Eating spicy food in a foreign land
I used to love everything except spicy food. Since I went to the United States, I have no problem with peppers and pickled peppers in the morning, but they are all practiced.
When I first arrived in a foreign country, because of the fatigue of the journey, I always had a big appetite and nothing tasted. My mother saw it in her eyes and was anxious about it. She decided to stimulate my taste buds with a spicy and strong taste. So all my dinners are not spicy, such as fish with Chinese sauerkraut, mapo tofu and fish-flavored shredded pork … but my favorite is my mother's own spicy diced chicken. Friends who love spicy food, please prepare some paper towels to avoid drooling after listening to my story.
Whenever I know that there are spicy diced chicken for dinner, I always set the dishes and chopsticks early, and then watch my mother cook her specialty in the kitchen. Mother cut the best chicken breast into 1 cm square diced chicken, sprinkled some green chopped green onion and yellow Jiang Mo, poured three or two spoonfuls of cooking wine and soy sauce, then quickly grabbed a few pieces by hand and marinated them for a while. Mom said this is to let the flavor of seasoning penetrate into the fiber of chicken, and at the same time, it can make the meat tender and elastic. After a while, the diced chicken, full of juice, is much bigger, all pink and shiny.
If my vision tempted me just now, then hope will be a big test of my sense of smell. A fragrant and spicy smell went straight into my nostrils. I can't help looking at the fragrance. Ah, my mother is cooking spicy oil. Spicy oil is bubbling in the pot. The next final step is to pour the pickled diced chicken into the spicy oil. This is the crowning touch of the whole dish! Psst! The tender chicken turned milky white in a blink of an eye and rolled up and down in spicy oil. Ah, this dish is finally ready. I quickly sat down at the table, picked up chopsticks and prepared to pounce on diced chicken.
It seems that it took my mother half a century to serve steaming spicy diced chicken. Milky white diced chicken, bright red spicy oil, with two or three green parsley, several colors set each other off and look good. I couldn't wait to put a piece of diced chicken in my mouth, close my eyes and have a delicious bite-first it was spicy, and suddenly it seemed to explode on the tip of my tongue, then it was sweet, fresh, hemp and fresh, dancing on my taste buds. That dance was really hot, exciting, exciting and enjoyable!
Eating mom's cooking is really "hard"! At first sight, then smell, then taste, all kinds of senses are busy. ...