Chapter 133, boil it, hot pot
Before the pot was served, Ye Kai was already waiting anxiously with his chopsticks.
Why do people in Sichuan Province like to eat hot pot? In ancient times, it was because of the simple and convenient way of boiling and blanching. When various ingredients are put into the hot pot, they become full of flavor.
From a climate perspective, the Sichuan Basin is relatively humid and easy to enter the body. Eating hot pot can accelerate people's blood and sweat all over the body, and the cold and dampness on the body will be driven out of the body.
Look, there are historical reasons for eating hot pot.
Soon, the waiter brought the hot pot with the hot pot. The pot was filled with red oil and seasonings, fiery red peppers floating on it, and the onions, ginger, garlic and other seasonings were also included.
After they lit the fire and poured tea, the two of them went to beat the oil saucer.
Ye Kai likes to fill the oil dish with dry ingredients, then half a bowl of sesame oil and half a bowl of hot pot red oil, without consuming oil.
Drain some red oil from the gradually boiling hot pot and put it in your own oil dish. The originally refreshing oil dish instantly became full of the redness of chili. Mix it slightly evenly and it became Ye Kai’s favorite taste.
The hot pot uses butter.
It is difficult to find an authentic Sichuan hot pot now. It has integrated too many things with Shancheng hot pot, but for the public taste, this form of hot pot has become famous across the country.
It is difficult to see Shancheng hot pot without oil-consuming garlic sprouts, and it is also difficult to see Sichuan hot pot with vegetable oil at the bottom.
Some ingredients need to be boiled for a while before they can be cooked, but some are held in chopsticks and put into the pot, which can be picked up in just a few seconds and feasted on them, especially these thin slices of beef that can be shining.
The Ye Kai only needs to put it in the water and rinse it on the left and right, then pick it up and start tasting it.
Zhou Kevin quickly put down the teacup in his hand and said, "This is not cooked yet! Let's cook it again?"
"What are you doing when you cook beef for so long? It's okay."
He hasn't eaten fully cooked beef for a long time. He eats 70% ripe steak most of the time. Occasionally, he will try 5% ripe steak at the instigation of foreign friends. However, it is all high-quality beef, and even if it is three-bit cooked, it will not have a strong fishy smell.
Most of the steaks in hot pot restaurants are cut into thin slices. If you have a better skill, you can cut them into the ones that are picked up from chopsticks, which are almost transparent.
Put it in the oil dish and dye it with rich seasoning flavor, which makes it fragrant and savory to my mind.
Eat a bite of spicy beef and drink a sip of frozen beer that has just been taken out of the freezer. This way of eating is the favorite of most gourmets, but most people from other places cannot accept it.
Without a single iron stomach, you will definitely not accept the two levels of ice and fire.
Kevin Zhou was sweating coldly while touching the cold beer.
But he still raised it up and said, "Come on, don't just eat vegetables, drink some wine."
"Come on." Ye Kai also raised his cup.
Seeing that Zhou Kevin had all drunk all of them in one sip, Ye Kai also directly dried the beer in the cup in one sip. The cold taste suppressed the spicy taste of the seasoning, and then opened his mouth and exhaled a cold breath.
Zhou Kevin also squinted his eyes. It was not that he could not drink alcohol, but it was a cold day. He had not had a bite of hot dishes and drank such cold beer, which made him feel a little cold.
He also learned that Ye Kai had picked up a piece of beef and washed it into the pot, and asked, "Ye Kai, have you written a book recently?"
"Writing a book? No. I will know what you are thinking when you see here. Don't worry, I will consider you when there is a new book. Don't worry, eat more."
While speaking, Ye Kai put all the dishes that needed to be cooked for a long time into the hot pot.
"Is the food a little less?" Ye Kai said, then shouted, "Waiter, add food."
Ye Kai's understatement of changing the topic made Zhou Kevin even more nervous. He didn't write it? It was absolutely impossible! Don't think about it, just sign the contract. He raised his wine glass and persuaded him:
"Come on, drink and drink..."
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What made diners feel hot in the hot pot restaurant was not only the chili in the pot, but also the loud laughter of diners around them, and the sound of friends playing in the distance. The hot atmosphere drove away the cold air in the store and took off the coat without realizing it.
Many people have dinner together to chat and contact each other, but those who are familiar with Ye Kai know that Ye Kai never likes to talk when eating hot pot, and eats vegetables when eating.
Many times when the dinner is over, he eats the most dishes on one table.
It felt particularly obvious when eating skewers. The bamboo sticks in front of him were always twice as good as others.
Seeing Ye Kai eating sweetly, Zhou Kaiwen couldn't help but persuade Ye Kai to drink some wine. And it was boring to sit alone, so he started eating with Ye Kai.
Zhou Kevin took a bite of the tripe, his eyes lit up and said, "This tripe is delicious."
"Taitta is a must-order dish for our hot pot here." Ye Kai also picked up a piece of tripe from a plate full of ice and put it in the highest temperature in the pot to start hot.
