Chapter 9 (1/2)

Chapter 8 – Four Part Ingredient, Four Part Culinary Skill

After pouring the last few drops of honey onto the sorghum rice, Gu Zheng let out a heavy sigh.

The sorghum rice was already cooked. Sorghum rice was cla.s.sified as a coa.r.s.e grain, eating it plain just after it was steamed left it with a so-so texture. However, adding the honey could improve the texture, as well as it's fragrance, making this rice even more delicious.

”What are you guys doing?”

He had just opened the kitchen's sliding door when Gu Zheng saw the three other standing behind it. They all had a suspicious appearance.

”Is it done? Gu Zheng, if it isn't ready yet, if we don't die from hunger, we'll die from anger!”

Du Yang eagerly spoke. The other two nodded their heads in agreement. They weren't willing to go outside. If they remained they would be forced to continue to smell the fragrance of Gu Zheng's cooking. It was an unbearable torture for them.

”It's already done, you guys should go seat yourself at the dining table. I'll serve you!”

Gu Zheng gently nodded his head. When the three heard that they immediately rushed to the table. They rushed so quickly Gu Zheng couldn't believe his eyes, they had never before acted like this.

”Wash your hands, then we'll eat!”

While carrying out the silkie soup, Gu Zheng spoke another sentence. The three simultaneously raised their hands. Impatiently, w.a.n.g Tao spoke: ”While you were cooking we already washed our hands three times. We already knew about your rules, we were just waiting to eat!”

Gu Zheng indeed have a lot of rules. When he was cooking, others couldn't enter the kitchen, he didn't let them help. Before eating, they had to wash their hands thoroughly, and while eating, they couldn't talk too loudly.

There were a lot of rules, however since the food was delicious, they were still extremely eager to eat his foods.

”Wait, give me a moment!”

After confirming the three of them's hands were clean, he no longer bothered with the matter. He brought each dish out one by one. Gu Zheng's tableware was Jingdezhen prefecture porcelain. It was specially requested tableware, how it was made, Gu Zheng didn't know. However, most of these utensils were exported from foreign countries that were used in numerous foreign famous hotels.

Gu Zheng's set was ordered by his father.

Three dishes, one soup. Each person had one small bowl. Each bowl contained some of the slightly golden sorghum rice. It exuded a slight sweet scent and ignited their appet.i.tes.

”How fragrant!”

The silkie soup's cover was opened first. The three all breathed in with their nose. The soup was the one completed the earliest. After stewing for two hours, both the silkie and the wild ginseng's nutrition had been thoroughly integrated into the soup. Prior to this, the lid was covered. Since it was now open, the acc.u.mulation of its fragrance instantly spilled out, and attracted the three's admiration.

”So beautiful!”

Next, he opened the stir-fried wild lotus. After he finished frying the wild lotus, he arranged them in a shape of a heart and placed two green leaves within it. It was as if the green heart was being held. Around the wild lotus, several mushrooms were spa.r.s.ely placed. There were many rich colors, however they didn't conflict with each other.

Ten large prawns were arranged in a circle. The prawns had all been treated with the prawns intestines removed. Some wild lotus was stuffed into the prawns, it looked as if there were small dots of black within it's body. After the prawn was cooked, Gu Zheng poured the special soy sauce on it, so that the prawn could fully absorb the smell of the soy sauce, without actually affecting the flavor.

The last dish opened, was the juicy honey chicken. It consisted of the silkie's wings, the chicken's legs, and a part of the chicken breast.