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Ye Chui had a very calm expression from the beginning to the end. At this moment, when he said to Fang Tao, "Kid, you didn't even copy it correctly," he looked even more calm. He said that as a matter of course, as if he didn't realize that Fang Tao was five years older than him. However, this calm and contemptuous look made Fang Tao even more angry: "Ye Chui, what do you mean by that?"
Ye Cui did not answer Fang Tao, but looked at Wu Haimei: "Aunt, what do you think is missing from this dish?"
"Ask me again?" Wu Haimei was a little helpless, thinking that as an anorexic patient, what could she say about her taste? However, when she heard Ye Chui's question, she really thought of something. She looked at Cao Kang's eggplant fish with some doubts and said hesitantly, "If I really want to say what is missing from this dish... it is that this dish lacks the taste of eggplant."
Ye Chui smiled and nodded. This was the key point. Nine days ago, Ye Chui had asked Wu Haimei what she liked to eat before she suffered from anorexia. After she mentioned eggplant, Ye Chui decided to make royal eggplant jerky. Only the temptation of being familiar with delicious food can cure anorexia - Cao Kang and Fang Tao did not copy the key point in their plagiarism.
"Madam, when Granny Liu in Dream of the Red Chamber tasted this dish, she also didn't taste any eggplant. This is how the dish originally tasted." Fang Tao explained hurriedly.
"An eggplant dish originally doesn't have the taste of eggplant?" Ye Chui couldn't help laughing, "Then why is this dish called eggplant fish?"
"This..." Fang Tao hesitated, "Who knows what the ancients thought?"
"Eggplant and dried fish is a classic recipe. You can't even guess what the ancients were thinking when they made this dish. What qualifications do you have to cook this dish?" Ye Chui retorted.
"..." Fang Tao's face turned red due to the ridicule, but he didn't know how to refute. Cao Kang next to him said at this time: "Why bother so much? As long as the food is delicious, isn't it enough?"
"Yeah, as long as the food is delicious, it's fine. But you made it so bad, how can it be called delicious?" Ye Cui said to Cao Kang with contempt.
"My aunt said that our dish is delicious, but you said it is rotten?" Cao Kang said angrily.
"Aunt said your dishes are delicious because she hasn't tasted mine yet." Ye Chui replied as a matter of course. Anyone who dares to say this is either talented or has blind confidence in himself. Ye Chui obviously belongs to the former. He ignored Cao Kang's anger and looked at Wu Haimei: "Aunt, let's get back to the topic just now. This dish has all the colors, aromas and flavors, but it lacks the taste of eggplant. The eggplant taste can be said to be the finishing touch of this dish. It's a pity that Fang Tao copied the rest of his dish, but ignored this most important part."
"You are framing me. According to you, your dish has a tomato flavor?" Fang Tao asked coldly. He did not feel guilty at the moment, but was filled with anger.
Ye Chui smiled at Fang Tao, then turned to look at Han Yuyan beside him. This sister had been holding the porcelain jar since just now. Seeing Ye Chui's eyes, she immediately understood and hurriedly put the porcelain jar on the coffee table beside her. At this time, Wu Haimei exclaimed again, looked at Han Yuyan and said, "Aren't you the girl from the Han family? Why are you here?"
Lin Zhengdao also looked at Han Yuyan in surprise. He didn't notice that the girl standing next to Ye Chui was Han Yuyan, the most precious granddaughter of Old Han, who was very famous in Yanjing.
"Aunt Lin, Uncle Lin, hello." Han Yuyan greeted them elegantly, then looked at Ye Chui with some respect, "I came here with my master."
"Master?" This shocked Lin Zhengdao and Wu Haimei even more. Han Lao's granddaughter actually recognized Ye Chui as her master? This was of great significance. At least it represented Han Lao's recognition of Ye Chui's cooking skills. Given Han Lao's particularity about food, if he was not completely sure of Ye Chui's cooking skills, would he let his granddaughter recognize Ye Chui as her master? This made Lin Zhengdao and Wu Haimei even more excited.
Most of the others didn't know who Han Yuyan was, but when they saw the expressions of Lin Zhengdao and his wife, they knew that he must have an extraordinary background, which made them look up to Ye Chui even more.
