PNB Chapter 264: A Divine Guest Who Is Easy to Serve
Chapter 264: A Divine Guest Who Is Easy to Serve
"It'll be done soon. Do you want to get your hair done or have it cut? Do both or just one?" The blue-haired lady turned around and smiled and nodded at the two of them and asked.
"Let's do both. Let's start with her. Let's have curly hair that's easy to manage and can be tied up." Su Yuchen said.
"I do not……"
"No what no!"
"time……"
"There's enough time. Sister Hong and Sister Blue are both very fast. They don't do anything fancy when cutting hair. It should take at most two and a half hours. It's not even two o'clock yet."
"But……"
"But what is it? What did we say this morning?"
Zhao Xiaojing shut her mouth.
"Xiao Jing, wash your hair." Seeing that the two had reached a consensus, the blue-haired sister shouted neatly to one of the energetic young men who had just opened the door.
"Sister Lan, I found a few hairstyles, take a look!" While Zhao Xiaojing was being taken away by the energetic young man to wash her hair, Sister Lan's flying hands had stopped and she untied the cloth in front of the customer. Su Yuchen hurried forward and raised her cell phone with a bright face.
"This style suits her. She has a short round face and big eyes. She can choose this kind of bangs or a direct middle part to reveal her forehead and lengthen her face, which makes her look extremely beautiful.
This style is suitable for you. You have a clear jawline. If you cut your bangs long and clip them behind your ears and make the top of your head fluffy, you will be beautiful." Sister Lan scrolled through the photos on Su Yuchen's phone and picked out two of them.
"Okay." Su Yuchen took a look and nodded happily.
This barber shop was a treasure shop she found after coming to Jiangcheng. The owners were a pair of red and blue CPs. Sister Hong was cold and sister Lan was kind, but both of them had excellent professional skills.
For the same hairstyle, they save two-thirds of the time required to cut it compared to other meticulous barbershops, but the look is just as good. In fact, since they are all girls, they understand girls' needs better, and every hair they cut is in the right place, and their aesthetics surpass that of male barbers by a large margin.
Therefore, although the shop is located in a back street, the price is not affected at all, and a haircut can be comparable to that in a barber shop in the commercial center.
After the hairstyle was decided, another energetic young man took Su Yuchen to wash her hair. After Zhao Xiaojing accepted the order, she lay down and let her head be gently manipulated. She closed her eyes and entered the virtual space.
This activation function of the system is really amazing. The hints given are to the point every time, but they are not given directly for you to copy the answers. It is more like a direction and can only guide you, but in the end you still have to rely on yourself to solve the problem.
Zhao Xiaojing's current problem is the system's tip for cooking pot-roasted pork elbow: the eggs should be thick and mushy.
After a lot of practice in the virtual space yesterday, Zhao Xiaojing discovered that the thick egg batter is a very important step in making a good pot-braised pork elbow. It is indeed as the system said, it is the key to whether the pork elbow is delicious. However, she knows nothing about the details of the amount, proportion, and seasoning. Although it can be made according to conventional methods, she always feels that the taste is not worthy of the name of a traditional famous dish.
The food preservation scene includes fresh pork elbows. After Zhao Xiaojing slightly burns off the pig hair with fire, she cleans the pork elbows, puts them into a pot with cold water, skims off the foam as the water boils, and then randomly adds cooking wine, green onion, ginger, angelica and other seasonings, covers the pot and simmers it, while continuing to experiment with the egg batter.
As usual, Zhao Xiaojing beat two eggs. After adding enough starch and water to make a thin batter at one time, she kept shaking the chopsticks quickly in the container to stir. When the batter turned into a yogurt-like smooth milky liquid, she carefully increased the amount of starch.
After a while, the liquid became thicker and thicker, and Zhao Xiaojing stopped when the chopsticks could feel obvious resistance.
The batter has reached the thickest level I tested yesterday. If I add a little more starch, it won’t take shape.
After another forty minutes, the elbow was taken out of the pot. Zhao Xiaojing carefully rolled the elbow in the thick batter, and poured the remaining batter on the areas where the elbow was not touched, until the entire elbow was completely uncovered and was coated in an even light yellow color.
The pot-roasted pork elbow I ate last time was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Only the batter on the outside was crispy, while the elbow inside was not eroded by the high temperature. Instead, it was very soft, tender and smooth. I think the thick batter was to protect the elbow inside, locking the oil temperature firmly in the outer layer, and then creating a layered contrast with the crispy outer layer and the soft and tender inner layer.
Therefore, Zhao Xiaojing only used 50% of the oil temperature. Anyway, the elbow is cooked, so it is enough to fry the batter on the outside. However, if the batter on the elbow is too thick, the oil temperature will be too high, which will cause the surface to burn quickly, and the batter inside will still be raw, so low temperature and slow frying are more appropriate.
Zhao Xiaojing watched the pork elbow take shape in the pot. The light yellow outer layer immersed in the oil gradually darkened. She turned it over, took it out of the oil, cut it into pieces and put it on a plate.
Tiger sauce had been tested on Lu Hongwen last time, and he made a version that was closest to his memory, and the pepper and salt were also simple.
After preparing both sauces, the whole dish was completed and Zhao Xiaojing opened the system collection page again.
Well, it's still 5 2%, the same as yesterday. It's a famous dish indeed. After two days of dozens or hundreds of practices, except for the 2% given by the initial modification of tiger sauce and the mixing of paste, the rest was just wasted time.
With a sigh, Zhao Xiaojing sat down and put a piece of pork elbow into her mouth.
The taste was average, not bad, but the batter didn't seem crispy or fluffy enough. Even though she had tried her best to make it thick, it was still not as thick as the one I ate that day, and it was still a bit greasy.
The taste of the pork elbow inside was quite similar to what I had that day, just as bland, but the overall taste was not as good as the one I had that day. Even Lu Hongwen said that the one he made was average, so it was obvious that the version he made was even worse.
Zhao Xiaojing immediately lost interest in trying it again and sat there thinking.
Although Lu Hongwen said that the food he had eaten in Shandong Province was more delicious, Zhao Xiaojing himself had never eaten it. He was making the dish based on his memory and description, so the direction was not precise enough and the reference value was not that strong.
Moreover, this kind of famous dish must have countless details and tricks. It is difficult to imitate it remotely. It is better to refer to the pork elbow that Su Yuchen bought. At least you have your own standard.
By then, as long as the activated recipe percentage reaches 6, she can directly purchase the recipe and learn to make it according to the recipe.
The idea was finalized, Zhao Xiaojing perked up again, reset the scene with one click, and re-seasoned and stewed the pork elbow...
"Hey, girl, wake up!" The blue-haired sister patted Zhao Xiaojing gently. Zhao Xiaojing, who had repeated the elbow strike dozens of times in the virtual space, hurriedly exited and opened her eyes.
"I've never seen a girl as calm as you. It's done. Come and see!" The blue-haired sister shook her head with amusement.
This girl kept her eyes closed while washing, styling and cutting hair. She moved whenever she was asked to, and did whatever she was told to do. She didn't have any opinions, and even her hairstyle was chosen by her friends. If the barber shop had such good customers every day, she would be so happy to be in this line of work!