Li, the manager of ouchi, is in a hurry He called all the chefs in the royal chef overnight, trying to arouse the appetite of the Queen Mother Lafayette. Otherwise, they will be beheaded.
The chefs worked in groups of three and five, while studying the recipes, until noon the next day, and finally made more than 30 new dishes with all colors and flavors. But after Li tasted them one by one, there were only three dishes left.
The first one is "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix" made by Zhao Donghai, the head chef of the Imperial Chef. However, these birds and phoenixes are not the quail and black-bone chicken Whitestorm that are usually used, but are carved with sand radish that is one in a hundred, which is instant in the mouth and memorable, and can also relieve flatulence.
The second course is the "delicious beggar chicken" newly developed by Liu Xiangfu, the king of Sichuan cuisine.
The last one is Guo Jinsheng's best "Buddha jumps over the wall", but he is proficient in pharmacology and quietly revised the usual formula, adding several rare Chinese medicines to help digest flatulence.
Who knows that Empress Dowager Cixi only took a look at Zhao Donghai's "Birds at the Phoenix" and let the maids take it away; I smelled Liu Xiangfu's "delicious beggar chicken" again and frowned and said, "It's so spicy, I want to miss my family!"
Li hurriedly let people go down and finally opened the "Buddha jumping wall" made by Guo Jinsheng with trepidation. Unexpectedly, Cixi lowered her face and said, "This is not a dish! The medicine is so strong that it is better to mourn your family than to preach too much! "
Frightened, Li knelt on the ground and apologized again and again: "Damn slave! I went to the chef and asked them to cook some dishes with Galeries Lafayette taste ... "
Li hurried back to the chef and was about to be furious with the chefs, but he saw a young chef holding a purple casserole to meet him: "Manager Li, you came at the right time, and the little one has just been made. Please send it to the Empress Dowager Lafayette while it is hot! "
When Li saw that the other person was just a little cook who was wet behind the ears, he couldn't help but say angrily, "Get out of my house! The dishes cooked by the three famous chefs have never been tasted by Galeries Lafayette and Empress Dowager. What kind of onion are you? "
Not wanting the chef to roll aside, he said, "Chief Manager, I dare to use my head to guarantee that I can cure the anorexia of the Queen Mother Lafayette, and I still have to rely on this little dish!"
All the chefs present showed disdain. Li said with a grain of salt, "Your boy has uncovered the lid, so let's take a look. What's delicious in your casserole? "
The little chef quickly shook his head and said, "Manager Li, this lid must not be lifted! As soon as I lifted it, the food inside ran away, and I couldn't lift the appetite of the Queen Mother Lafayette! I'd better ask the chief steward to take the younger one to get the rice and lift the lid in front of the Queen Mother Lafayette! "
Li thought for a moment and said, "Good boy, if you are really sure, then take your Lai with us to see the Queen Mother Galeries Lafayette. She is very angry now. If you don't eat your food, your head will be moved! "
The chef stood tall and said, "I'm not afraid of small ones, but I'm sure!" " "Purple casserole in hand, I followed Li to see Cixi.
Behind him, a bunch of chefs sighed and said, this boy is in a hurry to get ahead!
The two men came before Cixi.
Cixi looked up lazily and said, "Little Plum, lift the lid and let the mourners see!"
Li quickly lifted the lid of the purple casserole, only to see it steaming up, with a thick smell of food, but he couldn't see what was inside.
Empress Dowager Cixi smelled the smell of food and immediately refreshed herself. "Little Plum, this dish smells good!" Fill a bowl and let Ai Jia taste it! "One side of the ladies-in-waiting tweety and li handed the food over, quickly picked up a jade spoon to hold the food, but when he saw the cabbage and chopped green onion in the bowl, his face went white. You said that the Empress Dowager Lafayette eats delicacies every day. How can she swallow this cabbage soup that ordinary people are not rare?
At this time, the Queen Mother Lafayette urged again: "Little Plum, can you hurry up?"
Li mercilessly swept the young chef kneeling on the side, crustily skin of head handed half a bowl of cabbage soup to the maid-in-waiting tweety around Cixi. Tweety took it and paused until Li gave a wink. She picked up a silver spoon and filled it with half a spoonful of Chinese cabbage and chopped green onion soup, and sent it to the mouth of Empress Dowager Cixi, who was squinting.
