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Chapter 60 Kung Pao Lychee Shrimp Balls!

The next day.

Wei Yi arrived as scheduled and came to the door of Lingyun's private kitchen.

This time the welcome staff did not stop Wei Yi again, but welcomed him very warmly.

Apparently, after the last oolong incident, Lu Yuanling made a special confession to let all the staff remember Wei Yi's face.

This is also a manifestation of Wei Yi's importance.

It was still the same private box as last time, Lu Yuanling was already sitting in the seat waiting, seeing Wei Yi coming in, he quickly got up to greet him.

"Wei Yi, I haven't seen you for a while, you are getting more and more energetic."

"Haha, Brother Lu is joking again."

The two hugged lightly and sat down respectively.

As soon as he sat down, Lu Yuanling signaled the butler to serve the food.

The housekeeper withdrew as he said.

"What are you busy with recently? Are you still exploring the store?" Lu Yuanling poured a glass of water for Wei Yi and asked with concern.

"Yeah, what else can I do, unlike Brother Lu, who handle projects worth hundreds of millions." Wei Yi nodded with a smile.

Wei Yike didn't exaggerate at all, it was revealed by Du Yue'er inadvertently.

"It's just high flow. In this special period, business is not as easy as before." Lu Yuanling's face was calm and noncommittal.

All walks of life have certain influences during the special period, of course, except for companies related to the medical industry.

With the improvement of Chinese people's taste in watching movies, the demand for movie quality is relatively high. Coupled with the impact of the special period, the annual income of Lu Yuanling's film and television investment company has dropped a lot.

But fortunately, the background is still there, and the impact is not great.

Wei Yi didn't know much about film and television, so he just nodded when he heard this, and didn't make any judgments.

The two chatted casually, telling each other about the people or things they experienced during this period. When talking about interesting things, Lu Yuanling would pat Wei Yi on the shoulder and laugh wantonly.

The boss of a company with a market value of [-] billion has no airs.

This means that in front of Wei Yi, how could ordinary people have the opportunity to see such a mediocre and approachable side of Lu Yuanling.

Wei Yi's shoulders were numb from the patting.
Fortunately, the first course came, which saved Wei Yi's shoulder.

The first dish is called Kung Pao Lychee Shrimp Balls. It is a good season to eat lychees. It is understandable that Lingyun Private Kitchen will try to introduce a new dish mainly based on lychees.

Adding fruits to dishes is a major feature of Cantonese cuisine.

Seasonal fruits are used to cook a series of delicious fruit dishes, which not only retains the sweet, sour and refreshing characteristics of fruits, but also the delicious and tender flavor of seafood, and the dishes are clear but not light, fresh and delicious. Not vulgar, it has the effect of attracting appetite and feasting the eyes.

Moreover, the taste of cooking with fruits is more refreshing than ordinary dishes, which is very suitable for the dietary requirements of modern people.

Wei Yi picked up a piece of crystal white and tender lychee, put it into his mouth and chewed it slowly, the fried lychee not only kept the original tenderness and sweetness of the lychee, but also didn't get angry so easily.

As the saying goes, "one lychee has three fires", it can be seen that although lychee is delicious, it is quite easy to get angry.

Especially people with insufficient yin deficiency and excessive fire constitution are not suitable for consumption.

Wei Yi swallowed the lychee meat, then picked up a piece of shrimp meat and put it in his mouth to taste. After chewing, Wei Yi couldn't help but widen his eyes.

The shrimp meat completely absorbed the taste of lychee, sweet and delicious, crispy and tender, and bursting with juice!
It's so cool that it makes people feel addicted!

When sweetness meets umami, when softness meets crispness, two seemingly incompatible things, shrimp meat and lychee meat, produce a novel chemical change, which is endlessly memorable.

It was not the first time that Lu Yuanling tried dishes with Wei Yi, so he could still know how satisfied Wei Yi was with the dishes from the slight changes in Wei Yi's expression.

