The beginning is only when you become a chef

Chapter 88 The Catfish You Want (Subscription Request)
"Here, Boss Xia, the catfish you wanted."

After a while, Yang Jinli returned, followed by a staff member who was delivering food.

Xia An took a look.

This fish was obviously just fished out of the water tank. It was still very alive and struggling in the net bag.

In fact, there are many types of catfish in China. It is a mindless act to label catfish as "sewage fish", "shit-eating fish", and "grown up eating garbage".

The real Chinese giant catfish has fat, tender and delicious meat with few bones, and soft, chewy and springy skin.

E.g.

The native catfish that Xia An specifically requested has extremely high requirements for living water quality and cannot survive in sewage.

Of course, the southern largemouth catfish, the northern cold water catfish, and the European catfish with black and gray skin are also catfish that grow up in normal water quality.

And the stigma of catfish.

Where does it come from?
The mudskipper, a member of the mudskipper family, is a complete shame to catfish.

Their official scientific name is catfish.

However, the real "shit-water fish", strictly speaking, is the Egyptian catfish, also known as the Egyptian pond catfish!

It is an extremely omnivorous animal and can grow very large even if it eats a lot of food.

It has great vitality and can even wallow in sewage.

Not to mention artificial breeding.

It is best not to eat wild Egyptian mullet because you really don’t know what it eats to grow up.

As the name suggests, the Egyptian mudskipper was introduced into China during a special period in the last century to cope with the food shortage crisis. After all, it is really good at eating, grows fast, and has a very high yield. It is a special attack fish in the era of material scarcity.

While processing native catfish and killing fish in Cheyenne.

The program team’s test live broadcast began.

The temporary passage, which lasted only 5 minutes, was flooded with people who were curious about the situation.

"Where is Boss Xia?"

"Master Ball capture, in the seventh live broadcast room!"

"Hey, including Boss Xia, this lineup is pretty good. There are foreign chefs like Chalmers and Shinomiya Kojiro, and there is also the talented young chef Liu Shimeng of the Liu family's generation..."

"Hey, where did you put the other three famous chefs in the country? Those who can make the starting lineup are all the top nine stars!"

At the same time, because it is a preview and rehearsal.

The celebrity chef contestants are all relaxed.

Liu Shimeng even came to Xia An's kitchen to "visit", making no attempt to hide the fact that she was a die-hard fan of Boss Xia.

"Hello, Boss Xia!"

Liu Shimeng came nearby and said hello.

But Yang Jinli put her finger to her lips and made a hushing gesture very seriously.

At this moment, Liu Shimeng and her agent who came with her were both stunned.

In Cheyenne's open kitchen.

A piece of boneless fish meat was beaten repeatedly and vigorously.

boom!
boom!
The sound is powerful and rhythmic, as the fish rises and falls on the wooden chopping board.

The originally tender and soft fish meat was gradually beaten into a pool of snow-white meat paste.

"Is this 'fish green'?"

It was not until Xia An finished pounding the second piece of fish and put the minced fish into the cooking bowl that he heard a curious voice suddenly coming from outside the kitchen counter.

"Oh, you also know 'Yu Qing'?" Xia An looked up and found that it was Liu's talented young chef Liu Shimeng.

At first, Xia An didn't know her. After his agent Yang Jinli introduced the opponents of the starting lineup to him in detail one by one, he realized that Liu Shimeng was the young leader of Liu's generation and represented the emerging force of Liu.

"I know!"

Liu Shimeng smiled very sweetly, showing her little tiger teeth:

“Although the term “fish green” is only used in the Lingnan and Guangdong regions, it is usually made with small fresh dace fish.”

"But my ancestor was the great chef Liu Maoxing after all. He went to Guangzhou Yangquan Restaurant to learn from a master and mastered Cantonese cuisine to the level of a master. Later, he traveled all over China and embarked on an outrageous path of combining the skills of hundreds of schools and mastering everything!"

Xia An was surprised.

Based on the original story.

The Liu family, that is, the main branch of Liu Shimeng, should not be the descendants of Sister Liu Maoxing and the Flying Monkey King Zhu Qi?

Could it be that Liu Maoxing and Zhou Meili had children later?

Of course, there is also a possibility that Liu Shimeng and other descendants of the Liu family are always flattering themselves.