I saw the Queen Mother Galeries Lafayette gently open her lips and even ate soup and vegetables in her mouth. She chewed it a few times and swallowed it. Suddenly, she opened her eyes and said loudly, "It's delicious! Xiao Lizi, what's the name of this dish again? "
Li Ziran can't answer. He wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said, "Since it tastes good, Lafayette, please eat more, and then listen to the slave slowly."
Cixi hasn't eaten for several days. The food she ate was delicious at first, and she didn't want to say anything more. Less than a cup of tea, she ate cabbage soup in a purple casserole. Then he smacked his lips and said, "Ai Jia has never eaten such delicious food. I said, Xiao Lizi, can you name the dishes now? "
Li smiled and pointed to the young chef kneeling beside him and said, "Galeries Lafayette, you'd better ask this boy. Just now, he said that he dared to assure Galeries Lafayette that you must love this dish he cooked ... "
Cixi looked at the little chef kneeling in front of her and said with a smile, "What courage! What's your name again? How is this dish cooked? "
"Back to the Queen Mother Galeries Lafayette, the little guy named Bao Ping is from Huizhou. This dish is called "boiled cabbage" or "filial piety dish" That is, cut the good cabbage into small pieces, put it in boiling water, pick it up quickly, then soak it in mild chicken soup for 8 hours, so that they can fully absorb the nutrition and fragrance of chicken soup, then rinse off the greasy food in boiling water, pour it into a purple casserole, and simmer with water.
Empress Dowager Cixi became interested and said with a smile, "What a beautiful name! Then why do you call this dish' filial piety'? "
Bao Pingan said with a smile: "Three years ago in winter, my grandmother suffered from anorexia. Father invited dozens of famous chefs to cook for her, but grandma still had no appetite. Later, I turned over hundreds of cookbooks, and finally found in an ancient cookbook that eating Chinese cabbage in winter can not only relieve fever and annoyance, dredge the stomach, nourish the stomach and promote fluid production, but also protect skin and beauty. Just to recuperate my grandmother's anorexia! I thought hard and finally realized the cooking method I just said ... "
Cixi couldn't help laughing and said, "It's a veritable' filial piety dish'! Xiao Lizi, in the future, you can ask this Bao Ping to cook this dish specially for Ai Jia! "
In less than half a month, Empress Dowager Cixi's anorexia was cured.
Cixi decided to reward Bao Pingan and asked him what he wanted. Bao Ping asked the Queen Mother Galeries Lafayette to give him a woman.
Cixi smiled "hee hee" and said, "As long as you don't care about the concubines in the harem, it's as you wish to be in mourning for your family!"
Bao Pingan quickly kowtowed and thanked him, then pointed to Tweety, the maid-in-waiting beside the Queen Mother, and said, "I want this Tweety girl!"
Empress Dowager Cixi was greatly surprised.
"You are not a chef, you don't want treasure, and you don't want a princess. Why do you like Tweety girls around Ai Jia? "
Bao Pingan looked at Tweety, the maid-in-waiting, and choked: "Empress Dowager, Galeries Lafayette, I went all out to see Tweety, my sweetheart. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't risk my life to persuade Manager Li to give you that boiled cabbage that day ... "
Cixi couldn't help interrupting: "So, you two have been together for a long time?"
Bao Pingan nodded, "I dare not hide it from the Queen Mother Galeries Lafayette. Tweety and I are from the same town, but I am a descendant of Bao Zhidao, a big salt merchant, and Tweety comes from a poor peasant family. We have had a crush on each other for many years since we were children. However, my father insisted on hitting Yuanyang, but he could not bully me in every way. Finally, he bribed the court to let the father-in-law of the draft take Tweety into the palace to be a maid of honor. I ran away from home in a fit of pique, came to Beijing, and tried my best to enter the chef ... "
Hearing this, the maid-in-waiting Tweety couldn't help sobbing. Empress Dowager Cixi looked at Tweety, then at Bao Ping 'an and sighed lightly. "What is love in the world?" ? I'm dying! Bao Ping 'an, love your family and keep your word. I'll give it to Tweety now! However, if we take Tweety back to her hometown, who will be asked to cook that "filial piety dish" when she loses her family? "
Bao Ping-an and Tweety were red-eyed when they saw that Cixi was going to go back on her word. Unexpectedly, Cixi clapped her hands and laughed and said, "Well, Ai Jia will open a restaurant for you in Beijing, and you two will stay in Beijing, so that Ai Jia can eat boiled cabbage at any time ..."
Bao Pingan and Tweety got married and opened a restaurant in Beijing. On the opening day of the restaurant, Empress Dowager Cixi also asked Li to send her autographed "the first dish in the world".