They Gather Here

Ying Lili was let off by the commander, she let out a sigh of relief, and replied, "I didn't eat it."

"It happened that I didn't eat either." Yukinoshita looked at Luo Zhen, "Then, student Luo, let's make a dish to commemorate our unbreakable plastic sisterhood."

"Plastic...ahem..."

"what's wrong?"

"No, I'm just curious, what dishes have a commemorative effect?"

"For example, with the word 'broken'."

Yukinoshita tilted her head, tapped her chin with her fingers and fell into deep thought, but her face had a mischievous expression on her face.

The girl is indeed more cheerful than ever.

Luo Zhen was very relieved and willing to cooperate, nodded, walked into the back kitchen, and took out various ingredients.

Low-gluten fine white flour, pork belly, shiitake mushrooms, chicken, dried winter bamboo shoots, soda powder, old noodles (noodle seeds, we call "mian yinzi" here)...

One can tell at a glance that although Luo Zhen is using low-gluten flour, it should be used for pasta such as steamed stuffed buns and dumplings.

He divided the flour into two lumps at a ratio of 8:2. The larger lump was added to the old dough for fermentation, covered with a damp cloth and left to stand, and the smaller lump was added to heated lard to make pastry noodles.

Originally, izakaya did not have lard, because it is not commonly used, and it is not easy to buy in Neon.

But since the last time I was working as a donkey roll, pea yellow and other pastry chefs, I had to use animal butter instead, Luo Zhen paid attention to observation, and found that neon also sells lard, and the production area is concentrated in Okinawa.

He immediately thought of the representative dishes of Okinawa, including a magical dish called "oil miso".

For most neon people with bland tastes, oil miso is a disaster, because it is fatty pork fried with miso——

Put miso and finely chopped pork into the pot, add sugar and awamori, and cook slowly over low heat. It is usually used for bibimbap or added to rice balls, as a side dish at home.

It can only be said that Okinawa is indeed the place closest to Chinese eating habits.

Because many housewives like to fry miso by themselves, but lard is not suitable for refining by themselves, this is why middleware is sold outside. Except for locals, only big cities such as Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Nagoya can buy it.

Luo Zhen cut pork, dried asparagus bamboo shoots, and shiitake mushrooms soaked in Yukinoshita to make miso soup into rice grains.

Then, he turned on the fire, put the oil in the pan and heated it to [-]% heat, put the pork into the oil pan, fried it, then added bamboo shoots and shiitake mushrooms and stir well, added light soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, salt, and fried it for a short time pot.

The last step is to knead the fermented dough with alkali, roll it out to form a dough, brush it with pastry, roll it into long strips and then pull it into a dough, press it with the palm of your hand one by one into a round skin with a thick center and a thin periphery, and wrap it with fillings , pinch folds while wrapping, close the mouth into steamed buns, put them in a cage and steam them over high heat.

Next, just wait 15 minutes for the pan to come out.

Yukinoshita doesn't know how to make Chinese-style buns, so he didn't come over to help, but was responsible for the cleaning work afterwards.

Luo Zhen washed his hands, walked to Ying Lili and sat down next to Ying Lili: "Do you still remember the 'golden smile' I told you?"

Golden Smile comes from "Zhonghua Yiyi", which is a concept dish.

It is actually a steamed stuffed bun, but it is very different from ordinary steamed stuffed buns. It looks golden on the outside, and it will make a beautiful laugh. When you take a bite, the juice will overflow, and the rich fragrance will come out. The most important thing Its taste is not greasy, and you will not get bored if you eat too much.

Luo Zhen believes that although this steamed stuffed bun is fried, its prototype is the crispy stuffed bun.

It is said that this kind of buns originated in 1903, when a man named Lai Ba in Yuxi opened a small bun shop named Shaobailou near Cuihu Lake in Kunming.

An old man took his little grandson to buy steamed buns, and took a random one for the little grandson to eat, but the little grandson didn't catch it, and the bun fell to the ground.

The buns were smashed to pieces, especially the skin of the buns was smashed into seven or eight petals. It can be seen that the buns were broken and crispy. Since then, Lai Ba has seized this business opportunity and sold his signature "Broken Crispy Buns".

There are still internal reasons for the ability to break the crisp, the most important thing is the flour used to make the skin of the buns.

The low-gluten refined white flour is fermented, mixed with alkali, kneaded, rolled into dough and smeared with lard to form an oil layer, and then wrapped into buns with ordinary methods, and then it is shaped.

But compared with medium-gluten flour, low-gluten flour is more particular about steaming steamed buns.

Of course, with modern tools, cooking is much easier.

Luo Zhen taught the allusion to Ying Lili, who recorded it seriously, and finally nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, there is a new story to draw."

Watching the two whispering about the plot and recipes, Mashiro Shiina fell into deep thought.

At this moment, Yukinoshita's voice came: "Student Luo, the time is up."

Luo Zhen nodded, opened the steamer, and brought the food to the bar: "Yunnan snacks, crispy buns, try it~"

The three girls came over immediately.

