After the watery vegetables are quickly stir-fried in a red-hot iron pot, when the color of the vegetables changes and the vegetables begin to break, immediately pour in the prepared shrimp paste, and then continue to stir-fry, because the shrimps

There is already enough salt and sugar on the sauce and it is ready to serve without any additional seasoning.

Li Xiao picked up a small handful of scallions, and each scallion was evenly coated with rose-red shrimp paste. It was clear at a glance that the master's skill in handling this dish was very sophisticated.

After all, even after the shrimp paste is mixed thoroughly, it still tastes very salty. Once the stir-frying occurs unevenly, some vegetables will be very salty and some vegetables will be tasteless.

You should know that it only takes 10 seconds at most from the time when the shrimp paste changes color and the time when the shrimp paste is taken out of the pot. If the time is too long, the color of the vegetables will turn black after it comes out of the pot.

Although the taste will not have much impact, it will greatly affect the appetite of the guests.

Therefore, it is a difficult technical task to stir-fry all the vegetables in 10 seconds.

Put the vegetables into your mouth, and the salty aroma of the rich shrimp paste will flow into your nose.

The unique rich flavor of shrimp paste spreads on the tongue. The shrimp paste has a slight fishy smell that cannot be removed even by adding rice wine.

But this fishy smell is not caused by the shrimp being stale, but caused by the fermentation of the shrimp meat itself.

This is a bit like the smell of stinky tofu itself. Although it smells bad, it tastes delicious.

After fermentation, the originally sweet shrimps become very rich in flavor, which penetrates all the taste buds in the body as soon as you take it in.

The salty flavor of the shrimp paste goes perfectly with the crispy macaroni, but the taste is a little too rich. The overly rich smell of the shrimp paste completely masks the slight sweetness of the macaroni.

Although Li Xiao could barely taste the sweetness of Tongcai with his tongue, he still felt a little pity.

After all, a green vegetable should not only express the richness of the shrimp paste, but also the sweetness of the green vegetables.

However, he thought that the audience for this dish is actually very narrow. The thicker shrimp paste is more for those diners who like shrimp paste. It is easy to understand the other party's approach.

Since I like shrimp paste, it is understandable that the flavor of shrimp paste should be stronger.

“It’s delicious. This shrimp paste vegetable is really delicious.”

Ding Chunqiu smiled and pointed at the shrimp paste vegetables in front of him with his chopsticks and praised. After all, he is a businessman who has been in business for decades. Of course he eats, drinks and socializes a lot.

More than ten years ago, this dish of shrimp paste and vegetables was still very famous. It was quite normal to brag about it while drinking the rich shrimp paste vegetables.

However, as times change, perhaps this old businessman who often needs to socialize has not eaten this dish for many years.

Peng Yuqing on the side also echoed:

"It's true that I haven't seen this dish in many years. I almost forgot that it existed. I think almost every food stall had this thing at that time."

Ding Chunqiu picked up the wine glass and clinked it with Peng Yuqing beside him, smiled and shook his head and said:

"There is actually a reason for this. The reason why so many food stalls used to have this shrimp paste dish is mainly because there are many brothers in Hong Kong and Macao."

"At that time, the country of Han had just begun to develop, and our compatriots from Macao and Hong Kong came back to support the economic development here."

"What comes back with them is not only the money in their hands, but also their eating habits. The older generation there like to eat shrimp paste, vegetables with shrimp paste, shrimp paste meat cakes, and steamed pork slices with shrimp paste.

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"So, more than 20 years ago, when I first started doing business, all the streets and lanes were full of various shrimp paste dishes."

"But about 10 years ago, the compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao slowly began to understand that the development here has begun to slow down. It is no longer like when it just started.

Huge profits.”

"Fewer and fewer compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao are coming here. When there is demand, there is supply. Without demand, the supply will naturally become less and less, so later more and more restaurants stopped doing it.

This shrimp paste is perfect for cooking.”

"After all, shopping at that time was very underdeveloped. If you wanted to buy shrimp paste, you had to ask someone to bring it back from Hong Kong Island and Macao Island, but it was quite troublesome, the price was not low, there were few people eating it, and the profits were small. Those bosses

I’ll just give up on this dish.”

"It's rare that I can eat such authentic Tongcai today. It makes me feel like I'm dreaming back to those days."

After another round of banquets, several people who were not familiar with each other at first slowly began to get acquainted with each other.

After some small talk, you said that you also learned from the two of them that the reason why they retired was because their physical fitness was not good enough.

Not to mention bringing glory to the country, they can't even enter the reserve team of the national team.

After all, the population base is there. As a project that brings glory to the country, of course, the best and most suitable candidates among more than one billion people are selected as contestants.

And with no hope of promotion, they had no intention of staying in the provincial team. After all, they reluctantly stayed in the team, doing odd jobs.

After all, retired athletes like them who have not even ranked in a national competition cannot even serve as coaches.

At most, he can serve as a coaching assistant, which is commonly known as a senior handyman.

