Chapter 8: Shrimp Xiaolongbao
Ruan Tang didn't know what happened last night. He slept for a long time, and when he opened his eyes, his stomach growled. He rubbed his stomach, and couldn't help but miss the colorful takeaway breakfast in his previous life. At this time, if he could order a takeaway and then take a leisurely sleep, that would be the bliss in the world.
"—No, I want to get up and start the live broadcast."
Ruan Tang muttered in a low voice, hugged the quilt and rolled around on the bed twice before slowly sitting up.
He skillfully turned on the optical brain, entered the shopping mall and flipped through the ingredients page. Ever since he knew that the Academy of Sciences would launch new safe ingredients from time to time, he had developed this habit, for fear of missing something good.
It has only been a few days since the Academy of Sciences launched potatoes. He thought that there would be no new ingredients in the near future, but he caught a glimpse of cyan on the interface that was quickly swiped.
"!!!" Ruan Tang's eyes widened suddenly, and he pulled the interface back up, showing a surprised smile.
It's shrimp!
Shrimp is one of Ruan Tang's favorite ingredients. Whether it is fried, steamed, souped, or stir-fried, it has a unique flavor. The taste of shrimp is difficult to cover up, no matter what method is used, it is difficult to cover up its own deliciousness. It is a god-level ingredient that is delicious no matter how you eat it.
After seeing the fresh and big live shrimps, Ruan Tang immediately imagined hundreds of shrimp recipes—braised prawns in oil, braised prawns in soy sauce, spicy shrimp, salt and pepper shrimp, and fish-flavored shrimp. Shrimp, drunken shrimp, golden anchovy shrimp, fresh shrimp stuffed with cucumber, calendula pineapple shrimp, fresh shrimp cola balls, American grilled shrimp skewers...
Just thinking about it, he couldn't help but salivate. But he quickly calmed down again. His current body can't eat too greasy and heavy-tasting food, and it's still breakfast time, so it's best to eat something light.
Ruan Tang hesitated for a while before deciding to make fresh shrimp dumplings this morning.
Xiaolongbao is a traditional snack in his hometown. It is a small one. Once you bite it, the full and fragrant juice will explode in your mouth. It is served with a small dish of vinegar and chili, and a small bowl of soup next to it. It's like a fairy.
But if you want to make Xiaolongbao, you must have a steamer. He definitely doesn't have such a thing at home, so he went directly to the kitchenware page of the shopping mall to search. If there is no steamer, I am afraid I cannot make Xiaolongbao today.
Fortunately, in the shopping mall, the kitchen utensils needed for cooking are quite complete. Most of them were restored by the Academy of Sciences based on the records of some ancient books. However, they have not been able to study the specific usage of many kitchen utensils, so the prices are very low. The product introduction also only says "restore kitchen utensils, the function is unknown".
Ruan Tang browsed the kitchen utensils section, but because of the limited balance, he could only buy a steamer, rolling pin and blender first.
In addition, he also bought pork leg, pork skin, fresh prawns and some other ingredients, as well as more fresh-keeping boxes, which were also delivered to the door by interstellar express.
While waiting for things to arrive, Ruan Tang lay on the sofa in the living room, took a sip of the milk warmed by the smart butler in his hand, and watched the smart butler Xiaobai diligently clean the room. I really felt that such a life It's just perfect.
It's not wrong that he is good at cooking, but he only likes to cook, and he can't avoid cleaning up and cleaning up afterward, such as washing dishes and cleaning tables. In the past, every time he finished cooking, he felt uncomfortable looking at the messy kitchen utensils on the table. It was not easy to find a cleaning aunt who he liked and could last a long time. Fortunately, now that he has Xiaobai, he no longer has to worry about it. These problems are gone.
After he finishes cooking, Xiaobai will clean up the kitchen and put everything in order. They are the best partners.
Ten minutes later, the courier arrived. Xiaobai moved the kitchen utensils in, arranged them according to Ruan Tang's request, and moved the ingredients into the kitchen, waiting for Ruan Tang to use them.
Everything was ready, Ruan Tang patted Xiaobai's shoulder with a smile: "Thanks for your hard work, Xiaobai." Then the live broadcast started.
Before he started his routine self-introduction, the live broadcast room was instantly overwhelmed by all kinds of special effects of fireworks and crystal flowers. The prompts on the home page followed one after another, and small crystals fell down with a crackling sound. Ruan Tang almost thought that he was Is it on someone else's anchor account?
