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Jester has no interest in Japanese food, but Claudia is the complete opposite.

The exquisite eating habits of the Japanese are especially sought after by young Western women like Claudia. Of course, the top-notch Japanese food also tastes good.

The cooking idea of ​​pursuing the original taste of food is the most respected even in Chinese cooking.

The two most famous foods in Japan are probably sashimi and beef.

Especially beef. Japanese Wagyu is famous all over the world. It is even more high-end than Australian Snow Beef. From Jester’s understanding, after the domestic breeding industry introduced Wagyu seeds and breeding technology, it also It has developed its own top beef brand in China, called Xuelong Beef.

"If you have to eat wagyu, I'll make you the crab-stuffed orange I just learned in the United States, but you don't want it..."

Jester complained a little helplessly. After sleeping in the hotel for a whole day, Claudia, who finally recovered from the fatigue of the flight, insisted that Jester take her to eat authentic Japanese food. Food, because Jester had read a lot of information about this when he first made the chef game, and he often boasted that he knew all the food in the world.

However, Jester usually disdains Japanese cooking, but he has to listen to his fiancée, so he has no choice but to find Tamahideyoshiro.

Jester knew that this man was a standard foodie.

Tamahide Yoshiro is very knowledgeable about food, especially Japanese food. When he heard Claudia say that she wanted to eat authentic Japanese wagyu, he showed a very relaxed smile: "I am very close to Mr. Matsumoto from Kobe." I’m familiar with it, his family’s cattle farm is the most famous in Kobe, and the TV station in Kobe filmed a special program on Kobe Beef in his cattle farm!”

Hearing what Tamahide Yoshiro said, Claudia's eyes suddenly lit up, as she had always been extremely interested in Kobe beef.

"I often ate it when I was in the UK and thought it was great! But I heard from my Japanese friends that these were actually frozen and flown over, and the taste was no longer good, and it was far less delicious than what I had in Kobe... and , is the TV show you are talking about the one where the cows drink beer and listen to music?"

"Yes."

Tamahide Yoshiro smiled and nodded, but he was a little surprised in his heart. He had met Claudia several times before when he went to Los Angeles to attend the annual meeting, and he relied on his impressions from the few times he saw her. I thought she was a very strong woman, but I didn't expect that after temporarily putting down her work, she would also have such a little woman's mentality.

The barbecue restaurant opened by Matsumoto that Tamahide Yoshiro mentioned is in a very remote place and the environment is very quiet.

When Jester and Claudia, led by Tamahide Yoshiro, came to this small barbecue restaurant with no name, they were a little surprised because there were very few seats in this small shop and there was nothing. Scattered tables. The seats and stools are all in front of the stage.

The entire table in front is a roasting pan for barbecue.

There were not many people in the store, only a middle-aged man in his forties. The boss was an old man in his fifties. When he heard the sound, he looked up at the door and saw Tamahide Yoshiro. A smile appeared on his face.

"Jade Xiujun is here!"

Tamahide Yoshiro also smiled and nodded: "Matsumoto-kun, these are two of my friends. I say the best Kobe beef in Japan is from you."

"Where there!"

Hearing Tamahideyoshiro's compliment, the store manager named Matsumoto clearly had a bright smile on his face, and he spoke modest words, but his complacent expression clearly made Tamahideyoshiro Take it for granted.

After Jester and Claudia took their seats, Matsumoto just smiled and nodded, and then added a little charcoal to the bottom of the baking pan.

"This is made with Aoki wood."

Jester glanced at the long strip of black, somewhat shiny charcoal that Matsumoto took out from one side, and even had layers of fish-like scales on the outside, and asked with some confusion.

Unexpectedly, after hearing what Jester said, Matsumoto looked at Jester in surprise. He seemed to be very surprised, how could the other party know this, and then he moved his eyes to Tamahide Yoshiro There, but Tamahide Yoshiro himself shook his head, obviously, he was saying that he had not told Jester this.

"My grandfather is a master of Chinese cooking, and he also has some experience in cooking."

Jester also saw this scene, and he did not hide it. He explained truthfully that traditional Sichuan cuisine is also very particular about the use of carbon. It can even be said to be complicated. There are different cooking methods for cooking different dishes. Sometimes, depending on the strength of the fire, different charcoal should be used. These are all knowledge.

After hearing Jester's explanation, Matsumoto also nodded in confusion.