I saw that the steamed buns were plump and white, the mouth was slightly opened, and the aroma was overflowing.

Looking in from the opening, you can clearly see that the dough is very fluffy, even layered, like a crispy Soviet-style mooncake.

Enduring the heat, Yukinoshita picked up a steamed bun and took a hard bite.

The dough is really oily and fragrant, but it doesn't look greasy or dry, which makes people feel like eating mille-feuille pie.

The filling inside is also full of surprises. The shiitake mushrooms absorb the juice of the pork belly and lock it inside. The taste is very smooth and tender, so when you bite it open, the juice comes out.

The flavors of pork, spring bamboo shoots, and shiitake mushrooms are fully mixed to form a mixed symphony.

The dough is impeccable, the fillings are impeccable, and the heat is controlled, the same is impeccable, it is delicious!

Nehong people are not good at eating hot food, but the three girls still grabbed the buns and gnawed them fiercely, and swallowed them whole in a blink of an eye, their fingertips were so hot that they turned red.

Yukinoshita let out a long sigh of satisfaction and slumped on the seat: "To our unbreakable plastic sisterhood."

Obviously, the girl still remembered what she just said.

Luo Zhen couldn't hold back, and chuckled lightly.

At this moment, Shiina Mashiro spoke: "Three seniors, I want to draw a manga based on the neighborhood committee, is it possible?"

Luo Zhen actually wanted to refuse.

However, the other two girls were fine and very interested.

Yukinoshita: "Sawamura came one or two after Kato and I, I can help you complete the previous story."

Ying Lili: "I can't guide you in painting, but for lines, storyboards, and character design, just ask."

Shiina Mashiro nodded in gratitude.

In fact, she even thought of the name of the comic in her mind, it was called "Unbreakable Alliance".

A day in the life of a cartoonist (?)

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Eri Kashiwagi (Sawamura Spencer Eri) schedule.

09:00, wake up, work until 3 am, then take a nap for a few hours, then get back to work right after waking up.

13:00, for lunch, when I am busy, I eat a rice ball or bread to pass, and it takes only 5 minutes.

At 14:00, look for information, find the information needed for the story plot from the Internet or books.

At 19:00, meeting, discussing the content of the next story with the editor in charge.

At 21:00, the composition is made. Generally, the night is the period with the highest attention, and it is only at this time that the formal writing begins.

00:00, take a break, the concentration is gradually failing, simply eat a little and then rest for about 30 minutes, and then continue to work for two to three hours.

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A cartoonist spends most of his day drawing, and the rest of his day drawing.

Regarding conception, some people choose to sit at the desk, and some people think while doing other things, but no matter what the method is, they are all working hard.

For example, Mr. Osamu Tezuka has more inspirations in the toilet. Once a good idea appears in his mind, he will stay there for several hours without coming out.

Ying Lili once suspected that this divine man died of hemorrhoids and anal fistula, but after checking the information, she found out that it was stomach cancer.

However, disease is not a cartoonist's worst enemy, what is really serious is lack of exercise.

Fortunately, Ying Lili doesn't have to worry about this.

She glanced at her watch, it was 09:33:25, and she had just worked for half an hour, but what was the cause of the exhaustion that came from within?

hungry!

Girl... No, the married woman kicked the stool and yelled: "Ou Zhenzhen, I want to eat steamed lamb, steamed bear's paw, steamed deer tail, roasted duck, roasted chicken, roasted goose, stewed pork Pig, stewed duck, sauce chicken..."

Since the two got married, the girl's Mandarin level has risen sharply, and she can speak "Reporting the Names of Vegetables" completely.

Luo Zhen's voice came from the kitchen: "You are not pregnant, so can't you walk a few steps by yourself?"

Ying Lili refused: "How do you know you're not pregnant?"

"What?"

"Maybe last night, we just..."

"Don't talk nonsense, if you can get pregnant with that kind of play, we will be dragged to an autopsy."

Ying Lili used to draw books, but after marrying Luo Zhen, her repressed nature was exposed. The jokes became more nasty, and the gameplay became more wild, just like a Deyun girl.

She kicked the little stool away and walked to the dining room.

As a result, when the young woman saw Shiina Mashiro, she immediately turned her depression after walking a few steps into surprise: "Makoro, I miss you so much!"

Shiina Mashiro smiled and hugged each other: "Lily, you're getting fat again."

"The fat is only where it should be. I am now a legitimate birth-safe figure."

"I feel so too."

The two talked about the old days lively, like old friends they haven't seen for many years.

Luo Zhen was stupefied at the side, and couldn't help complaining: "I said, Zhenhe comes to our house every day for three meals, can you stop making troubles like you haven't seen each other for decades?"

Ying Lili: "No."

Shiina Mashiro: "Yes."

"..."

"..."

Husband is depressed...

Being beaten back by his own wife in front of outsiders, Luo Zhen was of course annoyed, and even had a sullen face during the meal.