"Dong Youyou, can the chef here really make Japanese sushi? Does he want to use Japanese sushi to challenge the Japanese in the Japanese restaurant?"
"Yes, Dong Youyou, is your chef reliable?"
"Damn it, the Japanese have been too rampant these days. Some time ago, that traitor Zhang Huabin came to my restaurant and brought some Hele crab roe sushi for my chefs to taste. In the end, he even forced us to admit that their sushi was better than our signature dish, steamed Hele crab."
"I feel very angry too. Hainan's four famous dishes were originally our specialties, but now they are very popular in the hands of that Japanese. This makes me feel so embarrassed. It would be very interesting if Master Ye from Hainanese Chicken Rice could give back to the Japanese with their own sushi!"
"I just don't know if this Master Ye can do it?"
Dong Youyou came back from outside with a bunch of things. As soon as she entered the restaurant, she heard a group of people talking and questioning.
The Hainanese Chicken Rice restaurant was packed with people, most of whom were owners of various restaurants on this food street, as well as some regular customers. They all came to cheer after hearing that Ye Chu was going to treat the Japanese with sushi in the evening.
In the past few days, Zhang Huabin has used the new sushi they developed to challenge the restaurants on the food street one by one that use Hainan's four famous dishes as their main ingredients. This practice has already caused complaints on the food street, and they feel that they have simply lost face for their ancestors.
Ye Chui actually wanted to respond to the Japanese with sushi
This made everyone of them excited, but they were also worried that Ye Chui's behavior was beyond his ability. After all, Ye Chui was just a teenager of seventeen or eighteen years old.
"Don't worry." Dong Youyou shouted loudly, waving his arms vigorously, and said in high spirits, "I believe in our chef, Ye Chui, he can definitely make Zhang Huabin and that Iijima Yanhao suffer. Let's wait and see the show!"
After shouting these two sentences, Dong Youyou felt her blood boiling, and came to the kitchen with the freshly bought young ginger and wasabi.
At this time, Han Yuxuan, Lin Wei, Anjing and Wang Shiyu were also gathered in the kitchen.
The plump rice has been steamed and is now placed in a wooden barrel. An Jing and Han Yuxuan are standing beside them, each holding a palm-leaf fan, fanning the heat from the rice. The rice used to make sushi must reach human body temperature, and this temperature must be strictly controlled.
Lin Wei was washing a set of tableware.
Ye Chui was standing in front of the chopping board, preparing a piece of tuna that had been smoked with sugarcane skin.
The tuna was tender and fresh, suitable for eating raw. The smoked and grilled just now only made its taste slightly sweeter and its texture tougher, more suitable for cutting into fillets. Ye Chui's knife skills were naturally excellent. He cut the fish fillets one by one, and the size and thickness were exactly the same, which was naturally precious.
The cut fish fillets are placed on a plate filled with crushed ice, which can effectively preserve the freshness of the fish fillets.
"Ye Chui, here are the young ginger and wasabi you asked for." Dong Youyou brought back the things she had purchased. "They are absolutely top-quality. I originally thought I couldn't find this kind of wasabi. But after I called my sister, she helped me contact a spice dealer. He just happened to have a few wasasabi on hand, which he cultivated himself. He didn't intend to sell them, but because of my sister's face, he agreed to give me one."
Wasabi is mainly produced in Japan and is also known as Japanese horseradish. The main edible part is the rhizome. Dong Youyou brought the wasabi root. It has been cleaned and is in the shape of a cow horn. It is emerald green in texture and is ground into powder when eaten. It tastes best.
"Yes, that's right, it's this thing." Ye Chui broke off a small piece and put it into his mouth. After tasting it, he nodded, "This is the taste."
"Brother. I want to try it too." Little Wang Shiyu was standing nearby chewing a piece of sugarcane. At this time, she became extremely curious about the wasabi root in Ye Chui's hand and shouted with her hands raised.
"Stop it, this thing is not for children to eat." Ye Chui said unhappily.
But Wang Shiyu was not so easily fooled: "My brother said sugarcane is not for children to eat. This thing must be delicious!"
Ye Chui was speechless. After thinking for a while, he put the wasabi close to Wang Shiyu's mouth and said, "Then try it carefully."
