The palace maids and eunuchs appeared one after another to help remove the wine and fruits. If you are appetizing, it is almost the same here, and the banquet is the theme. An excellent banquet can bring guests more than just taste enjoyment.

The body, mind, and even the soul, can be delighted enough by this feast. The tired mind can be soothed, and the scarred body and mind can be soothed.

Hua Tuo called it psychotherapy, which simply means when a certain level of happiness has been reached. The body instinctively thinks that it is in a 'healthy' state, and then begins to repair itself, at the cost of using the original life force of the diner, which means that it may affect the life expectancy. The good thing is that both injuries and dark injuries can be alleviated.

Cao Chun used to use this trick to alleviate the dark injury, so at the end of his life, his vitality was overdrawn, and because of the injury, the function of the organ had been weakened to the limit, so he passed away.

Many chefs have also tried to replace the vitality of the human body with the vitality of the ingredients, is it feasible...... However, if it can really be done, it is estimated that it is already the realm of 'kitchen god'.

Wang Yong is already a relatively top existence in the field of special chefs, even if he is unable to set foot in this field. After all, it's not as simple as 'equivalent exchange'......

"Appetizer - Huadiao shrimp!" The eunuch shouted, and the back kitchen brought the appetizers one after another.

"Huh?" Cao Cao was a little surprised when he heard this, and Sangong Jiuqing was also stunned when he heard this.

"When, for the banquet he is in charge of, the appetizer will be served before the 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." Cao Cao replied, "But since he arranged it like this, then there must be a deep meaning, you might as well taste it first, and then consider it." ”

Sangong also nodded one after another, indeed, tasting is the key. Besides, according to the order of the feast, the same is true of itself.

It was a small saucer with sauce inside, and you could vaguely smell the wine. In the middle of the plate, there are about five shrimp in a row, the key is the color, not red, which means that this is raw shrimp.

"Huadiao shrimp, Huadiao wine-pickled shrimp, drunken shrimp, right?" Wang Yun looked at the shrimp on the plate and said.

"Originally, it was supposed to be marinated in Huadiao wine, but when I took it out, I mixed it with another sauce. There is a faint smell of lime sourness, which is refreshing. Floating, it should be minced perilla, and white, it should be minced garlic. Cao Cao looked at it carefully and said.

"Raw shrimp?" On the first place, Peng Qi looked at the shrimp on the plate curiously.

"Drunken shrimp, in the end, is a pickled product. It must be pickled with good rice wine to make it taste fresh. As literally said, this drunken shrimp should be marinated in Huadiao wine. Liu Xie replied, "Using salt, or smoking and other methods are the first methods that human beings learned to preserve meat for a long time. As a result, the prey hunted in autumn can be eaten in winter because it has been pickled. It is precisely because mankind has learned this method that the winter will not be so difficult. ”

"It's also said that our tribe pickles a lot of meat every year to sustain the winter." Peng Qi nodded.

"For banquets, appetizers are mainly intended to be appetizing. There was a high rate of cured and smoked products, and I remember he handed over two sets of recipes, the first was raw ham with cheese, which tasted just as good, but then I chose this set anyway. Liu Xie replied. The main thing is raw ham with cheese, which she has already eaten, but she is more curious about drunken shrimp.

"I see, it's really good to be appetizing." Peng Qi nodded, and after Liu Xie put down his chopsticks, he also began to put down his chopsticks.

The shape of the shrimp has been preserved to the maximum, but the shrimp legs and whiskers have obviously been carefully trimmed, and Peng Qi thinks this dish should be very good.

Put it in the mouth, of course, it is bitten from the middle part, maybe it is not cooked, the shell is not so hard, the crispy puff feeling is similar to cartilage, and the chewing taste is good. After breaking through the shell, the sauce that has already penetrated into it bursts out and pours on the tongue, sweet and sour, accompanied by the characteristic aroma of shiso and garlic.

The fishy smell of shrimp is removed to the maximum, and the chewy shrimp meat is wrapped in a crispy shrimp shell and chewed in the mouth, and a delicious flavor quickly wraps around the tip of the tongue.

In an instant, the image of a shrimp jumping out of the water appeared in my brain. It's so vibrant, full of life.

"Wine is good wine, shrimp is good shrimp!" Peng Qi said with emotion, just this dish gives people a great sense of enjoyment, "In fact, what the minister is most curious about is the shrimp itself." The shrimp doesn't seem to be river shrimp, and the meat is more elastic and smooth, so it's very delicious! ”

"This is a sea shrimp, which was quickly transported from the sea by Towanshiya, and they are raised with seawater all the way, and the water is changed every day. Rao is like this, transported to Xudu, at least half of the batch of shrimp has died. Wang Yong's figure appeared behind the two, he was not only responsible for the commentary of this banquet, but also had to protect Liu Xie and Liu Feng.

"Why don't you just pickle it on the road? I thought it was a long time ago...... "Peng Qi was a little surprised.

"For the sake of the freshness of the shrimp meat, the freshly marinated drunk shrimp and the drunk shrimp stored for a period of time are a little surprising in taste, the umami will not be so pure, and the meat will not be so elastic." Wang Yong replied.

"So what seems like a simple dish is actually not simple, right?" Peng Qi asked rhetorically.

"No, no, no, I just hope you can fully enjoy the delicious taste of drunken shrimp. Drunken shrimp is drunken shrimp, in the final analysis, it is shrimp marinated in wine, and if you don't consider the transportation cost, it is actually the same thing. Wang Yong replied.

Indeed, if you really want to calculate, you can make such drunken shrimp with ordinary rice wine and river shrimp. It's just that the quality must be good, so there is no way not to put some effort into the ingredients.

But it is not denied that this is an act of showing off wealth, and in order to eat fresh shrimp, it is not only necessary to buy it from the coastal area, but also to transport it here in a very short time. As I said before, nearly half of them died on the road, which shows the high cost.

And being able to do this step is also a manifestation of the material and financial resources of the Han Dynasty. If they had changed, they wouldn't have been able to do this!

On the other hand, everyone also began to taste the part of the three princes. The deliciousness of the shrimp entrance is indeed intoxicating, knowing that this thing is fresh, but to this extent, the drunken shrimp is indeed great.

"Speaking of which, there seems to be such a thing as shrimp jelly, right?" Dong Cheng thought for a moment.

"That's just the umami of the shrimp itself...... Wang Yun pointed to the sauce, "In the process of pickling with Huadiao, the umami of Huadiao will also seep into the shrimp, and at the same time, under the action of other ingredients, the umami will be superimposed, and there will be such a delicious result, which is something that simple shrimp can not do." ”

"Sweet and sour, both the texture and the taste are indeed first-class, and the drunken shrimp as the beginning is indeed a very good choice. Five stomachs, taste to enjoy at the same time, but began to look forward to the next dishes more, so, as an appetizer, this dish is indeed qualified! It's just that the mystery has not been solved in the end...... "Yang Biao commented.

"If that's right, the secret should be on the next dish." Cao Cao was thoughtful.