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Chapter 37 The Great Showdown and Chinese Cuisine ([-])

Golden Siu Mai, Sweet and Sour Fish Roll, Jade White Fungus Soup, Coconut Milk Cake.

The four dishes have the same characteristics——

Multiple servings can be cooked at once, as long as the space inside the cooker is properly arranged.

Luo Zhen attaches great importance to this point.

Because just now, Yukinoshita said the word "distributing leaflets", which means that many people will be invited. It can be judged that this competition is still the same as the previous "Neighborhood Committee vs. Art Department". It is the type of "positive" drawn on the thigh counting system.

Similarly, Scottish soft-boiled eggs, dried fish porridge, and tiramisu brownies also have advantages.

Only Kato Megumi's stewed beef brisket with potatoes will suffer in this regard.

After all, an izakaya is not Huaxia's university or high school cafeteria, and there is no environment for her to cook big pot dishes.

It's a pity that the girl didn't realize this because of lack of imagination of the situation, and she was happily booing: "Luo Jun, I want to eat!"

At this time, Eriri was designing leaflets on the B4 book, and Yukinoshita and Chitanda advised from the side.

They raised their heads at the same time, their eyes shining.

……

"Yes, we want to eat."

"Senior Luo, you have already tasted our craft!"

"Someone, be conscious."

……

Lost to these young ladies.

Although there is one point of helplessness, the other nine points are joy, Luo Zhen smiled.

"Jinsi Shaomai needs to soak glutinous rice; jade white fungus soup needs to soak white fungus; although coconut milk cake does not need to be refrigerated for more than 4 hours like mousse, it needs to be refrigerated for at least 1 hour." He said, "Only sweet and sour fish rolls are available."

"It doesn't matter if the coconut milk cake tastes bad, you have to taste it." Yukinoshita reminded from the side with a calm face, "As the saying goes, 'Know yourself and the enemy, and you can win a hundred battles'."

"..."

"..."

"I said you, have you been thinking about eating?"

"Hurry up, I'm in a hurry."

Yukinoshita turned her head away.

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One or two in the store.

There are still more than two hours before the opening, enough time.

Looking at the expectant expressions of the girls, Luo Zhen could only do his best.

First of all, the pre-steps of coconut milk cake——

Boil a pot of water, then add sugar and cook to dissolve, remove from heat, stir in gelatin powder, stir until completely dissolved, then add coconut milk and fresh milk, mix well, put in the refrigerator.

Next, it's time for the sweet and sour fish roll.

Call ~

Luo Zhen heaved a sigh of relief, tied on the headband, and took out Nina.

To be honest, this was the first time he "performed" Chinese cuisine that required effort in front of girls, and he was a little nervous, which is hard to imagine for a mature chef.

It can only be said that the identities of the four diners are too special to disgrace Huaxia Cuisine in front of them.

stressed.

Luo Zhen took a deep breath, put the thawed mandarin fish (correctly written as "mandarin fish") on the cutting board, and scraped the fish tail upwards with a spoon against the fish scales.

Yukinoshita couldn't help being surprised: "Use a spoon?"

"For my knife skills, it's not bad." Luo Zhen replied, "It's just that I cherish Nara more, so I'll settle for the second best."

"Love Nara, so..."

"The soup spoon has no sharp edges, so it won't hurt the chef's hands, and it has a curved arc. When scraping the fish scales, all the fish scales can be concentrated in the soup spoon, and the fish scales will not be scattered everywhere, which is easy to clean."

"oh oh……"

The girl was absent-minded, but Luo Zhen didn't hear it.

He roughly scraped off the scales, and then checked it gently with his fingers to make sure they were all scraped off, and then took out the knife.

Open the intestines and fish gills with a pointed knife, wash them with water, chop off the head and tail with a Jiujiang knife, remove the bone spurs and peel them with a knife, and cut them into rectangles of 1 inch 5 minutes long, 1 inch wide and 1 minute thick piece.

In this way, a 3-jin mandarin fish was sliced ​​into 20 pieces.

