First move all other dishes to the side table, place the small stove in the middle of the table, light the fire, and place the casserole on the small stove.
Then Feng Yifan reached out and opened the lid of the casserole.
Instantly, accompanied by the sound of "gurgling", the rich aroma of braised fish head wafted out of the pot. The chopped fish head in the casserole was soaked in the rosy and shiny soup, which made people's appetite increase just by looking at it.
It was as if all the food I had eaten before disappeared at this moment, and my stomach started to growl again.
Yue Qingsong smelled the fragrance and saw the thick fish soup in the casserole, and he instantly couldn't wait to eat it.
Feng Yifan saw that everyone was hesitating, so he smiled and reminded them, "Don't be polite, eat the fish head first, and then there will be fish slices to eat. I also prepared rice in a casserole for everyone."
When Feng Yifan brought out the fish fillets hanging on a fan-like vessel, it instantly became the focus of the entire restaurant.
"Oh my god, isn't this so beautiful?"
"What's on this?"
"Is there anything like this? Is this edible?"
"Look carefully, there are thin slices of fish hanging on it."
"Huh? It's really fish fillet?"
"It's amazing, the fish slices are so thin and very neat."
"The boss showed us his knife skills again."
"This way of eating is a little bit like hot pot. In our place, this way of eating is called crossing the bridge, right?"
"Yes, I remembered the General Crossing the Bridge dish, which seems to be eaten in the same way."
"The General Crosses the Bridge? What kind of dish is that?"
"Don't you young people know about the General Crossing the Bridge? Let me tell you, the General Crossing the Bridge is a dish of black fish cooked in white soup, and the fish meat is also removed and placed aside in the same way."
"Yes, I've eaten this way when I was out of town."
"But General, it seems that the black fish fillet needs to be cooked, right?"
"Well, it can be cooked. You can also slice the fish into thin slices like the boss did, and then eat it like hot pot meat."
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When Shi Jinbin heard a diner mention the general crossing the bridge, he couldn't help but interject.
"You all know the General Crossing the Bridge, but do you know what the key to the dish is?"
These words actually made those present who knew that the general was crossing the bridge feel somewhat strange.
Seeing that no one knew, Shi Jinbin smiled and said, "It is true that we need to use black fish for the General Crossing the Bridge, but when we remove the meat, we must keep the fish body intact, the fish head intact, the whole fish bones intact, the two pieces of fish skin intact, and finally the fish intestines intact.
That is the so-called General's Six Hangings."
After hearing what Shi Jinbin said, many people naturally became more curious.
One customer couldn't help but ask, "Boss, can you make a general crossing the bridge here? I really want to see what the general's six hooks that the old gentleman mentioned look like?"
When Feng Yifan heard a diner bring up this issue, he looked at Shi Jinbin with a helpless smile.
"Uncle Master, you are testing me on purpose, right?"
Shi Jinbin didn't answer at all. He just sat down and continued to eat the braised fish head.
As for the others, especially Zhuang Daozhong and Su Jinrong, they also remained silent. Then everyone understood each other tacitly and focused on eating.
Feng Yifan felt even more helpless when he saw that everyone was pretending to be stupid.
At this time, Feng Ruoruo stood up and walked to her father, reaching out to pull her father.
"Dad, please make some fish for me, Xixi, and Feifei. We haven't had any yet. You said you would use this to soak rice for us."
Hearing his daughter's words, Feng Yifan immediately came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Okay, Dad will do it for you right away."
After that, Feng Yifan said to the customer who was ordering the food: "Please wait a moment. I will prepare the meal for my daughter."
When the customer heard this, he knew that he would be able to see something new today, so he naturally stopped rushing: "Okay, okay, boss, you go ahead. Anyway, I just want to order a General Crossing the Bridge. As for the price, I'll pay whatever you want."
Hearing this, the other diners immediately started to make a noise: "Since the boss is a wealthy local tyrant, you should ask for more money. One dish will cost at least several hundred yuan."
Feng Yifan did not agree directly, but instead prepared food for his daughter seriously.
The first step is to select a few very good fish fillets and put them into the fish head soup.
Then Feng Yifan opened the casserole of stewed rice and scooped out some rice for his daughter.
Next, use a small spoon to scoop some fish soup from the fish head casserole and pour it over the rice.
After pouring two spoonfuls, Feng Yifan asked his daughter: "Is this enough?"
Feng Ruoruo took her father's hand, looked carefully at the rice and soup in the bowl, thought for a moment and said, "Dad, give me a little more."