So the two of them thought about it and decided that it would be better to get a minimum guarantee in the provincial team and then go outside to see if there are any other opportunities.

After all, sports are dreams, but dreams cannot be eaten. Since the dream cannot come true, then go out to find food.

However, since they were physical education students and had little education in cultural subjects, neither of them really had very good diplomas and could not find any good jobs.

Peng Yuqing is a bit better, he is more tactful, and he is more able to flatter his leaders.

So later I found some connections and got a first-level referee certificate. I was able to referee some events during my spare time at work, and my job income was pretty good.

Xie Bing, who was overly upright and outspoken, had a worse time. Although he became a member of the Guangdong Provincial Sports Commission after retiring because he had been in the team for a long time.

However, it is just a name attached to it, and does not have any actual power. Even in normal meetings, there is no need to call a dispensable guy like him.

And because he trained too much when he was young, his body has not been in good shape since he retired.

I had neither education nor excellent physical fitness. Once I performed physical labor for a long time, my body couldn't bear it, so I could only find a job as a physical education teacher with the help of some old teammates.

Of course, this physical education teacher is a temporary employee and is not a permanent position. It is considered a long-term temporary job.

After all, formal physical education teachers are quite scarce and are a good alternative for many retired athletes.

After all, not only is the work easy, the pay is good, and there are many vacations, but I also get sick every three days. The workload of the original five days is often only two or three days.

Without good connections, it is impossible to become a physical education teacher in school.

However, the temporary job is different. Not only is the salary low, but it also faces the risk of being fired at any time. However, for Xie Bing, who doesn't have much ambition, this job is not bad.

Li Xiao felt a little sad, but this was actually one of the reasons why he wanted to bring glory to the country.

Thousands of athletes, one after another, have devoted countless sweat and time just to compete for the country in the national arena.

Now that I can easily reach the heights that many athletes dream of, if I am still unwilling to put in the effort, it would seem a little too cold-blooded and ruthless.

And in his opinion, as long as he has achieved certain achievements in sports, his words should have more weight.

Now that I speak lightly, even if I speak for them in the live broadcast room, even if hundreds of thousands of viewers can see it, the effect will be minimal.

At most, it will only briefly arouse the resonance of the audience, but as long as he achieves eye-catching results in the international arena.

Then your voice will definitely increase accordingly, and it will be easier to change the status quo for them.

During the chat, the last dish was served. To be precise, the last staple food was also served.

"Good evening everyone, 5J Ham and Matsuba Crab Braised Rice. Please take your time. Your dishes have been served. Do you need any other service?"

Li Xiao waved his hand:

"No need, thank you."

"You're welcome."

The young lady smiled, nodded slightly, and closed the door again.

What was presented in front of everyone was a small casserole. There were two layers of lotus leaves at the bottom of the casserole. One layer was brightly colored fresh lotus leaves, and the other layer was sun-dried lotus leaves.

The young lotus leaves are on the outer layer, while the dried lotus leaves are on the inner layer.

Use a special clip to open the lotus leaf, and you will see that there is a bowl of rich rice on the inner lotus leaf.

The golden rice is covered with a thick layer of ingredients, including red and white shredded crab leg meat, burnt shredded matsutake mushrooms, a few slices of 5J ham, and a few chopped green onions.

Matsuba crab is a specialty of Sakura Country. This crab is closely related to the emperor crab and cherry blossom long-legged crab. Their legs are relatively long and their bodies are relatively small. They mainly eat the crab legs.

However, this kind of Matsuba crab, like the expensive long-legged Sakura crab, is constantly patrolling the seabed in search of food. It is very difficult to catch it. Moreover, they do not have a fixed residence or breeding area, so they rely on fishing to form the crab.

Supply chains are difficult.

Even if you accidentally catch some Matsuba crabs, they cannot be used stably as a long-term food.

However, unlike the Sakura long-legged crab, this type of Matsuba crab can be artificially reproduced. Although artificial breeding is not easy, it is much easier than catching wild ones.

And because the meat of this kind of Matsuba crab is delicious and tender, it is also a very popular product in the seafood market.

Especially in winter, the matsuba crab's breeding season, its crab roe and crab paste will become extremely delicious.

In some winter seasons in the cherry blossom country, matsuba crab is often presented to guests as the most important guest on the dining table.

Of course, in Sakura Country, Matsuba crab is more often used as sashimi or hand-rolled sushi.

However, this kind of food is more common in China, steamed or roasted with green onions, which is the so-called eating method and taste.

The same ingredients have different names and methods in different countries, or even just different regions. It cannot be said that because Matsuba crab is mainly used for sashimi in its place of origin, chefs cannot use it to make other dishes.

This not only limits the use of ingredients, but also limits the imagination and creative space of chefs.

In this braised rice, Matsuba crab is prepared in different ways.

After steaming the Matsuba crab, the chef took out the crab leg meat, and finally the crab leg meat was carefully torn into shredded crab meat.
To be continued...