Chapter 795: Supreme Deliciousness
Su Yu and Ling Xiaotian have a very good personal relationship, and Xia Ruofei is relatively familiar with him, and they have eaten a few meals together.
Su Yu knew the relationship between Xia Ruofei and Ling Qingxue, so he also regarded Xia Ruofei as a nephew from the bottom of his heart, otherwise, with a corporate executive with a net worth of at least tens of millions, the executive chef was almost no longer engaged in specific cooking work, and it would be impossible for him to agree to come over and cook for people.
After the anchovy was put down, Xia Ruofei warmly beckoned Su Yu to sit down beside him.
Then he said to everyone: "Mr. Tang, Brother Lin, and Researcher Zheng, let me introduce to you, Uncle Su is the executive chef of Ling Kee Restaurant Group, and I was specially invited to cook this dish this time!"
Tang Weiran originally saw Su Yu wearing a chef's uniform, and thought he was the chef of Taoyuan Farm, until he heard Xia Ruofei call him "Uncle Su", and then introduced him as the executive chef of Ling Ji Restaurant Group, and then reacted.
Although he is not clear about the situation of Ling Kee Catering, but the scale that can be called a "group" is generally not small, although it is not excluded that some small companies also call themselves "groups" without shame, and also have several subsidiaries, but in most cases, the scale of the group company is still quite large.
What's more, this is still a friendship with Xia Ruofei.
So Tang Weiran didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said to Su Yu across Xia Ruofei: "It turned out to be Mr. Su, hard work!"
Su Yu took off his tall chef's hat and carefully put it aside, before he said with a smile: "You're welcome, today I heard that there is a wild Yangtze River anchovy, and I have itchy hands, so I will come and try it by the way!"
Xia Ruofei saw that Su Yu had already revealed the answer, so he stopped selling Guan Zi, and said with a smile: "Everyone, this is the new dish I want to introduce to you today! Steamed anchovies! This is our Taoyuan Farm to imitate the wild environment of breeding, the fry are cultivated through wild Yangtze River anchovies, if I remember correctly, it should be the only one in China and even the world!"
Then Xia Ruofei smiled again and said: "Uncle Su's cooking skills are needless to say, and he is also very good at cooking anchovies! So I specially invited him to come over and take charge of the cooking today, everyone is blessed! Uncle Su, please introduce this dish to everyone!"
"Okay!" Su Yu said with a hearty smile, "I grew up by the Yangtze River, when I was a child, I once tasted the pure taste of wild Yangtze River anchovy, and later joined the chef's profession, and I was fortunate to worship a master, specializing in learning a few hands of anchovy cooking skills, and later because of environmental reasons and overfishing, wild Yangtze River anchovy has basically disappeared, and the taste of childhood has never been tasted again." However, there are still some American anchovies on the market, so the skill of cooking anchovy has not been left behind, and you can comment on this steamed anchovy in a while!"
Then, Su Yu pointed to this steamed anchovy and said: "Steamed anchovy is a traditional famous dish in my hometown of southern Jiangsu, remove the fishy smell in boiling water after removing the gills and internal organs of the anchovy, put ham slices, mushroom slices, bamboo shoots and other accessories on the fish, and then add cooked lard, sugar, refined salt, dried shrimp, cooking wine, chicken soup and other seasonings, and steam it for about 20 minutes to get out of the basket." ”
Feng Jing sniffed and said with a smile: "Mr. Su, just smelling this fragrance is already mouth-watering!"
"Then what are you waiting for, let's go!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile.
Xia Ruofei picked up the chopsticks and took a piece of fish meat.
He also had some knowledge of anchovies, and said with a smile while clipping them: "You see, these fish scales are deliberately retained, because anchovies are different from other fish, its scales are rich in high-quality fat and glial protein, and after cooking, they will be semi-melted gelatinous, and the taste is very unique." If you remove the scales when cooking anchovies, it's old-fashioned!"
After hearing this, Su Yu also nodded with a smile and agreed very much.
Xia Ruofei held the fish and said, "Uncle Su, you have worked hard today!
Su Yu waved his hand again and again, and said with a smile: "I'm here to eat and drink today, how can I take the lead?
Xia Ruofei couldn't help but put the fish meat on the plate in front of Su Yu, and said: "Today, everyone is thanks to you to be able to taste the almost extinct Yangtze River anchovies, you should come out on top!"
