Food: Starting with Wonton Noodles

The clothes of the Tanka people are very interesting. The colors look grayish at first glance, but in the sunlight, they appear somewhat azure.

Liao Boxuan still remembers the trousers of the Tanka people, with the cuffs as wide as skirts.

Later, when he saw the clothes worn by hip-hop artists on Hong Kong Island, he couldn't help but think of the clothes worn by the Tanka people.

In my memory, the clothes of the Tanka people were always that loose-fitting. It's just that the colors weren't very bright, and the styles weren't very trendy.

Yin Jie, who wasn't pretty to begin with, naturally looked even more like a country girl when dressed like that. With the Tanka hood on, she looked even worse.

During that period, Sister Yin was always grumbling and cursing, because even if a woman doesn't get married, she still loves to look beautiful.

During that period, Sister Yin and Liao Boxuan sometimes lived on a boat and sometimes in a fishing village on the nearby shore.

As the two gradually tanned, they became more and more like the Tanka people, and they also became more and more accustomed to the salty and fishy smell in the air.

Occasionally, her father and two older brothers would come to visit her, bringing her all sorts of sweets, noodles, and pastries.

Of course, during that time, Liao Boxuan also met many adults and many children who were not much older than him.

Tanka people, Hakka people, Chaoshan people, and Cantonese people.

However, the century-old conflict between the locals and the Hakka people continues, and the children still like to gang up and fight from time to time.

It was around that time that Liao Boxuan learned various distinctive dialects of Lingnan, such as "Puni Amu," "Diu Na Xing," and "Riding a horse across the sea."

However, none of them dared to bully her, because they all liked the dishes that Sister Yin cooked.

When cooking fish, the fishermen of Chaoshan and Danjia prefer to cook the fish directly in seawater without any processing.

When Liao Boxuan first ate it, he almost vomited because of the fishy and bitter taste of the offal.

I later learned that it was called fish rice.

Sister Yin did not try to change the diet of the people on the ship, but she would always help in advance by using chopsticks to clean the internal organs.

No matter how small the fish is, it will be cleaned thoroughly before cooking. Only then did Liao Boxuan realize that fish rice doesn't have to be so bad.

Supplies on the boat were scarce, and even the ingredients for cooking porridge were pieced together from various sources. The boatman even boasted that his porridge was authentic boat porridge.

But no matter how messy the leftovers and ingredients are, Sister Yin's meticulousness always allows her to create a unique and delicious dish.

But that day...

It was unusual for Sister Yin not to cook any delicious food, but instead dragged the hungry Liao Boxuan to pick various wild vegetables on the riverbank.

They also carefully picked only the newest tender buds and leaves.

When Liao Boxuan was so hungry that he couldn't stand it anymore, he went to the side and sulked.

An uncle wearing gold-rimmed glasses and dressed in a foreign firm's attire smiled and took his hand, saying, "Don't worry, we'll have dinner tonight, the kind of imperial cuisine that only emperors used to eat. Sister Yin is currently preparing to cook a dish that originates from this sea."

"Originating from this sea? Is it seafood?" Liao Boxuan asked curiously.

However, he had eaten quite a bit of seafood during this period, so he wasn't too excited.

The man with the gold-rimmed glasses said, "It's not seafood. Do you know the name of the sea in front of us?"

Liao Boxuan shook his head.

The man with the gold-rimmed glasses said, "His name is Lingdingyang. I'll have you recite poetry."

Fearful on the beach of Huang Kong, lonely in the Ling Ding Ocean.

Liao Boxuan simply couldn't imagine what this sadness had to do with food.

The man with the gold-rimmed glasses chuckled, "This is Lingdingyang. The dish Sister Yin cooks is called 'Protecting the Nation's Dish,' a crisp, green vegetable soup. Isn't that the color of the historical record? Of course it's related."

Liao Boxuan had long forgotten the name of the gold-rimmed glasses.

He had met so many people back then, men and women, young and old, from all over the country, from dockworkers to school teachers, from elegant ladies to passionate young people.

I've even met the foreigners they were talking about a few times.

But he still remembers the poem that the man with the gold-rimmed glasses taught him.

I remember that when we had dinner that night, my father and two older brothers were all there, and many of the uncles who had stayed there temporarily before leaving also gathered together that night.

Even when it's just wild vegetable soup, Sister Yin still cooks it exceptionally well.

Although the wild vegetables still had a slightly bitter taste that was hard to get rid of, Liao Boxuan ate them with great pleasure.

Because everyone was there, and everyone was happy, it was as lively as a family reunion dinner during the Spring Festival in previous years.

However, after that night, Liao Boxuan never saw his father or brother again.

Crossing the Lingdingyang.

Then, Liao Boxuan actually crossed the Lingdingyang to Hong Kong Island and stayed at his uncle's house.

Sister Yin stayed in Guangzhou.

Later, he happened to meet some of the children he had seen on the boat and in the fishing village on Hong Kong Island.

Later on, these children, who were only a few years older than him, gradually became less and less common.

......

Zhou Yu heard the notification sound indicating that his wish had been fulfilled.

He opened the system panel and then opened the wish list to take a look.

Chef System

Today's number of satisfied customers: 2

[Recipe already mastered: (Click to view details)]

Wishlist:

Liao Boxuan: I want a bowl of boat congee and a serving of rice noodle rolls. (Task reward: Boiled Chicken recipe)

[Wishlist tasks claimed/Completed: 2/1]

[He Jiafu: My daughter has been having a poor appetite lately for some reason. I wish I knew what she likes to eat now. (Reward: A Hong Kong-style dessert recipe)]

[Chen Mingyuan: Recently, a special elderly man was transferred back to the provincial hospital. Although he is nearly ninety years old, he himself has become quite indifferent to the remaining years. But after talking with him, I feel that he is a very respectable old man. I really want to help him rediscover some old flavors so that he can recall beautiful memories of the past in his final days. (Completed/Dongjiang Salt-Baked Chicken Recipe Available)]

[Note: The wish list only displays and allows users to claim wishes from satisfied customers on the same day. Wish lists cannot be discarded after being claimed. There is no time limit for claiming wishes. Users can claim a maximum of 3 wishes even if they have not completed their tasks. Please choose your wishes carefully.]

Before Zhou Yu could even carefully examine Liao Boxuan's newly added wish tasks and claim the rewards for completing them...

His phone rang.

Zhou Yu answered the phone, and Chen Mingyuan's voice came through: "Zhou Yu, Old Liao really likes your cooking. Would you be free to come to the private room for tea and a chat?"

Zhou Yu agreed without hesitation.

However, before going there, he first clicked to claim the reward for Chen Mingyuan's wish mission.

The recipe for Dongjiang Salt-Baked Chicken instantly entered his mind.

After receiving the recipe, Zhou Yu checked Liao Boxuan's wish task and was surprised to find it so simple.

But he didn't think much of it. After closing the system panel, he greeted Sun Zhigang and Zhang Rong.

Zhou Yu went to the dressing room to change out of his chef's uniform and then came to the private room where Chen Mingyuan and the others were.

Liao Boxuan never expected Zhou Yu to be so handsome.

In his mind, a chef who could cook such good food, even if he was young, should be greasy-faced and burly.

Before Chen Mingyuan could introduce him, he smiled and said, "Hello, you're the chef who made these two dishes, Zhou Yu, right?"