Mr. Wang looked at the ham as hard as iron and sighed. After all, time is not forgiving. He is no longer the follower behind his master.
At that time, I volunteered to open ham for my master.
"Master, let me do it and let the senior brother help me," Chef Du said quickly. There's a bone in the middle of the ham, so it's physical work.
The master is too old to do such rough work.
"Okay, you young people, come on, but be careful not to break the saw." Mr. Wang asked worriedly.
"Master, don't worry. My Donghai Hotel opens hundreds of hams every year. It's foolproof. There will definitely be no problems," the senior brother assured quickly.
Huang Ying and the little girls quickly took out their mobile phones to take pictures, and they had never seen a 500-year-old ham. If this were posted online, the number of clicks would definitely be overwhelming.
The two other senior brothers found a good angle for the ham and held it down. Chef Du and Senior Brother took out special tools and began to saw the ham in half from the middle.
With the rhythmic slapping sounds of the two, the meat scraps flew everywhere, and after a while, the ham was separated.
The two senior brothers responsible for fixing it simultaneously turned the ham around and faced the crowd.
"Wow! So beautiful" everyone exclaimed.
The outside of the ham was dark and scorched, as if it had been burned by fire. It was extremely ugly.
But on the cut section, there is a half-inch thick gradient color from black to yellow on the outside, and then, the inside is bright red meat color, just like the color of fresh meat, very beautiful, the fat is also pure white, and the texture is somewhat like Beautiful wood grain in general.
A refreshing fragrance wafted out and instantly filled the whole room.
This old ham was made during the reign of Emperor Xuande, and it was more than two hundred years old by the end of the Ming Dynasty. It's not the one I ate at Monkey's for lunch today.
And this one is made of wild boar, the famous Nanyang wild boar.
"It smells so good, I'm drooling!" Huang Qiong exclaimed.
Mr. Wang asked, closing his eyes and using his nose to slowly feel the feeling that was spreading out.
Although his expression was calm, his fluttering eyelashes showed his excitement at this moment.
The aroma, the color, and the texture were far beyond what he could compare to the old ham he had seen in his youth.
This is top quality.
Mr. Wang stood up, walked to the edge of the stage, picked up a sharp sushi knife with his own hands, and knocked several of his disciples aside. The disciples and grandchildren hurriedly backed away.
Didn't you see that the old man wanted to peel it with his own hands?
They all opened their eyes wide, fearing that they might not see anything clearly.
The old man is getting old and has not shown his cooking skills to everyone for decades.
This is a rare opportunity.
Huang Ying and the little girls hurriedly filmed, and Mr. Wang took action himself. This was a scene that had not happened in decades. Everyone was excited and happy.
Wang Laoping calmly bent down, followed the direction of the meat, and cut it quickly, cleanly and without any sloppiness.
A long strip of black skin was shaved off with a sharp sushi knife.
The outer skin was rolled up like a plane peeling away wood bark. The outside is a rough surface like black bark, and the inside is dark red flesh.
Mr. Wang looked at the effect and began to speed up, starting gently and sometimes slowly. According to the feel and internal texture, he went down one by one. The outer skin on all sides is cut layer by layer.
Huang Ying asked in confusion: "Why does Mr. Wang have to peel off the skin layer by layer? Can't he just peel off a large piece?
Chef Du explained in a low voice: "This piece of ham has a history of five hundred years and is extremely rare. For us chefs, this is an extremely precious thing. It would be a crime to waste any more. Eating a piece of this kind of thing One piece missing.”
"Can't we just cut off the black part? Why do we have to cut off the inside."
"You don't know, as long as the color changes, it has gone bad. Although it can be eaten, the taste will not be good and will have a haha taste. As long as there is not a clean removal, the taste of the pot will be ruined. .So it must be cut carefully.”
"What a pity. Look, the peeled skin is almost an inch thick, and half of the meat of this ham is missing." Huang Ying said distressedly.
"Oh, there is no way. Only the bright red part inside can be eaten." Chef Du's eyelids jumped when he saw it. He felt even more distressed that this old ham had to throw away half of it.
"Okay, my old bones are not bad, hahaha." Mr. Wang had finished it, and the old man smiled with a sense of accomplishment.
The disciples and grandchildren quickly helped him sit down and handed him towels to wipe his sweat.
Chef Du took the kitchen knife, looked at the perfect piece of bright red ham meat, which was like a work of art, and looked at the chef. Seeing Mr. Wang nodding, he carefully cut the knife and cut off a thin slice. Because the cut was so thin, it seemed transparent when picked up with chopsticks.
Chef Du asked in a low voice: "Master, you always give me food"
Mr. Wang nodded, took the chopsticks, put the piece of meat into his mouth, and tasted it carefully.
Mr. Wang was silent for a while and said: "The quality of this ham is far better than the 150-year-old ham I tasted when I was a boy. Whether it is meat quality or fragrance, it is far better. I can be sure that the time is absolutely Over two hundred years, as for how many years, I don’t dare to say nonsense.”
If Yang Fan were here, he would definitely be shocked and fell to the ground. You are really awesome. You can taste this. It has been more than two hundred years since Zhu Zhanji came to the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Monkey quickly took out the carbon 14 test report, handed it to Mr. Wang, and said: "We did the carbon 14 test, and the time was probably between 500 and 600 years.
This was a test done on the outer skin. In order to keep it secret and prevent timing problems, Yaoguang deliberately attenuated the carbon 14 content during transmission.
Mr. Wang was extremely excited.
This is the first time in my life that I have eaten ham that has been around for more than 500 years.
It turns out that ham tastes like this after being stored for 500 years.
Seven days later, foreign heads of state came to the Capitol restaurant as scheduled, accompanied by Chinese leaders, to taste the pork he proposed.
Looking at a plate that was exactly the same as the one he had eaten back then, he hesitated and stretched out his chopsticks in excitement.
"Oh, Mai Ga Da, this is the taste I had back then, but I don't know how much better it tastes. How did you do it?" the foreign guest shouted excitedly.
"This is the finest pork specially selected for you by our chef. At the same time, the chef is a direct disciple of Huaiyang cuisine, and his skills in making this dish are also number one. Naturally, it is better than what you had in Huaxia street restaurants back then. The food will taste better”
This dish made the foreign guests very satisfied and ate it cleanly.
For the Chinese escorts, the more the foreign guests ate, the happier they were. Finally, after the foreign guests had finished eating, they were still unsatisfied and actually asked for another plate.
The accompanying leader laughed and was very happy.
When the foreign guests had their second plate, Chef Du served them a bowl of ham and winter melon soup.
His explanation is that this local pork is relatively greasy, and it is better to add a soup to relieve the greasiness.
When the foreign guests saw this soup, they found it quite satisfying and greasy. They were very pleased with the chef's attentive service.
When the waiter brought a small bowl of ham and winter melon soup to the foreign guests, the rich aroma shocked the foreign guests.
This is ham, he knows it.
Germany, Italy, and Spain in the West all have famous hams, and he has eaten most of them.
But today it was the first time for him to eat such fragrant ham.
He carefully put the soup into his mouth with a spoon, his taste buds almost bursting with the delicious soup.
He could hardly control himself, and drank one bowl after another, and drank three bowls before putting it down.
"What kind of ham is this? Why is it so delicious? The soup is so delicious."
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