This shop has always been torn tripe with hand, and the edges are not as even as those cut by a knife. After soaking in ice water, the originally soft taste becomes more crisp and tough, prompting diners to chew on them.
The irregular concave and convex structure on the tripe can absorb a large amount of soup, injecting a strong sense of pleasure into the entire chewing process.
Seeing that Ye Kai also had tripe, Zhou Kevin said: "You have to come to Sichuan Province or Shancheng when you eat hot pot. You can't eat this taste in other places."
Ye Kai felt the long fragrance of the tripe spreading in his mouth. Hearing this, he couldn't help but pick up the cup and said, "Then you have to come to Sichuan Province from now on, there are many delicious foods here."
Zhou Kevin also temporarily forgot the purpose of coming here, and laughed and told Ye Kai about the recent interesting things.
Spicy is a very unique taste. To be precise, spicy taste is not a taste, but a pain. It can produce a burning sensation when we are exposed to temperatures above 43 degrees.
A slight pain can stimulate the brain to produce a pleasant chemical element, making people unable to help but forget their worries. So whether it is Sichuan Province or Shancheng, the hot pot favorite thing for office workers when having dinner together.
A hot pot meal can make you forget all the unhappy things you have today. If it cannot be solved, then put a bottle of cold beer in the hot pot. After eating, go home and have a good rest for a night.
The next day, I was able to go to work with a lot of energy.
Hotpot has been born less than three hundred years ago. In the boiling and mellow fragrance, people have spent more than 80 years turning the original local snack into a local flavor.
In this flavor, there is the spicy food that cannot be stopped and people's enthusiasm for life.
When people feel tired and sleepy, a table of hot pot is the best comfort for people.
A bottle of beer was quickly finished, and the two had to ask the boss to take more, and then return the food after finishing the food that had not been opened. It took two hours to finish the hot pot. Ye Kai was already staring at his eyes and his face was flushed.
Even a beautiful woman who was holding the table was crazy about taking a cell phone to take pictures of Ye Kai, he didn't see it at all.
When Zhou Kevin thought of the publishing house's dilemma, he couldn't help but complain to Ye Kai: "It's over, most authors have finished it, and now we can only set you up and attract new authors."
Since Ye Kai put on the Internet novel industry, Ruipu Culture cannot sign any books on Qishi Novel Network now.
Zhou Kevin sighed: "Only by leaving you in our publishing house can we have a way out. Once you change jobs, I, as the editor-in-chief, can no longer do it."
"So serious?"
Ye Kai was not going to write a book elsewhere. He really hadn't written it yet, but he didn't know the seriousness of the matter. Is he so important? Why is he feeling a little happy?
"Well... it's very serious. Why don't you sign a contract with us for the next book first? Then you can just send the book and tell me directly." After Zhou Kewen said that, he found the contract from his bag.
But there are either vegetable bowls or oil stains on the table, and there is no place to place the contract.
Ye Kai stood up and said, "Then let's have a cup of tea next to you and sign your contract by the way."
Rip gave him a good impression. Every time he got the time, he would transfer the money. This time, the 10 million yuan gave Ye Kai a big surprise and settled his home in Rongcheng.
So in order to make them feel at ease, I should sign it directly.
The hot pot restaurant is filled with smoke, and even during the day, you must light the light, otherwise it will appear a little dim. The more you go downstairs, the more light it becomes, making the drunken people suddenly realize.
Oh, it turns out that it is still during the day.
There were so many pedestrians on the street. When the cold wind blew, Ye Kai shivered all over and quickly put on the coat he held in his hand.
I found a teahouse next to me and found a place by the window.
After Ye Kai gets drunk and lying down, it is the best time to speak. It is very likely that his thinking will become more active, at least Ye Kai will never be able to write songs like Galway Girl when he is awake.
"Two cups of Longjing." Ye Kai said to his master.
Seeing Ye Kai finished speaking, Zhou Kai quickly took out the contract and handed it to Ye Kai, saying, "Ye Kai, look at this contract first. Our sincerity is very high. Now few authors have such high royalties."
After hearing what Zhou Kevin said, Ye Kai directly found the part that introduced Ye Kai's income.
"Eighteen percent royalty?" Ye Kai looked up at Zhou Kevin and said with a smile, "It has increased by 6 percent directly. You are really brave."
"Isn't this afraid that you will look down on me if you are inferior? In addition to travel notes, both books have hope to compete for the best bestseller at the end of the year. We in China have not published a writer like you for a long time."
Ye Kai looked at the contract and smiled and said, "Where am I a writer?"
He had no actual feeling about this profession, and he wrote these two works as soon as he was in a hot mind. If the works of writers are a way to express their feelings.
Ye Kai admitted that he could not be considered an author.
He was just a businessman, and he wrote the two books, Xianjian and Langya Bang, for money, and to be adapted into film and television works to make money.
Chapter completed!