Chapter 674 The Gluttonous Feast
Jiang Feng used simple words to teach Zhang Zhiyun a vivid lesson. Although Zhang Zhiyun lost the last few mouthfuls of the most essential soup, Jiang Feng believed that he must have gained something more precious than this small half bowl of soup.
Beatings from people in society.
A masterful lie from an honest man.
What Jiang Feng didn't expect was that Zhang Zhiyun was actually the same honest person as he was back then. After the initial shock and daze, Zhang Zhiyun asked blankly.
"Brother Feng, do you think you have such a big appetite?"
Jiang Feng:...
His conscience ached.
"That's right." Jiang Feng swallowed the last mouthful of soup, and the rich flavor of braised shark's fin was still lingering on the tip of his tongue and mouth, "Have you seen my cousin?"
Zhang Zhiyun nodded. The Jiang family belongs to a group of people who are difficult to forget once they have seen them.
"My appetite is actually about the same as my cousin's, but my stomach is not good and I can't absorb it well, so I can't gain weight. Otherwise, I would definitely be stronger than my cousin and the others." Jiang Feng started to tell lies with his eyes open seriously.
Zhang Zhiyun suddenly realized: "No wonder, you can't gain weight if you have a bad stomach. I have a classmate in high school who also has a bad stomach. He eats a lot at each meal but he can't gain weight."
Jiang Feng:...
No, his conscience hurt even more.
After finishing the braised shark's fin, everyone started to rinse their mouths with warm water and waited for the clear soup of the bird's nest. There were nine dishes in the bird's wing banquet, including the soup, which were all super dishes that could be used as table dishes at ordinary banquets. It is precisely because the dishes are not served quickly at Yanqi Banquet that diners have to eat one dish after another. The tongue and stomach are ready after the previous dish is almost over before the next dish is served.
Just when Jiang Feng felt that his tongue was ready, the door opened.
It was Peng Changping who came in again. This time the soup plate in his hand was much smaller than the one holding the braised shark's fin. The bird's nest is as white as snow and placed in a ball in the center of the soup plate. Most of it is immersed in the slightly beige clear soup. Only a small handful is exposed to the air. From a distance, it looks like a blooming flower.
Compared with the braised shark's fin, the clear soup of Guanyan has many more elements. Not only is the color more refined, but the ingredients in the soup are also very simple. Jiang Feng took a closer look and found that there was nothing but bird's nest. It was indeed the bird's nest in clear soup as the name suggests.
Because the amount of clear soup Guan Yan was small this time, everyone was more reserved when ladling out. Each person stopped after filling half a bowl. Despite this, eating half a bowl of bird's nest is still a very luxurious thing - the clear bird's nest soup is less and the bird's nest is more, and the braised shark's fin soup is more and the shark's fin is more.
Jiang Feng thought about it carefully and realized that he had never eaten bird's nest in his entire life. For an ordinary family like theirs, there is no hobby of serving supplements like bird's nest as a dish. For a period of time, Wang Xiulian would send Comrade Jiang Jiankang to get up early in the morning to stew a cup of rock sugar bird's nest for beauty.
This extravagant behavior lasted for almost two weeks and then ended - Comrade Jiang Jiankang really couldn't get up in the morning.
Jiang Feng, who did not need beauty care and had never had any serious illness since childhood and did not need to take supplements, started eating bird's nests for the first time in his life.
In the mouth, there is the taste of clear soup.
Bird's nest itself really has no taste, which is very similar to shark's fin. The taste depends entirely on the soup, so Jiang Feng deeply feels that eating these bird's nests and shark's fin vegetables is worse than drinking the soup directly, which is both delicious and nutritious.
Unlike shark fin, bird's nest is a bit crispy.
It's not as crispy as white fungus, just a little bit, but amazing enough. The delicious clear soup was refreshing and throat-clearing, and paired with the soft, glutinous and slightly crispy bird's nest, it gave Jiang Feng a wonderful experience. The clear soup was delicious but not rich. Jiang Feng vaguely felt as if he had eaten a trace of the bird's nest. taste. As for the original taste of bird's nest, Jiang Feng couldn't tell clearly. After all, this was his first time eating bird's nest, and he had no idea what the original taste of bird's nest was.
The only thing Jiang Feng can be sure of is that ordinary bird's nests cannot produce this kind of texture and taste, otherwise Xu Cheng, who is well-informed, would not show such an intoxicated expression that could be turned into an emoticon.
Peng Changping also ate some bird's nest, although not much but a few bites, unlike the braised shark's fin before where he only drank some soup.
At the end of the meal, it was Zhang Zhiyun who still spoke: "I didn't expect the bird's nest to be so delicious. I always thought the bird's nest had no taste."
Jiang Feng:...
He didn't know how to explain to the honest man next to him. Before he could speak, the door opened again.
The third dish came, abalone in oyster sauce.
Abalone in oyster sauce is served on the head, one per person, one on a plate. The abalone was not big, and the oyster sauce was poured on the abalone as thinly as a piece of dyed paper. The soup on the plate was very rich. Jiang Feng scraped it with a spoon and found that there was only one tablespoon.
This dish proves with practical actions what concentration means essence.
A small abalone can be eaten in one bite if you open your mouth wide, but the soup and deliciousness contained in it cannot be explained in just a few words. Just a spoonful of thick soup can be rolled into your mouth with just one lick of your tongue. The aftertaste left behind is enough to make people think about it for half an hour.
After finishing the abalone on the plate and scraping off the last trace of the soup, Jiang Feng felt that he was still satisfied. If he could, he could even eat ten more!
Before Jiang Feng could recover from the regret of not having enough, the grilled black ginseng came.
Jiang Feng had seen this dish countless times in his memory, and he was familiar with how to make it. He even had the idea of coming to Yongheju to taste it at his own expense, but in the end he was unable to realize it due to lack of money.
This time, he had the top version.
The thickening of the braised black ginseng was not done by Peng Changping, but by Peng Changping's apprentice who is also the current chef of Yongheju. The same is true for the subsequent dishes. Therefore, although the dishes served later were large in quantity, they were not as stunning as the first three. They were delicious but lacked the feeling of Yan's Wing Feast.
As the last dish of the very distinctive pearl soup made from freshly eared old corn was brought to the table, the hot dishes of the Yan's Wings mat also came to an end.
Each person had a bowl of pearl soup, and each person had a Ge Youpeng. Everyone in the box, except Peng Changping, touched their stomachs and sighed while looking at the dishes on the table. Jiang Feng relied on his extraordinary will to perform beyond his level. Not only did he eat the last dish, but he also ate a record amount, turning the previous lie of "I have a big appetite and I can eat it all" into the truth.
Jiang Feng felt that if the waiter brought two more plates of abalone in oyster sauce, he could continue to eat.
After eating and drinking, it’s naturally time to chat.
Peng Changping and Zhang Chu hadn't seen each other for decades, so they couldn't be called old friends reunited. The time to talk after the gluttonous feast belonged to them.
Peng Changping took a sip of tea, cleared his throat, and asked: "How have you... been doing these years?" (End of Chapter)