The cuisine of any region in the world has its own unique features. In his previous life, Ye Chui was recognized as the world's god of food. Although he specialized in Chinese cuisine, he would not say that Chinese cuisine is the best in the world: whether the dishes are delicious or not does not depend on the cuisine, but on the chef. This is something Ye Chui has always respected.
Because of this reason, Ye Chui never minds asking for advice from famous chefs of other cuisines. He has had many exchanges with the "God of Sushi" in Japan.
In Ye Chui's previous life, the most authoritative way to judge the quality of a chef was the Michelin star rating.
Michelin star rating is divided into three stars, the highest of which is three stars. If a restaurant is rated three stars by Michelin judges, it means that the dishes made by this chef are worth flying thousands of miles to taste.
Such an evaluation was the highest honor for a chef in the previous life. In the previous life, Ye Chui had won the title of three Michelin stars. Moreover, he won this title at the age of 27. He was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records at the time as the youngest chef to be awarded the title of three Michelin stars.
At the same time, the Guinness Book of Records also records the oldest chef to be awarded the three-star Michelin title, and that chef is the Japanese sushi god.
The Japanese God of Sushi is named Jiro Ono.
Ye Chui once visited Japan and saw the most advanced way of making sushi in his hands.
After Zhang Huabin invited Yanhao Iijima to Hainan Chicken Rice in the evening, Zhang Huabin left angrily with his lunch box. Dong Youyou felt relieved when she saw Zhang Huabin, but at the same time, she looked at Ye Chui with some worry: "Ye Chui, can you do it? Can you make sushi?"
"Yes, Master, can you make sushi?" Han Yuyan also looked at Ye Chui with a worried look.
Ye Chui shrugged his shoulders: "What's so difficult about it? It's just rice balls with raw fish and a little vinegar. Who can't cook such a simple dish?"
"Young man, sushi is not that simple." The middle-aged man who spoke angrily before said to Ye Chui hurriedly and anxiously, "Many chefs of restaurants on this food street have failed because of sushi. Although I don't like this kind of thing, the craftsmanship is definitely not that simple."
"Haha, sushi is not a Japanese food. We Chinese also have similar cooking methods. Don't worry, I know it by heart." Ye Chui said to the middle-aged man with a smile. "Please come and have a look in the evening."
The man in the middle was stunned for a moment, then nodded vigorously: "It seems that you are very confident in yourself. Well, I will definitely be there when the time comes, and I will bring my friends to cheer you on."
"Thank you." Ye Chui smiled and nodded.
After a few diners finished their meal, the middle-aged man left the restaurant first. Inside the restaurant, Ye Chui also began to prepare to make sushi.
"Master, are you really confident that you can beat that Japanese chef?" Han Yuyan looked at Ye Chui with some worry on his face. "I heard from my grandfather that although Japanese sushi is simple, it is very difficult to make it delicious. It requires skills, not recipes. Master, can you really do it?"
"Just trust me when it comes to cooking." Ye Chui said with confidence, "But we still have to prepare carefully."
"Ye Cui, just tell us what you want to do. We will definitely help you." Dong Youyou said with a smile, patting his chest.
"Oh well."
Ye Chui nodded, thought about it seriously, and began to issue tasks to several people in the hotel: "Anjing, you stay in the hotel. The requirements for rice for making sushi are very strict, so you have to be very careful when steaming rice. I will teach you how to do it later. I will teach you how to make rice in the afternoon. As for Da Yu and Wei Wei..."
"Master, what do you want us to do?" Han Yuyan immediately asked with great interest.
Ye Chui laughed: "I want you to go shopping."
"Buying things?" Han Yuyan and Lin Wei were both stunned.
"That's right, you'd better go to all the nearby shopping malls and buy me a bottle of any brand of vinegar you can find." Ye Chui explained that vinegar is a very important seasoning in sushi, and there was a special sushi vinegar for sale in the previous life. However, sushi is not so influential in this life, so Ye Chui has to choose the most perfect vinegar to make sushi.
When they heard that Ye Chui's request was so simple, Han Yuyan and Lin Wei nodded immediately.
"What about me?" Dong Youyou asked immediately.
"I want you to buy two ingredients for me. One is freshly unearthed young ginger, and the other is wasabi." Ye Chui explained, "You should know Hainan's vegetable markets well enough. You need to find the best young ginger and wasabi."
"Young ginger is easy to deal with. I know a lot of farmers and merchants who can get the best young ginger. But this wasabi..." Dong Youyou asked curiously, "What is wasabi?"
"Wasabi is a plant mainly produced in Japan, and its roots can be ground into mustard." Ye Chui explained simply.
"So it's mustard. Can't we just buy mustard sauce?" Dong Youyou immediately said curiously.
"No, that's not the same thing."
Ye Chui shook his head and said, "The mustard sauce we usually eat is completely different from the mustard sauce made from wasabi. The mustard sauce we usually buy is made from mustard seeds. my country has been consuming this kind of mustard since the Zhou Dynasty. The color is yellow, while the mustard made from wasabi roots is green, which is green mustard. It tastes similar to yellow mustard, but it tastes more fragrant. I don't know if there is any sold in Hainan. Dong Youyou hopes you can try to find out."
"Okay, no problem, leave it to me." Dong Youyou immediately said with confidence.
"And me too!" Seeing Ye Chui giving tasks to everyone one by one, but not Wang Shiyu, Wang Shiyu pulled Ye Chui's arm and said unhappily, "Brother, have you forgotten me?"
