Chapter 189: Chop Soup
At that moment, the two chatted about business again. Along the way, there are not a few pills that she has suppressed the Dan Furnace to refine Qiqi, Deng Hao has this need, so she naturally wants to supply it generously. In addition to the regular medicines, she also gave him several bottles of elixirs that could only be refined by monks.
This thing may not be sold, but it is a good gift for others. After all, for mortals, the Immortal Family Pill is a treasure that is hard to find.
Coming out of Deng Hao, Tu Duan sneered: "Mortals are just making a profit, and this small profit has to be calculated repeatedly." Although he didn't enter Deng Hao's main hall, he could hear it clearly when he waited outside.
Ning Xiaoxian glanced at him and said with a smile: "If mortals weren't so greedy, your wisp of clone would have disappeared in the sealed land long ago. What she said was that mortals were seduced by treasures and entered the secret realm of the "ladder to heaven" to send their essence, blood and soul.
Exhausted for a while.
Ning Xiaoxian intends to spend a few days in Anping City. This is not only her idea, but also the calculation of everyone in Anping City. Because at this time, even the common people knew that the day of the emperor's syrup was the time when the demons danced. If it weren't for the earth-shattering changes, no one would leave the city at this time to make themselves uncomfortable.
That's why so many people gathered in Anping City.
That afternoon, He Xiaojiu volunteered to be her tour guide. As a qualified foodie, he always finds local produce with his excellent sense of smell whenever he arrives at a new location. What's more, Anping City, he arrived three days earlier than Ning Xiaoxian.
Gourmets know that food must be hidden in the deep alleys.
It's like the chef of a five-star hotel and the chef of a roadside food stall, the same thing is made by two people, but the flavor is different. Of course, the chef's craftsmanship is exquisite, but there are bound to be customers who just like the home-style taste of the food stalls.
Ning Xiaoxian was determined to be a senior diner, so He Xiaojiu took her nine turns and eighteen turns. In the end, I found a small restaurant with a dilapidated façade.
The restaurant looks decades old, and the crumbling sign at the entrance is almost unrecognizable, with a giant bull running on it, but it is very expressive with a few brushstrokes. When I walked in, there was a lot of space inside, but there were only the simplest square tables and benches, but fortunately the table top and floor were still clean.
The store was packed. But strangely not many people spoke. When the food was served, everyone was immersed in eating, and the hall was filled with the sound of snoring when drinking soup. Ten minutes later, the guests wiped their mouths after eating, got up and left. There are more than a dozen tables in this restaurant, and the restaurant shuttles through the restaurant constantly delivering food and collecting dishes, and is so busy that they are sweating profusely.
She could see it while she waited outside the store. This restaurant only serves two types of food. Chop soup and naan cakes. When she and He Xiaojiu sat down, the little second brother smashed the two huge bowls heavily, and then turned around and left.
You can drink chop soup all over the streets of Anping City, this kind of food is one of the favorite meals of the locals, but He Xiaojiu specially brought her here, which can only show that the food in this store tastes the most right. This kind of food is boiled with the water (i.e., internal organs) of cattle and sheep, and the belly, tongue, heart, and intestines should be washed separately, and the blood foam and peculiar smell should be removed with hot water. Cut into thin slices and put them in the beef broth, which has already been revealed. Simmer for three hours until all ingredients are crispy and chewy.
She took a sip gently, and a mellow and heavy aroma unique to beef and sheep brushed her taste buds, but the original smell of these two meats had disappeared. The hot soup was steaming, and with a few gentle spoons, the snow-white hairy belly floated and sank in the bowl. As soon as you take a bite of it, the soup is magical, stimulating diners to take a big gulp. Ning Xiaoxian almost resisted the urge to pick up the bowl and take a big sip of the soup, and when he looked up, the male guests around him were carrying the bowl and "sighing" and pouring it happily.
After a few sips, she finally knew why the chop soup was so popular here. This soup is faithful to the original taste of meat, and it has a bit of the taste of Chinese-style soup, simple and delicious.
It was already November, and when I woke up in the morning, there were still frost flowers on the yellow grass and dead trees outside. Walking in from the cold outdoors and drinking such a bowl of hot soup with your neck up, it warms your heart and stomach, which is really the most simple enjoyment of human beings.
Each small shop adds its own secret recipe, and Ning Xiaoxian tasted the spicy taste in this bowl of soup, which comes from a condiment that Chinese people are quite familiar with: pepper seeds. In addition to the smell and fragrance, the pepper also tastes wonderful. Instead of grinding the pepper seeds, the pepper seeds are fried in advance to bring out the flavor. It seems that pepper has also been developed in this world, and it is being used very well.
Ning Xiaoxian also recognized another flavor in the soup, namely hawthorn. The sweet and sour fruity flavor of hawthorn just neutralizes the greasy feeling of sheep and beef fat, and the taste of the soup is fresher, and it also has a very important role: when cooked with beef and sheep, the meat is crispy faster.
