245 The Great Harmony of the World (2 in 1)(1/2)
‘The smell of meat comes from the altar and spreads around the neighbors, and the Buddha hears the abandoned Zen and jumps over the wall’
A poor scholar wrote this poem back then. From then on, "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" became famous and became the first in Min Cai.
Huailiangren is proficient in various cuisines, especially at Cantonese and Fujian cuisine, but even he dare not say that he can make the world's number one Buddha Jump over the wall.
It is because this dish emphasizes thick taste and complexity. It is not a unique taste of a dish. It can be used to learn from many strengths and produce its own flavors with countless thick, greasy, thick and fresh flavors. One flavor can attract all flavors, but it is different from all flavors.
The authentic Buddha jumps over the wall, paying attention to the principle of "the soup is as thick as porridge, as thick as paste, fragrant and glutinous as a mouthful, and one with all kinds of transformations."
Although there are not as exaggerated as hundreds of ingredients, there are more than a dozen delicacies in it.
The items include: abalone, sea cucumber, tendons, shark fin, fish lip, floral gum, yarn column, scallops, shark fin, flower mushroom, ribs, etc.
The authentic Buddha Jumps Over the Wall not only needs to include these materials, but also requires excellence in each material.
For example, the minimum use of "nine-headed abalone" is used for abalone, the sea cucumber should be used for Liao ginseng, and the flower gel should be used for stew-resistant grouper glue...
These high-end ingredients are probably not even heard of, not to mention eating them.
Simply put, Buddha Jumps over the wall requires making more than a dozen dishes first, and then simmering them on a slow fire. The best utensil is a purple clay stew pot, and it is better if it is an old sand and old clay.
This cup must not be stewed with other dishes, it is best to be a ‘special cup’.
It is only used to make Buddha jump over the wall. This way, you can get more than half the effort after more than three years of raising a cup.
Zhou Dong asked Zhou Aiguo to find Yan Yi to learn this dish that day, but he didn't expect that Fatty Yan would be so professional and actually had a cup that had been raised for ten years.
That day, I went to try Yan Yi's crafts with Huailiangren, and then I realized that this cup was specially used by him to stew the Buddha's rush over the wall for him to eat. The pursuing of meat dishes by this lay disciple of the "Lingyin Temple" was simply outrageous...
In fact, Yan Yi is even more surprised.
No matter what, he never thought that the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, which he had been studying for more than ten years, was stewed with this ten-year old pot. Zhou Dong could still find the problem, and it hit the nail on the head, which made him and Zhou Aiguo feel that he and Zhou Aiguo had a lot of benefits.
Fatty Yan even envied Zhou Aiguo. With a teacher like Zhou Mingwang, how many years will this kid be able to do this in?
It’s a pity that Lao Yan already has a master sect and is still a disciple of the same kind of disciple. He must not betray the master sect, and he can only hope to be in Chudu in the future and have a relationship with this "Zhou King" as well as a friend.
In fact, all kinds of ingredients are strictly effective,
If Zhou Dong does not use the legendary vegetable washing skills, he may be far inferior to him in this regard.
As for the early stage of making some ingredients into 70 to 80% mature dishes, the two of them are comparable in this regard.
Zhou Dong wins because of his ability to taste food and his understanding of the way of food.
There are two most difficult foods in the world. One is the simplest, such as fried rice with eggs, and the other is the most complex, such as Buddha Jumping over the Wall.
The former is from simple to traditional Chinese, which seems to be close to the Tao, but in fact it is still a skill!
Is the plum blossom egg fried rice made by Zhou Dong so powerful? Even the famous golden egg fried rice is far inferior, but isn’t this superb skill of a grain of rice with five pieces of egg flowers?
The latter is actually from the complex to the simplicity, and is the real "shortcoming the Tao" and "asking the Tao"!
You have to blend dozens of delicacies in the mountains and seas into one pot. You have me and I have you. You are not you, I am not me, empty and colorful, empty and empty. What is this?
But even Yan Yi, a lay disciple of the monk, could not break the "empty color" just by this dish, and he was still a layman in the master's mouth.
Zhou Dong's words that day made him realize something.
