"Fish bladder? Can fish bladders be eaten too?"
Menqi glanced at Cellululu in surprise and fiddled with the slightly transparent and slightly opalescent swim bladder with interest.
"How to do this? The texture of the fish bladder is similar to gelatin but too thin and tough. Will it really taste good?"
"Indeed, it doesn't taste good when eaten directly, so it needs to be processed."
Celluloid smiled and briefly explained the processing process.
"Scrape off excess fat, blood vessels and bones from the swim bladder, cut it open and tear off the two tough outer and inner layers of the skin, and then expose it to the sun for three to five days. Remember to wipe off the spilled fish oil during the process, and it will eventually become It turned into a slightly transparent yellow plastic-like fish maw.”
Menqi nodded, but still a little confused.
"This is a common dry-drying method for catching fish, but how do you eat the food in the end? If you fry it directly, it will become harder. If you steam it, it may become softer, but will it really taste better?"
“The general practice is that it doesn’t taste good, so the sun-dried fish maw must be soaked first.”
Facing Menqi, a professional cook, who asked a sharp question, Cellululu naturally didn't mind speaking more carefully.
“First soak the fish maw in water for a whole day. After taking it out the next day, it will be slightly softer. Then boil the fish maw with green onion and ginger. After boiling, turn off the heat and put it in the pot to cool naturally. Finally, It is best to simmer it for another night, then take out the fish maw the next morning and soak it in ice water for a day, then take it out the next day. At this time, the fish maw will be completely soaked. The soaked fish maw will It will swell several times and turn into a white solid filled with soft elasticity. At this time, it is ready for cooking."
Menqi's eyes widened when he heard this.
"You haven't cooked yet, but the preparation alone takes three days? This is unbelievable. If something that takes so much time and effort to make doesn't taste good, then it's really..."
Menqi didn't know what to say. It was a bit like eating too much and having nothing to do? Otherwise, why would an ordinary fish maw have to go through so many complicated processes to eat it? Could it be that this would completely change the taste and texture of the fish maw?
"If it tastes bad, you won't do it. We have a saying over there that we never tire of fine food and never tire of delicate food. It means that no matter how delicate we treat food, we should treat it with the same precision as fish maw made after so many processes. After cooking, the taste is particularly soft and sticky, full of rich colloids, which can stick to your lips when you eat it. When used to stew chicken soup, the taste is particularly delicious and smooth. If you add it directly, use abalone and hen pork bones over low heat. The flavor of the fish maw from the slow-simmered abalone juice is simply amazing.”
Cellululu's descriptions were so lifelike that Menqi could only feel the saliva secreting. Looking at Cellululu's expression, she also had an expression of nostalgia and greed.
Menqi swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva before asking curiously.
"I really want to eat what you said. However, the processing steps and cooking methods you mentioned are so detailed, and you even gave the fish maw a refined nickname - fish maw. You probably didn't come up with this yourself, right? , and I’ve never heard of the saying that you never tire of fine food, so it seems like it’s a cooking school that I’ve never heard of before?”
Cellululu didn’t know if there was anything similar to Chinese food in Hunter World. She probably did, but it couldn’t be as comprehensive and complicated as China’s, she said with a smile.
"It's my hometown dish. This is the most delicious food in our hometown, so I thought about how to make all the edible and inedible things edible and delicious. However, this fish maw It is considered a very precious ingredient in our place and is listed as one of the eight delicacies of seafood, and it is not something that ordinary people can afford to eat every day."
"Oh, that's why you stopped me. According to what you said, it would be a waste of natural resources."
Menqi smiled and asked with interest.
"The eight delicacies of seafood? Which eight delicacies are they?"
Celluloid glanced at the shark and smiled.
"This shark can collect the other three flavors, namely shark fin, fish lip and fish bone, and the remaining four flavors are abalone, scallop, caviar and sea cucumber."
Menqi also looked at the shark and said a little surprised.
"Oh? Shark meat is not delicious. I was thinking of getting some meat later to taste it fresh and throw it into the sea. Unexpectedly, there are other valuable parts? Shark fins, fish bones and fish lips, you know the names. What part is it, but the old question is still there, will it be delicious? Does it also need to go through special processing steps?"
"That's right."
Cellululu enthusiastically shared with Menqi the production process and cooking techniques of these three delicacies, and also detailed the preparation methods of abalone, sea cucumber and scallops. Menqi was eye-opening and amazed. Unfinished and full of regrets.
"I really want to try their taste, but according to you, the processing and soaking alone take at least a week. It seems that I won't be able to taste them on this show."
