Chapter 348 Birthday Banquet (2)
Xia Mubing held Zhang Guanghang's hand and continued walking to the vegetable market, while making casual remarks.
"Xiaohang, have you ever seen someone make Fu...luo...saffron chicken before?" Xia Mubing asked.
"Yes, I've seen my dad and Uncle Adrien do it before." Zhang Guanghang replied.
"Then master will test you. Do you still remember how to cook it?" Xia Mubing went straight to the point. It was too difficult to make something out of nothing. He had to have some reference information to make up this dish.
"I don't remember much." Zhang Guanghang shook his head, "It seems that he fried the chicken, then... then poured in beef soup and cooked it dry, then... then I don't remember."
Zhang Guanghang was completely unaware of Xia Mubing's true intentions, thinking that Xia Mubing simply wanted to test him.
Xia Mubing stopped talking and continued to walk forward in silence. Looking at his expression, he seemed to be thinking about how to fry the chicken and then boil it with beef soup. The two masters and apprentices were like this, one tall, one short, one old. The couple held hands and walked to the vegetable market, which looked like a large market.
Jiang Feng has seen larger vegetable markets than this one, and has seen vegetable markets with more complete varieties than this one, but this is the first time for Jiang Feng to have such a large and complete variety of vegetables, and it is as messy as returning to a roadside stall. See.
There were not only housewives who came to buy vegetables, but also middle-aged men who looked like chefs and some ordinary people who had no experience in buying vegetables. A group of people were picking and bargaining at the vegetable stalls, and various voices were mixed together. Children constitute this bustling bustling market. For a vegetable market of this size, it's no wonder that Xia Mubing came to visit it in person. If you don't have the skills, you really can't buy good food in this place.
"Grand-père, Plectropomus leopardus!" Zhang Guanghang pointed at an Eastern star spotted swimming in the water tank.
Xia Mubing glanced at Dong Xingban and replied, "That's Dong Xingban."
"East Star Spot." Zhang Guanghang repeated, starting today's study of Chinese ingredients.
"Grand-père, matsutake."
"Matsutake, I won't buy this today."
"Grand-père, mérou!"
"That's a stone, eh, grouper." Xia Mubing was immediately attracted by the grouper. After negotiating with the grouper seller, he successfully took two large and small pieces from the basin. Grouper.
"Is this your grandson? Which country is he of mixed race? The United States? My daughter thinks about going abroad all day long. She gets up early every morning and memorizes English words on the balcony before dawn." The vendor is new here and doesn't know Xia Xia. Mu Bin.
"My apprentice is French." Xia Mubing said.
"Take foreigners as apprentices. You are really powerful. But which country is France? Is it next to the United States?" the hawker asked, keeping his eyes on Zhang Guanghang. Although he occasionally saw foreigners walking on the road, this was the first time he saw a foreigner child.
Xia Mubing thought to herself, how do I know where France is, and said: "Maybe."
Such a place has a large passenger flow, extremely high population density, and is bustling with people. If you are not careful when walking, your front feet will touch other people's back heels or your shoulders will rub the arms of the people next to you. Xia Mubing and Zhang Guanghang are such a Sino-French merger. The combination of young and old is undoubtedly extremely eye-catching.
Xia Mubing led Zhang Guanghang around the vegetable market quickly, and found nothing that caught his eye except grouper. Fenyuan, like other restaurants, has a fixed food supplier. The reason why Xia Mubing insists on visiting the vegetable market every day is just to pass the time and exercise on the side, just like taking a walk.
"Grand-père, lacrevette." Zhang Guanghang gently tugged on Xia Mubing's sleeve and pointed to the live shrimps in the basin in front of an aquatic product vendor.
"Want to eat shrimp?" Xia Mubing asked.
Zhang Guanghang nodded.
"Is there anything else you want to eat? It's your birthday today. If you order something, Master will cook it for you as long as Master knows how to cook it." Xia Mubing showed rare generosity and good temper, "Would you like Wanfu meat? Today Master will show you his skills. I’ll make you a royal blessing.”
