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Chapter 93 A Hundred Vegetable Feast (Please Subscribe!)

The invitation letter has been sent out, and there are still several sub-buildings outside Yipin Building, all of which are covered with notices!
Liu Zhang is going to make a banquet of hundreds of vegetables!
The so-called one-hundred-dish banquet is a one-hundred-course banquet. Of course, one hundred dishes here is also a function word. Some may exceed one hundred, and some may be less than one hundred, but even if it is less than one hundred, it cannot be worse. too much.

The announcement also stated that all new and old customers can enter the store to eat at that time, no need to pay, even tourists passing by.

When the announcement was received, first of all, the persons in charge of several stores thought it was a dream, so they quickly called to confirm.

After all, it was stated in the announcement that Liu Zhang would end up in person, and he would still do fifty of them.

What is the concept of fifty ways?
As far as a rural banquet is concerned, twenty dishes is already time-consuming, labor-intensive and painstaking, and among them, there will be eight cold dishes to make up the number, fifty dishes... at least three chefs.

And these fifty dishes do not mean only fifty dishes, but fifty kinds of dishes!

As for how many dishes to make, judging from the announcement, the Hundred Vegetables Banquet will run from two o'clock in the afternoon until ten o'clock in the evening!

Eight hours!

They never doubted that anyone would come to eat.

The gimmick of Liu Zhang cooking himself is enough to attract a large number of old and new diners.

And this was their first surprise, and the other one was the chef who announced the other fifty dishes mentioned above, Zhou You!
Many people don't know the origin of this Zhouyou, but being able to cook a hundred-vegetable banquet with Liu Zhang, and one person is half, proves that in the eyes of Mr. Liu, the cooking skills of the two are at least [-]-[-]!
For a while, the chefs in several shops were excited and quickly posted the announcement.

Of course, those who knew Zhou You, especially the main store, looked at each other in blank dismay.

"This week's tour... won't be..."

"How old is he!"

"Yes, but this announcement is from the Liu family, I'm afraid..."

"What is the background of this person, he is so awesome!"

One is that everyone is interested in Zhou You, and the other is that outsiders don't know about Mr. Liu's physical condition, but they know it, especially the disciples, who have been unable to enter the kitchen since three years ago, and some time ago, it was rumored that the deadline was approaching.

It's good now, and I'm going to make a hundred vegetable feast!
Not to mention the people in a few stores, those who received the invitation were also stunned!
For example, Han Tianbao who also lives in Pengwankou!

When the grandson ran to find him and delivered the invitation, he was playing chess with his old friend Shan Yun.

When he got the invitation and saw the content, he wondered if he hadn't woken up.

"what happened?"

"look by youself!"

Shan Yun took the invitation, opened it, and was stunned.

"No, I went to visit Mr. Liu a few days ago. He...why would he send this invitation now?"

Han Tianbao shook his head and said, "I'm afraid yours has been delivered home too!"

Both of them also live in Pengwankou, and they have a good relationship with Liu Zhang. He visited him more than once when he was seriously ill, and he also knew about the almost passing away a few days ago.

Earlier, I was talking about that I was afraid that there would be one less person I knew.

"Call and ask!"

……

"Yes, it's fine, just come to Yipinlou the day after tomorrow!"

"Yes, it's an invitation from my dad. I hope you will be there!"

"Yes, it's an invitation from my grandfather!"

In the Liu family, the phone was almost buzzing, and everyone's private phone rang one after another, most of them were asking what was going on, and the people in the Liu family also quickly explained, but they didn't mention the old man's physical condition.

Zhou You warned everyone about the seven-day period, and hoped not to mention it, and most of them understood that if this kind of miraculous medical technique was really spread, Zhou You would be in endless trouble.

The front yard is very busy, and on the other side of Pengwankou, the three of them are fishing and chatting!

"It's so comfortable to be able to move, eat, and sleep by myself!"

Liu Zhang threw the line, feeling that there was endless energy in his body, as if he had suddenly returned to the age of 70, which was better than ever.

After he recovered, he made a decision on the Hundred Vegetable Banquet.

It can be regarded as a final farewell to old friends of these years, and it can also be regarded as giving full play to my waste heat again.

