Lahongzhuang has a take-out service. The specially made boxes contain a thick, dark red soup mixed with oil and chili peppers. The soup tastes spicy and fragrant, which can greatly stimulate people's appetite.
In this fragrant crimson soup, there are green vegetables and pieces of crimson tofu-like things. That thing is the essence of the dish Lahong, the delicious meat ingredient that is not meat and has puzzled countless people for more than a decade.
As the name suggests, Lahong is a dish that is both spicy and red. The whole dish gives people a fiery visual impact.
The way to eat lahong is actually similar to hotpot, but the concept of hotpot does not exist in this world now. The formal way to eat lahong in a restaurant is to put a pot on the table, boil the red oil soup in the pot, and the waiter will be responsible for continuously putting a certain amount of lahong ingredients into it, while diners gather around the table, holding a bowl of rice or white flour buns and sesame cakes, to feast on the food.
"This takeaway is 158 yuan. I couldn't bear to eat it before." Tang Shanshan stared at the spicy red packaging box and licked her lips carefully. "Today I have oral medicine."
Han Yuyan had already taken several pairs of chopsticks and handed them to Ye Chui and Tang Shanshan respectively. She herself couldn't wait to pick up a piece of spicy red food. The spicy red takeout was still steaming hot and the temperature was very similar to tofu. Sister Han blew on the food carefully a few times to cool it down before putting it into her mouth.
The texture of the ingredients was very soft and could be easily crushed by chopsticks. After eating it in one bite, Han Yuyan quickly revealed an expression of enjoyment, and then he took a few gulps of cool air, looked at Ye Chui with satisfaction and said, "Master, please try it. It's really delicious, spicy and fragrant, and it really has the aroma of duck meat. I don't know how this dish is made."
Tang Shanshan also couldn't wait to take a bite. The girl was so satisfied that she couldn't be more satisfied: "I never thought that I would be able to eat Lahong one day. It will be worth it even if I get hit by a car later."
Ye Chuihan: "I have said this several times in the past few days..."
"Hehe, I'm so happy, I can't help it." Tang Shanshan was suddenly stunned, "Boss, why don't you eat?"
"Haha, you two can eat..." Ye Chui smiled but still didn't pick up his chopsticks.
Han Yuyan and Tang Shanshan looked at Ye Chui strangely.
Ye Chui shrugged his shoulders and said, "Seeing you guys are enjoying the meal so much, this portion of spicy red is just this much, so of course I have to give it to you."
"But we brought back the takeaway lahong so that you, Master, could taste it and try to figure out what lahong is?" Han Yuyan said in surprise.
"It doesn't matter." Ye Chui smiled and shook his head, "I already know what this is."
"ah!?"
Han Yuyan and Tang Shanshan opened their eyes wide at the same time. Ye Chui didn't even eat it, he knew what it was just by taking a look.
This can't be more powerful...
"What is this? We will cook it for everyone at Manhanlou later!" Han Yuyan asked with great interest.
Ye Chui laughed and said, "Eat first, I'll tell you after you're done."
Now that I'm talking, I guess neither of them has the appetite to continue eating...
Han Yuyan and Tang Shanshan looked at each other and didn't care. The spicy red was fragrant and delicious. The spicy taste was very appetizing. Han Yuyan simply went to get two bowls of rice, one for each of him and Tang Shanshan. They finished the spicy red happily. Tang Shanshan was still not satisfied: "It's not satisfying. One bowl is not enough."
"It's okay. We'll go to Lahongzhuang to eat later. Shanshan, eat as much as you want." Han Yuyan assured with a smile.
Tang Shanshan's eyes lit up immediately - she now knew that Sister Han was a 18 billion-dollar woman with a small belly, and that He Chengqing, who was so arrogant that he could easily fire his brother from the company, was scolded by her as a poor bastard...
After they finished eating the spicy food, Han Yuyan wiped his mouth carefully with a tissue and continued to look at Ye Chui: "Master, can you tell me now? It's really strange, why do you have to wait until I finish eating before telling me?"
"Because I'm afraid that if I tell you first, you won't be able to eat..." Ye Chui said to Han Yuyan very seriously.
Han Yuyan: “?”
Ye Chui coughed and said, "Dayu, do you think this spicy red soup is a bit like the pig blood and tofu soup I cooked for you before?"
Han Yuyan: “…”
After staying there for a while, Sister Han suddenly rushed out of the kitchen in a hurry, making a series of "wow" and "wow" vomiting sounds.
Tang Shanshan was still a little confused and looked at Ye Chui strangely: "Boss, what is pig blood tofu soup?"
"Pig blood and tofu soup is a soup made from tofu formed by coagulation of pig blood." Ye Chui explained patiently to Tang Shanshan.
Tang Shanshan immediately understood something and turned pale. She pointed to the remaining bright red soup in the spicy red box and said, "Then this spicy red..."
