But it's not over yet. After Hagiwara Sho thickens the sauce three times and sprinkles with garlic sprouts, it can be taken out of the pot, put on a plate and covered with a lid.
Aoba's eyes seemed to be shining, and he wanted to get through the phone screen to the other side.
She knew how powerful her father was at stimulating the original flavor of ingredients.
It turned out that Aoba used Hagiwara Sho's steps to figure out that this pot of mapo tofu was too spicy and somewhat unbalanced.
But after such stimulation, the original flavor of the ingredients bursts out.
Let her just imagine that her brain is resisting the painful feeling of spicy taste, but her tongue is constantly secreting saliva, and she really wants to challenge it.
"My father's ability is simply too difficult to learn. It's all simple steps, but I can't achieve the same effect no matter what."
Qingye said with an extremely envious tone.
Jiang Xu looked at her with empty eyes.
Without the food spirit, even if you were 100% consistent with his movements, there would be no effect at all.
But then again.
He also wanted to know what Hagiwara Sho's pot of mapo tofu tasted like.
Just seeing it on the screen is absolutely mouth-watering.
The fragrance of Mapo Tofu is still spreading continuously from the window and from the cracks in the door.
Some chefs with a keen sense of smell are already sniffing the tips of their noses, looking for the source of the smell.
However, when they opened their kitchen door and saw a certain figure, they immediately closed the door with a clang, as if there were some evil spirits parading outside.
Outside Hagiwara Sho's door.
A figure opened the door and walked slowly over.
Jiang Xu and Qingye, who were still in the video, were stunned because of the angle of the camera.
The first thing they saw was the person's lower body.
Under the pure white summer clothes, the lines of muscles are faintly revealed, and there is an indescribable majesty. His hands are naturally resting on his sides. The vicissitudes of life's palms are very thick, but they have the unique softness of a chef.
After the figure took a few steps forward again, Jiang Xu could see that the person who came was an old man with gray hair, but he was extremely energetic and his complexion was so rosy that it did not match the color of his hair.
Just his face...
There were various dark scars all over, as if hot oil had been poured on them, and they looked like evil spirits.
"Master An! Why are you here?"
Hagiwara Xiang heard the sound of pushing the door, looked back, and was stunned.
"Hey, wait a minute, I'll turn off the video."
After Hagiwara Sho said this, he turned around hastily and apologized to the phone camera.
"Xu-kun, Aoba, I'll leave it to you two to do the rest of the shokuji. I have something else to do so I'll turn off the video first."
After saying that, the screen immediately went black.
Jiang Xu and Qingye were left looking at each other.
"What's going on?" Jiang Xu asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"I don't know." Qingye also shook his head blankly: "Maybe Master An's identity is somewhat special."
Xia Guo, Jinling, Tongfang Restaurant, Room 3 of the Experimental Kitchen.
Hagiwara Xiang hurriedly turned off the video on his mobile phone, turned around, and faced Master An, who was strong and did not look old at all.
He looked anxious and blamed himself and said: "I'm sorry, Master An, my mobile phone video recorded your true face. I'm really sorry, I shouldn't have made a video call in the kitchen."
"But I assure you, they are both good children. They still live in Sakurajima and will never leak any information about you."
Master An laughed loudly: "Xiaoqiu, you are too nervous. Why, are you afraid that my old face will scare your precious daughter, and is the person next to her your son-in-law?"
"son in law???"
Originally, Hagiwara Sho wanted to apologize again, but when he heard this word, he suddenly felt like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and he quickly explained, for fear of being a second too late.
"No, that kid is just an exchange student from Xia Country to Sakurajima. He is staying at my house temporarily. He is just a temporary tenant and has nothing to do with Aoba."
"Oh, really. I think your daughter is quite cute, and the young man is also very handsome. I thought... Hahaha, I misunderstood."
Master An smiled and apologized.
"Thank you for your compliment. My daughter is indeed very cute."
Hagiwara Xiang forced a smile: "So, Master An, why are you here?"
"What else can I do, just for this."
Master An pointed to the mapo tofu that Hagiwara Sho had just plated and put on the lid.
"ah!"
