Chapter 731 is on fire
After Taishi Snake Soup, there is Baiwei Soup. Baiwei Soup has no fixed ingredients, no fixed recipes, and even no fixed methods. How to do it and what ingredients to use are completely up to the chef's mood and whether he feels he is suitable to do it.
In a sense, Baiwei Soup is Schrödinger's soup. Even the chef himself may not know what the soup will taste like before taking off the lid.
Sweet, sour, spicy, salty, anything is possible.
This last dish is also the finishing dish. In order to give the midsummer feast a suitable and unforgettable ending, Jiang Weiming's Baiwei Soup is made with the leftover ingredients from the previous dishes.
Half a pot of soup stock, a few cabbage leaves, extra minced chicken, scattered snake meat, fresh vegetables left over from making Dinghu Shang vegetarian, and of course a little bit of the marinade used by the old man to make Texas Braised Chicken.
This pot of Baiwei soup is light but not light, and heavy but not heavy. Because of the bit of marinade, the color of the soup is a little brown and thick with thin gravy. From a distance, it looks very much like Jiang Weisheng’s specialty strange soup. , but as long as you stir it with a spoon, you will know that the soup in front of you and the strange-flavored soup are two completely different soups.
It’s just that the ingredients in this soup don’t look like they would appear in a dish.
Before the soup was brought out, Jiang Feng tasted it a little uneasily. The taste was okay, and there was no strange smell as expected. The sweetness of the snake meat could be tasted. Overall, it was a bit salty, and the base of the soup stock was very fresh.
But after all, it's just an ordinary hodgepodge.
Jiang Feng felt that it was not even as delicious as the pot of Baiwei soup that Jiang Weiming made when he was at Jiang Yong's house.
"Grandpa Third, I think this pot of hundred-flavor soup tastes a little ordinary." Jiang Feng said tactfully.
Not only did he think it was ordinary, he even thought that instead of passing this pot of soup around, it would be better to have Jiang Wenshi make a pot of strange-flavored soup and serve it, at least it would have the characteristics of Tai Feng House.
"This pot of soup is the best." Jiang Weiming said with a smile.
Jiang Feng:?
The Baiwei soup has been brought out, but there is still a bottom in the pot, and the residue is collected at the bottom. Sun Maocai had never tasted Baiwei Soup and curiously picked up some of the residue to try. While he was eating it, he heard the conversation between Jiang Feng and Jiang Weiming. He quickly swallowed the residue and explained to Jiang Weiming.
"This last soup doesn't need to taste amazing, it just needs to be suitable." Sun Maocai said.
"Since we chose Taishi Snake Soup as the finale when arranging the menu, it is destined that the main dish should not be too stunning so as not to overshadow the finale. It's like the old days
Just like the Peking Opera troupe, we all know that the finale is the penultimate one, and is usually performed by the pillars. Because the last axis play is usually a full martial arts play, it is a bit like a curtain call and is a farewell play. Many guests get up and prepare to leave when they see the last play is about to begin. The same is true for our banquet dishes. ”
"If it is a very luxurious banquet, we will choose to arrange the best dishes at the front. If there are too many dishes, many guests will be tired and can't eat anymore. This problem does not exist in midsummer banquets when there are too few dishes. But since we The final dish, the beginning, the transition, and the final ending The Baiwei soup is the last word. It doesn’t need to taste good, as long as it can hold the end without collapse. Each person drinks a bowl, so that the diners feel that the banquet is over, they have stopped, they have finished eating, and they are satisfied. , that’s it.”
Jiang Feng nodded in understanding.
Sun Maocai was right, Jiang Weiming's Baiwei Soup really ended the summer feast.
The great thing about this multi-flavor soup is that all the ingredients are taken from the previous dishes, and the overall taste goes very well with the entire banquet.
After a bowl of soup, a small burp that is not easily noticed by others, the happiness of enjoying the food and the feeling of fullness transmitted from the stomach to the brain will make people relaxed and happy.
The ordinary lucky person who had never enjoyed a gourmet feast of this level felt very happy when he got it through a lottery. Xu Cheng, who was able to eat top-notch delicacies as a home-cooked meal, also felt very happy.
If you want to decide which dish is the second most delicious dish in the midsummer feast, there may be controversy. Some people think it is Dinghu Shangsu, some think it is steamed eel, others think it is Taishi Snake Soup, and there are even some unique tastes. People think the Texas Braised Chicken is also good.
But if you want to judge which dish is the most delicious in the midsummer feast, it is definitely chickpea pudding. It deserves the unanimous vote.
After the dishes were finished, the last fruit plate was served. Many diners were still reminiscing about the previous dishes and were unwilling to leave.
The diner sitting to the right of Peng Changping, who heard a lot of conversations between Peng Changping and Xu Cheng, finally guessed who Peng Changping was.
You can't blame him for having to guess the whole meal. It was really hard to recognize Peng Changping.
Many people know that Peng Changping has returned to China, and many people also know that Peng Changping has been stationed in Yonghe Residence all year round after returning to China. There are also many people who misunderstood the gossip and think that Peng Changping accepted Jiang Feng as a closed disciple after returning to China, and some of them even often go to Yonghe Residence. The dinner guests might have bumped into Peng Changping.