Feng Yifan added two more spoonfuls of soup to his daughter and asked her to taste it.
This time Feng Ruoruo was satisfied: "Okay, this tastes just right."
Feng Yifan then took the fish slices out of the fish soup and put them on the rice. He placed his daughter's small bowl in front of her and said, "Okay, you can eat it now."
As he said this, he handed the spoon to his daughter so that she could eat directly with the spoon.
When Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei saw the rice in Feng Ruoruo's bowl, they were very curious and wanted to taste it.
Especially Feng Ruoruo took a bite of the rice mixed with fish meat and fish soup, and said to her good friend with a smile: "It's delicious, Xixi, Feifei, hurry up and let daddy make it for you too."
Feng Yifan had already started and quickly prepared a bowl for each of the other two little girls.
Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei looked at the hot fish soup rice and the fish meat in front of them and thought it was very delicious.
Feng Ruoruo urged her two good friends: "Xixi, Feifei, eat quickly, it's delicious."
The two little girls also used spoons to scoop up the rice with fish soup and fish meat, and put it in their mouths to chew carefully.
Yang Xiaoxi was immediately surprised: "It's really delicious."
Chen Yaofei nodded and said, "Yes, it's delicious, salty and a little sweet, really delicious."
While the adults were still eating the fish heads in the pot, the three little girls had already eaten the fish head rice soup. The delicious taste made the three little girls eat very happily.
Seeing his daughter enjoying the meal, Feng Yifan turned to the customer who ordered the General Crossing the Bridge and said, "Do you really want to order the General Crossing the Bridge? Do you want the fish fillet to be blanched like this? Or do you want it cooked?"
Hearing Feng Yifan's question, the customer was a little surprised: "Boss, is there any difference between blanched fish fillet and cooked fish fillet?"
Feng Yifan nodded and replied: "There is a difference. The blanched fish fillets are just like the ones on my family's table. I will slice the fish fillets into thin slices for you so that you can eat them blanched in fish soup.
As for the cooked fish fillets, I will cook them for you and you can eat them directly or put them in soup.”
The diner was really a bit conflicted, as he wanted to try both.
Just when the diners were hesitating, Su Jinrong suddenly said, "Come both together, half stir-fry and half blanch."
When Feng Yifan heard his father-in-law suddenly speak, he turned his head to look at his father-in-law, and when he saw the smile on his father-in-law's face, he immediately understood.
It seems that this time, the father-in-law, uncle and uncle-in-law had discussed it and deliberately wanted to use this dish to test Feng Yifan.
Feng Yifan didn't mind, and smiled and said to the diner: "Well, you can do it as my father-in-law said, half and half, stir-fry half of the fish fillet and blanch the other half."
The diner finally made up his mind: "Okay, I'll listen to you, old man."
Feng Yifan nodded and invited the diner: "Then please follow me to the kitchen to pick fish."
The customer was a little confused again: "Why do I have to choose the fish myself?"
Feng Yifan nodded and said, "Yes, because this dish is a whole fish, so you have to go with me to pick the fish, and I will weigh it in front of you so that you don't suspect that I am cheating."
When the diners heard this, they immediately said, "Boss, you are too polite. We definitely believe you."
Feng Yifan said seriously: "This is not about belief or disbelief, it's about the rules."
The diners who were watching also praised the dish.
"The boss did the right thing."
"The boss really knows the rules."
"Yes, in many places, when cooking a whole fish, they won't let the customers see the weight."
“The boss is really a stickler for rules.”
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After hearing what other diners said, the one who ordered the General Crossing the Bridge nodded and said, "Okay, let's go. There are only four of us, so we don't need to order a very big fish."
Feng Yifan nodded and led the diners into the back kitchen, where he put the seafood in the right place and asked the diners to choose a black fish to cook.
"The three here are all fresh today. Look, they are still alive."
When the diners actually entered the kitchen, they were also surprised.
"Boss, your kitchen is really clean?"
Feng Yifan smiled and responded: "This is as it should be. If the kitchen is not clean, the guests will definitely not feel comfortable eating, so it is necessary to keep the kitchen clean."
Then the diner looked at the three black fish carefully and finally chose the smallest one.
Feng Yifan also fished it out of the fish box using a net bag.
In front of the diners, the fish were slaughtered directly in the water tank next to them.
Seeing Feng Yifan's extremely fast method of killing fish, the diners were surprised again: "Wow, boss, you are amazing."