Hagiwara Sho did not doubt the other party's sense of smell, but was surprised that the aroma of the dishes actually attracted the other party's attention!
This is not a rare delicacy, it is just a new dish that is not very complete.
"Can I have a taste?" Master An asked.
"it's my honour!"
Hagiwara Sho took the initiative to lift the lid.
Suddenly, a spicy aroma that was even stronger than before burst out from the ceramic bowl.
At the same time, a subtle light began to shine.
Until the accumulated fragrance dispersed and the light was extinguished, it did exist for a long time.
Hagiwara Sho presented a porcelain spoon.
Master An took a large spoonful of tofu wrapped in red and looked like white jade and put it into his mouth.
Hmm~
Putting down the spoon, Master An blew out a long mouthful of turbid air, smacked his mouth, and said with a satisfied look on his face.
"Is this dish called Mapo Tofu? Although there are some differences, it is indeed the same spirit! Finally, I can taste it again."
Hagiwara Sho was stunned, "Wait, you mean, you have tasted this dish before? But, as far as I know..."
Master An smiled and interrupted.
"I didn't say that I tasted this dish in this world."
"It's not in the real world, so you mean, the virtual world?!"
Hagiwara Sho's pupils shrank and he said in shock.
He knows some inside details and knows that the world is not as simple as it seems.
Under the seemingly prosperous times, there are actually countless turbulent undercurrents.
The enemy is not outside, but within.
In other words, they are historical ghosts that cannot be explained by science, but actually exist.
They don't know where they came from, but they have a cultural history that is not the same as the current world.
And he always thinks about it and replaces it with the present world.
Once they succeed, the part of the world they occupy may be a village, a street, or even a city.
Everyone's memories will be tampered with, and even some people will be replaced.
They will not remember their true history, and neither will the outside world.
These ghosts will truly resurrect and continue to spread their influence like cancer, until they have completely eroded a country and a world.
In the historical struggle between the East and the West, there was a silent understanding. They all wanted to use a war to clean up all the cancers that had formed stubborn diseases at the time from their roots.
Because in fact, if you carefully study that war, you will find that neither Daxia nor the major Western allies actually suffered much loss in strength.
On the contrary, the forces along the war route were turned upside down.
Even if there may be some that were secretly replaced, they were completely shuffled and became the only history that belongs to this world.
But for ordinary people, the truth of history is too difficult to accept. It is better to believe that it is a war for cultural hegemony.
What's more, this is part of the truth.
Facts have proven that the best way to defeat those ghosts on the other side is to suppress them with national destiny.
If a country wants to have a strong national destiny, it must spread its cultural influence.
From this point of view, there is still a competitive relationship between the East and the West.
The world is so big. The more areas you radiate, the less areas I influence, and my national destiny will also be less.
Dealing with the ghosts of history is not so easy.
Therefore, in the post-war competitive era, it is actually just a means to spread influence around the world and harvest luck.
In the cultural circle of Daxia, the national destiny of most national forces is closely related to Daxia.
In this way, they can take advantage of Daxia's majestic national destiny to protect their own culture and history.
After all, the more frivolous and shallow one's own historical civilization is, the easier it is to attract the attention of historical ghosts and try to revive them.
But having said that, after so many years of research, people in this life have also discovered that these ghosts are ultimately losers in their own world and time, so they were expelled.
Because the winner is still living well in his or her own world line, there is no need to rob others of their 'existence', reshape themselves, and graft them in.
Therefore, these historical ghosts are also called a defeated world by some people.
In contrast, the current world and the history of those who have defeated the ghosts of history and swept them into the garbage dump of history are victorious.
"To be precise, it is a defeated world. When that declining world wanted to be forced to come, I once briefly squeezed into the present world, and I once took the opportunity to taste this dish."
When Hagiwara Sho recalled these truths that he still finds extremely bizarre and unbelievable, Master An also spoke.
"It's just that the dish at that time was still very crude and simple, and it probably hadn't been around for long. But the unique taste in this dish is something I will never forget."
Master An continued.
"I believe it can become a dish handed down from generation to generation. But having said that, any famous dish handed down from generation to generation did not start out simple and crude. It is only after being passed down from generation to generation, slowly refined and improved, promoted and evolved, that it is spread."