Su Yu could only smile and nodded, "That's okay!
Then Xia Ruofei picked up another piece, and when he was about to give it to Tang Weiran, Tang Weiran immediately refused: "Mr. Xia, you can't help it! Everyone has no opinion on the first piece for Mr. Su, but you have to eat this piece yourself! Otherwise, it will be really noisy!"
Xia Ruofei saw Tang Weiran's resolute attitude, so he turned to Feng Jing again, and before Xia Ruofei could speak, Feng Jing immediately covered the plate in front of her, and said with a smile: "I don't dare to ask the leader to serve me......"
Xia Ruofei looked around, and his eyes fell on Jiang Hua, the person in charge of the anchovy breeding workshop-this batch of anchovies were all bred under Jiang Hua's careful care, so when he harvested the fruits of his labor for the first time today, Xia Ruofei also invited this hero over.
"Jiang Hua, you have worked hard to raise anchovies these days!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "This piece of fish meat is rewarded to you!"
Jiang Hua also waved his hand with some trepidation and said, "Mr. Xia, don't dare to be......! I'll just clip it myself!"
Xia Ruofei couldn't say anything, and directly leaned over and picked up the plate in front of Jiang Hua, put the piece of fish meat on the plate, and then handed the plate over.
He said: "The business of anchovy farming can go so smoothly, you are the first to work!
"Thank you, Mr. Xia!" Jiang Hua said with some excitement in his heart.
Taking care of the anchovy is a very laborious thing, mainly because the courage of the anchovy is too small, and the slightest movement may cause the whole pond of anchovy to turn white, so Jiang Hua has always been cautious, and it can be said that he is devoted to this work.
Now that the achievements have been affirmed by the company's leaders, Jiang Hua's sense of achievement is also very strong.
Of course, the only question now is what is the taste of this Yangtze anchovy cultivated in a wild environment? Can it be compared with the real wild Yangtze anchovy? What will be the difference in taste compared to the American anchovy? All these will be revealed today.
Thinking of this, Jiang Hua looked at the crystal white fish meat on the small plate in front of him, both excited and apprehensive.
Xia Ruofei said with a smile: "Since everyone is so humble, then I won't serve one by one, everyone will take what they need!"
"This is good, this is good!" Tang Weiran said with a smile, "Mr. Xia will come first!"
After so much foreshadowing, Tang Weiran is also full of expectations for the taste of this steamed anchovies.
Xia Ruofei did not shirk, and immediately sandwiched a piece of fish meat close to the tail, the scales of this part are finer and the meat is more tender.
"You're welcome, everyone!" Xia Ruofei said as he clamped it, "Do it yourself!"
Seeing that Xia Ruofei had already started, everyone also stretched out their chopsticks.
Su Yu reminded with a smile: "Everyone has ginger vinegar dishes in front of them, and it tastes better when dipped and eaten!"
Xia Ruofei nodded, looked at the small dish in front of him, a small piece of fish meat was very delicate, and the silver scales on it were layered, which looked very dazzling under the light.
He picked up the fish, dipped it in ginger vinegar on a saucer, and put it in his mouth in anticipation.
The first thing I bit into was the gelatinous fish scales, they had completely softened, a bit like the taste of jelly, the teeth easily sunk in, and after passing through the fish scale layer, it was fish, Xia Ruofei felt that the meat of the anchovy seemed to be fatter than ordinary fish, but it was not greasy at all, but there was a refreshing feeling.
Xia Ruofei chewed instinctively, it was as tender as tender tofu, but there was a strange fragrance that could not be described in words, and all the taste bud cells seemed to cheer at the same time at this moment.
Fat but not greasy, and fragrant, these two adjectives are no longer the panacea in food shows, but they are very apt to show the true taste of anchovies.
"It's delicious!" Xia Ruofei couldn't help but slurred his words.
And everyone has already begun to taste the delicious anchovies, and for a while there is no one at the table who speaks, only the sound of chewing.
Su Yu seemed to have a pilgrimage-like expression on his face, savoring the taste of anchovy one bite at a time, and his eyes became a little moist.
After eating this piece of fish, Su Yu let out a long sigh.
