Food: Random stalls, customers chase me all over the country

Chapter 567 - Ciqikou Hairy Blood

Maoxuewang can be said to be one of the pioneers of Wudu Jianghu cuisine.

Initially, a butcher's wife felt sorry for the offal she had to sell at a low price every day, so she used pig head and bones, added ginger, peppercorns, and cooking wine, and simmered them over low heat. She added peas to make a soup, and the taste was very good after adding pig lungs and pig intestines. Later, by chance, she discovered that adding fresh pig blood not only made the soup tender and smooth, but also more delicious. This is how the earliest Maoxuewang came about.

In the foggy city, Mao means "rough" and "sloppy", which fits in well with the eclectic style of Jianghu cuisine. The term "blood curd" refers to blood tofu, which can be made with duck blood or pig blood.

In order to cater to high-income people, some large restaurants have added sea cucumbers, tripe, eel meat, yellow throat slices, luncheon meat slices, etc. to their ingredients.

Wang Fan also wanted to try the top-quality Maoxuewang, but the price was too high, so he could only use more affordable ingredients.

But just because the ingredients are cheap doesn’t mean the food won’t taste good.

The duck blood is made fresh by ourselves, and the blood is all bought fresh from the vegetable market. The "freshness" of any ingredient is the most important.

Put the trembling duck blood tofu into a pot of cold water and simmer it on low heat for 20 minutes. The bright red duck blood turns into brownish red. Take it out and slice it. After cutting it, it still retains a hint of pink.

Generally, duck blood needs to be blanched and some salt is added to add flavor. The good thing about Wang Fan’s homemade blood tofu is that the flavor is added when it is made. By skipping the blanching step, more of the delicious flavor can be retained in the dish.

Duck blood is the main ingredient. This little thing is just the icing on the cake.

Wang Fan also prepared three kinds of peppers for this dish, but it is different from the spicy chicken he made before.

Neihuang New Generation, Guizhou Bullet Head, Chongqing Shizhu Red, all the colors, flavors and spicy flavors are ready.

After Wang Fan finished cooking yesterday, he gained a lot of aunt fans. After buying vegetables, they did not go anywhere else, but stayed in the vegetable market to watch Wang Fan cook. Some even took out their mobile phones to record the scene and then reproduce it themselves after returning home.

The aunts watched intently as Wang Fan began to stir-fry the peppers, cut them into knife-edge pieces, and make the onion, ginger, and spice oil...

"If I watch this kid cook every day, my cooking skills will probably improve a lot."

"Watching people cooking is more interesting than watching TV dramas, and the aroma of chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns is so pleasant to the touch."

"The main thing is that he does it right in front of us, so you can tell it's clean. And you can see he cleans the stove while he's cooking. It's pleasing to the eye. Unlike my husband, the kitchen looks like a typhoon when he's cooking a meal."

"This guy is the kind of good man who can handle both housework and family life. I'll see if I can get his contact information later. It's time for our daughter to find a boyfriend."

"Your daughter is only a freshman this year, right? You said before that you could only look for someone after graduation. Our daughter is more suitable. She's already a graduate student."

The aunts' chats were basically about the trivialities and bits and pieces of life. However, many aunts with daughters were attracted by Wang Fan. He was tall, could cook, and had a good personality. Isn't he a perfect candidate for a son-in-law?

Some young people in the queue poured cold water on them: "Auntie, please give up this tempting idea. He has a girlfriend who is very beautiful and they are in a very good relationship."

While the diners were chatting, Wang Fan never stopped using the iron spoon in his hand, and soon he had prepared today's dishes.

Maoxuewang is also very spicy. As usual, Wang Fan only gives the elderly one spoonful, but he scoops it up deeply and slowly, and this spoonful is full of essence.

Grandpa Jiang took a deep breath while holding the thermos. The Maoxuewang that had just come out of the pot was still scalding hot, and the aroma of the ingredients and chili peppers and peppercorns was stimulated to the extreme by this heat.

The rich and fresh aroma of chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns instantly made all the pores on his body cheer.

Looking at the thermos again, the Maoxuewang was brightly colored, and the red chili oil covered the rich ingredients, emitting an attractive luster, which made him feel hungry at the first sight.

Fresh duck blood, tripe, luncheon meat and other ingredients are arranged in a staggered manner, and the colorful appearance makes it even more tempting.

Grandpa Jiang didn't rush to eat, but dipped his chopsticks in the cooking oil and put it in his mouth. Generally, cooking oil will not absorb the flavor, and only a skilled master can make the soup have the base flavor.

Grandpa Jiang was very satisfied with this piece of food. When he was young, this dish only cost a few cents per serving. After work, a bowl of such delicious food was enough to dispel the fatigue of the day.

