NOVEL NEXT Chapter 101 - The Great Battle of Chongqing Hot Pot
Chapter 101 The Great Battle of Chongqing Hot Pot
Mo Kun thought for a moment and asked Xiaolu. Who was playing ball with Athena and Zeus, “Your dog won’t come to the dining room, will it?”
Xiaolu said, “Generally, they are not allowed to enter, mainly due to hygiene issues.”
Long Xi listened to their conversation and suddenly had an ominous feeling.
“When will we start the great battle of Chongqing hot pot? I’m a little hungry,” Mo Kun said.
Long Xi suddenly understood! “Lord Mo Kun, was it really a good idea for you to take care of a dog?”
Xiaolu did not understand what Lord Mo Kun meant, and replied casually, “It should almost be ready. Once it’s done, Butler Qin will let us know.”
Speak of the devil! Butler Qin came in at this moment.
Xiaolu invited Long Xi and Mo Kun to the dining room.
Sisyphus also wanted to follow Long Xi but was pulled by Butler Qin by its dog-chain, which was attached to an iron bolt.
It looked eagerly at Long Xi and barked “Wang Wang Wang” a few times.
Long Xi said gently, “I’ll come and see you after dinner.”
It seemed to understand, and laid down obediently on the ground, its eyes and nose wet.
Xiaolu took Long Xi and Mo Kun to the dining room. Before they got there, they could smell the strong aroma of the hot pot seasoning.
Xiaolu couldn’t help singing GUY’s hip-hop song, “I eat hot pot, and you eat hot pot seasoning, hot pot seasoning. Smiling at you because I’m polite, I’m polite…”
The genial sunset quietly crept in through the carved iron windows in the dining room, illuminating the three silver Chongqing hot pots on the round wooden table. It lit up the different ingredients placed next to the hotpots, and their brilliant colors.
Mo Kun said, “This is the Chongqing hot pot? What’s the difference from the ordinary hot pot?”
Xiaolu said, “Chongqing hot pot divides the chafing dish into three levels – central grid, cross grid, and quadrangular grid. Each level has a different temperature and different concentration. You can put different ingredients in different grids to get the best taste so that there will be no cross-tasting! Of course, you can also use the same ingredients to cook in different grids, to feel the changes in the taste of the ingredients, which is equivalent to three changes in one ingredient! There are many possibilities, and this is the most attractive part of Chongqing hot pot!”
Long Xi said, “There are so many kinds of ingredients. Is this spicy, translucent beef slices? How could it be cut so thinly? Hanging the red, thin, rectangular beef slices on the bamboo sticks, and inserting the sticks on the wooden stake. It looks like banners! The goose intestines are actually put in ice cubes. The ice cubes are used to keep the intestines crisp, and also to take away the fishy smell! Well, well, well! How exquisite the ingredients look!”
Mo Kun asked, “So how do we decide the winner and loser?”
Long Xi said, “I have the final say! The ingredients next to your hot pot are the same, and the portions are the same, too. At the same time, the person whose leftover ingredients and hot pot seasoning are lesser, will be the winner. You can’t drink water during this period, whoever drinks water loses. But you can drink the hot pot seasoning. Just an hour! The time starts now!”
As soon as she said this, Xiaolu immediately put a dish of beef tripe in the central grid.
The central grid was the hottest among all the grids. The hot pot seasoning inside was already bubbling, very suitable for boiling beef tripe. The boiling beef tripe was delicious and tasty, and was also his favorite kind of ingredient. Boiled for about 12 seconds, it was soon ready for eating.
After that he put a dish of beef balls with rose sauce, in one of the cross grids.
The cross grids heated by the medium fire, was suitable for cooking meatballs, which only took about eight minutes.
Among so many ingredients, his favorite food was this kind of beef balls, which was wrapped with rose sauce. So delicious!
Its method was similar to the juicy steamed bun. The rose sauce was frozen into a solid “rose jelly” and then wrapped in the beef.
Afterward, he put the beef tripe into a bowl and put a dish of kidneys in it.
Mo Kun had never eaten hot pot before, so he copied whatever Xiaolu did.
Xiaolu put a dish of pig’s intestines, a dish of brains, a dish of quail eggs and a dish of duck blood, into one of the quadrangular grids.
The gentle heat of the quadrangular grids was very suitable for slowly stewing pig’s intestines. It would take about 20 minutes to stew it and the finished product would be soft, glutinous, and tasty.
He rinsed the goose intestines in the delicious hot pot seasoning of one of the cross grids, and then they were ready to be eaten. Xiaolu scooped all the goose intestines into the bowl and put all the spicy translucent beef slices into two of the cross grids.
After that, he picked up the beef balls with rose sauce and put the other three in.
He put all the Huanghou and Junhua in the other two cross grids, and then picked up the beef slices and put in the mutton slices next.
And then he began to eat goose intestines and beef tripe. They all tasted so good!
After that, he started on the beef balls with rose sauce, his face showing how much he was enjoying the food.