"Chinese cooking is broad and profound. I traveled to China last year and saw a lot of incredible delicacies. Now that I think about it, it makes me unforgettable."

At this time, the middle-aged man who was in front of Jester and the other two people smiled and said to Matsumoto: "Matsumoto-kun, can you give me a piece of raw beef? It's been a long time since I've eaten raw beef! I miss that kind of thing." The smell!”

As he spoke, he showed a salivating expression, and even stuck out his tongue and licked it as if tasting delicious food.

Matsumoto still smiled and took a whole piece of red, tender beef with a snowflake-like pattern. Then he picked up a butcher knife, cut off a small square piece of meat, and put it on a On a white porcelain plate, it was handed to the middle-aged man.

A beef knife does not mean a knife used to kill cattle, but a name for a kitchen knife. This is a Japanese kitchen knife invented by the Japanese after imitating the European chef's knife. It is different from the Western chef's knife in appearance. It's not that big. Maybe the only difference is that the handle of the beef knife is not the plastic or metal handle commonly used in Western chef's knives.

Instead, they use octagonal wood or ox bones, and they are very beautifully made.

In addition to this beef knife, Jester also saw a much smaller kitchen knife on Matsumoto's desk. Of course, he who knew something about Japanese cuisine also knew that this knife was called a Santoku knife. A product that combines the advantages of Chinese kitchen knives and Western kitchen knives.

However, precisely because it combines the advantages of the two types of kitchen knives, it becomes somewhat nondescript. Under normal circumstances, this kind of knife can only be used as an auxiliary prop and cannot be used as a chef's knife.

In fact, the classification of Japanese kitchen knives is the most complicated among all kinds of cooking, even more complicated than Western kitchen knives. For example, they have almost reached the point where a kind of ingredient requires a special knife, or even just When cutting fish fillets, they divide them into two types according to the types of fish fillets they want to cut. One is called the willow blade and the other is called the octopus blade. These two knives have very different appearances.

The middle-aged man respectfully took the porcelain plate from Matsumoto with both hands, and then said thank you.

Jester took a closer look at the porcelain plate. He was a little far away just now. He thought it was a porcelain plate. But when he got closer, he took a closer look and realized that it was actually not a porcelain plate. Porcelain, but a round plate made of pottery.

Jester had heard before that the level of Japanese pottery was very high, and now that he saw it, it was indeed well-deserved.

Claudia also looked at the piece of raw beef, and Jester curled his lips with some disdain. He actually didn't like eating it raw, although there are many ways to eat raw meat in Chinese cooking, such as Confucius once said that he never tires of eating fine food and never tires of eating fine food. Moreover, even in the Tang Dynasty, the great poet Wang Mojie, known as the Poet Buddha, also wrote about the beloved Yule riding a horse and the maid eating carp in a golden plate. A poem describing eating raw fish.

But if you don’t like it, you don’t like it.

He can't even accept the most delicate fish, let alone beef, which is the roughest among all kinds of meat. Jester can't even accept medium-rare beef, let alone raw beef.

But Claudia has perfectly inherited the advantages of the Anglo-Saxons in terms of food. She likes to eat raw hair and drink blood... Oh no, she likes to eat half-cooked beef.

"Can I have one too?"

Sure enough, after Claudia licked her tongue, she asked Matsumoto who was seriously cutting the beef. Hearing Claudia's voice, Matsumoto raised his head and glanced at Claudia in surprise. Then without saying anything, he just cut off a small piece for Claudia from the piece of beef he was cutting, just like the small piece he cut for the middle-aged man just now.

Then he looked at Jester and asked, "Do you want it too?"

Jester was just about to refuse, but when he thought about it, after all, he was brought here by the other party's friend Tamahideyoshiro, and the other party obviously had good intentions when asking him, so he couldn't refuse, so he had to nod his head: "Also. I have one piece."

Although he said this, Jester had already made up his mind. No matter how unpalatable the raw beef was, he would still eat it. He could not let down the good intentions of the store and let Tamahide Yoshiro, who brought him here, eat it among his friends. Losing face in front of me.

But as I entered the mouth of this small square piece of raw beef with a pattern like a white snowflake on it, I felt a tenderness that is difficult to describe in words, and it did not have any of the characteristics of raw meat. Instead of the fishy smell, there was an indescribable meaty aroma, which gave him the feeling that it was very similar to tuna, which is the fattest belly of tuna.

“It’s really delicious!”

After eating this piece of raw beef, Jester couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praised it sincerely. (To be continued...)