"It doesn't matter. After the fish maw and shark fin are finished, we can make an appointment to cook and taste them together."
Cellulu smiled and made the invitation, not forgetting to invite Kirby and Yuri at the same time. The two of them were completely shocked by Menqi and Cellulu, who were talking to each other super professionally, so they just stood there in amazement. Forced.
"Kirby, Yuri, and everyone from the show team can come together."
Menqi's eyes suddenly lit up. "Yes, it doesn't have to be on the show. There will be plenty of time in the future."
Kirby also nodded happily, and Yuri also couldn't hide his curiosity and accepted the invitation with a smile.
"Okay, I'm also curious about what the actual taste is like. It will definitely come."
Director Victor rolled his eyes and suddenly had a brilliant idea in his mind. If the ratings of this episode are hot and everyone pays attention to the follow-up of Hatsune's Eight Treasures of the Sea, they can make another special episode. Thinking of this , Victor was also smiling and full of expectations. He enthusiastically said that he would definitely support it.
After exchanging contact information, the group of people continued to process various fish. Celluloid needed to make dry goods such as fish maw and shark fins, so it naturally took over the job. The fish maw was quickly cleaned up, and after shaping, it was dried on a temporary set-up. on the shelf.
Removing the fins, bones and lips of the shark was a big job. However, Menqi was very curious about the actual production steps, so she followed along. Under the guidance of Celluloid, she quickly removed the dorsal fin, pectoral fin and tail fin. , and then removed the meat near the fish lips and the skull, etc., the two of them started cleaning up quickly while talking and laughing.
The two of them talked about cooking topics. The more Menqi talked, the happier she became and the more speculative she became. She was a food hunter, but limited by her cooking methods, her thinking was always limited to finding more precious ingredients instead of discovering them. Different ways to cook common ingredients and trying to find more edible parts of common ingredients.
Cellululu's words really enlightened her, and she felt that a vast world had been opened before her eyes. In just two hours, when the ship docked, Menqi had already regarded Cellululu as her confidant in life. After meeting each other late, she firmly stated that from today on, Cellululu will be her good friend!
Cellululu is also very happy to have Menqi as a friend. The delicacies from all over the world described by Menqi also make her salivate. After all, the world of foodies is the simplest and happiest. Eating and cooking are an important pastime in her long and lonely life. , there are like-minded people, it’s like they hit it off immediately, and I can’t wait for the two of them to start a food journey together.
"Let's go snorkeling, catch sea urchins, abalone and sea cucumbers. Let's find all the eight treasures of the sea today." Menqi quickly got off the boat and turned back to Cellululu and suggested cheerfully.
"Okay, okay, the jellyfish is also delicious..."
Cellulu nodded, suggested enthusiastically, and followed with brisk steps.
The knight just looked at Cellululu as if he had completely forgotten them, and got off the boat, feeling a little resentful in his heart.
"Celulu, you look so happy..."
Aren’t there people of the opposite sex who are inhumane? Why did you forget all of them when you arrived at Cellululu and had a new friend named Menqi? In these two hours, Celluloid paid no attention to them at all! She has been chatting enthusiastically with Menqi. No matter what she usually does, she will pay attention to them from time to time.
"Hmm, knight, be generous~ and don't act like a control freak who doesn't allow your boyfriend to have his own social circle~"
Hisoka smiled and said casually that he was used to being free and didn't like his lover to restrain him. Naturally, he would not restrain the person he liked.
"She doesn't have many female friends, and we're not interested in this kind of topic, so just let her go. It's hard for her to be so relaxed and happy."
Chrollo took off his sunglasses and glanced at Celluloid who was still talking to Menqi enthusiastically. He glanced at Feitan who seemed to be unhappy with his boss and was about to explode, and said in a gentle tone.
These words made Feitan, who felt that he was being left out by Cellululu and was unhappy, stop and planned to interrupt Cellululu and Menqi. Looking at Cellululu who was chatting in a lively manner, he made a sound and after getting off the boat, he looked around casually. I sat in a daze under a shady coconut tree. Of course, my eyes always revolved around the celluloid.
Illumi knew that he had a strong desire to control, but as long as the situation was under his control, he didn't mind whether Cellululu paid attention to him at all times, so he found a position where he could see Cellululu, and he leisurely Continue to bask in the sun on the beach.
Victor divided his forces into two groups. One group sent today's catch back to the resort so that the people at the resort could prepare first. The other group continued to follow Miku and his group who were taking pictures of the beach and playing in shallow water.
Menqi and Cellulu took action and snorkeled several times. Menqi pried off a lead bucket of oysters and caught a lot of sea urchins, a large squid, and two crabs.