Seeing the changes in the expressions of the people in the living room, Ye Chui looked at Han Yuyan with gratitude. This sister was still very reliable at the critical moment, and really made Ye Chu proud - in fact, this was also the purpose of Ye Chui bringing her here.
Wu Haimei's attention returned to the porcelain jar: "Ye Chui, what's in it?"
"It's the most important part of this dish." Ye Chui replied with a smile, and then opened the lid of the porcelain jar. This was the first time it had been opened since it was sealed nine days ago. Everyone's eyes were on the jar, including Tian Xiaodu and Han Yuyan. They had tasted the eggplant fish that Ye Chui had tried to make almost every day these days, but they had never heard Ye Chui mention the "finishing touch" that was missing from this dish. Even Han Yuyan had long forgotten about the pottery jar.
At this time, Han Yuyan stretched her neck to look inside, but happened to bump into another head that was stretched out, it was Lin Wei. The two smiled awkwardly, then took a deep breath, with confusion on their faces: they originally thought that there would be some strong fragrance in it, but in the end they did not smell any special smell, only a strong and fresh smell of eggplant.
Lin Wei asked curiously: "Ye Chui, what on earth is this?"
"It's ketchup I made using a secret recipe." Ye Chui replied.
He took a spoon that he had prepared earlier from Tian Xiaodu's hand and scooped a spoonful from the porcelain jar. After nine days of sealed fermentation, the originally white and tender eggplant flesh had become a gray-black color. This gray-black color did not make people feel disgusted, but instead had a charming luster and presented a semi-liquid texture. Under the curious gaze of everyone, Ye Chui evenly sprinkled a spoonful of special tomato sauce on his eggplant fish.
Ye Chui continued to say to Wu Haimei, "Aunt, please wait for half a minute, and the most perfect eggplant fish will be ready to eat."
After seeing Ye Chui take out the ketchup, Fang Tao and Cao Kang were shocked. They knew that this dish was copied from Ye Chui. Could it be that they really missed something so important? He Chengfei frowned and looked at Sun Yi quietly. The latter was also full of surprise at this moment. He Chengfei couldn't help but cursed in his heart for not doing his job well.
"The recipe for dried eggplant fish has long been lost. We only saw a few words about it in Dream of the Red Chamber. In fact, although Cao Xueqin was a great writer, his family fell into poverty when he was four years old. He probably only heard of dried eggplant fish, a palace delicacy that is extremely complicated to make, but never really tasted it. The description of dried eggplant fish in Dream of the Red Chamber is also vague and untrue."
While waiting, Ye Chui continued to explain: "The most important part of the eggplant fish is this can of tomato sauce that needs to be fermented for at least seven days. Sprinkle this tomato sauce on the fried eggplant fish to make up for the lack of eggplant flavor. This is the most perfect form of this dish. The eggplant fish described in Dream of Red Mansions can only be regarded as delicious eggplant fish, and its real name is palace eggplant fish."
As Ye Chui spoke, the gray-black tomato sauce was affected by the heat from the eggplant jerky made by Ye Chui, and gradually melted and blended into the dish. The eggplant jerky originally had this extremely fresh and fragrant taste, but with the fusion of tomato sauce, this taste was added with the unique fragrance of eggplant, which made the originally diverse and complex flavors completely twisted together, bursting out a new, more delicious and more fragrant taste.
This is a very wonderful chemical reaction, and it is also a sublimation of the highest level of gourmet food!
Fang Tao prepared a bunch of words to refute Ye Chui's dishes, but at this moment he was stunned and couldn't utter a word. Cao Kang was also dumbfounded, greedily absorbing the rich and fresh fragrance from the dishes. He Chengfei, who was standing farther away, showed a look of frustration on his face.
"This dish..." Wu Haimei was stunned by the sublimation and change of the taste of this dish in just a short moment. She suddenly couldn't help swallowing her saliva - this is a sign of a person's appetite. She hasn't had this reaction for a long time. She took a deep breath. Is there any anorexic patient who is full of disgust for food? She couldn't wait to pick up the bamboo chopsticks and eat heartily.
But at this moment, another voice suddenly shouted: "Wu girl, let me have a bite first!"
Following this voice, a tall and thin old man rushed out from the side in a hurry—it was Mr. Han.
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