Living in the Hong Kong Film World

Chapter 448 Soup Yellow Fish
"You help Master Ou win this game, and I'll help you find your wife, how about it?"

Liao Jie was stunned for a moment, he remembered that he seemed to have answered this question.

He wanted to refuse, but the words came to his lips, but he couldn't say anything.

Five years, he has escaped for five years, is he really going to continue to escape?
Because of the failure of his sense of taste, he still had reasons to deceive himself, but now that his sense of taste has recovered, why is there any reason to continue to sink?
What am I resenting?
what do i want
Liao Jie kept asking himself.

The answer was obvious, and he himself had known it all along.

"I've always regretted..."

Liao Jie raised his reddened eyes: "I should finish the soup with yellow croaker."

Feinan understood what he meant. He didn't mean that he didn't love his wife. He regretted that he had worked hard for so long, but flinched at the last moment. Not only did his efforts go to waste, but also his wife's previous sacrifices and efforts seemed meaningless. significance.

Not only was he sorry for his wife and unborn child, but he was even more sorry for himself. He broke his most precious things with his own hands.

"You still have a chance."

Feinan patted him on the shoulder, got up and walked towards the kitchen, shouting, "Master Liao is going to make soup with yellow croakers! Master Ou, is there any fish?"

"Have!"

Hearing the voice from the kitchen, Liao Jie sat at the table, his heart was in a mess, his hands trembling slightly.

After a long time, he took a deep breath and clenched his fists tightly.

After five years, it's time to make a break.

He stood up and walked towards the kitchen with steady steps.

In the kitchen, Feinan was standing behind the desk. In front of him was a brand-new chef uniform and a rather old wooden box.

Seeing the wooden box, Liao Jie couldn't move anymore.

That's his kitchen utensils.

"Master Liao, today it will be returned to its original owner." Feinan smiled and stretched out his hand.

Liao Jie stroked the wooden box, raised his head, his lips were trembling, but he didn't say anything, he just looked at Feinan gratefully.

"The big yellow croaker is here!"

Ou Zhaofeng held a large basin and put it on the table, a large yellow croaker slowly swimming in the basin, spitting bubbles.

"Please!"

Ou Zhaofeng stretched out his hand.

Liao Jie reached out to pick up the chef's uniform, shook it off and put it on, then put on the chef's hat, and carefully stuffed his hair into the chef's hat without leaving a single gap.

Immediately, he picked up the kitchen utensils box, went to the sink, washed his hands carefully, took out the kitchen utensils in the box one by one, cleaned them carefully, and dried them with a brand new rag.

As he cleaned, the kitchen utensils became clean and bright again, and his hands became calm little by little, no longer trembling.

Seeing him cleaning the kitchen utensils, Long Kunbao was very moved.

He is really back.

The way he cleaned the kitchen utensils was the same as back then, with the same seriousness and meticulousness.

Looking at his steady hands, Long Kunbao was a little excited.

Finally, I can see his knife skills again, and only his steady hands can carve such exquisite tofu carvings underwater.

After cleaning the kitchen utensils, Liao Jie returned to the table. At this moment, he finally has the demeanor of a famous chef.

The big yellow croaker was swimming in the basin, and Liao Jie shook his hand over it, and it suddenly jumped up with a crash, causing water to splash everywhere.

Large yellow croaker is one of the four major marine products. The meat is firm and delicious. It can be steamed, boiled, or made into soft-shelled turtles.

With people's overfishing, its quantity has become less and less, and farmed products have gradually occupied the market, but diners who know how to eat still prefer large yellow croaker caught in the sea.

This large yellow croaker was obviously caught in the sea, full of wildness, ready to resist at any time.

Liao Jie knew by visual inspection that this large yellow croaker weighed at least three catties, which was a rare treasure.

It is not the flood season for large yellow croakers right now, and it is even more difficult to catch such a large large yellow croaker. If it is done badly, it will undoubtedly be a waste of money.

Yellow croaker in soup is a famous dish in the Manchu banquet, and it is also a Kung Fu dish, which is somewhat similar to the fried stuffed dace in Shunde.

Fried stuffed dace is to remove the fish meat and fish bones, then cut into minced fish, stuff it into the fish, and fry it until cooked.

For soup-filled yellow croakers, the whole fish is deboned, fried until it is set, then poured into soup, fried until set, and then thickened with sauce and eaten.

What both of them have in common is that both require very delicate knife work, and cannot damage the fish body, which is very easy to fail.

But the difficulty and value of the latter far exceed the former.

Large yellow croakers weighing less than two catties cannot be filled with soup. Firstly, they are too small to be deboned, and secondly, they cannot be filled with much soup.

The large yellow croakers used to fill the soup must be at least 4 years old and weigh no less than three catties.

Even today, a large yellow croaker of this level will not be less than a thousand yuan.

Liao Jie was not in a hurry, but said to Ou Zhaofeng: "I need to borrow water and eight treasures to make soup."

The difficulty of filling soup with yellow croakers lies in the cooking of the soup. The so-called soup filling does not mean opening the mouth of the fish and pouring hot soup into it, but boiling Shui Bazhen into a jelly soup, and then stuffing it into the belly of the yellow croaker. It takes a lot of work to cook.

The so-called water eight treasures are shark fin, abalone, fish lips, sea cucumber, skirt, scallops, clams and pearl soup balls, half of which need to be soaked in advance.

The soup jelly must be stewed for 24 hours, so that the umami taste can be stimulated to the extreme.

Fortunately, Ou Zhaofeng was preparing the Manchu banquet, and there were plenty of these soaked ingredients, and because he was preparing the abalone juice buckle fish maw, Ou Zhaofeng just boiled a pot of abalone juice on the stove, which could be used.

All soups and dishes that focus on umami cannot lack the shadow of dried abalone and ham, which are the base of umami.

These two ingredients require a long time of stewing to bring out the full flavor, and they are the key to time-consuming.

So with ready-made abalone juice, Liao Jie saved a lot of time.

The main ingredients in Ou Zhaofeng’s abalone sauce use dried abalone, scallops and fish lips. These three are the most time-consuming ingredients. Liao Jie only needs to add the rest of the ingredients, and then use the most time-consuming clam The stewing time of the toad is used as the benchmark, and another hour and a half of cooking is enough.

Liao Jie was methodical in handling the materials, his movements were flowing and smooth, and he was not in a hurry.

Putting the soup pot on the stove, he washed his hands again and prepared to fish.

Before handling the ingredients, he poured three cups of white wine into the big yellow croaker's pot, and when he came back from the soup pot, the wild big yellow croaker was already in a daze and drunk.

Holding the gills of the big yellow croaker with both hands, Liao Jie raised the big yellow croaker with a little effort.

The drunken big yellow croaker reacted half a beat slower, and only thought of resisting after leaving the water, but it was no longer fierce as it was before beating the air, and the struggle was futile.

Liao Jie took out a long and slender knife like a silver needle from the kitchen utensils box, and pierced the large yellow croaker directly into its brain from its gills. The large yellow croaker died instantly and stopped moving.

Afterwards, Liao Jie took out several odd-shaped knives from the box, and began to debone the large yellow croaker.

(End of this chapter)