Chapter 970 Starting with Drunk Shrimp
The palace maids and eunuchs appeared one after another to help remove the wine and fruits. If you are appetizing, it is no longer a bad place to come here. The banquet is the theme. An excellent banquet can bring guests more than just a taste enjoyment.
The body and mind, and even the soul, can get enough joy because of this banquet. The tired heart can be soothed, and the scarred body and mind can be soothed.
Hua Tuo called it mental therapy. Simply put, it means that when the happiness reaches a certain level, the body instinctively believes that it is in a state of "healthy" and then starts to repair itself. The price should be to use the original vitality of the diner, which may affect lifespan. The advantage is that both injuries and hidden injuries can be relieved.
Cao Chun used this trick to relieve secret injuries, so in the end of his life, his vitality was overdrawn, and because of his injury, his organ function had weakened to the limit, so he passed away.
Many chefs have also tried whether it is feasible to use the vitality of ingredients to replace the vitality of the human body... However, if it can be done, it is probably already the realm of "Chef God".
Wang Yong is already a top-notch existence in the field of special chefs, and even he cannot enter this field. After all, this is not as simple as ‘equivalent exchange’…
"Appetizers - Huadiao shrimp!" The eunuch shouted, and the kitchen brought the appetizers one after another.
"Oh?" Cao Cao was a little surprised when he heard this, and the three masters and nine ministers were also stunned when he heard this.
"When will the banquet he is responsible for, and the pretzels will be served before the front soup?" Wang Yun looked at Cao Cao.
"I don't know. The menu was determined by him and His Majesty, and I don't know either." Cao Cao replied, "But since he arranged this way, it must be of deep meaning. You might as well taste it first and then consider it."
The three dukes also nodded one after another. Indeed, tasting is the key. Besides, the same is true in the order of the banquet itself.
The one I brought was a small plate with sauce inside, and you could vaguely smell the wine. There were about five shrimps in the middle of the plate, and the key was the color, not red, which meant that these were raw shrimps.
"Huadiao shrimp, Huadiao wine pickled shrimp, drunk shrimp, right?" Wang Yun looked at the shrimp on the plate and said.
"It was originally supposed to be marinated with Huadiao wine. When I took it out, I added a sauce. I could vaguely smell the sour taste of lime, which was very refreshing. The floating one should be pulp of perilla, white one should be garlic." Cao Cao looked carefully and said.
"Raw shrimp?" At the first place, Peng Qi looked at the shrimps on the plate curiously.
"Drunk shrimps are, after all, pickled products. They must be marinated with good rice wine to taste fresh. As literally, the drunk shrimps should be marinated with Huadiao wine." Liu Xie replied, "Using salt, or using smoke, is the first method of human beings to preserve meat for a long time. Therefore, prey hunted in autumn can be eaten in winter because of the pickled relationship. It is precisely because of this method that humans can learn that it will not be so difficult in winter."
"That's right, our tribe pickles a lot of meat every year to maintain the cost of winter." Peng Qi nodded.
"For the banquet, the main purpose of the appetizer is to be appetizer. The occurrence rate of pickled and smoked products is very high. I remember he submitted two sets of recipes. The first set was raw ham with cheese, which tasted good, but later I chose this set." Liu Xie replied. The main purpose was raw ham with cheese. She had eaten it, but she was more curious about drunk shrimp.
"So that's it. If you're appetizing, this is really good." Peng Qi nodded, and after Liu Xie put down the chopsticks, he also started to put them down.
The shape of the shrimp is retained to the greatest extent, but the shrimp feet and shrimp whiskers have obviously been carefully trimmed. Just this feeling, Peng Qi thinks this dish should be very good.
Put it in your mouth, of course, you bite it from the middle part. Perhaps it has not been cooked. The shell is not that hard, and the crispy and puffy feel is similar to the cartilage, and it tastes good when chewed. After breaking through the shell, the sauce that has already penetrated into it splashed out and poured on the tongue, sour and sweet, accompanied by the unique fragrance of perilla and garlic.
The fishy smell of shrimp is removed to the maximum extent. The chewy shrimp meat is wrapped in crispy shrimp shells and chewed in the mouth. A delicious smell quickly wraps around the tip of the tongue.
In an instant, the picture of shrimp jumping out of the water appeared in my brain. It was so full of vitality and vitality.
"Wine is a good wine, and shrimp is also a good shrimp!" Peng Qi sighed. This dish alone gives people a great sense of enjoyment. "In fact, what I am most curious about is the shrimp itself. The shrimp does not seem to be river shrimp, the meat is more slippery and very delicious!"
"This is a shrimp. The Towanshi House quickly transported it from the sea. It was kept with sea water all the way and changed water every day. Even so, at least half of the shrimps were dead when transported to Xudu." Wang Yong's figure appeared behind the two. He not only had to be responsible for the explanation of the banquet, but also guarded Liu Xie and Liu Feng.
"Why don't you pickle it on the way? I thought it had been pickled a long time ago..." Peng Qi was a little surprised.
"For the sake of the deliciousness of the shrimp meat, the freshly marinated drunk shrimps and the drunk shrimps that have been stored for a while are a little surprised. The umami taste will not be so pure, and the meat will not be so exciting." Wang Yong replied.
"So a simple dish is actually not simple, right?" Peng Qi asked back.
"No, no, no, I just hope you can fully enjoy the deliciousness of drunk shrimp. Drunk shrimp is drunk shrimp. After all, it is shrimp marinated in wine. If the transportation cost is not considered, it is actually just that." Wang Yong replied.
Indeed, if you really want to calculate it, you can also make such drunk shrimp with ordinary rice wine and river shrimp. However, the quality is good, there is no way to put some effort into the ingredients.
But it is not deny that this is an act of showing off wealth. In order to eat fresh shrimp, you must not only buy it from the coastal area, but also transport it here in a very short time. As I said before, nearly 50% of them died on the road, which shows how high the cost is.
Moreover, being able to do this is also a reflection of the material and financial resources of the Han Dynasty. If they weren’t there, they wouldn’t have done this at all!
On the other hand, everyone started to taste the part of the three men. The deliciousness of the shrimps in the mouth is indeed fascinating. I know that this thing is fresh, but to exert the umami flavor to this level, the drunk shrimps are indeed great.
"Speaking of this, it seems that there are things like shrimp sashimi?" Dong Cheng thought for a while.
"That's just the umami flavor of the shrimp itself..." Wang Yun pointed to the sauce. "When the marinated Huadiao is marinated, the umami flavor of Huadiao will also penetrate into the shrimp. At the same time, under the action of other ingredients, the umami flavor will be superimposed, which will bring such delicious results. This is something that simple shrimp sashimi can't do."
"Soth sour and sweet, both taste and taste are indeed first-class. Drunk shrimps are indeed a great choice as the beginning. After eating the five, they felt enjoying the taste, but they began to look forward to the next dishes. In this way, as an appetizer, this dish is indeed qualified! However, the mystery has not been solved..." Yang Biao commented.
Chapter completed!