Later, as life got better and better, this dish lost its original flavor and even became unaffordable.

Full of flavor!

After smacking his lips, Grandpa Jiang picked up a piece of duck blood from the bowl.

The duck blood was cooked very tenderly. It was made by Wang Fan himself without any messy ingredients, making the duck blood appear very soft and elastic.

The food on the chopsticks makes a constant "duangduangduang" sound, as if it could be crushed with a little force. Just looking at it makes people want to take a bite.

When the duck blood is put into your mouth, a layer of hot oil will wrap it. When it enters your mouth, you can smell the rich and fresh fragrance. This is the result of Wang Fan's last spoonful of hot oil before taking it out of the pot.

As soon as Grandpa Jiang pressed the tip of his tongue, he could clearly feel the elasticity of the duck blood. The resistance made the tip of his tongue excited. As soon as he bit it with his teeth, the unique toughness really made this small piece of duck blood sublime in an instant.

Numb, spicy, fresh, fragrant and hot!

The five-word mantra of Maoxuewang is fully reflected in this piece of duck blood.

Moreover, Grandpa Jiang can clearly taste the basic flavor of the duck blood. No matter how strong the spices are, if they are not absorbed into the ingredients, the deliciousness will be reduced by half, and the most critical factor must be salt.

The working people cannot live without salt. Without salt, their mouths will taste like wax and nothing will taste good.

Just a little duck blood has completely conquered the taste buds of Grandpa Jiang, an old farmer.

The tripe cut into thick strips is very elastic, the luncheon meat is very delicate, and the vegetables such as bean sprouts, mushrooms and black fungus are refreshing and crispy, and a few peppers are mixed in that are so delicious that they burst in your mouth.

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"Ba Shi, this tastes really good!"

"Hahaha, Brother Jiang, are you enjoying this too? This taste takes me back to decades ago. After a day of farm work, eating a bowl of this feels so refreshing, just like eating ginseng fruit."

"Isn't it? In the past, we only ate offal and other leftovers, but they were still fragrant and flavorful. Now, many restaurants make food that has no flavor at all. Things like sea cucumber and yellow throat are just for show, but tasteless."

"Such delicious food is free, and there's no limit on the amount. It's a sin to enjoy this blessing."

"Hahaha, it's only been a few days. I heard that kids like this don't stay in one city for long. They usually leave after a week. We'll soon not have this good time."

"what?"

The elderly, hearing the news for the first time, were stunned. After spending a few days together, they all treated Wang Fan like a junior in the family. Hearing that he might be leaving, they all expressed reluctance. "All good things must come to an end. How can we live happily for a few days and then go back to hard times?"

"That's right, we don't celebrate the New Year every day, and because of Yaowa, we can use the air-raid shelter vegetable market in advance. We will only earn a little more than before, but we can't cause trouble for Yaowa."

Grandpa Jiang also said, "Let's not try to persuade Yaowa to stay. If he wants to stay, we're welcome. But if he wants to leave, we can't shamelessly force him to stay. That's called... that's called... oh, right, moral kidnapping!"

"That's right. They have their own lives. We can't stop them from leaving just because we want to eat well."

Grandpa Jiang glanced at Wang Fan who was still busy, sighed in his heart, and felt that the food in the thermos bucket suddenly tasted a little unpleasant.

Young people are not as sentimental as old people. Shen Bowen thinks today's meal is still just as delicious.

As the old saying goes, it is better to love the food than to eat it tastes good, but this sentence is somewhat not applicable to Boss Wang. He would never eat celery before, but today he ate it with great flavor. Well, I think that's what they say in Northeastern dialect.

In the past, I would never even look at celery, but Boss Wang’s is obviously different.

The emerald green celery segments appear particularly juicy, while the vermicelli noodles are a particularly rich dark red. The contrast between the fresh and heavy colors is very obvious, just like a fresh pastoral painting.

The celery is okay, but the vermicelli is really tempting. You can tell at a glance that it must have absorbed extremely rich sauce.

His guess was correct. Wang Fan used lard to stir-fry this dish, and he used a lot of lard. Every vermicelli absorbed the oil fully. The vermicelli made in this way tasted many times better than meat.

Pick up a piece of celery with chopsticks and put it in your mouth. With every bite, you can hear the crisp sound of the celery popping between your teeth, and you can also feel the refreshing and slightly bitter juice of the celery flowing freely between your teeth.

The vermicelli noodles are smooth, chewy, soft, glutinous and mellow, especially the rich meaty aroma, which is even more fragrant than the meat.