"Look, I'll make you squid ink seafood noodles later. Don't look at the darkness, but the taste is really fresh~"
Menqi excitedly showed the squid that was still stretching and squirming to Celluloid.
"I also caught sea cucumbers, jellyfish, and some small abalone."
Cellulu smiled and showed off her achievements. She held a jellyfish in her left hand, a long black and yellow sea cucumber in her right hand, and dozens of small abalone with green edges in the plastic bucket.
"Sea cucumbers are indeed black intestines, and jellyfish are this kind of club-shaped jellyfish?"
Menqi suddenly realized that the names of the seafood mentioned by Cellululu were different, and she could only guess based on the description. Sure enough, it was exactly what she thought, and she would know how to catch it next time.
The camera crew who followed us had a happy face. The variety of meals that followed became more diverse, and they were in for a treat.
Celluloid and Menqi came ashore with their harvest. Yuri and Kirby dug here and there in the shallow water beach, and unexpectedly they found two lead buckets of various shellfish, mostly clams and scallops. and mussels.
It was also close to two o'clock in the afternoon, and everyone ended their work and went back to the resort in a lively manner.
The large kitchen of the resort is already filled with a dazzling array of ingredients, and the employees of the resort are also working hard to cook their local delicacies.
A huge salmon was smeared with various spices and lemons, wrapped in tin foil and put into the oven to bake. The time was accurately calculated and baked until the inside was tender and fully cooked. Then it was taken out and placed on a large plate, waiting. Break open the foil at dinner.
The other salmon was generously sprinkled with a large amount of salt, then mixed with a unique local secret spice bag, poured with strong liquor, marinated for an hour, and then hung far away on the smoky wood and slowly smoked. After it's half-cooked, it's a smoked salmon cold dish.
All other fish of various colors were cut into large pieces. Use olive oil to sauté onions, garlic, thyme, leeks and other fragrant vegetables, then add tomatoes, chili powder, orange peel, etc. to adjust the base flavor, and then Add fish pieces, throw in a few shrimps and a few mussels to add variety of flavor, pour in white wine and water and simmer.
Cellulu looked at it for a while and realized that it was a bit like the recipe of bouillabaisse. Except for the slight change in spices and the fact that the stewing time was a little longer, the rest was pretty much the same. However, after cooking it for such a long time, the final result should be You need to filter the contents and only drink the soup.
Cellululu no longer looked at the local dishes in the villa, because Menqi also started her own cooking show. She first took a lobster, removed the shell and cut out the whole meat, and then chopped it into even pieces. A piece the size of a table tennis ball was cut out with a knife to make the lobster ball look like a chrysanthemum. Then a knife was cut into the center. After making a small hole, a piece of lobster was inserted that would melt into a liquid state after heating. Cheese.
Then, dip the lobster balls with salt, black pepper and Menqi's own secret recipe seasoning, add a little white wine for pickling, roll it twice in milk powder, dip it in egg liquid, and finally roll it in bread crumbs. Got a lobster ball waiting to be fried.
Cellululu looked at it for a while and asked with a smile. "Milk flavored cheese shrimp balls?"
"Milk-flavored cheese shrimp balls? The name sums it up very accurately. I just thought of this method." Menqi smiled and accepted the name.
After the dish was ready, she started making squid ink seafood noodles again. Although Menqi also said that this was a new dish she came up with, Cellululu, who had traveled too much in the world, naturally knew similar dishes, so the process and steps It wasn't much different from what she expected, although it definitely tasted pretty good afterward.
However, Cellululu was a little surprised about how to cook tuna. Menqi actually thought of baking it in a puff pastry wrapper similar to Beef Wellington.
"Tuna meat is extremely old when cooked, so it is very important to control the tenderness. I wrapped the puff pastry around the outside of the fish fillet. The principle is actually the same as wrapping it in tin foil for baking, but this way I think the texture is more novel and delicious, crispy Pairing mushroom sauce and bacon between the skin and fish fillet adds a rich flavor.”
Menqi explained his concept while quickly chopping onions and mushrooms, quickly heating a pan and adding butter to sauté the soft vegetables.
"Well, it looks super delicious. I really wish you could make it quickly so that I can enjoy it." Celluloid said with a smile.
"Hehe, after I finish the semi-finished products and put them in the oven to bake, I also want to watch you cooking." Menqi neatened the puff pastry quickly and said to Celluloid with great expectation.
"No problem." Cellululu smiled generously.