Xia Ruofei's heart tightened, and asked, "Uncle Su, this taste is wrong, is there a gap with the wild Yangtze River shad, right?"
He felt in his heart that this should not be possible! His taste has been nourished by Taoyuan vegetables, but after tasting today's steamed anchovies, he was still shocked, such a delicious taste should not be worse than the authentic Yangtze River anchovies, right?
With a hint of excitement, Su Yu said, "Xiao Xia, this is the taste of my childhood! How many years...... I didn't think I'd be able to taste this familiar delicacy again...... I feel that today's steamed anchovy is even more delicious than the wild Yangtze anchovy I've eaten before!"
The dish that Su Yu praised was made by himself, but everyone didn't feel weird after listening to it, because this steamed anchovy was really ...... It's so delicious!
Feng Jing, Jiang Hua and others almost didn't swallow their tongues, and Tang Weiran and a few other Tongrentang people didn't perform much better, the temptation of food is solidified in human genes, and this primitive desire can't be controlled at all when it encounters the real supreme delicacy.
Jiang Hua was secretly relieved while eating, and his last trace of worry disappeared......
Xia Ruofei smiled and said, "Maybe you haven't eaten Yangtze River anchovy for many years, and the expectations in your heart are too strong, so you feel that the taste is particularly good this time." ”
Su Yu couldn't wait to take another piece of anchovies, dip it in ginger vinegar and put it in his mouth, and then nodded inarticulate and said, "Maybe! But I haven't tasted this taste for a long time......
Xia Ruofei asked with some curiosity, "Uncle Su, how does it compare to American anchovies?"
Su Yu gulped down the fish, then spit out the fish bones, and said impatiently: "Xiao Xia, let me tell you this! There is no comparison between the two at all! Compared with this authentic Yangtze River anchovy, the taste of American anchovy is simply a lump of ......."
Speaking of this, Su Yu closed his mouth in time - this is meal time, if he says this sentence without any cover, it will really affect everyone's appetite a little.
After Tang Weiran heard this, she didn't agree with it in her heart.
As a senior executive of a state-owned enterprise, there are few delicious foods that he has not tasted, and he has eaten a lot of those strange game, and it is naturally not the first time he has eaten anchovies.
However, as Su Yu said before, because of the environment and overfishing, the wild Yangtze River anchovy has almost extinct, and the anchovy that Tang Weiran has eaten is actually the American anchovy that has been artificially bred in China - the price of this kind of anchovy is also quite high, and ordinary people can't afford to eat it - Tang Weiran feels that although the steamed anchovy tasted obviously better this time, it is not as exaggerated as Su Yu said.
Maybe this is caused by feelings, right? Tang Weiran said secretly in his heart, but his subordinates were not slow, and soon the second piece of anchovy meat was also stuffed into his mouth.
Although Xia Ruofei felt that Su Yu's words were a bit heavy, he still grinned happily.
The taste is so good, and the taste is significantly improved compared to the American anchovy sold at a high price on the market, then it is basically certain that this batch of Yangtze anchovy farming has been a great success!
What does that mean? Bills! Lots of bills! And a steady stream of bills -- the anchovies in the anchovy farming workshop are made in batches, and they can be sold almost every month.
And Xia Ruofei still clearly remembers that Ling Xiaotian got two wild Yangtze River anchovies - it was these two anchovies that multiplied in space, so that Xia Ruofei obtained a steady stream of anchovy fry, and these two anchovies, Ling Xiaotian bought them at a price of 3,000 yuan a catty.
The current scale of the anchovy breeding workshop, it is easy to produce 1,000 anchovies every month, according to 2000 catties - the size of the anchovy is generally smaller, and the monomer is about one catty, and the anchovy of Taoyuan Farm because of the Lingxin flower petal solution, so it can basically reach about 2 catties, and at least more than six million yuan can be obtained every month, which is tens of millions a year.
Moreover, the consumption of anchovy is getting hotter and hotter, and the taste of anchovy cultivated in Taoyuan Farm is even better than that of wild Yangtze River anchovy - if Su Yu's memory is not biased - then the price may be more than 3,000 yuan, so the income will be higher.
Thinking of this, Xia Ruofei's mood was even better, and he frequently beckoned everyone to drink and eat.
A small anchovy was quickly divided and eaten, and everyone felt a little unsatisfied.