Chapter 530 "Collection of Famous Chinese Dishes"

Today's Chinese people almost have a mentality towards foreigners, "If they come to our country, they think highly of us." Foreigners who come to China in the future will be used to it, and they are afraid that if they don't pay attention, it will affect diplomatic relations.

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Therefore, Zhou Zhi and Fu Xia communicated freely and happily, which surprised everyone at the table. People like Fei Guan, who thought they knew Zhou Zhi very well, never expected that he could communicate freely with foreigners.

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Gradually, everyone joined in. When everyone was chatting in Chinese, Jiang Shuyi was responsible for translating with Fu Xia.

She has discovered that Fu Xia's Chinese is actually not very good, and when everyone communicates in Sichuan dialect, she is even less good.

Zhang Yuanfu is actually quite busy at work, and he came here to care whether this table was an "insider" of Rongpai. Although it turned out that he was not, it was not in vain that he got to know the author of "Interesting Stories of Sichuan Flavors".

Thinking of something, my heart suddenly moved: "Master Xiao Zhou, you are well-informed. I have something that I don't know if I can trouble you."

"Master Zhang, please don't be polite to me." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "Don't call me Master Zhou, just like the uncles here, just call me Elbow."

"That's really too much."

"No, no, no, I'm more used to you calling me Elbow, after all, everyone calls me that."

"Then I won't dare to scream until I finish asking this question."

"You really don't have to be so polite... Master Zhang, please tell me."

"That's right." Zhang Yuanfu said: "The Cooking Institute is also sorting out and improving the recipes and historical materials of Sichuan cuisine. Of course, we dare not say that we have reached the literary level of Master Xiao Zhou. We mainly focus on restoring and organizing the recipes."

"This is a great thing." Zhou Zhi said, "Then how can I help you?"

"It's like this. Because our cooking profession started late, many of our masters' skills have not been preserved. Many dishes are only known by their names, and not even their appearance or methods have been preserved."

"To be honest, I only found out about the Chicken Meng Kuai Cai and Three Color Rolls with Clear Soup after reading the records in your book. These old Sichuan dishes have been lost in our Shu."

Zhou Zhi understood: "Are you looking for old Sichuan cuisine recipes?"

"It's not limited to old Sichuan cuisine." Zhang Yuanfu said: "Including Nanguan cuisine, Gongguan cuisine, and the new-style Sichuan cuisine of the Republic of China. They are all acceptable. Master Xiao Zhou, where did the chicken, Mengkuai and three-color rolls in clear soup come from?

Know it?"

"The dish of Chicken Meng Kui Cai comes from a hand-written cookbook from the Republic of China period, but the three-color roll with clear soup comes from a big book, "Collection of Famous Chinese Dishes", don't you have it?"

Zhang Yuanfu shook his head: "Never heard of it?"

Zhou Zhi said: "Well, maybe not, because this is a set of island country books."

"In 1979, the Island Housewife's Friends Publishing House published a set of books called "A Collection of Famous Chinese Dishes."

"At the beginning, this set of recipes was planned to be divided into eight volumes, including one for Sichuan, three for the capital, and two for Guangdong and Shanghai."

"Our provincial government put great effort into this reception, using chef resources across the province to coordinate with each other to provide the best accommodation and catering services for the island country's reporters."

"Because there were so many good dishes, the islanders were forced to adjust the total number of rolls from eight rolls to nine rolls, and the dishes in the Shuchuan section were doubled to two rolls."

"There are many lost Kung Fu dishes recorded in it."

Zhang Yuanfu suddenly had a look of covetous expression on his face: "Then Master Xiao Zhou has this set of treasures?"

"Yes, I have it, but I can't give it to Master Zhang." Zhou Zhi said: "This set of books is extremely exquisite, but the cost is high. In 1979, the price in the island country was as high as 128,000 yen, and it was sold in Hong Kong Island.

The price, converted into RMB, is one thousand eight hundred yuan per set.”

"In 1979?!" Zhang Yuanfu couldn't help but exclaimed: "In 1979, this was still the Hongqi Restaurant. I earned 18.2 yuan a month! For 1,800 yuan, I had to work for a hundred months. I had to work until... I had to work

arrive……"

"I won't eat or drink until 1987." Zhou Zhi was very happy.

"It's so expensive..." Zhang Yuanfu couldn't help but curse.

"But for the Sichuan cuisine part of this book, I can make it into a slideshow for Master Zhang, and the slideshow will also be used for teaching."

Zhang Yuanfu couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Thank you so much, Master Xiao Zhou!"

After I finished speaking, I remembered something big: "The cost of making a slideshow is more expensive than buying this book, right? But it doesn't matter. I'll find a way to reimburse the school!"

"Actually, it's not too expensive. It mainly uses negative film technology to shoot twice. Now we roll our own film to shoot, which is much cheaper than buying photography film." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Master Zhang doesn't have to worry about these technical details.

As a lover and beneficiary of Sichuan cuisine, I will make a small contribution to our Sichuan cuisine career in Sichuan."

"Thank you for your elbow!" Zhang Yuanfu reached out and held Zhou Zhi's hand again: "Thank you so much!"

"No thanks, no thanks," Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "Maybe it will be my turn to beg Master Zhang the next day."

Zhang Yuanfu slapped his chest: "You little brother, I have decided that if I can help you with anything in the future, it's just a matter of words!"

After saying a few more words, Zhang Yuanfu went off to do his work, leaving only little sister Fu Xia behind. She really didn't regard herself as a guest and just feasted there.

Everyone was very curious about foreigners and kept asking questions. Jiang Shuyi was responsible for translating.

Fu Xia used to eat some miscellaneous noodles and one-pot stir-fry home-cooked dishes at the entrance of the Panda House. Now she has never seen such high-end dishes on this table. The food is so delicious.

"Aren't you allowed to taste the food you cooked?" Zhou Zhi felt so strange.

"It's okay to taste." Fu Xia stuffed her mouth with something, and her words turned into mumbling: "But you can't eat too much. Students' works have to be taken to the canteen and sold to the public."

Zhou Zhi smacked his tongue: "The masses are simply opening a blind box..."

"What is a blind box?"

"It's just a box for gambling on luck," Zhou Zhi explained the concept of the blind box with a smile, making Fu Xia jump back and forth with joy: "Some, some, some, the students can control the heat just like one person, which made Teacher Zhang angry.

I often call them stupid boys!"

"Do you British eat like this?" Fei Guan couldn't help but be confused when he saw Fu Xia eating: "Isn't this different from what was shown on TV?"

"Oh!" Fu Xia quickly took a sip of the soup, and then suddenly regained her image as a lady. Even her expression and tone of voice changed: "Actually, in Oxford, this is how we eat at home..."

"I just did that because the food was so delicious, and also, when you are in the country... do as the Romans do."

"This Chinese is spoken so well!" Fei Guan didn't care about Fu Xia's extremely awkward pronunciation, and gave a thumbs up and praised: "I've learned a lot about this idiom!"

Fu Xia pointed at Zhou Zhi: "He also knows a lot of English idioms!"
Chapter completed!