"Master Yan's Buddha Jumps Over the Wall has reached 90 points, but it is still a little short of it.
I think the problem is that you can’t really blend the flavors of various ingredients into one!”
Yan Yi was very dissatisfied at the time: "What do you think, I have been studying Buddha Jumping over the wall for more than ten years."
"The difficulty of Buddha jumping over the wall is not in the early stage of soaking, preparing dishes,
These seem very difficult. Each chef has his own secret skills. In fact, it is not valuable to put it bluntly. It is nothing more than adjustments based on the place, the materials, the instruments, and the people.
For example, if you don’t use chemical potions, you have to start soaking in the north at least five days in advance, but in Xiangjiang it will be enough. There are also abalone, shark fin, etc., all of which are the same.
Master Yan did not hide his selfishness and was meticulous about patriotic education. He even told him the simplest and most effective time list and the means of preparing dishes. He was also a smart child. He learned 90% in a few days, and even I didn’t expect it…”
Zhou Dong looked at Yan Yi with gratitude and said, "But there are some things that Master Yan didn't notice,
For example, Master Yan only knows the experience taught by his predecessors and summarized by himself. Which ingredients should be put into the bottom layer, the second layer, the middle layer... the top layer,
I also know the time and how to master the heat. Over time, a fixed set of procedures has been formed, but I forget that these contents must not be constant, but should be adjusted at any time!"
"Your Zhou Dynasty King is becoming more and more mysterious, why don't I understand?"
A cup of Buddha Jumps over the wall, the chef can soak it without losing it. The early preparation is perfect, and there is a top-level purple clay cup that discharges various ingredients in order. This will inevitably make a can of Buddha Jumps over the wall. How can there be any explanation for adjusting at any time?
Yan Yi looked at Zhou Dong suspiciously at that time, feeling that what Zhou Dong said was no longer cooking skills, but metaphysics.
"This is not metaphysics..."
Zhou Dong that day was like a god stick covered in golden light and lingering, talking freely in front of the three chefs Yan Yi, Huai Liangren and Lu Luxin, who were full of doubts, and talking calmly as the leader of the sect!
"Master Yan has such doubts because in your eyes, "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" is just a dish.
At most, it is just a slightly more expensive and more complicated dish.
But in my opinion, this "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" is like the world we are in...
Our world is divided into classes, but isn’t it the same in the world of ingredients?
We may not have the ability to change anything in the real world, but in the world of ingredients, we chefs are Gods who can change everything.
Abalone and shark fin are high above, and ribs and tendons are only lower classes. Perhaps in other dishes, this class is difficult to change, but in this "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall", they no longer have a distinction between high and low, and they are all equally important!
Because in this "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall", we must gather the power of all kinds of ingredients, abandon the superiors and inferiors, simplify the complex and achieve the "great harmony of the world"!
Yan Yi still remembers how Zhou Dong demonstrated in front of students.
Buddha Jumps over the Wall is somewhat like the "Jar of Xiangjiang". Each ingredient will be discharged in layers according to a fixed location. This is the experience summarized by countless predecessors, and there will be no mistakes in the plan.
But in Zhou Dong's hands, these experiences of predecessors and the summary of future generations can be overturned at any time!
When a few bubbles finally emerged from the purple clay stew pot and the soup began to churn, Yan watched Zhou Dong quickly uncover the lid of the cup, pulled Zhou Aiguo over, and almost pressed his head into the stew pot: "Now, what kind of ingredients does the most domineering taste come from in the stew pot?"
"Jiang Weizhu!"
"Yes, Jiang Guizhu is responsible for improving freshness and invading it like fire. If its umami flavor penetrates into various other ingredients, this cup of Buddha Jumps over the wall will not be able to integrate one thing, and the whole world will be in harmony!
Therefore, at this time, you should turn it into the bottom of the cup, especially be careful not to contact the shark fin during the turn!”
Zhou Dong flipped the ingredients very slowly, and tried to let Zhou Aiguo see clearly every step. He held a spoon in his left hand to divide the soup, and used chopsticks in his right hand to cleverly avoid various ingredients, pressing the Jiangxi pillar directly into the bottom of the cup.