There are also dense bullet screens, all overlapping, and it is almost impossible to recognize the words.
Ruan Tang subconsciously glanced at the number of people online, and found that it had reached as many as 160,000.
What the hell is going on here?
Ruan Tang was a little confused, and confirmed the name of the live broadcast room. It was indeed his live broadcast room... Then where did the sudden explosion of popularity come from? Did something happen last night that he didn't know about?
Seeing that the number of bullet screens was still increasing rapidly, almost flooding the live broadcast room, Ruan Tang quickly changed the speaking interval to 20 seconds, and raised the speaking authority to level 2, and the situation was finally eased. The number of people who spoke was still overwhelming, but everyone felt that he was at a loss, and calmed down their emotions very intimately, and stopped swiping the screen so frantically.
Ruan Tang breathed a sigh of relief, anyway, he was also a food blogger with millions of fans in his previous life, so after a moment of surprise, he soon regained his professionalism. Although the audience couldn't see his face, he still showed a smile: "Good morning, I'm the anchor Ruan Tang, thank you so many friends for their support and love for me, what I want to bring to you today is Fresh Shrimp Long Bao, I hope everyone likes it."
[Changge laughs: Shrimp? What is this?]
[Mixia: Shrimp is an ingredient that the Academy of Sciences just announced this morning. It's been less than two hours. The anchor will make it so soon?]
[Miao Miao loves to eat fish: I don’t know why, but as soon as the anchor said his name, I already started drooling!]
[Baomu can't hold it: Anyway, the anchor's cooking must be the best! Today I have to kneel and beg the host to open a store!]
"First of all, we need to use pig skin to make some pig skin jelly." Ruan Tang first boiled a pot of hot water, washed the fresh pig skin repeatedly with clean water, and put it in a pot of boiling water to cook for a few minutes .
After taking it out, use a kitchen knife to scrape off the excess fat and pig hair and impurities on the surface.
But this time it wasn't too bad, someone actually started to scold in the barrage.
[Old Jack: The rookie anchor just can’t do it. He’s been thinking about sensationalism all day long. He dared to make the shrimp that was just announced. It’s only been announced for two hours. How could he make it? I'm afraid it's not thrown into the pot, just take it out for people to eat after it's cooked!]
[Mie Ba: That's right, I don't know if there will be any problems! And this pigskin, is it disgusting? Eat a mouthful of hair, vomit!]
Ruan Tang has received bad reviews for the first time since the start of the broadcast. Although he is a little depressed, he is in a good mood. He even thinks that the angry looks of these people are so silly that people are pitiful: "Shrimp and pig skin have been tested by the Academy of Sciences for a long time. The safe ingredients were only announced next time, and I remember that the pig skin was also made by star chefs, so you don’t have to worry about eating it and it will damage your body."
[Xiaoqiu: If you don’t want to eat it, just watch other people’s live broadcasts. I believe the anchor’s ability to turn decay into magic. It must be delicious! ]
"Xiaoqiu" is Qiu Lin's vest. After she tasted fish porridge and potato beef brisket noodles, she has completely become Ruan Tang's brainless fan, and she firmly changed to "handle the ingredients to the best taste." The state of the world is the greatest love and justice", such a strange camp.
[Xiao Qingming: That's right, just leave if you don't want to eat, no one is forcing you to eat! You have the ability to question the anchor, do you have the ability to question the Academy of Sciences?]
Many viewers are complaining about Ruan Tang. Most of them have watched Ruan Tang's recording and broadcasting. When he was cooking fish before, he experienced the process of doubting life and worshiping him. They all have inexplicable confidence in Ruan Tang. Besides, the anchor hasn't even started to cook, these people jumped out and questioned, what's wrong?
Ruan Tang smiled slightly and continued to focus on the movements of his hands. Facts speak louder than words. After the fresh shrimp dumplings are out of the pan, there is no need for him to explain.
He cut the pigskin into thin strips very neatly, then put it into the pot again, added ginger and water, boiled it at high temperature and then simmered it slowly at low temperature.
"Now let's knead the dough." The kneading process is no stranger to those old audiences. After the flour is mixed with warm water, after repeated kneading, it finally becomes a smooth and non-sticky dough.
While putting the dough in the fresh-keeping box to rest, Ruan Tang started to make the filling.