In front of her, He Xiaojiu didn't eat slowly, but he didn't know how much more elegant he ate than the guests around him. He laughed in a low voice: "The chop soup here is not surprising for the sheep to go into the water, but the cow is made from the giant ox." Although this cow is large, the meat is very delicious, and it likes to eat horley grass, and the soup has a faint herbal aroma. "Huomai grass is a kind of aquatic weed, which can be found everywhere in Leizhou, where the water network is all over the place.
"Another secret, there is a hot spring behind the restaurant, and it is especially sweet to use this spring water for cooking. The owner of this shop was also lucky, he first bought the land without a spring, and the next year there was a drought, he dug a well in the backyard to get water, and he dug a hot spring. The fountain belongs to him, and no one else has the right to touch it. ”
Ning Xiaoxian nodded, the example of using spring water to cook rice has long been heard, but the minerals contained in the spring water are different, and not the water quality of each spring is suitable for cooking. The owner of this small restaurant is indeed lucky.
As he spoke, the food in the bowl was almost finished, and it was time to choose whether to add beef meatballs or naan cakes. The restaurant owner's youngest son is said to be an apprentice blacksmith, and he doesn't know how to make iron, but his ability to hammer meatballs by hand must be the pinnacle. The meat puree here has to be hammered for two hours to form balls, and each blow requires even force, which has excellent elasticity. There happened to be a table of guests who also brought their friends to eat, and in order to demonstrate, they threw the meatballs on the ground, but after hitting the ground, they bounced up without hesitation, almost hitting their friends in the eye. What's even more rare is that the meatballs still maintain a considerable amount of gravy, and it is still easy to burst out of the pulp when you bite into it, and the meat is full of aroma.
Naan is a piece of bread the size of an adult man's palm. After the dough is kneaded repeatedly, butter and chives are added, and then the dough is cooked. Diners here scoop up the food from the chop soup and then break the naan into small pieces and dip them in the soup and wait a minute for them to be eaten. At this time, the cake has absorbed the soup and becomes soft and fine, which is very delicious.
Ning Xiaoxian was not reserved, he killed a bowl of chop soup, added beef balls once, and tried a piece of naan cake, which made He Xiaojiu next to him dumbfounded. He had never seen Ning Xiaoxian's real appetite, but fortunately, the people next to him were busy eating, and the two of them were dressed very ordinarily, not too eye-catching.
The food here seems to be the "fast food" route of later generations, without knives and forks, you can directly use a spoon and hands to solve the problem of eating, and it is indeed called good quality and cheap, an adult man can eat and drink enough for only eight silver coins, so diners come and go, but the tables and chairs in the store are never idle.
After drinking the hot soup, He Xiaojiu led her through a few streets to the door of another small shop. There is only take-out here, no dine-in, and there are still a lot of people lined up outside the store, but most of them are women. The hot dish here is yogurt paste, which is fermented with milk to a thick paste, with berries added and drizzled with a little honey. Strangely, although it is cold outside, this yogurt will no longer coagulate into hard lumps, and can basically maintain a soft and smooth texture. Eating such a sweet and sour cold snack with a taste of wine on a cold day is a challenge to the stomach, but there is another taste in the heart, which is the great love of many girls.
He Xiaojiu took her to find a lot of local snacks, which were basically distributed in the alleys. Although these foods are not delicate, they are very distinctive, and they will have a lingering aftertaste after eating.
The next two days were calm and uneventful. Xia Banhua's subordinates still had trouble with the Yunhu caravan, but Ning Xiaoxian, as an outsider, didn't want to take care of it and didn't have the right to take care of it. At this moment, she was sitting in the new house of the whistle, chatting with Tan Qinghe. How could Tu Duan want to listen to a woman's chatter about her parents' shortcomings, and silently sympathized with Lord Changtian, who didn't want to listen but still had to listen, and wandered around alone.
Since this pretty widow followed the whistle, her original beautiful appearance has become more and more glamorous, and she is obviously quite happy and satisfied with her current life.
Two into the courtyard, left and right wings, the yard is the same as Iwajo, digging a small pond to stock carp. Whistle is still an outlaw in his bones, although he used his old book to buy this house, the head of the household wrote the name of Tan Qinghe. Now that the Yunhu caravan has been merged into the Qingfeng Chamber of Commerce, he may be able to come back every three or five months after that, and it is only fitting to arrange Tan Qinghe here.
The real name of the whistle is Hua Yunfeng. For so many years, he has been committed to making Hua Yunfeng invisible in the world. Therefore, for the sake of the safety of Tan's mother and son, no matter how deep the relationship between them is, they cannot get married. Although the etiquette and religion in this world are not prevalent, Tan Qinghe, as a mortal, is willing to follow the whistle without a name and no part, and this courage really makes Ning Xiaoxian speechless.
As he was talking, there was the sound of hurried footsteps outside the hospital. Ning Xiaoxian knew that this was the whistle that specially increased his steps to remind the people in the house that he was back. Although this man is ordinary in appearance, he is meticulous in heart. But listening to his pace, he seems to be a little anxious? (To be continued......)