Shokugeki: Start with an izakaya, making everyone cry

"Phew, very satisfied."

Leonora Nakiri put the plate down and couldn't help but lick the grease residue at the corner of her mouth.

Then, she touched her belly, looking full of contentment.

Perhaps it was because of the spicy food that her face, which had always been very fair, gradually became a little rosy. Especially under the light, she looked a little different!

"I'll give you a glass of water to relieve the spiciness."

Zhang Fan thoughtfully poured a glass of water and placed it in front of her.

"Thank you."

Leonora was stunned.

Then she stopped talking and couldn't help but pick up the water glass and started drinking.

Giant Panda Magic Mapo Tofu, the taste of the whole dish still lingers in your mouth, so even when you drink water, you will feel a bit fragrant!

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"Your Giant Panda Magic Mapo Tofu dish is the same as the previous Magic Mapo Tofu. It focuses on taste and texture, right?"

"As for the six-flavored Magic Mapo Tofu, one of them is hot! So, I would like to ask, how do you manage to seal the tofu in a wooden mold without losing its temperature?"

After drinking the water, Leonora Nakiri asked Zhang Fan doubtfully.

Although it is undeniable that this Giant Panda Magic Mapo Tofu is very creative and strange, Mapo Tofu requires that it be hot, and it must be so hot that it is impossible to eat.

It is absolutely impossible for tofu sealed in a wooden mold to be heated all the time.

So, how did Zhang Fan maintain heat?

It was obvious that she couldn't figure out this issue.

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"Didn't you see clearly when I showed you the bottom of the wooden mold just now?"

"I put tinfoil around the wooden mold that has a thermal insulation effect. After all, tinfoil can help the food heat evenly and prevent the food from burning."

"In addition, it can also play a role in sealing and keeping food ingredients warm."

"Tinfoil?"

Hearing this, Leonora's eyes widened, as if she had some realization.

She couldn't help but slap her forehead, and then smiled bitterly: "Oh, fortunately, I am still the department head of the Nakiri International Research Society, and I even ignored this common sense!"

"It's really interesting. I can actually make a new twist on the Chinese Mapo Tofu."

On the side, Taki Kadozaki, who was the assistant cook, overheard the conversation between Zhang Fan and Leonora, and began to express admiration and surprise.

"As expected, his cuisine... is always full of surprises!"

In the end, Kadozaki Taki could only sigh deeply.

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In this world, there is a beauty that can be encountered but not sought, and it is called:

Bowl!

This is very difficult to achieve between people, but it can be done with an izakaya.

After all, delicious food can always be connected with memories. Just like many diners who come to an izakaya to eat and drink, they usually order their favorite dishes and then sit down and taste them.

As time goes by, the flow of people in the izakaya is increasing, and the business is getting better and better.

"Shopkeeper Zhang, a bowl of dragon beard noodles, add some spiciness."

"Okay, wait a moment!"

Dragon whiskers noodles.

The most attractive part is the delicateness of the noodles themselves.

Therefore, if you want to make perfect dragon whisker noodles, the thinner the noodles used, the better.

Xue Baozhan, a native of Shaanxi in the late Qing Dynasty, said in "A Brief Introduction to Vegetarian Food" that "Zhen noodles" were popular in Shaanxi and Shanxi areas, and the most popular ones were in Taiyuan, Chaoyi, and Tongzhou, Shaanxi.

It is as thin as a leek and as thin as dried noodles. It can be made into a triangular shape or a hollow shape. It can withstand continuous cooking, is soft and can be toughened.

And this kind of Zhentiao noodles is Shanxi’s ramen now.

Ramen can be steamed, boiled, baked, fried or stir-fried, each with its own flavor.

Of course, there are many types, including large ramen, small ramen, dragon beard noodles, hollow noodles, etc.

Generally speaking, those with less than 7 bucks are called large ramen, those with more than 7 bucks are called dragon beard noodles, and those made by ordinary families are small ramen. Therefore, the most attractive thing about Long Xu Noodles is the delicateness of the noodles themselves.

But as you can see, Zhang Fan started making ramen.

He first put a layer of high-gluten flour on the chopping board, rolled the flour that had been added with water into a ball on the board, and then kneaded the dough until it became tough.

After that, quickly stretch the dough on the chopping board into a 3 cm wide strip, and then roll it with a layer of high-gluten flour.

Hold both ends and swing your hands up and down at the same time, so that the stretching movement of pulling noodles can be coordinated, standard and elegant.

So much so that Leonora, who had not left yet, was stunned!

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A stretching action is a buckle.

And 1 buckle is a multiple of energy

After repeating this several times, the faces separated from each other, thinly and one by one, fluttering in the air like silver ribbons, which made people dazzled.

At this moment, Zhang Fan was stretching the noodles very quickly.

With the whole bundle of noodles in his hands, it seemed as if life had been injected into him and he was "alive".

Even more terrifying, he finally stretched it to 8 buckles, that is:

2 to the 8th power is 256 noodles.

And just when everyone was in shock, he didn't mean to stop completely. He continued to merge one end with the other, and then pulled out the new end and shook it.

9 buckles, 10 buckles...

Leonora finally reacted: "Isn't it? This... this should be the 10th dunk, right?"

Then, Zhang Fan repeated the stretching action again.

"11 bucks?"

……

When we got here, the atmosphere of the entire izakaya seemed very quiet.

Just as Leonora and others were looking forward to whether he could stretch to the astonishing 12 buttons, Zhang Fan paused slightly, and a drop of sweat began to slowly fall from his forehead.

Afterwards, he tensed up his expression, closed his eyes deeply first, and tried to adjust his state so that he could relax.

It was estimated that more than ten seconds had passed before he quickly opened his bright eyes and continued to stretch the noodles. At this moment, time around him seemed to have stopped.

Finally, 12 buckles were completed.

This means that a small piece of dough is enough for him to pull out:

4096 noodles!

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Although noodle restaurants can be found everywhere in China, it is difficult to find a noodle restaurant that represents Shandong cuisine.

Looking into the reason, it may be that noodles in Yulu cuisine are too common. The familiar tomatoes braised noodles, the fried noodles that are often eaten as snacks... these are all masterpieces of Shandong noodles.

In fact, Shandong noodles do have a nice name: Longxu noodles!

It is said that more than 300 years ago, smart Shandong people made wheat noodles into noodles, which became a special snack of the Ming Dynasty at that time.