't be as easy-talking as me if you change someone else." Jiang Yang said with a smile.

He didn't want the girl to pay for the clothes. The clothes themselves were bought in the wholesale market for more than 40 yuan.

And it's not impossible to wash it off, so there's no need for the girl to pay for it.

"How about... I'd better pay you one." The girl said.

Jiang Yang frowned, and said, "I told you that you don't need to pay."

The girl was a little timid, let go of Jiang Yang's hand, and said, "Okay then, thank you. I'm sorry!"

Jiang Yang shook his head and returned to the hotel.

Fortunately, the hotel is not far from the restaurant where Jiangyang is going to eat. Although it took a little more time, it did not delay eating.

I changed clothes and took a shower by the way.The milk tea is a bit sticky, and it's much more refreshing to take a bath.

There was no accident this time, and Jiang Yang came to the restaurant for dinner smoothly.

This restaurant...or a restaurant is quite famous.

'Xinghualou' is a well-known local restaurant.

In Hangzhou, it can be regarded as a top restaurant, and there are not many restaurants of the same level as it.

A restaurant like this is different from ancient times.In ancient times, restaurants of this size were for the rich and the poor, but for the poor?Can't afford it at all.

Now that the times have changed, this kind of restaurant is not only suitable for spring and snow, but also suitable for lower Liba people.

Here, the cost of eating a meal is not higher than the cost of eating a hot pot and skewers.

Although they are all suitable, they are also divided into levels.

What grade?Class of dishes!
Food is not divided into grades, but dishes must be divided.

Can a serving of fried shredded potatoes be of the same level as a serving of abalone?

There are different standards for the rating of dishes between chefs and customers.Customers believe that the more expensive the dish, the higher the grade.According to the chef, the more difficult the dish, the higher the level.

However, the division of chefs is not suitable for the public.So in the end, it is divided based on the cost of ingredients and the difficulty of cooking.

So a meal in a restaurant can be very cheap, or it can be so expensive that people doubt life.

The same dish, cooked by different chefs, has different prices.

For example, the boiled cabbage cooked by Jiang Yang is sold purely for return of cost.If it was replaced by Jiang Lao's cooking, the price of that portion might be more than ten times that of Jiang Yang.

Jiang Yang stepped through the door, and the restaurant was very lively.A breath of human fireworks.

Holding the bill, Jiang Yang didn't look at it too much. He had already made a decision in his heart about the dishes he wanted to eat.

After closing the menu, Jiang Yang handed it back to the waiter and said, "Give me a beggar's chicken!"

"Okay, is there anything else you need?" The waiter wrote it down and asked.

"Let's do this first," Jiang Yang said.

"Okay sir, wait a moment." The waiter said and left.

Jiang Yang drank the free tea and looked at the restaurant.

The decoration is not bad, with an antique charm.

The use of space is also very reasonable, Jiang Yang studied silently, wondering if he could use something in his small restaurant.

Such as decoration style, space utilization and so on.

After a while, a beggar chicken came up.

There is a mud ball on the round white porcelain plate, which can be vaguely seen from the shape, which looks like a chicken.

Jiang Yang knew that what was wrapped inside was the delicacy he was going to enjoy today - beggar's chicken.

The waiter uses a special tool to smash the mud outside, revealing the beggar chicken inside.

Beggar's Chicken is actually called Beggar's Chicken!Because, tender hens are used, wrapped in lotus leaves and wine jar mud, and baked.

I believe many people know the recipe of this dish.This dish was once described in a famous martial arts novel.

It even appeared in the TV series adapted later.

The whole chicken is wrapped in lotus leaves and roasted, with a faint fragrance of lotus leaves.

Wrapped with mud, it makes the baking evenly, and the temperature is constant and lasting.

When cooked, the surface of the chicken is shiny and the skin is slightly browned.

Before entering the mouth, it made people move their index fingers.

Jiang Yang couldn't help but read on, this kind of gourmet food is the greatest enjoyment when you eat it.

Of course, as a famous dish, how can there be no supporting story?

It is said that a long time ago, a beggar was living in a foreign country, suffering from hunger and cold, and fell ill. In order to save him, his companions set up a bonfire to keep him warm, and managed to get a chicken, but there was no cooking utensil.Someone scooped up the mud from the nearby pond, wrapped the chicken, threw it into the bonfire and baked it, and then cracked the mud ball, not only the feathers of the chicken fell off, but also the chicken was tender and fragrant.Later, restaurants in Hangzhou followed suit one after another, and gradually formed today's Beggar Chicken.

There is also a story, legend, when Emperor Qianlong visited the south of the Yangtze River in micro-clothes, and was accidentally exiled in the wilderness.A beggar saw that he was pitiful, so he gave him "beggar chicken" which he thought was a delicacy.Qianlong was sleepy and hungry, so he naturally felt that the chicken was very delicious.After eating, he asked its name, and the beggar was embarrassed to say that the chicken was called "Beggar's Chicken", so he blatantly called it "Fugui Chicken".Qianlong was full of praise for this chicken.The beggar found out afterwards that this tramp was the current emperor.This "beggar's chicken" also became a "rich chicken" because the emperor's golden mouth was opened.It has been passed down to this day, and it has become a famous dish in the Hall of Elegance.

Of course, we just need to listen to these stories, who knows if they are true or not?
(End of this chapter)