Chapter 160 Fumanlou Cooking Competition
Su Bingcheng walked out of Lichun Courtyard with the remaining money. He staggered but didn't know where to go. However, he was no longer prepared to come back to Lichun Courtyard.
Su Xiaoxiao, Qian Musheng, and Pei Yuan were hiding in the alley and watching Su Bingcheng to see if he finally came out of Lichun Courtyard.
Su Xiaoxiao believed in Su Bingcheng very much and felt that he would definitely do this.
Unexpectedly, he really did this. Su Xiaoxiao finally relaxed and did her own thing.
Seeing that Su Bingcheng finally walked towards his home, Su Xiaoxiao felt even more relieved.
On the way back, Su Xiaoxiao and Qian Musheng discussed how to push out the new soy sauce.
Su Xiaoxiao decided that if she researched a few more types of soy sauce, some people would be willing to believe that the new soy sauce was developed by herself.
Qian Musheng took a look and said, "Isn't that very difficult for you? Can you really do that?"
Su Xiaoxiao smiled, "Don't worry, I have no problem with the research and development of this new soy sauce. I want to see how other people spread rumors. Everything speaks for itself with strength."
Qian Musheng actually admired Su Xiaoxiao very much and felt that this woman was just a weakling who could not be beaten to death.
Of course, Qian Musheng didn't feel that way in her heart. She felt that Su Xiaoxiao simply shouldn't be too strong. This failure didn't mean anything. She would get up right away and join the fight again.
After Su Xiaoxiao returned home, she began to develop new flavors of soy sauce.
Su Xiaoxiao decided to add some cayenne to the soy sauce during the production process. After processing, the color would become slightly darker, and it would become dark soy sauce.
For example, in stews, when you stew meat, adding dark soy sauce will make the color thicker and color faster.
There is also a kind of soy sauce that Su Xiaoxiao thinks is very suitable for steaming fish, which is the steamed fish with black bean sauce that we often use in modern times. Su Xiaoxiao thought about this for a long time and added some rock sugar and the fragrance of black soybean sauce, so that it can be slightly better during steaming and stir-frying. The aroma of tempeh is brought out on top.
After two new flavors of soy sauce were developed, Su Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief. After repeated trials of cooking by herself, a look of satisfaction finally appeared on her face.
"It's done."
Pei Yuan saw Su Xiaoxiao's embarrassed look, so he went over and asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Su Xiaoxiao replied: "It's soy sauce. Now let's see who dares to say that I plagiarized. It's obviously original, okay?"
Su Xiaoxiao happily took the new soy sauce to Qian Musheng. After Qian Musheng ordered someone to test it in the kitchen of the Eight Immortals House, he finally nodded with satisfaction.
"The taste of this soy sauce is very unusual. The two soy sauces are suitable for different dishes, but they both add a lot of freshness and color to these dishes."
Qian Musheng couldn't help but admired, "Boss Su, you are indeed an extraordinary woman, I admire you in particular."
"Haha...you finally know how good I am now, right? I have decided that this time we will open a soy sauce workshop in the capital. If we open it, we must make a name for ourselves so that everyone knows that we are open and can get to know our new customers. There are different types of soy sauce.”
After saying this, Su Xiaoxiao also looked proud.
Su Xiaoxiao brought Xin Soy Sauce and Qian Musheng to the capital. After meeting Prince Gong, Prince Gong first defeated them both.
"Now that your new soy sauce has a bad reputation, our current opening has been greatly impacted..."
While Prince Gong was still talking here, Su Xiaoxiao directly showed the soy sauce.
"Look, this is our new soy sauce, and it comes in two flavors. By the way, Prince Gong, do you want to try it?" Su Xiaoxiao asked, and Prince Gong expressed his pleasure after hearing this.
"I wonder what your favorite dish is, Prince Gong?"
Prince Gong thought for a while and replied: "I usually like to eat fish."
"Okay, since you like to eat fish, you must have fish prepared by your favorite restaurant, right?"
When asked, Prince Gong nodded.
"That's natural. I like to eat the West Lake Fish in Vinegar made by the master chef of Fumanlou, the largest restaurant in Beijing."
Since she loves fish, Su Xiaoxiao nodded. He took out his newly made soy sauce and said, "This bottle of steamed fish soy sauce I newly developed is specially brewed for cooking fish. It can add a lot of wonderful flavors to the fish we usually cook."
Su Xiaoxiao then took out the bottle of soy sauce and said to everyone: "This soy sauce is newly developed by me, and it is especially suitable for steaming fish. I believe that you can make delicious fish with only this soy sauce."
Prince Gong was quite puzzled. Naturally, he thought all this was incredible, and wondered whether Su Xiaoxiao was bragging a little too much about her abilities.
But Prince Gong cannot express too much doubt about his partners, that is not good.
"Okay, since you want to prove yourself, how about you have a competition with the master chef from Fumanlou who makes West Lake Vinegar Fish, and see who can win in the end?"
Su Xiaoxiao nodded in agreement, which was actually what she meant.
On the day of the competition, Prince Gong arrived at Fumanlou early. He had booked all the places here, and the chef here also agreed to the competition. In total, what Su Xiaoxiao cooked was boiled fish.
The two people had completely different methods of cooking this dish, which meant that no one had ever heard of boiled fish before.
The waiter who works for Chef Fumanlou is still complaining: "What kind of dish is this? Does the fish cooked in water taste good?"
The chef's chopping board at Fumanlou is filled with seasonings used in cooking. Of course, the soy sauce he uses is traditional soy sauce.
In front of Su Xiaoxiao, there was a new soy sauce developed by Su Xiaoxiao this time, called Steamed Fish Soy Sauce.
Su Xiaoxiao looked particularly confident. There were no miscellaneous seasonings in front of her. Today she was going to use this soy sauce to conquer the taste buds of everyone in front of her.
The fish prepared for them in the kitchen are all fresh and placed on the chopping board, and the principle of fairness is emphasized.
The judges of the competition include Prince Gong and several other children of noble families, all of whom are the fair-weather friends with whom Prince Gong usually plays well.
Everyone is rich, eats and drinks the best, and has an extraordinary appreciation of food.
Prince Gong sat across from them and laid out the tea. He enjoyed the wonderful competition while sipping the tea.
The other people were like stars holding the moon, surrounding Prince Gong.
At the beginning of the competition, the chef of Fumanlou began to kill fish, and Su Xiaoxiao also started to kill fish.
After cleaning the fish, Su Xiaoxiao began to cut out stripes of patterns on the fish's body.
Of course, the key to successful cooking is knife skills.
(End of chapter)