The taste of vermicelli and celery forms a sharp contrast, but they blend together perfectly. Even the slightly bitter taste of celery becomes somewhat sweet.

Coupled with Boss Wang’s unrivaled skill in seasoning matching, the flavor of the ingredients was not covered up, while adding a rich layering to the entire dish.

"Hululu..."

The highest respect for vermicelli is to swallow it into your mouth in big mouthfuls, put your mouth close to the edge of the lunch box and suck it hard, then continue sucking it without stopping until your mouth is completely filled, and then chew it in big mouthfuls. The feeling of it is simply indescribable.

Now no one steals his food because everyone eats what Boss Wang cooks.

Several colleagues sighed happily while eating, and the tea room was filled with the sound of them gulping down their food.

"The biggest benefit of Boss Wang coming here is that my mom no longer has to worry about what I'm going to eat for lunch. Before, we even had to draw lots to decide what to eat, but now we don't have to think about it at all."

"That's right. We eat whatever Boss Wang cooks. We don't have to worry about anything else. It's definitely not going to be unpalatable."

"My favorite is the lotus root box. The cooking time is so perfect. Inside the thin, crispy shell is a soft layer of dough. When you chew it, you'll find the crispy lotus root with a "crunch" sound, and below that is the soft, glutinous and fragrant meat filling. The texture and taste are absolutely unbeatable."

"I still like this Maoxuewang. Although it uses the most affordable ingredients, the taste is really amazing. And every ingredient is full of flavor. It is simply a magical dish that goes well with rice."

"Have you heard? It seems our city government has found Boss Wang, and he's going to endorse the air-raid shelter vegetable market on the backpack express line this weekend. I have to go and support him."

"I'm going too, I'm going too. This city government is really awesome. They even invited Boss Wang to come. I've never heard of him endorsing anything before."

"He hasn't even endorsed DJI, the company he founded. At most, he's attracted customers a few times."

……

Jing Chuan's actions were naturally very quick. He didn't want to give Wang Fan time to regret, although he felt that Wang Fan would not regret it.

However, he did not advertise it extensively. If he really had the spare money, he would not have gone to Wang Fan.

Putting a few roll-up banners outside the more conspicuous markets is the limit they can do. At most, they can add a sign for the air-raid shelter vegetable market.

Money should be spent wisely, and we should not squander other people's donations at will.

However, the picture of Brother Wang cooking on the big sign is really nice. If you don’t know him, you might think he is a celebrity.

Jing Chuan looked at the sign hung on the air-raid shelter with great satisfaction. After the sign was hung, all the preparations here were ready, and it was just waiting for vegetable farmers and citizens who came to buy vegetables to fill it up.

He took out his phone and called Wang Fan, then got straight to the point and said cheerfully, "Brother Wang, all the preparations for our air-raid shelter vegetable market have been completed, and the vegetable farmers in the towns below have also been notified. I estimate that more than 100 vegetable farmers will come to sell vegetables on Saturday."

Wang Fan was also very happy to hear the news: "Okay, I'll send a Weibo message later. But with so many people here, you have to maintain order on the scene."

Jing Chuan laughed heartily: "Don't worry, Fog City is a city with a large population. We have a lot of experience in this area."

After hanging up the phone, Wang Fan posted the news on Weibo. The news had already been leaked before, and this post confirmed the rumors.

"Boss Wang is indeed worthy of his name. The jobs he takes on are all related to the local people's livelihood."

"This is the idol worth following. The video of Gang Ge helping sell kiwis in Guizhou also said that it was Boss Wang who asked him to do so."

"It's the same in Zibo. The two apprentices trained by Boss Wang are the pillars of Zibo barbecue. I heard they even shared their skills with local barbecue stalls, and they're becoming increasingly popular."

"The same thing happened when I went to DJI before. There were left-behind children and elderly people in the area who had no source of income, so Boss Wang taught them how to make pee-infused beef balls. Now the business is booming, and the quality of life of the elderly and children has improved a lot."

"When you're poor, you can take care of yourself; when you're rich, you can help the world. I just hope there will be more internet celebrities like Boss Wang."

"You're overthinking it. Boss Wang is Boss Wang, and internet celebrities are internet celebrities. Boss Wang can be called an internet celebrity, but not all internet celebrities are Boss Wang."

"The internet celebrities are the ones whose reputations collapse the fastest, and only Boss Wang can remain so strong."

Wang Fan felt embarrassed by the comments that popped up one after another. He just followed his heart and did what he could, but he didn't expect that so many people would remember him.

But no matter what the online comments are, as long as he thinks it is right, he will continue to do it as usual.

He now has only one idea in mind when he starts living again - to live the way he wants.

(End of this chapter)