A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

When a chef goes to the kitchen of his colleague, he cannot cook casually unless he is invited.

Because the dishes served from the back kitchen of a restaurant represent the quality of the restaurant's food.

When restaurants are open for business, it is very important to maintain a stable level of food delivery.

If the workmanship is not good and affects the dining experience of guests, it will directly affect the business.

If the craftsmanship is too good, it will ruin the place and affect the livelihood of fellow chefs.

It would be even more troublesome if something went wrong again and the guests were upset.

So when Zhao Wenzhuo asked Dai Long just now, Dai Long said that he was a food connoisseur and had no intention of cooking.

But now that Li Yi has invited him, he can do it.

But he did not agree immediately. Instead, he motioned to Li Yi: "Let me see what you do first."

When Li Yi heard this, he didn't say much and went back to handling the fish.

The two kilograms of large yellow croaker is not light, and the fish offal taken out is only half a kilogram.

After discarding the fish offal, Li Yi inserted a slender fish-killing knife into the belly of the fish and cut off the intestines connected to the dung door.

Then, he used the blade of the knife against the inner side behind the fish's gills and picked out the fish bones.

After picking all the way to the fish tail, Li Yi pinched the fish tail with his hands and broke it hard. The fish bones broke and he pulled them out of the fish's mouth.

At this time, all that was left of the large yellow croaker was a complete fish body with its head attached.

Arriving at the vegetable sink, Li Yi turned on the faucet and poured water into the fish's mouth.

The clear water entered the fish's belly, but not a drop leaked out.

Seeing this scene, the live broadcast room was filled with admiration.

"Oh my God! There really isn't a drop of water leaking!"

"This knife skill is amazing!"

"It's Brother Yi after all! Not only is he good at unblocking cattle, but he's also great at unblocking fish!"

"It would be great if the burrs could also be removed. That would be perfect."

Looking at the yellow croaker in Li Yi's hand, Dai Long clapped his hands and praised: "Good work."

He admired it from the bottom of his heart, and his eyes were even a little surprised.

[Yellow croaker in soup] He can also make it. The difficulty of making this dish is actually not that big, mainly because the raw materials are hard to find.

Removing fish offal and deboning may seem fancy, but even an average chef can do it after practicing a few times.

What surprised him was Li Yi's efficiency.

The bone removal process only took Li Yi less than thirty seconds. He cut off the meat in three strokes without hesitation.

Including the time to remove the guts, it didn't take him even a minute to process the fish.

At this speed, even Dai Long himself could not achieve this speed when he was young.

He held a clean gauze with chopsticks and put it into the fish's belly. After scrubbing it for a few times, Li Yi poured out the water in the fish's belly.

Then, Li Yi prepared the soup for the yellow croaker.

On the stove, a white casserole has been warming over a slow fire.

Li Yi stepped forward and opened the lid, and a rich fragrance wafted out.

In the casserole was half a pot of milky-white soup, which Li Yi had cooked yesterday using crucian carp. After three hours of boiling, the bones of the crucian carp were almost melted.

There is no fixed combination of soup in [Yellow Croaker in Soup].

The lower-grade ones use fresh river and mountain delicacies, and the more upscale ones use eight delicacies from the sea, both of which can be seated.

But Li Yi is going to reproduce the version in the movie this time, so these materials will not be used.

The [Soup-Filled Yellow Croaker] in the movie was filled with a thick, pasty light green soup into the belly of the fish for visual effects.

Coupled with the small pieces of cabbage sticks scattered on the fish, it looks very weird.

However, in order to restore it, Li Yi still used his own understanding and tried to be as close to the movie version as possible.

Taking the spoon, Li Yi stirred the crucian carp soup in the pot.

When the milky white crucian carp soup was stirred by the spoon, translucent balls the size of pearls suddenly appeared, rolling in the thick soup.

This is sago, the raw material commonly used in milk tea.

But after being cooked in crucian carp soup, it has absorbed the fragrance of crucian carp soup, and also integrated its own starch into the crucian carp soup, making the fish soup extremely viscous.

Seeing that the cooking was almost done, Li Yi took the washed spinach on the side, quickly cut it into thin strips, and put it into a bowl.

Then, he sprinkled some fine salt on the spinach, pinched it with his hands and stirred it.

After a while, a layer of green spinach juice oozed from the bottom of the bowl.

Taking the bowl, Li Yi poured the spinach juice into the pot and stirred it evenly with a spoon. The soup in the pot suddenly turned slightly light green, just like in the movie.

Seeing this scene, Dai Long couldn't help but ask: "Who did you learn this from?"

"Of course I learned it from the movies, otherwise how could I make soup in such an outrageous way?"

Li Yi said casually without looking back.

Dai Long was a little embarrassed when he heard this.

Because the version of [Yellow Croaker in Soup] in the movie was designed by him, and the method was exactly the same as Li Yi's operation.

After a pause, he explained: "It's true that this is not how the authentic [Yellow Croaker in Soup] is made, but making a movie requires visual effects, so I changed the method."

After hearing his words, Li Yi turned back and glanced at him, but didn't say much.

But Dai Long understood the meaning: So you made this version?

In the live broadcast room, after hearing his words, the audience also excitedly posted comments.

"Did you make the [yellow croaker in soup] in the movie?"

"That's the ugliest [yellow croaker in soup] I've ever seen!"

"That [yellow croaker in soup] is not authentic. Once you see it, you won't make it."

Dai Long stood behind Li Yi and could just see the display screen in front of him.

Looking at the barrage on the screen, he became more and more embarrassed and tried to explain: "This method tastes good, and it combines seafood and river fresh food, and has the taste of sago. It is OK to go with rice."

Hearing this, Li Yi nodded: "The taste is definitely not bad, but the color is a little off. The cabbage stick slices sprinkled on it are a failure. It looks like it has been irradiated, which is very unappetizing."

"This is what the director requested."

Dai Long explained helplessly: "The plot of that part is that Master Liao came back from the mainland. Although he remembered his cooking skills, his sense of taste failed and the dishes he cooked were unpalatable.

But the audience cannot eat the food and can only judge whether the food is delicious or not by its appearance.

I didn't add the cabbage slices at first, and the soup in the fish belly was not light green.

The director said no, it looked too delicious. Even if the actors acted like it didn't taste good, the audience wouldn't understand.

So he asked me to change the dish so that it might look delicious, but in reality it wasn’t, and it was a bit unappetizing.

I didn't know how to change it, so he came up with the idea of ​​turning the soup in the fish's belly green to make it look poisonous. He also sprinkled some raw film on the fish to make it look like it was poisoned. He said that was the language of the lens.

After finishing it, I felt unappetizing even when I saw it. "

After hearing his explanation, the audience in the live broadcast room suddenly realized.

"No wonder! I asked why that [soup-filled yellow croaker] is so ugly, it turned out to be designed by the director!"

"It turns out it's because of the camera language! Years of doubts were finally answered for me!"

"Xuke is really not a good man, but the effect is indeed good. At least it has eliminated my appetite."

"Is it because Xu Ke didn't enjoy filming "City of Monsters" that he designed this radiation-mutated yellow croaker?"

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