The emperor has a different feeling for Yan Langqing, and when he looks at her, he is naturally more pleasing to the eye than others. But even so, he couldn't conscientiously say that the dumplings made by Yan Langqing were better than those made by Lin Dan. The results of the game have already come out, and what he says now doesn't work, so he should be loyal to his stomach.
Thinking of this, he put down his chopsticks and said slowly, "Lin Dan, you won."
As soon as the voice fell, there was a crisp sound in the private room. It was Yan Langqing's chopsticks that had been lost. Everyone looked at her, but saw her eyes were red, her face was pale, her hands and feet were shaking slightly, as if she was overwhelmed. Her father, Yan Shouye, stared straight at Lin Dan with unwillingness and resentment on his face.
Lin Dan bowed and saluted, with no lust on his face: "Then please ask Yan Yuchu to fulfill the bet and return the golden knife and recipe."
Yan Langqing opened her mouth with difficulty, as if she wanted to speak, but Yan Shouye screamed angrily: "No, it belongs to my father, it belongs to my Yan family, why should I give it to you?"
"My grandfather passed it on to my father before he died, and that was my father's stuff. Back then when you wanted to get it back from me, it was your own craftsmanship, but now I want it back because of my own craftsmanship. , what's wrong?"
Yan Shouye still wanted to argue, but the emperor frowned and showed displeasure. Yan Langqing immediately pressed her father's shoulders and said in a hoarse voice, "I've brought everything, so I'll give it to you." She just wanted to show her generosity, but she didn't expect that she would really lose to Lin Dan. . But the people have already judged her to lose, and the emperor himself admitted it, so what if she is not reconciled
Lin Dan put the golden knife aside, flipped through the Yan family's recipe, and raised his eyebrows. This recipe was split into two parts by Yan Langqing. Lin Baotian returned the second half to Lin Dan. The first half should have only 60 pages, but now, this recipe is thicker than before it was split. , It can be seen that Yan Langqing has been very angry over the years and has developed a lot of new dishes, adding new brilliance to the Yan family's recipes.
However, the more Lin Dan looked, the tighter his brows became, and he finally sneered. She tore off one of the pages and handed it to a chef who came to watch the battle, saying: "I remember that this braised deer tendon was developed by Master Liu, and now it is returned to its original owner; this stewed Yuanyu belongs to Chef Fang. , back to you..." She tore off many recipes one by one and returned them to the developers one by one.
These people took a look at Yan Langqing, and then looked at the emperor, and they didn't accept it, nor did they accept it.
The emperor looked puzzled, not knowing what happened to Lin Dan, but Prince Cheng sneered: "I am afraid that the emperor does not know, you are very domineering royal chef, you can't make good dishes to please you, so you go to the people. It would be a disrespectful crime to rob someone else's food and not allow others to sell it again. Saying it was for you and others would not be able to eat it again. If this is the case, the Emperor, please make a food list and let the ministers avoid it. You have made a big mistake!"
Prince Gong pretended to be frightened and spread his hands: "If this is the case, why don't the ministers starve to death? The emperor eats meat, we can't eat it, and the emperor drinks water, can't we drink it too?"
Prince Cheng quickly comforted: "Don't worry, you won't die of starvation, you can go to Yan's restaurant to eat. The emperor's food is not allowed to be sold elsewhere, but his restaurant does the same. Others fear the imperial power, but his family is not afraid. His family is supported by Yan Yuche!"
The two of them sang and reconciled, exposing all the methods used by the Yan family to attack their peers behind their backs, and put a hat on them for trespassing on the imperial power, making Yan Shouye tremble like a sieve and his face pale. Yan Langqing looked at her father in disbelief, and shouted sternly, "Father, what's going on?" After that, she immediately knelt down and apologized to the emperor: "Your Majesty, Caomin has never said that kind of thing, and Caomin was also punished. Blinded, please forgive me!"
The emperor looked down at her, and the eyes that always glowed with soft light were extremely cold at the moment. Yan Langqing raised her head to look at him, her heart throbbing violently. She lived in the palace for a long time and didn't go home often. She never expected that her family would be so powerful. She just wanted to learn a few more dishes, and she really helped the folk cooks, but instead harmed them. It's no wonder that the several chefs invited today had stiff expressions when they saw her.
But she can't control how others see her, she only worries that the emperor will be dissatisfied with her. Tang Shizi hated her as early as ten years ago, and now she has lost the golden knife, the recipe, the reputation, the heart, and can no longer lose the emperor's favor. If there is no emperor, after today, she Yan Langqing is nothing.
Yan Shouye was so frightened that he didn't dare to say a word, and just kowtowed behind his daughter. When he showed off his power and suppressed his peers, he never thought that he would be today.
Lin Dan dismantled all the dishes that the Yan family had snatched up, and put them aside to prepare them for the original owner.
The emperor glanced at her, then frowned and said: "Get up, anyway, your restaurant has been closed, and those things in the past are forgotten. Who do these recipes belong to? Take them yourself, and what to do in the future. I am the emperor and the lord of all peoples, what I can eat, everyone in the world can eat.”
With a single word, the Yan family's father and daughter were spared. Prince Cheng and Prince Gong showed dissatisfaction on their faces, but they didn't say any more.
Lin Dan was still dismantling the recipe, and when he opened one of the recipes, his calm expression finally rippled: "If I remember correctly, this Wanfu pork is Chef Yan's famous dish, right? Because after eating this dish, the emperor only I will take a fancy to your cooking skills and call you into the palace."