"Eat." Zhang Guanghang nodded, "And candied haws of sugar."
"I know, I won't miss your candied haws, so I'll buy it for you when I get back. And that chicken that I killed. You go pick out the ingredients for that chicken first, and we'll buy the shrimp when we get back." Mu Bin felt a little headache and pressed her nose. Liang, he hasn't figured out how to make that chicken yet, "Then I will take you to Tailor Zhao's place to make new clothes in the evening. You are jumping too fast. I just made them last month." The clothes are too short again.”
Listening to Xia Mubing's mutterings and complaints, Zhang Guanghang gave him a big smile and said loudly: "Grand-père, jet'aime!"
"Keep your voice down. I'm not too old to hear you. What you just said, oh, forget it. When you go back next month, you tell your mother, don't just ask the tutor to teach you math and English... you learn English. You want a Chinese teacher to help you with your Chinese. You ask me to guess the meaning of each sentence in Chinese and French. How can I guess it? You are already so old and you still have to suffer this foreign crime. He took Zhang Guanghang to buy ingredients for saffron chicken.
Jiang Feng was still standing next to the shrimp vendor stall in front of the flower lobster in the stall next to him. Due to the difficulty of the ingredients and technique, Jiang Feng had never tried baked lobster in soup, and had never even seen flower lobster.
It was not easy to see someone alive. Even though it was in his memory, Jiang Feng couldn't help but take a second look.
"The relationship between the grandfather and grandson just now was really good." A middle-aged man dressed as a scholar and wearing glasses said to the hawker while picking shrimps.
"Grandson? That child is not his grandson, that is the apprentice he took in last year. Master Xia is a cook, the one who runs Fenyuan. Do you know Fenyuan? It's the private restaurant two alleys ahead." The shrimp vendor was obviously very familiar with Xia Mubing, and even knew that Zhang Guanghang was his apprentice last year.
"Apprentice?" The middle-aged man was stunned, "The kid just said, Grandpa, I love you."
This time it was Jiang Feng and the vendor's turn to be stunned.
"Do you still understand French? You must have heard wrong. That child is his apprentice, not his grandson." The hawker said.
"How could I hear it wrong? The kid just said Grand-père, which means grandpa. There is only one word in French..."
Jiang Feng originally wanted to stay there and listen to the middle-aged man's explanation, but an invisible wall of air hit him from behind, knocking him to the ground.
When he looked up, Zhang Guanghang and Xia Mubing were already gone. Jiang Feng could only quickly get up and run forward. If he fell to the ground and was hit by the wall of air, this situation would be no different from being tied to a chair and being whipped.
Jiang Feng hadn't experienced this feeling of being whipped by a wall of air for a long time.
Running to catch up with Zhang Guanghang, when Jiang Feng ran up behind them, Xia Mubing was still talking about the Zhang Guanghang mentioned just now, and from time to time he would add one or two French sentences in Chinese.
"I always hear about dragons and Pyle, what does that mean?" Xia Mubing asked.
“grand-père?”
"Yes, yes, it's just this movie. What does it mean?"
Zhang Guanghang was silent for a moment and replied: "Master."
"Huh?"
"This is Master's intention." Zhang Guanghang said firmly.
"From now on, when you call me Master, just call me properly and use words I can understand. How could I know that you are calling me that movie?" Xia Mubing let go of Zhang Guanghang's hand, "Okay, go pick it out." Food bar. Just tell me what you want to buy. The stall owner looked at me and didn’t know what to call him. I went to the front to cut two pieces of pork belly. I just saw that the meat on the stall was quite fresh. It should have been freshly killed this morning. Call me if you need anything. "
After saying that, Xia Mubing walked towards the meat stall in front.
Zhang Guanghang nodded reluctantly and puffed his face into a pufferfish.
Regarding this bad behavior of blatantly deceiving the master, Jiang Feng could only say that Mr. Xia still suffered a cultural loss.
And it is a very sweet and happy loss. (End of chapter)