What did the Chinese eat four thousand years ago? Although it will definitely not be delicious, after all, with the increase of cooking methods and ingredients, the gourmet empire is slowly taking shape. However, this does not stop people's curiosity. Knowing what is called Zhongming Dingshi and how the nobles enjoyed life in the past is also a kind of cultural capital for pretending to be aggressive at the dining table.
The chefs in Tongfulou like to listen to this broadcast, and after listening to it, they wonder whether it is possible to reproduce these lost delicacies? Although everyone doesn't know the truth, it has been 'lost' after all, so how did Li Li know
However, what Li Li said in the special session of "Lost Food" is clear and clear. From the selection of ingredients to the cooking steps, to the origin of the name of the dish and some humanistic stories behind it, everything is missing, and the degree of authenticity seems to be somewhat. At least that's what it sounds like.
Anyway, there is nothing to do, let's do some research.
This is a relatively difficult task, because some ingredients can no longer be found or are protected animals, which cannot be bought with money. For example, the dish of iron-eating beast broth, even if you put a knife on the cook's neck, there is no way to make it.
It is more difficult to replace these unavailable ingredients with available and somewhat similar ingredients while retaining the original flavor. However, for the chefs in Tongfulou, they don’t have to worry about food sales or salary arrears every day. The only thing they have to think about is how to increase the number of dishes. This session of "The Lost Food" became their guiding mentor and opened up the era of great learning for the whole building.
With the increase of the scale of the amusement park, there are more and more employees. Now Tongfulou is not just the staff canteen at the beginning, but a large staff canteen. There are several branches in the amusement park. As the head chef of the headquarters, Chef Li felt that he should seize this learning opportunity and launch Tongfulu's special meals.
So, one day, Tongfulu launched a themed menu of 'Millennium Cuisine', all of which were lost delicacies that had just been learned, and then specially customized some tableware for trial use in the private rooms.
When Zhou Fu came to eat, Chef Li with a mysterious smile pulled him closer to the special box and asked him to experience the "time-traveling food" of Tongfulou.
Zhou Fu took a look, the damn small room was quite old-fashioned. The low tables are covered with grass mats and cloth balls, as if performing a Spring and Autumn and Warring States drama. Next to it is a place with a gauze curtain, and there is a guqin in it. It is a pleasure to listen to the guqin while having a meal.
There are many talents in the amusement park, and it is not difficult to find a girl who can play the guqin. This time, Chef Li deliberately went to find the performance team. There are so many talented girls who sing and dance every day there, borrow one and come over to have a look first.
In the ancient style small box, the girl who plays the piano naturally also wants to wear ancient costumes, so Zhou Fu saw a soft girl with a veil come in, and after paying a respectful salute, she went behind the gauze curtain and started her performance.
"Fatty Li is fine. It's quite a big book. It's a big face to use this box to entertain guests. But the food can't be bad, otherwise I'm sorry for the dining environment."
Amusement parks now welcome and send off many guests every day, so it is also a good thing to have a box with a high standard. However, there is no shortage of restaurants on the food street. There are both Chinese and Western food, and the style is considered high. Chef Li's cooking skills are not as good as those of the chefs, so the main function of Tongfulou is just a staff restaurant.
Chef Li laughed and asked people to start serving the tableware. Some ancient tableware he bought on purpose were all made of bronze, with an antique look. The dishes are all served in a small tripod, which is a bit like a hot pot. They are arranged in a long row, and the momentum is quite impressive.
The dishes served here are all the 'lost delicacies' dictated by Li Li. After so many chefs in Tongfulou racked their brains to restore them, they just want to win the reputation of Tongfulou. Although it cannot be guaranteed to be the same as the original one, it is not far from it. With the addition of various modern seasonings, even the nobles in ancient times would praise it if they ate it.
Fatty Li introduced him one by one, and Zhou Fu was taken aback when he heard that there was always a prince or grandson from a certain country in the Spring and Autumn Period, or some famous scholar or scholar. After looking at Fatty Li up and down for a long time, he was sure that this was the cook who graduated from a technical secondary school, not a professor from a university.
"Lao Li, stop, stop, ouch, when did your mouth become so slippery, what you said is true. But these dishes have never been seen before, where did you learn them?"
In the past few years, Zhou Fu has eaten all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas. After all, he has to travel all over the country. If Li Fatty is not so bold that he uses some unorthodox dishes to pretend to be grand, then they should really be some new dishes.
Chef Li is a little proud, he memorized so much in one breath, it is comparable to the college entrance examination: "It is the broadcast, Li Li's "Gourmets of the World", in which there is a section dedicated to the lost food. It starts from China five thousand years ago. From now on, we will move forward little by little, just like taking a history class, and we will also add some lost foreign delicacies during the period, but we haven’t sorted that out yet.”
Zhou Fu really didn't pay attention to the new broadcast program, but this broadcast was made by Yuzai, and some mysterious people were used. That noble uncle has already made a name for himself, and now Li Li, who specializes in gourmet food, has come out. I really don't know what will be next.
After experiencing the aristocratic atmosphere in the private room of 'Zhongming Dingshi', Zhou Fu asked people to watch the broadcast when he returned to the office. Since Uncle Gui's jokes and nonsense have always been the key products of the cultural department, every broadcast will be recorded, and Mo Li's "Gourmet in the World" and Yao Nu's "Question" have not been let go.
Among them, "Question and Divination" was nothing more than that, and Zhou Fu didn't understand the little girl's favorite zodiac sign. However, "Gourmet of the World" is really good, it has a taste of "A Bite of China", and it is also a full-score composition copywriting, a double enjoyment of food and humanities.
It's just that there is no basis for this so-called lost food, at most it is recorded in a certain ancient book, but no one can tell what kind of food it is. If you want to use this as a selling point, you still have a little bit of confidence.
Forget it, it’s not bad to have a special delicacy, even if people question it, it doesn’t matter, anyway, it’s not a crime to dabble in ancient culture. Besides, being able to compose the origin of the food so well is also considered a skill, coupled with some vague evidence, it is still very confusing.
Naturally, Zhou Fu couldn't imagine that this gourmet anchor Mo Li, who is known as the gourmet library of mankind, is a big man who has really experienced the entire history of China. Every delicacy he mentioned has really existed, but these are restored by the cooks, some of which are half-like, and some are just superficial.
In Zhou Yu's kitchen, retro delicacies are also being made.
It's just that Zhou Yu didn't want to pretend or pass on the food culture, but a strange guest came to his home.