Apparently, the dish was very much to his liking.

This Kung Pao Lychee Shrimp Ball uses the rare species of lychee, Kua Lv.

Hanging green lychee is produced in Zengcheng, eastern Guangdong. According to relevant literature records, this kind of lychee has a history of more than 400 years, and it has always been a tribute to the imperial court.

In 2001, at the Gualv Fruit Auction held in Gualv Square, a "Xiyuan Gualu" lychee was sold for a high price of 5.5 yuan, becoming the most expensive fruit in the world and breaking the world Giles record in one fell swoop.

At the auction in 2002, 10 "Xiyuanhanglv" lychees in Zengcheng City were auctioned fiercely by 25 buyers, and finally were picked up by ten buyers with a total turnover of 131.5 million yuan.

Among them, the No. 18.8 "Xiyuan Gualv", which weighed only 55.5 grams, sold for a sky-high price of 5.5 yuan, which not only broke the Guinness World Record of "[-] yuan for a litchi" set last year, The ten-fold jump in net worth within a year also became the biggest highlight of the day, attracting the attention of the whole world.

Of course, the lychees that were auctioned were the lychees hanging from the green mother tree. The reason why they were able to be auctioned at such a high price was because it was a single seedling at that time.

Now it has successfully cultivated several generations of hanging green offspring tree species, a total of more than 100 plants, planted in several townships of Zengcheng.

Even though the production has been increased, the hanging green lychee is still sold at a high price of about 300 yuan per catty, which is the absolute king of lychees.

300 yuan a catty of lychees is used for cooking, which is not a luxury.

In order to be able to match the status and price of Shanghanglv, the procurement department of Lingyun Private Kitchen has also put in a lot of painstaking efforts in terms of the selection of shrimp.

Bohai Bay prawns are also known as Huaxia prawns.

Penaeus sinensis belongs to Crustacea and Penaeidae. It is an annual shrimp. Only a few individuals have a life cycle of up to 2 years. The body is long and flat, and the carapace is thin, smooth and transparent.

Adult shrimp males are yellow, with a body length of 13-17 cm, and females are blue-blue, with a body length of 14-18 cm. The staple food is polychaetes, lobularbranchs, mesoshells and small mosquito-tailed animals.

Every year when the seawater temperature drops below 10 degrees Celsius, the shrimp populations begin to swim through the winter, from Laizhou Bay through the Bohai Strait to the deep water area in the southern part of the Yellow Sea.

In March of the following year, they returned to the pure wild Penaeus sinensis at "3°N latitude" in the Bohai Sea to breed offspring along the coast.

Shrimp has the characteristics of fat body, crystal clear flesh color, delicious taste and rich nutrition. It is the crown of shrimp and has high economic value. It is listed as one of the "Eight Treasures" of seafood and has enjoyed a high reputation in the international market for a long time.

Lingyun Private Kitchen carefully selects the best batch of pure wild Huaxia prawns, and the price is as high as 280 yuan per catty, which is jaw-dropping.

Wei Yi can naturally understand the origin of the ingredients used in this dish and the cooking method.

While lamenting the delicacy in the world, I have an idea in my heart, whether our Xiangyue restaurant can also serve this dish.

Wei Yi believes that Xiangyue Restaurant's strong chef team should not be difficult to reproduce this dish.

The most important thing is that Wei Yi himself likes this dish very much, and has the urge to keep it for himself.

However, this would make Lu Yuanling a little sorry.

After all, for the same five-star restaurant, there is still a certain degree of competition.

Forget it, this dish is so delicious and almost impeccable, Lingyun Private Kitchen will definitely introduce new ones.

When you get hungry, come here to eat.

No matter what, Wei Yi couldn't do anything to betray his friends.

PS: I searched all kinds of information for this chapter, and it took me almost 3 hours to write it. I ask for monthly tickets and recommendation tickets to support it. Readers and bosses, thank you!
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