Yuri is also very good at reading the situation. It is obvious that the focus this time is on Menqi and Miku, who has suddenly emerged and is also very good at cooking. He doesn't want to steal the limelight, but he can't live without the camera. Naturally, he will take advantage of this moment to show off his skills. The finale will be Leave it to Hatsune Miku, so he added with a smile.
"You two are both master chefs, but I can't do it. I can't make it if it's too complicated, so let's make something simple. There happens to be baguettes here. I'll make a dipping sauce to go with it."
The camera immediately focused on Yuri, and Cellulu also looked over curiously, and saw that he first picked a few shrimps, peeled off the shells and deveined the shrimps, cut them into small pieces, then heated a pan, poured in olive oil, and quickly Stir-fry, spray a little white wine to remove the fishy smell, and sprinkle some salt and black pepper to enhance the flavor. When the color of the shrimp meat turns red, he turns off the heat and sets it aside for later use.
Then, Yuri took out another glassware, put the avocado cut into strips, squeezed a little lemon juice on it, and started stirring and crushing it with a spoon. After the avocado turned into dense jam, he added After adding chopped cucumbers, microwave-heated walnuts and shrimp, he added a small dollop of cream cheese, squeezed in a little mayonnaise, and sprinkled some salt and black pepper to taste. I started stirring vigorously again until all the ingredients turned into a smooth sauce, and the dish was finally done.
Yuri carefully poured the avocado and shrimp dipping sauce into a deep white square porcelain bowl and placed it on a wooden tray with freshly cut baguettes next to it. It looked really bourgeois and not good-looking. Low, Yuri wiped his sweat with relief and said with a smile.
"finished."
"Yuri, you said you don't know how to cook, but you are very good at it."
Kirby looked at the fresh and artistic finished product and shouted loudly with an expression that was beyond recognition, and he slumped his shoulders in frustration.
"It's not like me. I only know how to mix salads."
"The salad is not bad. I just need a refreshing appetizer." Cellululu encouraged Kirby with a smile.
"Really? Then I'll make the salad. Don't dislike me."
Kirby's eyes lit up, and after seeing that Menqi and Yuri confirmed his idea, he started making his own salad with great interest.
There are vegetables commonly used for making salads in the kitchen. Kabi took rocket, lettuce, baby spinach leaves, endive, and rhubarb leaves. He also cut some purple cabbage shreds, cherry tomatoes, red radish slices, and beetroot, and grilled a slice. Yellow bell peppers, cut into small pieces and thrown in.
After looking around, it seemed that they were all vegetarian and the texture was dull. Kirby went and scraped some tuna meat back, cooked it with salt, made it into tuna flakes, and placed it on the pile of vegetables, and then, Sprinkle in olive oil, two or three drops of lemon juice, a little red wine vinegar, mustard, salt and black pepper to taste. The final product is colorful, bright and very appetizing.
"Hey, how's it going?"
Kirby seemed quite satisfied with his work, holding the salad bowl as if offering a treasure and looking at Celluloid, Menqi and Yuri with bright eyes.
"Isn't this a great job?" Yuri was the first to praise with a smile.
"Well, I don't know the taste yet, but the appearance is really a perfect score. The color is very good and Kirby is very talented~" Celluloid commented with a smile.
"Although it looks so-so, the most important thing is the taste. You'll know after you taste it."
The same meaning, just changing the order, I immediately felt Menqi's pickiness and seriousness as a professional chef.
Then, in the end, only Cellululu was left who had not yet shown off her cooking skills. Cellululu did not give up and started cooking gracefully.
Looking at the five Chrollos who were watching with smiles, Cellululu estimated the amount of dishes to be cooked, took a deep breath, focused her eyes, quickly caught a lobster, and began to quickly and accurately Cut open, remove the shell, and gently cut the lobster slices with a sharp blade, turning the lobster slices into pieces of white and slightly transparent lobster sashimi.
Siluke
Celluloid found a wooden tray and placed clean ice cubes underneath. The shrimp heads and tails were placed as they were, with lobster sashimi in the middle. Then, she cut off a piece of salmon meat and sliced it into sashimi. A rose shape is carefully decorated next to the lobster sashimi, then slightly pink snapper sashimi, milky white scallop sashimi, and yellow sea urchin sashimi are placed one by one around the lobster sashimi.
Next comes the highlight of the sashimi, a luxurious feast of tuna. This would be a bit too fatty to make directly as sashimi, so I decided to make it into sushi.
While the rice is cooking, the celluloid has been decomposed. Take out the large fat, medium fat and naked parts and set them aside for later use.