Master An showed a trace of nostalgia.
"I later experienced many virtual worlds and defeated worlds, but I never encountered this dish again. I knew that the history of that world became a victorious world. This dish may have become a world of victory. part of their history and culture.”
"Compared to tasting this dish in a virtual world and a defeated world, I hope that the victorious world can be maintained forever."
"So, Xiaoqiu, can you tell me, where did you learn this dish?"
Master An asked with a kind face.
A line of cold sweat broke out on Hagiwara Xiang's head, but he knew how terrifying the 'Food Hunter' master in front of him was.
A research-oriented chef like him would probably be subdued in one encounter if he really started to take action.
After all, these 'hunters', whether they are food hunters, bird hunters, or sword hunters, are ruthless people who dare to face defeat, not only their own lives, but also the traces of their own existence.
If it had been before, without confirming who was lying between Jiang Xu and Master An, he would definitely not have told Master An anything.
But now, Jiang Xu has made it very clear that even an ordinary person who wants to learn this dish can be taught it, let alone just tell the origin of the dish.
After listening to Hagiwara Sho's story, Master An nodded thoughtfully.
"Perhaps, it is an accident of history that allows this dish to be reappeared in our normal life through the hands of this Mapa. This is not a big deal. Because not every loser wants to occupy the magpie's nest. "
"There are still some people who are willing to cooperate. Now, they are also living in the virtual world. They have even made a lot of contributions. If they are valuable, they will distribute their luck according to their work and help them in some uninhabited areas. Resurrection."
"So, it's not a big deal, and you don't need to be nervous."
Master An's aura calmed down, causing Hagiwara Sho, who had been tensing up, to relax a little.
"This Mapo Tofu is indeed a famous dish that represents Sichuan cuisine."
"It's a pity that Daxia's food luck has been nearly saturated recently. For the time being, we won't be able to use our luck to promote it as a famous dish passed down from generation to generation."
"But you, Sakurajima, are different. A famous dish passed down from generation to generation should be very important to Sakurajima now."
If Mapo Tofu is really a dish handed down from generation to generation, it will undoubtedly be a great good thing for Sakurajima, who currently has no food luck but no recipes.
It can fill the loopholes to a certain extent, prevent the defeated world from taking the opportunity to cause chaos, and give Sakurajima food luck more time to wait for the birth of his own path.
Hagiwara Sho’s own ideal is to promote Sakurajima cuisine.
But there is always a certain gap between the ideal and the present.
For the sake of reality, ideals cannot be set back a little.
I just don’t know why, but there are so many failures related to Sakurajima.
Could it be because Sakurajima is a loser in other worlds online?
Not only Hagiwara Sho has not figured this out, but many Sakurajima people have not figured it out either.
What's more, even if the historical origin of this dish belongs to Daxia, it actually doesn't matter much to Sakurajima.
After all, Sakurajima's three pillars of national sports, mahjong, kendo, and cuisine, are all branched off from Daxia culture.
Even if you add mapo tofu, it's just a little extra, so it doesn't matter.
The first purpose of Sho Hagiwara's coming to Daxia was to learn from major cuisines and hone his cooking skills in an attempt to find his own path and find a way out of Sakurajima cuisine.
Secondly, it is also to learn from the experience and learn some famous dishes that are suitable for adapting to Sakurajima's version.
Now, the first hope was found in Jiang Xu.
Then this was countless times more valuable than the treasured recipe he had estimated before.
'I will definitely report it to the Sakurajima Gourmet Association and do my best to promote Mapo Tofu in Sakurajima. '
Hagiwara Sho secretly swore in his heart.
Master An smiled, food luck is also a kind of national luck.
Sakurajima uses food promotion to promote Mapo Tofu. Although it will be changed to the Sakurajima version, the source is still Daxia.
This is equivalent to Sakurajima binding part of the national destiny to Daxia.
'This boy named Jiang Xu is really a talent. Wait a minute, Jiang Xu, why have you heard the name Jiang Xu somewhere? '
Master An frowned. He seemed to have some impression of this name. He seemed to have heard someone mention it somewhere, but he could never remember it.
In short, he just needs to remember the name.
