"Today's competition is about cooking skills, not height! Stop talking nonsense, please!" Kameda Ichiro pointed to the opposite side for instructions.
It really shines brightly if you give it some sunshine, but it needs to be cleaned up!
"Since it's a competition, there should be a winner, right?" Song Che asked.
Kameda Ichiro said: "Our rule is that the winning party can take one thing from the losing party,"
He said, pulling out the short knife from his waist, "This five-star sword has been with me since I was seven years old, and it has been twenty-five years. If your cooking can surpass mine, I will bear the pain and give it to you!"
Then, he pointed to the painting "Baiyunfeng Bragging Cows and Sheep Eating Sketch" hanging in the lobby and said: "If you lose, I will accept this painting!"
"Bah! You are so shameless!" Boss Wang immediately scolded: "This painting is the treasure of my Wangjiang Inn. How can it be compared to your broken knife?"
Kameda Ichiro squinted and smiled, openly provoking: "So, can I understand that Daliang Cuisine has a false reputation?"
"you--"
"Okay, let's take this picture as a bet." Song Che gave Boss Wang a reassuring look and asked, "So? How do you want to compare, and what are the criteria for judging?"
"Hangzhou is a coastal city with abundant aquatic products and seafood. We took this as the theme and prepared two dishes each. Then we randomly selected ten passers-by from the street and let them taste and identify whose dish was more popular. Whoever wins," Ichiro Kameda asked, "What does Boss Song think?"
Song Che glanced at Yun Niang. Yun Niang nodded slightly, indicating that it was feasible.
"Then let's get started!"
"Sakata! Yamamoto! Take out the ingredients!"
Ichiro Kameda greeted loudly, and the two apprentices behind him took out two water tanks from under the table and placed them heavily on the table.
Ichiro Kameda rolled up his sleeves, grabbed the water tank with both hands, and lifted up two bulging puffer fish.
"It's actually one of the three delicacies of the Yangtze River: pufferfish!" Yun Niang couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Wrong! This is not your Yangtze River aquatic product from Daliang, but the river dolphin that I specially spent a lot of money to ask merchants to catch from our Dongying Bay. Its deliciousness is many times more delicious than your Jiangsu products!"
It seems that he came prepared!
Ichiro Kameda put the pufferfish on the cutting board and used his five-star sword to remove the cheeks, disembowel the fish, and break the belly. It could be said that he did it all at once, and his knife skills were really impressive.
"Boss Song, don't be stunned. Just tell me what ingredients you need. As long as I can find them, I can go up mountains of swords and seas of fire!" Boss Wang said anxiously.
Yun Niang did not dare to neglect, put on her apron and said: "Two pounds of high-quality beef hind shank, one pound of Pipa shrimp, a can of lard jelly, and let's go find a Yangtze River sturgeon during the spawning period!"
"Also, go to Fan Shang Street quickly and buy a pound of white wine!" Song Che added.
All the shopkeepers at Wangjiang Inn were mobilized.
"Are you sure you want to do that?" Song Che asked.
Yun Niang nodded lightly, "He even brought out pufferfish. If he wanted to compare it in terms of deliciousness and novelty, there were only two dishes left."
Soon, the beef shank meat and Pipa shrimp ingredients were in place. Song Che used a knife to remove the fat from the beef, then picked up two rolling pins and kept beating the beef. Yun Niang used scissors to peel off the shells of the Pipa shrimps, extract the meat, and then chopped it into minced meat with a sharp knife.
"Da da da..." Beating and chopping meat are extremely rhythmic.
Boss Wang and the chefs looked on with surprise, "Boss Song, what are you doing? This dish is unheard of."
"Don't ask first, you will know later."
Song Che was like a pile driver, constantly beating the beef on the chopping board. When the beef rotted into red mud, he was sweating profusely.
"Wipe the sweat!"
"Quick! Wipe Boss Song's sweat!"
"Powder!"
"Quick! Give me some cornstarch!"
He was even busier than the chief surgeon.
Looking at Kameda Ichiro opposite, he has sliced the first puffer fish into platter, and boiled the second pufferfish. The fish can already smell the extremely fresh flavor before it even comes out of the pot.
Song Che pounded the beef into a puree, added various condiments, and kneaded it in the basin for more than a hundred times like kneading noodles. Finally, a ball of extremely chewy beef puree was completed.
Yun Niang boils water in a pot, wraps the shrimp paste and skin jelly into the beef paste like making glutinous rice balls, rolls them into delicate balls, and throws them into the pot for cooking.
"Song Sang, in another half-quarter of an hour, my puffer fish soup will be ready in another half-quarter of an hour. We just ordered two dishes. You seem to be missing one dish, right?" Kameda Ichiro said proudly.
He just finished speaking.
"The Yangtze River Sturgeon is coming!"
A young boy rushed into the inn excitedly carrying a three-foot-long sturgeon, "Boss, I'm really lucky today. As soon as I arrived at the ferry, I met an old man loading the goods. Look, it still has a mouth!" "
Yun Niang caught the sturgeon, knocked it unconscious with a sap, and then used a knife to disembowel it and retrieve the eggs. It could be said that it was all done in one go. Take out the fish eggs one by one like small pearls, carefully select them, wash them over and over again, and finally add refined salt to enhance the flavor.
"Here comes the white wine!"
Another boy rushed into the inn with a jar of wine.
Song Che poured ten cups of wine, and Yun Niang divided the fish roe into ten portions and placed them on the plate one by one. At this time, the beef balls were cooked and surfaced. Add the broth and sprinkle with a handful of chopped green onions. Two dishes and you're done.
Kameda Ichiro's fresh fish soup is also ready.
"Hahaha...Song Sang, even if you can't cook good food anymore, you don't have to make a plate of meatballs to fool people, right?" Ichiro Kameda pointed at the beef balls and laughed sarcastically.
"This is not an ordinary beef ball, but a bouncy...bursting and peeing beef ball!"
Song Che grabbed a beef ball and threw it hard on the opposite table. "Bang!" The beef ball hit the table and bounced slightly, just in time to block Kameda Ichiro's laughing mouth.
"A bite?"
Kameda took a hard bite, "Hi..." A stream of hot oil burst out, splashing for more than a foot, making Ichiro Kameda grin.
"Hahaha……"
"At first I thought the name of this 'explosive peeing cow ball' was inelegant, but I didn't expect it could actually pee?"
"Peeing from the mouth, this is the first time today, hahaha..."
It made the whole crowd laugh.
"Bah...it's just low-level ingredients that are just sensational, how can they be compared with my puffer fish!" Ichiro Kameda spat out the beef balls in his mouth, "Don't waste any more time, my fish soup is most delicious when it comes out of the pot, hurry up Let’s choose the passerby’s choice!”
For the sake of fairness, each party invited five passers-by. They did not say who cooked the dishes, but just handed them chopsticks to taste.