After he washed the pork leg with clean water, he used a kitchen knife to slowly cut it into strips, then cut it into cubes, and finally repeatedly chopped it into minced meat with a knife. A small ball of tender red minced meat was gathered into a bulging round cake, just looking at the shape, it was a bit like a small piece of moss that came out after the rain.
[Xiao Jiangsi: Although it's just a lump of minced meat, what should I do if I want to drool!]
"Next, let's make onion-ginger juice to remove the fishy smell." Ruan Tang chopped ginger and shallots and put them in a blender, filtered out impurities, and a bowl of light green onion-ginger juice was filtered out.
In fact, cooking wine is the best way to deodorize meat. Unfortunately, cooking wine has not been produced by the Academy of Sciences, so he can only use onion and ginger juice instead.
The green onion and ginger juice is served in a white porcelain bowl, which looks very attractive. Some people can't help but try it out of curiosity, and then...
[Meow loves fish: ahhhhh! So spicy! My tongue is on fire!]
[Baomu can't hold it: This green water tastes terrible! My tongue ah ah ah ah!]
Seeing these two living treasures again, Ruan Tang couldn't help laughing out loud: "I said it's a seasoning for removing fishy smell, why do you want to drink it?"
[Bronze: Because it looks so good, I thought it was about the legendary fragrant tea... I wanted to take a sip just now, but fortunately I didn't have time. (╯□╰).]
Ruan Tang chuckled, shook his head helplessly, then added sugar, soy sauce and salt to the minced meat, and then gradually added the onion and ginger juice into it while stirring.
"Pay attention, everyone, stir in the same direction until the seasoning and minced meat are completely blended together."
When the filling is finished and the skin of the meat is almost cooked, Ruan Tang uses the skin to cook the soup pour it into a fresh-keeping box, let it cool down a little, and then put it in the freezer.
"Wait for half an hour, the pork skin jelly will be almost ready. During this time, we can make the skin of the steamed bun." Ruan Tang made full use of all the time, and no one would appear. Keep the audience waiting lest they get bored.
He took out the dough that had been resting for a while, and kneaded it on the chopping board with both hands into long strips of uniform thickness. Fat little section.
[Moshang who is on the night shift every day: Hey, didn't you want to make ramen?]
Ruan Tang sprinkled some dry flour on the small dough, and kneaded it lightly with the palm of your hand a few times, so that the flour evenly adhered to the surface of the dough.
He pressed the prepared small noodles onto the table, pressed his palms on it, and lowered his voice on purpose: "Below, this is the moment to witness the miracle."
He stretched out his right hand to take the rolling pin, and then pinched the dough with his fingers At the edge, the three fingers were constantly twisting to make the dough roll up, while pressing the rolling pin with the right hand to roll it back and forth, but after a while, a thin and round dough appeared in front of everyone.
[Meow loves to eat fish: Oh my God! how did you do that?]
[Baomu can't hold it: I feel like I just blinked, why did the dough change?]
[Have a cold drink in the middle of the night: Σ(° △°)]
[Qibao: I beg the anchor to slow down!]
"This step is called rolling the dough. The trick is to apply force to the side when rolling, so that the dough can turn. If you are interested, you can try it yourself at home." Ruan Tang kept moving, quickly turning the small dough All of them were rolled into thin skins, leaving the screen full of admiration.
"Now, we can deal with the prawns."
As soon as the prawns were mentioned, Ruan Tang was full of motivation. He first took out a pot full of live prawns, and the green prawns lay curled up in it, slowly The long beard on the head is swaying. Ruan Tang put the shrimp pot under the faucet, began to wash it with water, and then picked out the most lively one from it, and cut it with the scissors in his right hand, and the staring head of the shrimp fell into the trash bucket.
Such behavior, which can be called the first publicity show, obviously caused discomfort to some viewers. Those who watched his recording knew that the anchor must have his own ideas, but everyone else questioned him one after another.
Ruan Tang didn't care at first, so he just continued to deal with it, cut off the shrimp head and started to pick the shrimp thread again. But in such a short period of time, the comment area in the live broadcast room became uncontrollable.
[ID3838438: What kind of anchor is this? Cooking a meal is so bloody, and the platform doesn't care?]
