Chapter 493 (2/2)

“Is it Cold Fish Skin?” Zhou Shijie asked straightforwardly.

“Yes. Please take your time and enjoy.” Yuan Zhou nodded.

“What fun! He actually gave the Cold Fish Skin such a name.” Liu Tong mocked at Yuan Zhou in the heart, but didn’t speak it out.

Nevertheless, Li Minghui knitted his brows tight, fearing that the broth would flow everywhere on the table.

“Please, Chairman Zhou.” Chu Xiao took up the chopsticks and said to Zhou Shijia first.

As Yuan Zhou served only one plate, they could not separately eat the dishes.

“This old man is going to start now.” Zhou Shijie directly took up the chopsticks and started to eat.

“Please.” Yuan Zhou nodded.

Chu Xiao followed suit right away and picked a piece of fish skin up with the chopsticks.

“Fish skin? I am looking forward to it.” Chu Xiao looked at the beautiful fish skin similar to crystal and then stuffed it into his mouth.

“Um?” Chu Xiao and Zhou Shijie took a look at each other and picked up some fish skin again to eat without calling Li Minghui and Liu Tong together.

However, the two disciples didn’t care about that at all. Liu Tong even asked something else, “Since you are treating, is there any tea water? I like drinking tea.”

“Sorry, there isn’t.” Yuan Zhou answered directly without any hesitation.

What a joke! There was only 400g of Pre-Ching Ming Tea provided by the system and he had drunk 50g yesterday. How was it possible that would he give it to others to drink now?

“Tsk-tsk.” Without saying anything, Liu Tong just made such sound with an unknown meaning for the others. Nonetheless, Yuan Zhou didn’t feel like chatting with them. As long as they didn’t ask for the tea leaves, he didn’t care.

“Let’s have a taste.” Li MInghui stopped Liu Tong from picking on Yuan Zhou.

“Okay.” Liu Tong answered cleanly.

Only then did they reach out the chopsticks and start to pick the dish. They weren’t actually hopeful about the taste, even if many customers crowded and lined up here. They had seen such situations more than once and thus didn’t think Yuan Zhou could withstand their professional examination.

At the same time, Chu Xiao didn’t have time to speak with them. He just concentrated on savoring the taste in his mouth.

Normally, it was difficult for the fish skin to absorb any particular taste. So people usually made a thick sauce to eat along with the fish skin so that it would have the taste of the sauce. However, Yuan Zhou didn’t prepare the dish in that way.

They didn’t really know how Yuan Zhou processed the fish skin, but Chu Xiao obviously felt a slight saline and sour taste as well as strange fragrance from a mouthful of fish skin full of colloidal matter and elasticity. Apart from that, as a stimulus, a hint of spiciness suddenly magnified the taste of the fish skin.

With the sound of “Ca Ca”, Chu Xiao chewed the fish skin. There seemed to be something soft, sticky and chewy in his mouth. When he chewed it, however, it became crisp. With the slightly sour and spicy taste of the sauce, it made Chu Xiao spirit’s rise up instantly.

“Interesting.” When Chu Xiao picked the dish with the chopsticks again, he couldn’t help saying that.

“It’s indeed interesting. The taste is really appetizing.” Zhou Shijie said straightforwardly. Of course, he didn’t stop picking up more of the dish.

“It tastes different.” Chu Xiao took a look at Yuan Zhou and then said.

That’s right. For the second mouthful of the dish, Chu Xiao obviously felt that the taste had slightly changed.

While he was chewing, there was broth bursting out from the fish skin as if he were eating a jelly. It obviously contained the colloidal matter, but meanwhile, there was plenty of juice. Besides that, the taste of the juice was fresh and natural with a slight sweetness, which made the freshness and crispness melt well with the mouthfeel of vermicelli made from bean starch.

With such a fresh and delicate taste, it was like a fish in the mouth. It was simply fresh and delicious.

“Isn’t it fish skin?” Chu Xiao thought about that ceaselessly with a frown.

“It’s truly like the brocade. The taste of the fish skin is as fine and smooth as the brocade.” Zhou Shijie didn’t have any reservations, thus he said admiringly. However, he couldn’t help but pick some more of the dish with his chopsticks.

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