But they absolutely couldn't recognize who this old man was.
Although Peng Changping has been stationed in Yongheju for a long time, he rarely does it himself and usually gives verbal instructions. When passing by, I would say a few words when I saw him. Even when I was teaching Jiang Feng, I only demonstrated twice.
Jiang Feng had complained before that because of Lu Sheng's personal hobbies, the quality of Yongheju's tea ranked first among major restaurants in Peiping. During the mid-afternoon period, Yongheju's tea sales were better than those in ordinary teahouses. Many uncles like to come to Yongheju for tea in the afternoon, or come in the morning. After drinking tea, they stay for a meal and occupy the table, so that diners who come early will feel like they have entered a teahouse. ——They were all old men drinking tea and water from thermos cups.
Peng Changping's hobby is to wear his favorite loose casual clothes and run around Yonghe Juli with a thermos cup filled with tea and water. During this time, he has become familiar with it and often chats with the elders in the afternoon, causing many uncles to think that He is the new uncle.
If ordinary diners want to identify Peng Changping among the many great men in Yongheju, they may have to sneak into Yongheju every day to observe closely like a pervert. After observing for 10 days and a half, I might be able to use the elimination method to rule out who is Peng Changping. It would also cost me a lot of money. Every meal would have to be eaten at Yonghe Juli, which is really not a small expense.
The diner sitting on the right side of Peng Changping was a little excited when he discovered that Peng Changping might be Peng Changping, and asked in a low voice: "Excuse me, are you Master Peng Changping?"
Peng Changping smiled and nodded without saying anything, which was regarded as acquiescence.
The man was very excited and hurriedly sent a WeChat message to his friend to tell him that he was sitting next to Peng Changping while eating, and that Peng Changping also came to eat at the summer banquet at Tai Feng House.
Amid everyone's lively discussion, the midsummer banquet came to an end.
As usual, Fang Mei and Ji Yue asked every diner invited to the midsummer banquet how they felt about today's banquet and whether they had any relevant opinions on the dishes. Everyone was very cooperative with the inquiry and basically gave me 5-star reviews with no objections. The only objection was that the portion of chickpea pudding was too small.
It would be better if it could be served in a snake soup bowl.
At 9:13 on August 6, the Midsummer Banquet ended successfully.
Jiang Feng didn't feel much other than a little panic and worry after the chicken bean curd came out of the pot. Although he sat at the food delivery window with a very twisted and weird posture, trying to observe the expressions of the diners, he actually couldn't see anything clearly because he didn't have a telescope.
The diners' feedback was only known after they asked Ji Yue and Fang Mei after they left.
Jiang Feng was a little surprised by the diners' high praise for chickpea pudding. Looking at the reviews alone, everyone wrote a lot about chickpea pudding, but what Jiang Feng didn't know was that the diners' comments couldn't fully show their true feelings about chickpea pudding. feelings.
Although many people think that chickpea pudding is really delicious, super delicious, and probably the most delicious dish I have ever eaten in my life, they think their writing is not good and the words they use are not beautiful enough. At this critical moment, there is no way to call the company's employee responsible for writing product copywriting to temporarily work overtime to write a promotional copy of Chickpea Flowers. Therefore, there is no way to describe the deliciousness of this dish in words, so I simply choose not to write or just write that it is very delicious. I am very satisfied with this kind of review that cannot find faults and has no characteristics.
As usual, Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi went home from get off work to take a shower and sleep, preparing for the same boring life the next day.
Then when Jiang Feng woke up, he found that his QQ and WeChat were exploding.
Congratulations abound.
Jiang Feng:?
Congratulations for what? He's not married yet.
Jiang Feng casually clicked on a WeChat message sent by a primary school classmate whom he had forgotten about and had not contacted for nearly 10 years, and found that the words the other party sent made him even more confused.
‘Congratulations. I just saw Weibo this morning and realized that you are so great now. Congratulations to you. Let’s get together next time if we have time. We elementary school classmates haven’t gotten together for many years. ’
The WeChat message sent by a junior high school classmate is probably——
'Congratulations. I saw this morning's Weibo. I didn't expect that there are such amazing people among my classmates. We junior high school classmates haven't gotten together in many years. Let's have a class reunion next time if we have a chance. . ’
Jiang Feng, a high school classmate, hasn't seen it yet, but he has already realized that something is vaguely wrong.
He doesn't play Weibo. When he was clearing the software, he just uninstalled Weibo because it occupied free memory. In Jiang Feng's memory, Ji Yue was probably the one who played Weibo more often. So Jiang Feng didn't even get up yet, so he called Ji Yue directly.
"Hey, Ji Gezi, you know today is slightly..." Before Jiang Feng could finish his words, he was drowned out by Ji Yue's extremely excited and high-pitched voice.
"Jiang Feng, you are so popular. Your name has been trending on Weibo, and so has our Tai Feng Restaurant. Our sales this month are going to explode. Aunt Wang got up early in the morning to change the prices of your dishes. I There will definitely be a lot of bonuses this month, I’m going to make a fortune, hahahahahaha!”
Jiang Feng:? ? ?
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