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Why is scrambled egg with cucumber called "Mushu melon slices"?
Eggs are called moo shu, but chickens aren't called moo!

Read the origin of Mushu and you'll know why!

Mushu. A mistake for mignonette!

Walking around the country. Inside and outside the Great Wall. Everywhere you look, you can see the dish "Mushu Pork". Many years is also this dish y tormented me. Because I love to taste the local famous dishes. Local specialties. And afraid of snakes, ants, insects and frogs, and even more afraid of live monkeys, human brains, placenta, eagles and birds and so on. I wonder what this dish, if it is a tree or vine or fungus and so on, if it is something face and tail or even more unpleasant things, then even eat and do not eat, so no longer have the courage to find out, but the natural stubbornness, refused to let go of this matter, so that the night can not sleep, food is not good, and the day to see the emaciation ... ... Also in the next life should not be killed, suddenly one day met a food master, listen to the reason, can not help but look up to the sky and laugh: the harm of the gentleman. The wrong word also! Wooden beard. Mushu is also a mistake! It is a reference to the egg. Yolk white mixture, color like osmanthus, osmanthus, also known as mignonette, mignonette brush strokes thick, shopkeepers write it is not, for a long time, no one knows what it is all about.

Mignonette, also known as wood rhinoceros, that is, cinnamon, belonging to the family of mignonette evergreen shrubs, silver laurel, four seasons laurel, etc., open dark yellow flowers, extremely fragrant. Churned scrambled eggs called mignonette, is because of the two colors, shapes similar. In the past, the old Beijing etiquette is more sophisticated people avoid speaking chicken ah egg ah these easy to cause indecent associations of the word, so in the restaurant where the scrambled eggs as a supplement to the dishes are called muxuxi ~. In addition to mignonette meat, there are also mignonette fried rice, mignonette cucumber, mignonette peas and so on. Now, not so elaborate, in addition to the mignonette meat as a complete dish name to stay the other straight call eggs on it

Simply put, Mushu in fact is the mignonette of the pen error, churned scrambled eggs called mignonette, is because of the two color, shape similar.

Musu melon slices of the production of materials:

Main ingredients: 150 grams of eggs, 100 grams of cucumber, fungus (water), 50 grams

Supplementary ingredients: cauliflower (dry) 50 grams,

Seasoning: 3 grams of salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), 5 grams of green onion, ginger 2 grams of vegetable oil 35 grams

Musu melon slices of the practice:

1. Huanghua (yellow cauliflower), black fungus with warm water to soak soft;

2. eggs into a bowl, stirred;

3. onion, ginger cleaned and chopped into mince;

4. cucumber cleaned, diagonal knife into thin slices;

5. yellow flowers cut into pieces;

6. frying pan with oil to heat up, put the egg sauce into the egg to stir-fry into the egg to pour out;

7. the original pan Add oil and heat, put green onion, ginger fried a few times, then put melon slices, yellow flowers, black fungus, monosodium glutamate, stir-fry through, add the egg stir-fry a few times can be out of the pot.