The other one is naturally Huang Zhongting. Since the old man can move freely, he follows him every step of the way. Of course, everyone knows his purpose, traveling around!
Huang Zhongting is a master of the apricot forest, especially good at difficult and miscellaneous diseases, especially with silver needles, which has saved countless lives. Even in the entire Guangdong Province, he is well-known.

But even such an awesome person was still intimidated by Zhou You.

So he followed Liu Zhang, but actually kept asking Zhou You questions from time to time.

At the beginning, it was relatively cryptic, and I kept probing, asking a little shallower!
After all, this is the cooking skill of other people. Asking about it is actually a taboo, but later found that Zhou You was not hesitating to teach him, just like a primary school student, asking whatever came to mind, and Zhou You didn't care at all, and taught him everything he knew. Huang Zhongting.

Hearing these words, Huang Zhongting's head became dizzy, especially when it came to describing and exploring the meridians and energy of the human body, he was obviously out of his head, and fell into deep thought, so that he didn't even know the fish had taken the bait.

"Hehe, I haven't seen him like this for so many years!"

Liu Zhang easily picked up Huang Zhongting's fishing rod: "Hey, it's still a grouper!"

After taking the fish down, Liu Zhang asked Liu Qingyao to get some tea.

When they left, Liu Zhang said, "Look at my granddaughter!"

Zhou You was taken aback for a moment, and said, "It's okay!"

good?

Liu Zhang curled his lips and said again: "Don't harm my granddaughter!"

Zhou You: What is this called!

"I heard from Qingyao that you are divorced and have a child, have you never thought about remarrying?"

Zhou You leaned back, and said without thinking: "Let's go with fate, there are so many arrangements in life, you might want to get married at a certain moment, or you might never have the idea of ​​getting married for the rest of your life, anyway, it was from the beginning. Please be quiet!"

Liu Zhang looked at Zhou You for a long time, then sneered, "Tell me about you, how old you are, why do you feel like a bad old man like me!"

Zhou You also laughed, thinking that when I left in my last life, I was about a few years younger than you, so if you insist on saying that we are the same age, that's okay!
"Let's find another one, or find someone to talk to!" Liu Zhang said while laughing to himself, and said, "Actually, you are really too young at your age. In my day, people should have gotten married earlier. , There are a lot of people who get married at the age of fifteen, sixteen or seventeen, and you can see people with children everywhere, but when I got married, I was already in my twenties and almost thirty!"

Just chatting one after another, and then talked about cooking.

"What kind of cuisine are you good at?"

"Good at? Cuisine? I can only say that I am good at cooking!"

"The tone is not small!" Liu Zhang raised his brows. Even he is good at Fujian and Cantonese cuisine. Of course, other Sichuan and Hunan cuisines are good, but Chinese cuisine is a huge system, like thousands of years of history.

You can say that you read Tang history and know the prosperous Tang, but you cannot say that you are proficient in history!
Winter goes to spring, seasons change, dynasties rise and fall, rumbling thousands of years of changes, who dare to say that they are proficient in history?
……

Two days passed in a flash!

Both sides had [-] dishes each, and the menu had been brought up early.

After all, with so many dishes, how could it be possible to do it yourself.

The Yipin Building has been overcrowded since yesterday, and the people who eat are second only to those who come to watch the excitement.

Among the local people in their fifties and sixties on the street who live nearby, or those who have settled in Pengcheng decades ago or in the past ten years, who hasn't eaten in Yipinlou?
So when the big-character posters are posted, the traffic they attract is not dozens or hundreds of people, but thousands or even thousands of people.

Because of this, the event was greeted early, and the alley next to Yipin Building and the small park on the side were also vacated.

There must be no room to sit in the building. In that case, let's just eat the flowing water table, and everyone doesn't care about it. After all, you can eat the dishes made by Liu Zhang himself.

Those who knew were not fools, and they could probably guess that this might be the last time Liu Zhang made a move in this life, so this meal has other meanings.

"I'll go, what a grand occasion!"

"Nonsense, this is a first-class building, and it's Liu Zhang who made the move this time!"

"That's right, although he used to sit in Yipinlou from time to time a few years ago, every time he cooks, he basically can't eat it!"

"It's not all booked by those who have status!"

"Hey, you are wrong. You may do it for those who have status in private, but as long as he makes a move in the first-rank building, basically he can only go to the first-rank building to queue up to eat!"