In fact, tuna needs to undergo two or three days of acidification and longer maturation before it is caught, so that the meat quality will reach its optimal level. However, celluloid contains water, which directly eliminates the post-mortem stiffness reaction caused by the tuna's struggle and resistance. As for maturation, temperature and humidity can also achieve similar adjustment effects. Although it is definitely not as good as natural maturation, it can barely meet the standard.
After washing her hands, Cellululu put the rice in a wooden basin and let it cool. Then she poured in salt, sugar, and vinegar. After stirring to mix evenly, she turned an electric fan on it and started to prepare the next dish. Well, if it weren't for the fact that some species of marine fish are very suitable for sashimi, and tuna sushi is really the best way to eat tuna, otherwise, she wouldn't consider making sashimi and sushi.
Menqi looked at the half-finished lobster boat and didn't raise any questions. It was all raw fish, so she naturally wouldn't think it was edible.
Next, Celulu planned to cook all Chinese dishes, and her speed became much faster.
The steamer can cook three dishes at once. Cellululu directly made steamed scallops with vermicelli and garlic paste, steamed green-edge abalone with green onions and ginger, steamed Asian starfish, chopped salmon heads, and made a salmon head with chopped peppers, but Chopped peppers are still made by cheating with water. Celluloid temporarily cut peppers, garlic and ginger, and added high-strength liquor to speed up the fermentation process.
Black bull loach is a bit like black fish, so Cellulu made a black bull loach tofu and fish soup. The soup is snow-white in color, with perilla and green onions, alternating between white and green, and has a fragrant aroma.
I took out the oysters and made fried oysters with salt and pepper and fried oysters with chives.
As for fish, pick out the ones with tender meat. Cellulu used sea bass to make tomato sauce-flavored squirrel fish, used silver sea bass to make braised fish with wine-stuffed meatballs, and Shi Jiugong made Wanzhou spicy grilled fish and sliced blue grouper fish. I also used a local vegetable similar to pickled cabbage to make pickled fish with green peppercorns.
The blue mackerel has a thick texture. After it is steamed, scrape off the meat and stir-fry the crab with vinegar, ginger paste and eggs. , the catfish is made into garlic catfish pot with a strong taste.
No matter how you prepare seafood, it is basically a quick dish, so it didn’t take much time. Cellululu had already prepared a table of dishes. During this period, Menqi did not randomly interrupt Cellululu’s steps or ask questions. Instead, he looked at it carefully, with various expressions and eyes showing surprise, surprise, and surprise from time to time.
At this time, the rice had also cooled down, and Cellululu went back to cut the large fat, medium fat, and naked meat into pieces, and then started making sushi. With a gentle squeeze, a piece of sushi had been formed.
With quick hands and feet, after making dozens of sushi and placing them on the lobster boat, Cellulu finally arranged the shape, took the wasabi, ground it into mud, and placed it on the boat. The lobster sashimi boat was also completed.
"Okay." Cellululu straightened up and said with a smile.
"Okay? But this...isn't this still raw?"
After Menqi made a sound in surprise, she held her chin in meditation.
"But eating it raw is a bold approach. I never thought that fish can be eaten raw, but yes, oysters can be eaten raw, why not fish..."
Menqi fell into a new round of thinking storm. As a food hunter, she naturally has the courage to accept new things.
Yuri and Kirby looked at the sashimi boat with some resistance.
"Won't you get diarrhea after eating raw food?" Yuri smiled a little reluctantly.
"Yes, and isn't it very fishy? Raw fish must taste sticky and slippery, and it feels so disgusting."
Kirby's face turned a little green as he imagined it, and suddenly his whole body trembled with fear.
Celluloid understands the resistance of people who eat sashimi and sushi for the first time, so she explains it carefully with a smile.
"No, seawater fish are actually very clean and have few parasites. Wasabi can sterilize. As for the taste, some fish are fresh and refreshing, some are plump and smooth, and some melt in your mouth. Anyway, you will know after you taste it."
Menqi didn't want to think about it anymore. Her puff pastry-wrapped grilled tuna steak was already ready. After taking it out of the oven, she put it on a plate and quickly fried the lobster, cheese and shrimp balls, and then added the squid ink in the pot. The seafood noodles are also placed in a large basin.
Everyone's dishes were prepared, and the staff of the resort brought the dishes of the resort and the dishes cooked by Cellululu and the four of them to a semi-outdoor glass restaurant in the resort.
A long table was filled with a dazzling array of food, and the aromas of various colors came and went like a chorus, exuding fatal and seductive aromas, tempting everyone's taste buds and stomachs.
After the camera crew showed a close-up shot of each dish, and several long shots and close shots, finally, the feast could officially begin.
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