Yan Langqing's expression that had just relaxed began to tighten again.
Lin Dan glanced at her and said with a slight mockery: "But who knows, the authentic Wanfu meat is not made like this, not even made of meat. Yan Yuchu, I remember you once said that you would never cook it in your life. My father's food, but why use my father's hard work to win your own future. You are really one thing on the surface, and one behind... "
Yan Langqing's lips were trembling all the time, as if she wanted to refute, but she was too nervous to speak. But Yan Shouye roared confidently, "Lin Dan, don't talk nonsense! This dish was obviously developed by my family, Lang Qing, and I watched it with my own eyes!"
Lin Dan closed the recipe and said slowly, "Really? Did you develop it yourself, or did you listen to what my father's apprentice told you? If I remember correctly, both of my father's apprentices are now working as chefs in Yan's restaurant. "
"You, you have no evidence, you are spitting blood!" Yan Shouye was so angry that he almost vomited blood, but the client Yan Langqing had a pale face and remained silent.
Lin Dan opened the door and said, "Is it just empty, let's wait until I make the real Wanfu meat." Then he went straight to the kitchen.
The emperor took a deep look at Yan Langqing, and then he followed slowly. The rest of the people couldn't sit still, and hurried to join in the fun. Today's competition is really a wave of ups and downs, it is too ups and downs, wonderful! Who would have thought that the sure-to-lose shopkeeper Lin would win under the coercion of imperial power? Who would have thought that the seemingly gentle and kind-hearted Yan Yuchu was actually such a woman with deep scheming and omnipotence.
Lin Dan was an honored guest brought by the emperor. She wanted to borrow the kitchen. Wherever the store dared to disobey, she immediately vacated the most spacious stove and prepared ingredients for her. She picked up a piece of tofu, cut it into two-inch cubes, carved a beautiful 4D knife on one side, and simmered it in the milky broth with a strong flesh and blood. After about two quarters of an hour, she took it out and put it in a frying pan. Add a little marinade, and keep adding seasonings to thicken the marinade and turn it into a shallow layer of sauce. After finishing, put the tofu cubes into the sauce and continue to cook, but only a layer of skin is not covered.
Prince Cheng reminded: "You put too little sauce, the tofu cubes were not fully immersed in the sauce, and it was not tasty enough."
Lin Dan smiled and said, "Your Highness doesn't know anything, this is what the girls want." After a quarter of an hour, she took out the tofu cubes one by one, and put them in the dishes and arranged them neatly. Everyone took a closer look, but saw that the tofu block had turned one part sauce color, nine part milk white, and the shape was very strange.
Lin Dan put the tofu cubes into the hot oil and fried them again. The sauce-colored side was fried until it was charred and fragrant, forming a layer of meringue, but the other side didn't touch the oil star at all, and it was still white and tender. After this process, Lin Dan simmered the tofu cubes in the bone broth, then simmered them in the red soup, and finally steamed them in a steamer. After frying the minced fish, chicken, and pork to make a sticky sauce, Pour over steamed tofu cubes and sprinkle with a little minced ginger and chives to taste.
The tofu cubes that have been repeatedly boiled in broth and stewed soup have already absorbed the essence of various soups and become extremely fragrant. Because the surface has a sauce color, and it has been fried again, it looks exactly the same as pig skin. If you don't see it with your own eyes See, everyone thought it was a bowl of braised pork, not tofu.
The emperor took the lead to taste a piece, and his eyes lit up immediately. Without him, this tofu not only looks like braised pork, but also tastes like it, but it is not as greasy as meat, but full of the richness, softness and mellowness of meat.
Lin Dan explained slowly: "My mother loves meat, but is afraid of getting fat, so my father wanted to develop a dish for her that wouldn't get fat no matter how much she eats, so this Wanfu Pork came into being. It absorbs meat dishes. It is not fat or greasy, soft and glutinous, and melts in the mouth. My father told me about this dish, and also told his two apprentices, but he never remembered it. When I entered the Yan family’s recipe, I didn’t dare to call it Wanfu Rou at that time, but 10,000-character meat. Because of the complicated lines of the 4-character knife, the tofu can only taste delicious if it is engraved with 10,000 characters. Yan Yuchu, I am afraid you are from my father’s two The apprentice got the recipe, but he couldn't make the tofu meaty, so he used pork to cook directly, right? This very ordinary vegetarian dish, when it comes to your mouth, has become a special celebration for the emperor's birthday. The Wanfu Meat that was just developed. Yan Yuchu, you are really ingenious in trying to figure out what you like. If you can use it all in cooking, why would you lose to me today?"
Without full experience and hard research, even if you get a recipe, it is difficult for ordinary people to restore the dish, because you don't know how to handle the ingredients, how to control the heat, how to adjust the amount of seasonings, the ingredients are not handled well, and the heat is poor. A little bit, with a little less seasoning, and the dish is completely off-putting.
Yan Langqing did, as Lin Dan said, that he couldn't make the tofu meaty after getting the recipe, so he could only cook it directly from the meat. It's not that she didn't want to develop her own dishes, but when she was kicked out by Lord Hou, it was the most hesitant time. She wanted too much to break out into the world, too wanted to establish herself in the capital, too wanted to prove herself, so she accidentally took a fork in the road.
Seeing the emperor's slightly scrutinizing and questioning eyes, her reluctantly straight back finally slowly collapsed. This time she lost, completely and completely ruined!