Wang Shiyu saw this, opened her little mouth and bit off a big piece of wasabi. She thought it was something sweet, and started chewing it vigorously. Then her whole face changed, and snot and tears flowed out. The green mustard was very spicy, and most importantly, it stimulated the brain. After taking this bite, let alone the child, even Ye Chui himself couldn't stand it.
Ye Chui originally just wanted to play a joke on Wang Shiyu and asked her to bite off a little to try, but who knew that this child would be so honest...
"Ye Chui, why are you joking like this!" Lin Wei hugged Wang Shiyu, who was in great pain, and glared at Ye Chui fiercely.
Ye Chui also looked guilty: "This is my fault... Xiaoyu, are you okay?"
“It’s so spicy…” the little thing said with snot and tears, looking pitiful.
Finally, Ye Chui had no choice but to let An Jing take her back to the room first, so that she could relax. At this time, Ye Chui inexplicably thought of the time at the cruise carnival when Huo Li wanted to teach her team member Fang Yang a lesson, but she made him drink a whole bottle of mustard juice...
Thinking about it now, that feeling must have been extremely sour and refreshing.
After Ye Chui cut a whole piece of tuna into fillets, he began to prepare the tender ginger brought by Dong Youyou. He put the tender ginger slices into a bowl, added salt and sugar, and marinated them to a certain extent. Han Yuyan asked curiously, "Master, what do you do with pickled tender ginger? Is it an ingredient in sushi?"
"No, but it is also very important when eating sushi." Ye Chui explained with a smile, "After eating a piece of sushi, eating a piece of pickled young ginger can make your mouth and tongue feel refreshed, and it does not affect your continued enjoyment of the taste of sushi. It can be regarded as a small condiment."
"Oh." Han Yuyan nodded in understanding, "There are so many tricks to making sushi."
After pickling the ginger, Ye Chui ground a bunch of green mustard, which he would use later, and then brought a bunch of vinegar that Han Yuyan and Lin Wei bought this afternoon. Ye Chui tasted each type of vinegar himself.
Making sushi requires special vinegar, which is called sushi vinegar, and it is obviously not sold on the market.
Sushi does not have too many seasonings, and the importance of vinegar is obvious. To blend the right flavor, Ye Chui also uses a variety of vinegars for seasoning. Similarly, after blending, sugar, salt, wine and other things must be added to make the taste of vinegar perfectly fit the sushi.
When Ye Chui finally mixed the right sushi vinegar, Dong Youyou also returned to the kitchen from outside: "Zhang Huabin and that Iijima Yanhao are back."
"Okay, I have all the ingredients ready." Ye Chui nodded and asked Lin Wei, Han Yuyan and Dong Youyou to carry a bunch of things and follow him out of the kitchen.
The restaurant was now packed with people, but there was a large empty space in the middle. Zhang Huabin, Yanhao Iijima, and Li Qiao were standing in the middle with a proud look on their faces. Yanhao Iijima was still wearing a kimono. The four famous Hainan dishes he developed in the past few days were very popular, even surpassing other restaurants in the food court. It gave him an indescribable sense of accomplishment, and he felt that Chinese cuisine was just so-so and could not be compared with their Yamato cuisine. Even the best ingredients from China could only be best tasted by Japanese cooking methods.
At this moment, Iijima Yanhao raised his head slightly, with an incomparable pride on his face. When he saw Ye Chui, Han Yuyan, Dong Youyou and Lin Wei carrying a bunch of things out, he snorted coldly - this Ye Chui actually wanted to treat him to sushi? He actually wanted to challenge him with their most famous top-grade sushi in Japan, he really overestimated his own abilities!
"Mr. Ye, Chef Iijima is looking forward to the sushi you'll make. I hope you won't let him down." Zhang Huabin said first, with a mocking look on his face. At this time, all the colleagues in the restaurant around him were looking at Zhang Huabin with contempt, but Zhang Huabin didn't care at all. Instead, he was a little complacent. His Japanese restaurant was very popular in the food court, which was a fact that no one could deny. In his eyes, the eyes of others were full of envy and jealousy.
Ye Chui asked Han Yuyan, Lin Wei, and Dong Youyou to put rice, tuna slices, green mustard, vinegar, and other things on a table in the restaurant. Then he smiled and said to Zhang Huabin, "Of course I won't let this chef Iijima down. In fact, although sushi is delicious, we Chinese also have similar delicacies. In my opinion, making sushi is not difficult."
