Emperor Xiaoyao of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 19 Sweet and Sour Pork is Delicious

On the second day after the puberty education class, Jin Yu and his party arrived in Lingzhou. Due to Yang Ying's "illness", the three of them did not rush on their way anymore, but found a house named "Defuju" in Lingzhou. The restaurant stayed.

Telford House is not high-end, it is similar to the current private restaurants, and the consumers are ordinary people. The difference from ordinary restaurants is that Telford House has a backyard, which can accommodate accommodation.The reputation is not obvious, the backyard is clean and tidy, which meets Jinyu's low-key requirements, so he decided to stay here for a few days.

The business of Defuju is not very good. In fact, the restaurants in ancient times are the same. In winter, the business is generally very slow because there are no vegetables!It's all meat, vegetables, noodles, tofu and pickles, and no one has much appetite if you put it in front of anyone. Thanks to the peace of mind after the war, the merchants who traveled all over the country wanted to eat for the purpose, so they barely managed it.

As soon as he packed up, Jin Yu couldn't bear to see Yang Ying in pain, so he ran out to buy brown sugar, wanting to make some ginger and jujube brown sugar water.But I went to several rice stores (there were no department stores in the past, and food-related products were basically bought at the rice store.), but I didn’t see my favorite brown sugar, but there were sucrose and maltose, but the appearance`` `Jin Yu, who is used to eating sugar in later generations, really doesn't like it.After asking, I found out that this is already the best sugar on the market.

"It's no wonder that when I was making fish a few days ago, there was no white sugar. So I don't have that technology now. Couldn't what I know can be used to make money? It's like a bug in a game, which can make me feel good?" Jinyu YY thought.

The last time I cooked fish, I used my own seasoning. In addition to eating in a restaurant, Jin Yu found that the seasoning used these days is really pitiful.So Jin Yu went to the pharmacy to buy some seasonings on the way back to buy sugar, fearing that the ones he bought a few days ago were not enough to eat, he didn't expect Defuju to have the seasonings he wanted to use at all.

"Shopkeeper, can you borrow the kitchen of your store for a few days? Xiaosheng came back from the Western Regions, and he is not used to eating. He wants to cook something by himself. Xiaosheng will pay for the ingredients." Jinyu knew the kitchen was not allowed to mess up last time After entering the rules, when you return to Telford Residence, you should first discuss with the shopkeeper.

"Guest officer, please help yourself." The shopkeeper opened his mouth with surprise in his eyes. He wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end.

With the shopkeeper's permission, Jin Yu went into the kitchen humming a ditty, first made a ginger jujube brown sugar water, then cooked a hen, rewarded the cook with a few pennies, and asked him to light the fire. Carrying the soup, he walked towards Yang Ying's house.

"Come on, drink this soup, it will cure your illness." Jin Yu said to Yang Ying after knocking on the door and entering.

"Well, Mr. Xie." Yang Ying put down the female worker in her hand, thanked her with a shy face, took the soup and drank it slowly, the soup warmed her heart even more.

"Well, you drink first, I'll go first, and I'll bring you dinner later." Jin Yu, who is a "teacher", is also a bit embarrassed, who let his one class make the relationship between the two "return overnight." What about "before liberation"?

"Young master, go slowly." Yang Ying stood up and saw her off.After Yang Ying knew what kind of "illness" she had, she always felt a little ashamed and deliberately avoided Jin Yu, and today was no exception.

"Is there any pork?" Jin Yu felt a little depressed, and walked into the kitchen, intending to make something delicious for himself. When he was in a bad mood before, Jin Yu often eased his bad mood like this.

"Yes, but there is only lean meat left, and the fat meat is sold out." The shopkeeper replied honestly after ordering the cook to listen to Jin Yu's arrangements.

"Oh? Fat meat sells faster than lean meat?" No one in the future would want fat meat, otherwise "clean meat essence" would be flying all over the sky.

"That's right, a pig doesn't have much fat in the first place. The fat meat is thick and oily, and the customers are rushing for it, so the rest is lean meat." The cook explained. (About this question, friends who are interested can go home and ask the elderly. They used to want fat meat, and lean meat was the second choice.)
"Oh, then let's make a lean meat dish." Jinyu can't help but cook dishes according to his aptitude.

"This young man looks like a scholar, why is his knife skill better than my cook?" Jin Yu's skillful knife skills made the cook a little stunned and amazed!
"Wrap it on top, no matter how much oil is poured, it won't taste like fat meat. It's a waste of rapeseed oil." The cook couldn't help but despise Jinyu when he saw Jinyu cooking.Contempt is contempt, the boss ordered that the cook should not talk too much.

"I won't talk about adding salt, what sugar do you put in? Don't you know that a good cook has a handful of salt?" Maybe it was because of his peers, the cook has already decided that Jin Yu is a rather unqualified and unqualified cook.

"Let's try a piece?" Jin Yu made the sweet and sour pork tenderloin and tasted it himself. He already has the taste of his own future generations. Jin Yu is very satisfied that he can make this dish with the ingredients in his hand. I visited the cook at Telford House.

"In the middle, the old man will be disrespectful." Relying on his ancestral craftsmanship for five generations, the cook was thinking about how to pick Jinyu's faults after tasting it.

"How is it?" Jin Yu asked after seeing the wonderful expression of the cook.

"Good! Sweet and sour, delicious, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside." The cook took a sip and said in admiration.

"Hey, as long as it's delicious, I cook a lot, and share some with the uncle." Jin Yu was very happy when someone liked the dishes he made, and immediately gave some to the cook.

"Then I will thank the guest officer for the reward." The cook was not pretentious, thanked Jin Yu, and went to find the shopkeeper with the dishes.

Jin Yu saw that it was still early, so he took out the seasoning bought from the pharmacy, mashed it with garlic, and mixed it into five-spice noodles.

"Guest officer, is it convenient for the kitchen?" Jin Yu just finished, the shopkeeper came in.

"Very good, thank you shopkeeper for fulfilling it." Jin Yu cupped his hands.

"That's fine, hehe. I have something I want to discuss with the guest officer. I don't know if it should be said or not." The shopkeeper looked a little unnatural.

"It's okay to speak directly from the shopkeeper."

"It's a long story, sir, please move." The shopkeeper bowed his waist and stretched out his hand as a gesture of invitation.

Jin Yu probably had something to do with the cooking, so he was not pretentious, and walked towards the private room on the side in the direction pointed by the shopkeeper.

"Shunzi, bring the pot of good tea." After walking out of the kitchen, the shopkeeper ordered the waiter.

"The small shop has been passed down to the third generation by the old man, but the operation has not made much progress, especially after winter, there are no green vegetables, just a few home-cooked dishes, and there is nothing outstanding. The little old man just tried The dish made by Mr. Guo himself is really delicious beyond words. The small shop really needs such an exclusive dish, so I implored Mr. Guo to transfer this method to the little old man. Give the young master a satisfactory price, and hope that the young master will fulfill it!" The shopkeeper got straight to the point, stood up and bowed to the end.

(End of this chapter)