"Yes, in the early years, every Saturday and Sunday, there was a long queue at Yipin Building, and the bustling scene is still vivid in my memory!"

Although the tables only opened in the afternoon, the street was already crowded with people who came to see the excitement early, and the Yipin Building also prepared herbal tea, and even had a dedicated person to maintain the venue.

"Tsk, to be able to cook to such an extent, this life is really not in vain!"

"Nonsense, if you can burn this kind of smell, you can also have this kind of scene!"

"Speaking of which, half of the Hundred Vegetables Banquet mentioned in the announcement was handed over to Zhou You. Who knows what Zhou You came from!"

"I don't know!"

"Perhaps... is Mr. Liu's apprentice?"

"It seems that there is only one possibility. I heard that Mr. Liu is in poor health and he is getting old. I'm afraid that he wants to make a name for his apprentice before he leaves by doing a banquet at this time!"

"Hey, I'm envious, Mr. Liu is working so hard for Yipinlou!"

There are not a few people who guess like this, and even those who don't know Zhou You's identity in Yipin Building, most of them guess that Zhou You may be the closed disciple that Mr. Liu has been hiding all the time. For a while, most of them are jealous and envious.

Zhou You was also shocked by this scene, you know, this is in the urban area, thinking that after a hundred years, maybe this scene will happen again, or even bigger.

"I won't pass!"

When Liu Zhang came, he had to say hello, and walked through the front door. After all, there were many older people who knew Liu Zhang here, but Zhou You didn't like this kind of scene, so he chose to go through the back door.

"That's fine, Qingyao, you can travel around and see what he needs!"

Here Liu Qingyao and Zhou You left through the back door, while on the other side, Liu Zhang went directly to the gate.

Some people who had met Liu Zhang were excited when they recognized him.

"It's Mr. Liu!"

"Wow, it's really him!"

"Didn't you say that you are old and your health is not good? How do you look now..."

Liu Zhang's face was flushed, and he walked steadily and steadily, his eyes were bright and energetic, and there was no sign of dying.

"Hi everyone, thank you all for coming!"

Liu Zhang greeted with a smile, and when he entered the main hall, he got up quite a bit.

Han Tianbao opened his mouth and said after a while: "Old Liu, you..."

Shan Yun said with a smile: "Looking at your old body, you can do it in another 30 to [-] years!"

Liu Zhang laughed loudly: "It's no good, it's no good, I don't have a few days to live!"

Everyone only thought he was joking. After all, he was full of anger when he spoke, and he seemed to be old. In this hall, most of them were older. Some even started eating since the opening of Yipinlou. Feelings, not just diners.

After greeting each other, Liu Zhang entered the back kitchen!

At this time, Zhou You was already waiting inside.

"Back then... I should have begged you directly!"

What Liu Qingyao regretted most was Zhou You's superb medical skills, but what surprised her the most was also Zhou You's superb medical skills.

She regretted it because she didn't drag Zhou You directly to Pengcheng at the beginning, and was pleasantly surprised because Zhou You gave the old man a lively seven days.

For people of their level, money is useless, the real precious thing is time.

Seven days is no longer something that can be measured by money.

Zhou You shook his head: "It's useless, it's too late to come here at that time, it's just to live a few more days!"

To put it bluntly, Liu Zhang is already at the age of waiting to die, and if he spends every day in a wheelchair, what's the difference between one extra day and one less day!
Of course, Liu Zhang was lucky, waiting for him in pain!

At this time, those help cooks looked at Zhou You with weird eyes, until the old man came, and broke the tranquility with a word: "You guys, divide it up, half with me, half with Zhou You, this is a rare opportunity, you follow him Study well!"

There are many chefs in Yipin, and most of them are talented, but it is a pity that Liu Zhang has no time and energy.

Soon, one person was divided into five!
Zhou You put on his apron, and at this moment, the two peak figures finally started to fight.

"I made the meat stewed last night, let it be marinated!"

When cooking banquets before, Zhou You would do all the braised pork by himself, but this time there were too many people and there were professionals to help, so Zhou You left the secret recipe for braised pork to Liu Qingyao.

"It's ready!"

Next to it are several large iron buckets, beef, pork, chicken, duck, and mutton are all available, and most of them have been cooked.

In addition to these meats, the most popular ones are all kinds of seafood. After all, in coastal cities, Yipinlou also specializes in seafood.