Mo Kun copied almost all his actions, right down to his facial expressions!
But Xiaolu had been imitated by many, but surpassed by none!
Mo Kun, who was very competitive, realized that if he went on like this, he would surely lose, because he was always a step behind Xiaolu!
Long Xi enjoyed their “performance”, while leisurely eating her hot pot. So delicious!
It was the first time she tried beef balls with rose sauce. She took a bite and froze.
The beef itself was already very tasty. The meat was tender and smooth and melted on her tongue, leaving its fragrance in her mouth.
The rose sauce in beef balls had a unique flavor. The strong, floral fragrance combined well with the meat fragrance!
The hot pot seasoning was rich in flavor, but it did not take away the taste of meat and instead, added on to its flavor.
She ate as slowly as she could, trying to savor the delicacy and make it last longer on her taste buds.
But she had no control over her teeth! The esophagus also seemed to be waiting anxiously and urged the throat to swallow as quickly as possible, in order to let it have a taste as well.
Indescribable!
All kinds of good flavors filled her mouth at the same time, it was like a competition, like dancing.
There were no proper words in the world that could describe the tastes.
She ate another beef ball with rose sauce, and could not help moaning a little contentedly, which suddenly made the atmosphere a little more ambiguous.
She looked up and saw the astonishment in the eyes of Mo Kun and Xiaolu. Her face turned slightly red, as if she was suddenly awakened from a trance.
She pressed on her fast-beating heart and slowed down. When she saw Mo Kun and Xiaolu continuing to be busy with the game, she put a piece of the spicy beef into her mouth.
A spicy feeling filled her mouth, and a strange pleasure rose from her toes to her waist, and then gradually climbed up along her backbone.
Wherever it went, there was not a pore that did not explode, not a cell that was not as warm and submissive as being smoothed by a hot iron, and not a nerve that did not jump and was intoxicated.
That pleasure climbed up to the brain, and exploded, like brilliant fireworks.
A sense of well-being permeated her whole body and exploded!
“God, it’s the best thing in the world! I want to learn how to cook this delicacy. What if I can’t get to eat it anymore?” Long Xi secretly made up her mind.
She looked up again, only to see that Xiaolu was still handling himself with ease, but Mo Kun could not hold on much longer.
The sensation of spiciness hit his taste buds so intensely that he felt like Godzilla, who was about to spew forth a gush of fire.
However, there was no other way. The high technology he mastered could not help in this game. Unless he could invent a drug that temporarily paralyzed his taste buds, but it was too late now.
In the last five minutes of the game, they ate all their ingredients, and Mo Kun’s taste buds were strained to their limits. His throat seemed to be on fire.
Xiaolu was really fine.
He simply poured the hot pot seasoning into a big bowl, held it up and drank it directly, which shocked both Mo Kun and Long Xi.
Mo Kun said, “No need to weigh it, I lost.”
Long Xi was surprised and asked Xiaolu, “Brother Lu, dare I ask if you have a taste disorder?”
Xiaolu smiled, licked the sauce on his lips and said, “I win anyway. Master Xi, didn’t you say that you wanted to learn the tango before? And you wanted to tango at the Halloween dance? Big Brother Kun agreed to let me teach you.”
Long Xi understood, and said a little unhappily, “Why are you using me to make bets again? Can we just play happily?”
Mo Kun drank half a bottle of boiled water, which barely quenched the fire in his throat, and said, “It won’t happen again!”
Xiaolu also said with a smile, “It’s the last time!”
Long Xi said somewhat helplessly, “Okay, the last time! Next time I won’t accompany you!”
Mo Kun touched his round belly and said, “Now that we are full, let’s go and see Kunkun. I made a pair of mechanical legs and will try them on today to see if they’re suitable.”
Long Xi said, “Don’t you need me to bring you to buy materials?”
Mo Kun said, “No, there are a lot of materials in my factory now. I took a few random ones and assembled them. By the way, I hired an assistant, Xiaoshan. This is his phone number. You can save it. If you can’t find me, call him.”
Long Xi immediately asked, “Xiaoshan? the Shan of Shanhu? Is it a man or a woman?”
Mo Kun and Xiaolu smiled.
Mo Kun laughed and said, “Of course it’s a man, the Shan of Shanfeng. Even if I borrow a big water tank to boost my courage, I dare not upset my little wife. And I’ve reserved a vice president position for you in my company. You are welcome to supervise the business at any time. My little wife, you are also becoming jealous now! But I’m so happy that you care so much about me!”
Long Xi blushed and saved Xiaoshan’s phone number, saying, “I am infected by your jealousy! Let’s go. Let’s go and see Kunkun.”
Xiaolu said, “You always talk about Kunkun. Who is it? I want to see it, too.”
Mo Kun laughed and said, “It’s a little secret between Xixi and me, we can’t tell you!”
Long Xi walked out of the dining room and said goodbye to Sisyphus. Then she said to Xiaolu, “Brother Lu, please take good care of Sisyphus for me. I’ll come and see it often.”