[Once and for all: That's right, I cut my belly open when I was fishing, it's disgusting to death! To me, this kind of live broadcast room that promotes bloody violence should be banned directly! What's wrong with letting children watch it, and in the future they will all become this kind of pervert who likes to kill?]
[Old Jack: Hehe, look, he cut off the head of the shrimp, peeled off the shell, cut off the back of the shrimp, and pulled out a piece of intestine or something. This is really a typical peeling cramp, so I asked One question, are these shrimps digging the anchor's ancestral grave? Now I suspect that this anchor has a tendency to violence, and I suggest that the live broadcast platform immediately shut down such "food" live broadcasts!]
There are more and more comments like this, and even many viewers who were still on the sidelines were persuaded to Ruan Tang not to be so cruel and bloody, to pay attention to social ethics, and not to spoil children... Even though Ruan Tang's temper has always been soft, he can't help but feel a little depressed.
Such a unanimous accusation is really abnormal, and it made him faintly glimpse the shadows of those sailors and professional sunspots on Weibo in his previous life.
His mind is still calm and he can restrain his emotions, but those few viewers who have followed his live broadcast from the beginning are about to be blown away by his popularity.
[Bao Mu can't hold it : what's going on with you people. I'm going crazy! Don't eat meat if you think it's cruel! If you want to eat meat but say it is cruel to handle it, why don’t you do it yourself!]
[Miao Miao loves to eat fish: Wasn't it more scary when he was cooking fish before than now? Everyone, don't wait for the brothers to move, trust the anchor!]
[Jiuyue: If you don't want to eat, just leave? No one begged you to stay!]
However, their explanations did not have any effect. Instead, they were hung up by everyone as a typical example, followed by more than a dozen abuses per second.
[Smooth sailing: Look, look, the case of being brainwashed has come out, so you don't feel cruel, that's because you have become a pervert!]
[ID741492: Stop washing the floor, go back and kneel and lick your master, huh? A group of sadists?]
Let those old viewers who want to explain to Ruan Tang say anything, they will always be scolded by these people as laundering the host, and they will be given a "pervert" hat by the way. After all, there were only a few of them, so they were powerless to fight back against so many people, and they were so angry that they were about to shed tears.
"Enough!"
Seeing the wronged fans who have always supported him, Ruan Tang couldn't suppress his anger even if he had a good temper.
He tried to suppress his anger and explained: "The inside of the shrimp head is the internal organs of the shrimp, and the intestines of the shrimp are drawn out from the back. These two parts are easy to breed bacteria and impurities, so they must be disposed of."
"You can ask me if you don't understand, or you can scold me, don't insult innocent audiences casually!"
But everyone obviously didn't believe his explanation at all, and those IDs who took the lead in provoking troubles at the beginning began to swipe frantically again screen.
[Old Jack: You said yes? Is there accreditation by the Association of Chefs and the Academy of Sciences? If you talk nonsense like this, if someone believes you and something happens to you, can you be responsible! I think you just want to hurt someone on purpose!]
[Smooth sailing: Why is there breeding of bacteria? The anchor thought of many good excuses to kill animals!]
[Once and for all: I think this anchor is a sadist! murderer! Not sure what to do next! I don't know where the pheasant anchor came from. The food is not very good, but the marketing is very smooth. Now that the shrimp is being slaughtered, will it be necessary to dissect people in the future, saying that it will be delicious? Spicy chicken anchor, get rolling! ]
[ID741492: Garbage anchor, get out!]
I don’t know what happened, but the bullet screen in the live broadcast room suddenly posted the same words at the same time, and they all clamored for Ruan Tang to get out. These barrages are irrational and logical, and are completely unilateral insults. But even so, many people were incited by the emotions of this group, and they clamored to let him get out of the live broadcast circle and be sentenced to 80 years in prison.
Ruan Tang was trembling with anger, so many people pointed at his nose and scolded him, no matter how eloquent he was, it would be difficult for him to refute with so many mouths.
"You..."
He couldn't help clenching his teeth.
At this moment, a little starlight suddenly lit up above the live broadcast room, and then the entire live broadcast room turned into a bright starry sky, with extremely bright meteors piercing the sky, fiercely overshadowing those violent The barrage of anger.
One of them fell lightly in Ruan Tang's palm and turned into a bright little star.
A platform-wide announcement was immediately refreshed above the live broadcast room.
"User "He" gave the anchor a meteor shower."
[He: Utter nonsense. ]