"The first course is white-cut chicken!"

Every city has its own characteristics. For example, no duck can swim out of Jinling alive, no fish can swim out of Wudu alive, and no crayfish can crawl out of Jingchu alive!

And when it comes to chickens, as the first domesticated poultry of human beings, it can be seen everywhere from life to diet.

If you want to say that the largest chicken-eating province in China, it must be Guangzhou. After all, there are rumors that people in Guangzhou can eat 30 billion chickens a year!
What is the concept of 30 billion? According to the two legs of a chicken, that is 60 billion legs. In other words, the chicken legs consumed by the people of Guangdong Province in one year are enough to circle the earth twenty times!
Probably because chicken and auspicious have the same pronunciation, so they love chickens like life, and they don’t like chickens. Even the map looks like a chicken leg, so there is a saying that there is no feast without chickens!

White cut, salt baked, oil residue, soy sauce, etc., fancy chicken can be eaten for half a year without repeating the same!
But when it comes to their favorite, it is the white-cut chicken, which is characterized by exquisite production, fresh and tender, no ingredients and keeping the original taste!
Even in the eyes of some chefs, whether you know Cantonese cuisine depends on whether you can make a white-cut chicken!

"Live chicken!"

This is the basic requirement for making poached chicken, cook it now!

The helper from the kitchen quickly brought a Qingyuan chicken. According to Zhou You's visual inspection, the chicken should be about one and a half catties after depilation. The most suitable chicken is 700 to 1000 grams, preferably three to four months. Moon-sized Chicken Neck!

As for the breed, you can choose Qingyuan chicken, Wenchang chicken and other small chickens.

Hold the wings and claws with one hand, and pluck out a little hair on the lower part of the neck. As the saying goes: the neck of a chicken or the chin of a duck refers to the location of bloodletting.

One knife, the chicken struggled for a while, and then it was dead!

The depilation is especially careful. The most important thing is that layer of film on the chicken body, which must be carefully removed, because the white-cut chicken does not use ingredients, so if the film is not cleaned, it will be full of odors!
After tidying up, you can use the knife. Cleaning up the chicken has only one purpose, and that is to hollow it out!
Liu Qingyao and a few helpers watched from time to time, seeing that Zhou You started quickly, steadily and ruthlessly, especially when he was doing it, he would talk from time to time, although they were very familiar with the white-cut chicken, but such meticulous The explanation also made many people feel good.

The pot here is already heated up, so Zhou You cut some chicken paste, then poured it directly into the hot pot, let out a little chicken fat, then added the onion and ginger, waited until the fragrance burst out, poured hot water, and added salt.

Then prepare a large pot of water, and before putting the chicken into the pot, cut off the chicken feet, because once the hot water is overheated, the chicken will shrink and the chicken feet will move, commonly known as "dead chicken supporting the rice cover". !
After the water boils, add a little salt. The purpose of adding salt is to prevent the water in the chicken body from passing away too much, which will cause dry meat.

At this time, the chicken can be served without any onion, ginger and garlic. After all, the ginger will take away the taste of the chicken, and the onion will change the color of the chicken skin.

Hold the chicken head, soak the chicken in the water, pour the water three or four times in this way, the temperature inside and outside the chicken will be in a balanced state, and then continue to heat!

Wait until the water reaches [-] or [-] degrees again, continue to drain the water, three or four times, and then cover it.

"Is the dip ready?"

"All right!"

The standard ginger and scallion oil, as well as sand ginger oil, coriander ginger and scallion oil, basically depends on personal taste!
It's almost time, and the chef here has prepared brine and added ice cubes!
Take out the cooked chicken and put it into the brine with ice. This is to cool down quickly, prevent the inside from being overcooked, and also shrink the skin of the chicken. This is where the crispy taste of the white-cut chicken comes from. At the same time, It can also lock the moisture inside and prevent the meat from becoming tough!

After it was completely cooled and dried, Zhou You applied a layer of oil to the chicken, and then began to cut the chicken!
There was blood in the bone cylinder, and the flesh was bloodshot!
Zhou You also did it when he burned the banquet in Lingqu Village, but he didn't have bloodshot eyes. This is to take care of the local people!
But it’s not used here, without blood, they really don’t think it’s authentic!
Finally, a plate of authentic poached chicken is finished!
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