Abalone, shark fin, tendons, gum, etc., all kinds of ingredients are all at different times and at different heat.
Zhou Dong moved to a different position every once in a while. It was not until he finally took a deep breath that he stopped making endless tossing and resetting the cup cover.
After four hours of simmering on a warm fire, Yan Yi and others, who were drooling, finally saw the legendary Buddha jumping over the wall of "the world is the same as a blind man". Even now, it still feels like a dream.
"The Zhou noodle king's methods have completely exceeded the scope of cooking skills. He is a real way to cook small foods, just like governing a big country!
I wonder how much Zhou Aiguo could learn with his method?"
Yan Yi looked at the picture on the big screen. He was not present during this VCR shooting. It was completely the result of Zhou Aiguo's half a month of "hard practice".
Although we cannot make a preliminary judgment based on the taste through the picture, based on his experience, we can still judge eight out of ten based on the dishes.
"I'm afraid this purple clay stew pot is not the best one that has been forcibly raised for more than ten years?
There are also all kinds of ingredients, which are top-notch. Just soaking and cooking methods in the early stage are all secrets! It’s not comparable to those in five-star hotels!”
"It's all about it. Just look at the color of the soup. It's golden red like dantong and honey paste like scent. I don't even have to eat the ingredients inside. Even drinking a sip of soup will make you chew teeth!
The judges are so happy, I am envious..."
As the camera gradually approaches, the Buddha jumps over the wall on the high-definition screen clearly sees the eyes, as if in front of you, the experts in the audience suddenly exclaim.
Seeing that the precious ingredients were half hidden in the golden red soup condensed like paste, even the judges couldn't help swallowing their saliva, including the old poisonous tongues like Yi Zhiyu and Dong Qishen, and the old poisonous dragon Guan Dasheng.
Cha Zaixi and Inuyasu Jingzhai in the audience also changed their faces slightly. Unexpectedly, Zhou Aiguo would choose this dish to participate in the competition.
With the most profound taste in the world and the most genuine preparations for them, this game is suspenseful.
However, Che Zaixi was not panicked. He had previously worried that some basic points would be subtracted from using the top "Prince Ming" because of this. Now there is no need to worry at all. Zhou Aiguo's can of Buddha Jumping over the wall has used enough delicacies, which is even more luxurious than him.
"The soup is golden and red like a paste. Although it is still slightly 'Hengman' compared to what the King of Zhou noodles did, it is also considered the best among Buddhas who jumped over the wall.
I just don’t know how it tastes, but can I achieve “the world is united and the only one”?
Am I crazy? How can I expect this kid to do something that I can't even do?
It is enough to achieve the "one king and three husbands' support" that can achieve "one cup cannot produce three flavors, and the main flavor is famous, so it should be enough to win that stick. Not everyone can do the world of Zhou noodles king."
After a look at Zhou Aiguo who was full of confidence and walked towards the stadium, Yan Yi was also proud while expecting it. Even these judges did not have the chance to eat Zhou Noodle King's "Tianxia Yiyin". No matter what the Xiangjiang "Poison Dragon King" is, I am not as good as Lao Yan, and I have a good taste!
Zhou Aiguo is active and jumpy on weekdays, but when he really comes to the field, he has a calm temperament and looks like a teacher. When he collides with Che Zaixi, he walks to the kitchen area where he is.
Unlike Che Zaixi, Zhou Aiguo's "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" has many processes that must be completed before the competition, but his work of soaking various ingredients is carried out under the supervision of relevant personnel of the organizing committee. Now only the post-production process is required.
Even so, it took about four hours to do his "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall". This competition cannot be seized.
Che Zaixi sneered secretly, "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" is a famous Chinese dish, known as the best taste, but in his opinion, it is inevitable that it will lose its greasiness.
If the Buddha jumps over the wall and sends it to the judges' seat first, he may also get some recognition from the judges. After all, the judges are also humans, and they can accept such thick and greasy foods more when they are on an empty stomach.
But if the judges had tasted the fresh, delicious and refreshing ‘true fragrance Yin and Yang Fish’ first, can they still accept Buddha jumping over the wall?
In Che Zaixi's opinion, if he seized this opportunity, he basically won the African boy!
To be continued...