In fact, it is easier to use Japanese kitchen knives to handle whole fish and cut fish fillets, but Luozhen knife is so good that it is not difficult at all.

even……

All cut through!

The superb skills amazed the girls.

……

"Senior Luo is amazing."

"It's not 'powerful', it's 'handsome'."

"Yinglili, you just told the truth~"

"Kato, members must love each other forward."

……

These girls are really interesting.

Luo Zhen snickered inwardly, but kept moving his hands. He put the fish fillets into a bowl, added green onions, ginger, Shaoxing wine, and salt, and began to marinate.

In theory, marinating for 10 minutes is enough, but there is no need to waste this time.

He opened the refrigerator to check the state of the milk, and found that it was in a non-coagulated semi-solid state. He couldn't help but nodded and muttered, "The 'heat' is just right."

Then, he beat 4 egg whites into the bowl and beat them until they peaked, then gradually poured in the semi-solid milk, beat at a medium speed while adding until it was completely mixed with the egg whites, cut into pieces for convenience, and transferred quickly Put it into a small basin, ring a layer of ice packs around it, and put it back in the refrigerator.

The coconut milk cake is ready, just wait.

Luo Zhen once again focused on the sweet and sour fish rolls.

He washed the cucumber with water, cut it into 1 inch and 5 minutes long sections, then peeled the cucumber slices and cut them into strips with a diameter of 2 minutes, a total of 20 pieces, put them in a bowl, added a little salt, and marinated.

5 minutes later, the fillets and cucumbers were done.

Luo Zhen put a cucumber strip in the middle of each fish fillet and rolled it up. Then, he beat the egg white into a bowl, added wet corn flour and mixed well to form an egg white paste.

Next, fill the pot with oil and cook until it is seven times mature, then wrap the fish rolls in egg white batter in time and put them into the oil pan for frying, remove them, and when the oil is [-]% hot, put in the fish rolls, fish rolls, etc. Deep-fry the fish head and tail, fish out when golden brown, and place on a plate.

The fish roll is finished, it's time to make the sauce.

Luo Zhen left a little base oil in the pot, put green onion and minced ginger and fried it for a while, then poured clear soup, added Shaoxing wine, refined salt, sugar, tomato sauce and Zhenjiang vinegar.

Yukinoshita was confused: "Isn't ketchup a Western-style seasoning?"

"To be precise, yes." Luo Zhen nodded while operating, "But it comes from China."

"Hey?"

"There is a kind of 'ketchup' in Guangdong, which is a thick sauce made from fermented tomatoes and seafood. It spread to the West and gave birth to the current tomato sauce."

"I see."

"The problem is that that kind of 'ketchup' is not available, and the production cost is too high, so I had to settle for the next best thing and use tomato sauce instead."

"pity."

Luo Zhen nodded and said nothing more.

After he put the pot on the fire and boiled it, he diluted the corn flour with water, poured it into the pot to thicken it, and poured hot peanut oil on it——

"Alright!"

As he spoke, he poured the hot, red sauce over the fish rolls.

"Puff... Puff... Puff..."

The voice lingered for a long time.

Simply foul!

The open kitchen of the izakaya has this advantage. By "performing" the process of turning ingredients into dishes in front of the guests, it can increase the sense of anticipation of the guests.

The girls swallowed involuntarily.

Luo Zhen smiled, took a small plate, and brought the sweet and sour fish roll to the bar.

The bright red sauce seduces the appetite from the color, not to mention the strong aroma that lingers for a long time, making people unable to look away.

"It's a typical big dish in China." After Yukinoshita finished her evaluation, she enthusiastically said, "Everyone, you're welcome."

"I should say that." Luo Zhen complained, "Try it."

So, the four girls looked at each other, picked up the chopsticks each, whispered "I'm starting~", and put them in their mouths.

Perfect taste.

The sourness and sweetness of the sauce stimulate the taste buds, achieving a perfect balance.

The fish rolls inside are won by their taste. They are yellow on the outside and white on the inside, crispy and oily. With the addition of cucumber, the deep-fried dish does not feel greasy.

Don't say that there are only 4 fish rolls per person, 20 can be eaten.

Huh?