"It's blood tofu made from coagulated duck blood." Ye Chui had a smile on his face, "The ingredient used in Lahong is duck blood."
Tang Shanshan: “…”
After thinking blankly for a few seconds, Tang Shanshan also rushed out of the kitchen shouting "Wow" and "Wow"...
Ye Chui showed a sly smile on his face and focused his attention back on the spicy red soup on the table.
"What a strange coincidence... Maybe this is the power of time and space and destiny at work?" Ye Cui couldn't help but whisper to himself.
Pengguan’s General Tso’s Chicken is a dish that was originally supposed to have been created in the 1980s. However, in this world, because of the vegetarian movement, the 1980s was a time when meat was considered poisonous, but General Tso’s Chicken was still present and was created at an earlier time.
Similarly, the spicy red dish in front of us has a similar experience. The recipe of this dish was originally supposed to have originated in the 1940s, but it was accidentally created by Jiang Yuemei of Spicy Red Shop more than ten years ago, and it is so similar -
"The so-called spicy red is actually Maoxuewang."
Ye Chui continued with some emotion.
From the first moment he saw the spicy red, Ye Chui knew what it was: this dish was Maoxuewang!
Of course, it can only be regarded as an incomplete version of Maoxuewang, and there are still many places that need to be changed.
Blood sausage is a special Chinese food ingredient. It refers to tofu made from coagulated blood. Pig blood tofu and duck blood tofu are both very famous blood sausage ingredients. When Maoxuewang first appeared, it was actually made from pig blood sausage.
The idea for this dish in the previous life came from a butcher couple.
Maoxuewang originated in Ye Chui's previous life in the 1940s. There was a butcher named Wang who had a lot of offal left over from selling meat every day. The butcher's wife thought it was a pity to throw it away, so she started to make offal soup on the street. The butcher's wife was also an excellent cook, and the offal soup she made was very delicious. By chance, she put pig blood sausage into the offal soup.
It turned out that the longer the blood sausage was cooked, the more tender it became and the more delicious it tasted, so the dish Maoxuewang was born.
Mao is a dialect, which means rough and sloppy.
The dish Maoxuewang is made with tripe, bean curd sheets and other offal as the main ingredients. The name of Maoxuewang is well-deserved, and the dish has become widely popular.
Later, people discovered that Maoxuewang cooked with duck blood tasted even better. The recipe gradually evolved, and the dish gradually became perfect and became one of the famous Chinese dishes.
Of course, the Lahong in Chinatown probably has little to do with Maoxuewang. It is just a coincidence. After all, although Lahong is very similar to Maoxuewang, there are still many differences when you compare them in detail.
While Ye Chui was thinking, Han Yuyan and Tang Shanshan came in from outside. They both stared at Ye Chui with resentment in their eyes. Ye Chui clearly knew what this thing was, yet he let them eat it!
"Master..." Han Yuyan said with a bit of grievance in his voice.
"Duck blood is a good thing. It tastes salty and is cold in nature. It can nourish the blood and detoxify. It can even beautify the skin." Ye Chui said to the two girls with a smile, "And it tastes really good. Didn't you all think it was very good just now?"
"That's because I don't know what this is. If I knew, I would never eat it even if you kill me." Tang Shanshan complained angrily.
Han Yuyan also said: "What do you mean by spicy red? It turns out it's just duck blood... It's disgusting just thinking about it."
"Actually, there's nothing unacceptable. Don't many people like to eat pig blood tofu now?" Ye Chui said with a smile. After the Spring Banquet, the dishes made by Ye Chui using pig stomachs, pig pens, pig hearts and pig blood became very popular. Although many people still cannot cook these ingredients deliciously, they have begun to develop to some extent, especially pig blood. There is even a decent pig blood soup restaurant in Yanjing.
Han Yuyan didn't comment, took a look at the packaging box of Lahong, and then said to Ye Chui: "Master, now that you know what Lahong is, can't you directly defeat Jiang Yuemei?"
"That's right..." Ye Chui nodded, and then she thought of something, "Maybe that fat lady also knew that she would definitely lose."
"Huh?" Han Yuyan was stunned.
"We made pig blood soup at the Spring Banquet. She must have known that we can use pig blood to make blood tofu. Since she knew that we can use pig blood to make blood tofu, she can naturally guess that her spicy red is actually made from duck blood." Ye Chui explained.
He just figured this out. Jiang Yuemei was very kind, and unlike Mrs. Gao, an old lady with a kind face but a cruel heart, Ye Cui felt that she was really kind - fat people were all good people. The conditions she proposed to Ye Cui for the challenge at the Shen Jiao Restaurant were actually equivalent to deliberately letting Ye Cui off.
"In that case." Ye Chui paused and thought again, "Then let's make a real Maoxuewang for her to taste." (~^~)