"idiot!"
When Yanhao Iijima heard what Ye Chui said, a trace of anger suddenly appeared on his face. He looked at Ye Chui with wide eyes and said in stiff Chinese: "Our Japanese food culture is extensive and profound. It is impossible for you to understand even a little bit. Although sushi is small, it is definitely not something you can make easily. You actually said that sushi is not difficult. I will make you pay the price for your contempt!"
Seeing the angry Iijima Yanhao, Ye Chui shrugged his shoulders: "Whatever you say, I am confident anyway. Why would I open a restaurant if I can't make such a simple thing?"
"Baka!" Iijima Yanhao became even angrier, his face flushed purple, "You are challenging our entire Japanese cuisine. If you can make perfect sushi, I will pack up and go back to Japan tomorrow!"
Zhang Huabin, who was standing next to him, was shocked when he heard what Yanhao Iijima said. He hurriedly whispered to Yanhao Iijima: "Master Iijima, you don't have to be so angry..."
"Humph, do you really think he can make perfect sushi?" Iijima Yanhao interrupted Zhang Huabin coldly, "Our Japanese sushi cuisine is unparalleled in the world. When I first followed my master to learn nigiri sushi, it took me three years to learn the basics. This kid is only in his teens and he says he can make perfect sushi. Humph, I absolutely cannot tolerate his attitude!"
Ye Chui chuckled. What he said just now was actually to irritate Iijima Yanhao. Ye Chui smiled and continued, "Well, Master Iijima, if I make perfect sushi, I hope you can fulfill what you said just now."
"I am a man of my word, and I will do what I say!" Iijima Yanhao crossed his arms across his chest and looked at Ye Chui coldly and arrogantly.
Most of the other people around him have understood Ye Chui's plan at this moment. He intends to use his own sushi to force Iijima Yanhao to leave, but... isn't Ye Chu being too arrogant? Iijima Yanhao is currently standing on the side of a team, but Ye Chu wants to use sushi to impress him and make him admit that Ye Chui's sushi is perfect. This seems impossible no matter how you look at it.
Therefore, many people subconsciously showed a worried expression, and some even felt that Ye Chui was young and impetuous, and would definitely be embarrassed later.
Ye Chui didn't care about these questioning or worried looks. He took a deep breath and started making sushi.
He picked up a piece of rice from the wooden basin next to him. The temperature of the rice was just the temperature of the human body at this time. The rice that Ye Chui picked up was exactly the size of a "bite-sized piece", which is the amount that one can eat in one bite. The rice grains were also full, not sticky or soft, and had the right hardness. Ye Chui put it in his hand and kneaded it with his fingers, and the irregularly shaped piece of rice became a round long strip. Then Ye Chui picked up a piece of green mustard with his fingers and put it on the sushi, then picked up a piece of tuna slice, covered it on top, pinched it with both hands, and finally brushed a layer of sushi vinegar on it with a small brush.
A sushi is now complete.
Ye Chui placed the sushi on the plate in front of Iijima Yanhao and smiled as if to invite him.
The other people in the restaurant were all moved, and Dong Youyou couldn't help but ask, "Master, the method of making sushi is also simple, right?"
Ye Chui nodded: "Yes, it's that simple."
The method is indeed very simple. In the previous life, the sushi god Jiro Ono made sushi in the same way. However, the taste of sushi made by ordinary people in this way cannot be compared with that of Jiro Ono.
Of course, Ye Chui was an exception. After seeing Jiro Ono's sushi, he learned to make tuna sushi. The result made Jiro Ono praise him highly, and he felt that Ye Chui deserved the title of God of Food.
The sushi in Ye Chui's hand tastes at least 90% of the same as the one made by Jiro Ono.
This kind of tuna sushi looks extremely simple to make, but it is extremely expensive - you need to make a reservation one month in advance to go to Ono Jiro's sushi restaurant, and the price per person is at least 3,000 RMB. If you calculate it, the price of this sushi just made by Ye Chui is at least 200 to 300 RMB... (~^~)
PS: Please give me a monthly ticket and a recommendation ticket~~