Feng Yifan smiled as he cleaned the fish: "These are just basic skills, nothing special. You can go to the front and wait. It will take some time."
The diner nodded: "Okay, okay, I'm willing to wait."
After the diners left, Feng Yifan continued to process the black fish.
The key to the dish of General Crossing the Bridge is that the fish skin cannot be torn, the fish bones cannot be broken, and even the fish intestines inside need to be preserved.
Of course, the retained fish intestines also need to be rinsed multiple times, otherwise a strong odor will remain in them.
So this dish is really a very labor-intensive one to make.
Just slicing the two pieces of fish meat without breaking the skin and bones is a process that really tests the chef's skills and is really not that easy to do.
Lin Ruifeng came in from outside and saw his master processing black fish by the water platform.
This time Feng Yifan did not use a big knife, but a small knife throughout the process.
The first step is to gut the fish, pull out and clean out any unnecessary stuff in its stomach, then make a cut on its back from head to tail.
Then slowly cut the two pieces of fish meat along the middle fish bone, and even remove the bones in the inner cavity completely.
In this way, there is a main bone in the middle and two fish bones on both sides.
Then remove the fish meat attached to the skin. This step also requires extreme caution so as not to tear the fish skin.
Lin Ruifeng was standing nearby, watching the whole thing with a completely confused look on his face.
I never thought that a fish could be dismembered like this.
After cutting out two pieces of fish meat, Feng Yifan placed the black fish on the water table and kept washing it.
During this period, when Feng Yifan lifted the black fish from the water, it could be clearly seen that including the fish bones in the middle, the whole black fish appeared to be in a state of six connected under the fish head.
Feng Yifan turned his head to look at his apprentice who was watching, and said with a smile: "Ruifeng, did you see it? This is the Black Fish Six Hanging."
Seeing that the young apprentice was still standing there in a daze, Feng Yifan reminded him: "Don't just stand there in a daze. Take a picture for me and show it to the diner outside. Don't accuse us of deceiving him."
Lin Ruifeng suddenly came to his senses, quickly took out his mobile phone and took a photo.
After the apprentice finished taking pictures, Feng Yifan continued to put the black fish into water to soak and rinse.
"Remember this. When you make this dish next time, you must clean the fish intestines many times. You must clean them thoroughly. Otherwise, the remaining odor will ruin the dish."
Feng Yifan soaked the fish in running water, then took two whole pieces of fish and started to slice them.
One slice of fish is thicker, while the other slice of fish is very thin.
After the fish fillets were processed, Feng Yifan came back and took out the fish. After cleaning it again, he boiled it in a pot of hot water. This was to remove the odor from the fish intestines and the mucus on the fish skin.
After this final processing, you can officially start making this dish.
"For this dish, we first need to make the soup. Boil the six-grained black fish into soup. When the soup turns white, we can turn the heat to low and let it cook slowly."
While the soup was cooking slowly over low heat, Feng Yifan had already started stir-frying the fish fillets.
In order to ensure that the fish fillets are smooth and tender, they need to be coated with batter by adding egg white and starch.
Then put the fish fillets into the hot pan, stir-fry quickly, add the side dishes: bamboo shoots, green and red pepper slices, season them, and finally drizzle in a little bit of starch sauce. The fish fillets are now done.
On the other side, the fish soup stewing in the pot was almost done, and Feng Yifan began to season the fish soup.
Of course, it’s basically just simple salt and pepper to ensure the freshness of the fish soup.
Lin Ruifeng looked at the fish soup in the pot that was as white and tender as milk, and he really couldn't help but admire the master's cooking of such a dish.
Especially when the aroma of the fish soup came out, Zhao Daxia in the bathroom couldn't help but stick her head in.
"Oh, this fish soup smells so good. It smells like it's cooked perfectly."
After hearing this, Lin Ruifeng immediately said, "Of course, my master's work must be extraordinary. I'm afraid that ordinary people may not be able to make this white soup."
Zhao Daxia stretched her head to take a look and immediately exclaimed: "It's amazing, the boss is really too strong."
Feng Yifan heard that the two of them seemed to be singing the same tune, so he smiled and said, "Okay, stop praising me all the time, Ruifeng, hurry up and bring the casserole over."
Lin Ruifeng naturally did not dare to hesitate and quickly went to get a clean large casserole.
Feng Yifan first picked out the black fish and placed it in the casserole. Then he removed some of the onions and ginger from the soup and poured the white soup into the casserole.
Finally, he arranged the sashimi and poured the sauce on it, then Lin Ruifeng went out to serve the dish.