Forget it.

Xia An is not entangled.

He was feeling slightly excited now.

Seize the mood of the moment and work hard on developing dishes, and you will usually get good results!
"Then the next step is——"

Xia An added appropriate amounts of flour and salt to the fish paste preparation bowl, and then broke two or three duck eggs, taking only the egg whites, and then slightly stirred them together with the flour and fish paste.

"Jinli, help me get that box." Xia An turned to the sink, turned on the faucet to wash his hands, and did not forget to ask Yang Jinli to bring the suitcase he brought over.

"box?"

Yang Jinli glanced around and found that when she came to the kitchen just now, Xia An had casually placed a large suitcase under the window.

She moved the box to Xia An obediently. Click.

The box opens.

I saw Xia An take out two short sticks and then put them together into a long alloy stick.

Use a wet or dry cloth to wipe clean repeatedly and carefully.

"laugh--"

The long stick was suddenly inserted into the dough that was just mixed with fish paste and flour.

Witness this scene.

Yang Jinli and Liu Shimeng's beautiful eyes suddenly widened.

"This is?"

"and many more……"

This scene seemed to have aroused the forgotten blood memories.

Both of them shuddered.

Before they could ask.

Xia An's fingers took the lead in using a strange technique to pinch the alloy stick in his palm, and his five fingers flexibly manipulated the stick to draw circular motions!

Simultaneously.

Xia An's wrist sank slightly, and the entire wrist was performing circular motion with the wrist joint as the center!

As for the alloy stick itself.

Controlled by fingers and driven by circular movements of wrist.

It actually spiraled up at high speed!

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

The alloy stick spun faster and faster, even making a sound of wind.

The fish paste and flour that were just mixed quickly turned into a white and smooth dough, wrapped around the pastry stick and stretched infinitely.

Live footage of the show.

There are also the perspectives of Yang Jinli and Liu Shimeng.

This scene.

It's like a white snake entangled and climbing up!

It tightly wrapped around the long pastry stick in Xia An's hand, and swung its tail out to an unknown distance.

Finally, a few minutes later.

Xia An put away the stick.

Long strips of dough, as smooth and delicate as a white snake, are spread out in circles on the kitchen counter.

Seeing this, Xia An shook his head unsatisfiedly:
"Based on the accomplishments of the Pastry King Logan, when the stunt ends and the stick is retracted, a complete piece of dough should be obtained directly."

But it is not a big problem. You just need to use your hands to knead these long strips into round dough, and then follow the conventional process of letting the dough rest.

Cover the dough with a damp cloth.

At this time, a weak voice came from behind Xia An:

"This is the White Snake Chain, right?!"

Xia An turned around and met Liu Shimeng's eyes, which were wide open. The girl's pretty face was full of horror.

"As you can see, it's the White Snake Chain." Xia An smiled. It's already this time, why is he still acting as a riddler?

And at the same time.

Main monitoring station.

Dead!

The scene playing on the large screen in the middle happened to be the moment when Xia An put away the stick and stood up.

"I seem to have seen a legendary stunt?" After a while, one of the staff members swallowed and said this.

"It's not like that, this must be the special skill of that store!"

The assistant director sitting on the chair said in a hoarse voice: "Otherwise, how can we explain that outrageous and mysterious spiral technique!"

"Hello, Director Gao?"

"Director Gao!"

It took a young man behind the scenes to pat Gao Shengqi on the shoulder to wake up the dazed famous director.

As soon as Gao Shengqi came to his senses, he excitedly growled:
"Now, cut off the signal!"

"Interrupt the live broadcast!"

"Why?" Everyone in the room was puzzled.

"This is a gimmick, understand me!" Gao Shengqi said with a tone of disappointment, his face slightly grim. "The short clip that just leaked is enough to create a huge gimmick of recreating the stunt in the Chinese food world!"

"At this time, the production team is trying to hide the truth and deliberately spark discussion on the Internet!"

Done.

The control room was filled with Gao Shengqi's unbridled laughter:
"Hahaha, this wave of wealth is like a shower of fortune falling on our heads. Our production team must catch it!"

　Update 2/4~! !
　　My child had a fever while teething and I was anxious all day. I could only write at night.
　　At least finish coding yesterday’s update tonight!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)