"Of course not." Ye Chui smiled and patted Wang Shiyu's head, and continued, "Xiaoyu, the task you are going to do is also very important. Please wait a moment..."
Having said this, Ye Chui hurried out, and a moment later he came back carrying a few sugarcanes that were more than one meter long.
"Brother, why are you buying sugarcane?" Little Wang Shiyu immediately widened his eyes in surprise.
"Your task is to peel sugarcane!" Ye Chui said with a smile.
"Ah?" Wang Shiyu was stunned. She actually liked eating sugar cane, but it was just too sweet. Ye Chui had never allowed her to eat too much, but now the task he gave her was to peel sugar cane
Happiness comes too fast...
"Don't think too much. I'm not peeling the sugar cane for you to eat." Ye Chui reached out and glanced at Wang Shiyu's forehead. "I want the skin of the sugar cane. Don't eat too much of the sugar cane inside. I'm going to make a big meal for you in two days."
"Brother, what do you want the sugarcane peel for?" An Jing asked curiously.
"Sugarcane peel has a certain sweet fragrance. It can be used to smoke and grill fish to make the fish taste more delicious." Ye Chui explained. He pointed at himself and said, "I will go to the nearby seafood market later. The best fish for sushi is tuna. I want to choose the fish myself. Okay, let's get started now!"
After Ye Chui left Hainanese Chicken Rice, he came to the nearest seafood market.
Tuna is a very precious fish, also known as tuna, also called tuna or asian winter fish. It is mainly divided into yellowfin tuna, bluefin tuna, albacore tuna, bigeye tuna, masu tuna and other categories.
Among them, the bluefin tuna is the most valuable. In Ye Chui’s previous life, he had seen a bluefin tuna being sold for an astonishing price of 10 million RMB!
However, in this world, fish have only been on the table for two years because of the vegetarian movement, so the fish resources are far from being as tight as in the previous world. Even humans don't have a very detailed understanding of the taste of tuna, so the types of tuna are not so clearly divided. The tuna sold in the seafood market is not divided into detailed categories. Several types of tuna are mixed together.
When Ye Chui discovered this situation, he looked for precious bluefin tuna or bigeye tuna with the mentality of picking up treasures. As a result, he found that most of these tunas were ordinary yellowfin tuna, or mixed with some albacore tuna or masu tuna, but there were no precious bluefin tuna and bigeye tuna.
However, bluefin tuna is more than enough for making sushi. In the previous life, the God of Sushi used bluefin tuna to make sushi.
"Little brother, all tuna taste almost the same, and they are all fresh. You don't have to choose so carefully. It's not necessary." The fishmonger saw Ye Chui choosing carefully and reminded him with a smile.
"Really?" Ye Chui's heart moved. It seemed that the preciousness of tuna had not yet been recognized by people. He thought about it and said to the fishmonger, "Uncle, although the taste of tuna is similar, I prefer to eat bluefin tuna. If you get bluefin tuna in your store in the future, can you call me directly to inform me?"
"Bluefin tuna?" The fishmonger thought for a moment and nodded. "This fish is nothing special except that it's big. A few days ago, I received a bluefin tuna weighing nearly 200 kilograms. I originally wanted to sell it as a whole, but no one wanted to take it and it ended up rotting."
Ye Chui: “…”
A 200-pound bluefin tuna must have been worth at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in the previous life, but it was just thrown away here to rot...
"Next time you see bluefin tuna, contact me and I'll buy them all." Ye Chui said with a heavy face - two hundred kilograms of bluefin tuna, according to the average price of tuna in this world, is only a few thousand yuan at most, but the delicious meat of bluefin tuna is definitely worth the money.
"Okay, I'll contact you when the time comes." The fishmonger agreed with a smile.
Then Ye Chui selected one from several tunas based on his experience in his previous life.
Due to the huge size of tuna, fishmongers generally do not ask for the whole fish to be sold (the bluefin tuna mentioned above was an exception), so Ye Chui deliberately chose a part of the fish's back near the head, and returned to Hainanese Chicken Rice with the heavy fish meat.
Little Wang Shiyu had already peeled a pile of sugarcane skins. Ye Chui lit the stove in the kitchen and threw the sugarcane skins into the stove. Thick smoke immediately rose up, but the smoke was not choking. Instead, it had an indescribable sweet fragrance. Ye Chui placed the whole piece of tuna on top of the sugarcane skins and smoked it.
After about half an hour, the originally bright red fish meat has been stained with a layer of deep red, and the preparation of the tuna has been temporarily completed.
Han Yuyan and Lin Wei also returned to the hotel with a bunch of different kinds of vinegar. Dong Youyou also called and said that she had actually found wasabi and was rushing back.
At this time, the entire food street, whether it was because of Zhang Huabin's deliberate announcement or because of the middle-aged diner, many people knew that Ye Chui was going to invite Iijima Yanhao to eat sushi. At night, the small restaurant was actually packed with people...
This made Han Yuyan and Lin Weijing a little nervous.
Ye Chui was still very calm—
"Haha, this Japanese restaurant wants to turn our Hainan's four famous dishes into their own sushi, so I will teach them a lesson with their sushi!" (~^~)
PS: ps: The sushi god Ono Jiro mentioned in this chapter is a real person. If you are interested, you can watch the documentary "The God of Sushi"~~~~~Finally, I would like to ask for monthly votes and recommendation votes~~~