Start with a gourmet shop

Chapter 36 Four Famous Cakes in Eastern Guangdong
This passive skill is extremely useful.

Eating without gaining weight is just the most basic function.

As the old saying goes, disease enters from the mouth, which means that most diseases are closely related to our daily eating habits.

Wei Yi didn't want to suffer from a serious illness one day and die young because of the big fish and meat every day.

This possibility is not high because Wei Yi has always ate in moderation and never overeat.

But what if you get caught?

With this passive skill, it can be guaranteed that Wei Yi will not have any worries about diet.

Wei Yi was in a good mood, went out to look for food, and started a new day of exploring shops.

Wei Yi drove to the snack street, ready to find some snacks to try.

When there is no specific goal, Wei Yi will leave the task of finding delicious food to his senses.

What he sees with his eyes, what he smells with his nose, and what he hears with his ears can all be used as his choice of store exploration.

Wei Yi seemed to be walking aimlessly on the retro streets of the snack street. Suddenly, a rich and attractive fragrance penetrated into his nostrils, unknowingly mobilizing the glutton in his belly.

smell good!
This feels right!

It's it!
Wei Yi followed the smell and found a stall selling chicken pancakes.

The stalls are filled with chicken biscuits, which look like a haphazardly shaped cookie.

Chicken cake is one of the four famous cakes in eastern Guangdong. Because it is shaped like a chicken, it is called chicken cake.

Wei Yi scanned the QR code to pay and packed three chicken biscuits, and then turned on the video recording mode of his mobile phone. There was no seat, so he had to stand at the stall to eat.

Naturally, you don't need to be so particular about eating a snack, you can finish it standing up.

Therefore, Wei Yi switched to selfie mode with his mobile phone in his left hand, pinched the chicken biscuits that were half-wrapped in plastic bags with his right hand, put them in his mouth and took a bite, there was a "clack" sound from his mouth, and the fragrance was like a puff. The flood that broke the embankment rushed out, and after a few bites, it seemed to detonate a spice library. The compound aroma burst out from the stuffing, and it was so thick that it could not be melted. It was not until it entered the deep chewing stage that the minced garlic was gradually distinguished. The spicy aroma of milk, the sweet aroma of southern milk, the burnt aroma of nuts, the sweetness of ice meat...

The rich taste of the chicken biscuit made Wei Yi feel amazing when he tasted it for the first time.

There are two ingredients in the chicken cake that are its essence.

One is Nanru, which is red fermented bean curd. It has a rich and slightly sweet taste, which is the main theme of the taste of chicken cakes.

Many foods in Cantonese cuisine use southern milk, which not only has a sweet smell, but also has a coloring effect.

The other is ice meat, which tastes like lard but not lard. Not only does it taste fat but not greasy, but it has a refreshing and crispy taste.

Ice meat is made of pork fat. Although it is fat, the ingredients should not be casual. For example, the mesh oil we often use to boil lard is not suitable. Choose clean and complete pork fat and cut it into fine cubes. , then mix with white wine and sugar, marinate and refrigerate for 20 days to achieve the best effect of sweetness and crispness.

In addition, the nutty aroma in the chicken cake is also essential. Peanuts, walnuts, melon seeds, etc. are cut into fine nuts, and mixed with sesame seeds.

In order to make the taste more layered, pepper and five-spice powder are also added, but the taste of the spices is only passing through. People in eastern Guangdong have never advocated that the taste of spices overshadow the original taste of food.

Before baking in the oven, brush a thin layer of egg wash on the surface to make the surface appear smooth and oily.

The baked chicken cakes are fragrant and crispy. Every time you chew, the rich and complex aroma bursts out in the mouth. Occasionally, the ice meat blooms between the teeth, and you don’t feel greasy. You can only feel the sweetness of lard .

The overlapping of several flavors has become the unique mellow taste of the chicken cake, and also endows it with the magic power that people will never forget after taking a bite.

Its approach is actually quite simple, just mixing materials together produces such an amazing effect.

Wei Yi savored the sweet and crispy chicken biscuit carefully. Its taste was layered and full of depth.

After Wei Yi ate three pieces of chicken pancakes, the delicious lingering aroma hidden between his teeth, under his tongue, and around the corners of his mouth was still radiating and lingering for a long time.

After a while, Wei Yi put away his phone, went to the drink shop next to him, and bought a cup of lemon tea.

I was a bit reluctant to dilute the lingering fragrance left in my mouth.

After drinking half a cup of lemon tea, Wei Yi felt half full.

Now that one of the four famous cakes, Chicken Cake, has been explored today, another well-known famous cake, Wife Cake, is naturally not to be missed.

Wei Yi had eaten wife cakes before, but they were not freshly made, they were produced on the assembly line in the factory workshop.

If it comes out of the assembly line, the taste must not be as good as the current one.

Wei Yi walked along the snack street, and without much effort, he found a stall selling wife cakes.

I still scanned the QR code and bought three wife cakes.

Obviously, there is no wife in the wife cake, so singles should give up on it.

There are many allusions and legends about wife cakes, which can be traced back to the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang’s wife, Ma Shi, was the creator of wife cakes.

Recently, it is said that in Guangdong Province, there is a time-honored teahouse founded in the late Qing Dynasty, which is famous for all kinds of dim sum and cakes.

One day, a dim sum chef from Chaozhou in a teahouse brought all kinds of signature refreshments from the shop home for his wife to eat. Unexpectedly, after his wife ate it, not only did he not praise the dim sum in the shop, but even disliked it. Said: "The dim sum in the tea house is so unremarkable, nothing can compare to my natal family's winter melon corner."

After hearing this, the master was naturally unconvinced, so he asked his wife to make 'winter melon horns' for him to try.

His wife used winter melon puree, sugar, and flour to make unique browned "winter melon corners". The Teochew chef found the taste sweet and delicious, and he couldn't help but praise his wife's natal dim sum.

The next day, the Chaozhou master brought the 'winter melon horn' back to the teahouse for everyone to taste. As a result, the owner of the teahouse was full of praise after eating it. When asked who made the dim sum in which teahouse, the chefs said: "Yes. Chaozhou wife made it."

So the boss casually said that it was "Chaozhou Wife Cake", and asked the Chaozhou master to improve it and sell it in the teahouse, which was well received.

Wife cake thus got its name.

Wei Yiyi holds a mobile phone video recorder in one hand, and bakes an attractive golden-yellow wife cake in the other hand. The layers of puff pastry are as thin as tissue paper, and many crumbs fall off when bitten down. Put it in the bag, the filling is moist and soft and melts in your mouth, and you can taste the sweetness like honey in every bite.

The skin is thin and the stuffing is thick, sweet but not greasy. Except for the regret that there is no wife in it, it is really delicious.

After taking care of the wife cake, Wei Yi didn't even let go of the crumbs in the plastic bag, carefully poured all of it into his mouth and ate it, without any waste.

(End of this chapter)