After preparing the gifts for Teacher Deng, Zhang Yang brought the four bodyguards home with gifts in their hands.
It was almost lunchtime when they got home.
Zhang Yang's great-grandfather, grandfather, grandmother, and mother had all arrived at the dining room. It was a relatively small dining room, and it was the place that the family usually used to eat. In addition, there was a relatively large restaurant in the Osmanthus Garden. It was specially used to serve a large number of guests. It was enough for 200 people to eat at the same time.
Zhang Yang's father was still flying around the world, holding all kinds of meetings, hosting all kinds of major events of the company. He was so busy that he could not wait to use one person as ten people, and one hour as a day. All he wanted was to further expand the scale and influence of the company in the Olympic year, so that the Zhang family's position in the world's major families would be more stable, and their voice in the world of capital would be further increased.
Therefore, Zhang Yang's father, Zhang Lei, could not have lunch with his family.
They had a sumptuous lunch. After all, it was the tradition of China to have a good lunch.
The Manchu Han Imperial Feast was a huge feast that gathered the characteristics of Manchu and Han cuisine. It originated from the palace of the Qing Dynasty and was originally a banquet for Kangxi's 66th birthday. It was aimed at resolving the discord between the Manchu and Han. Later generations followed this tradition and added delicacies. It was extremely luxurious.
The famous banquets of the Qing Dynasty also included the Mongolian pro-vassal banquets, courtiers banquets, birthday banquets, thousand-year-old banquets, and nine-white banquets. The Manchu Han Imperial Feast usually had 108 dishes. The dishes were salty and sweet, meat and vegetables. The ingredients were exquisite, which highlighted the special flavor of Manchu cuisine. Barbecue, hot pot, and shabu-shabu were almost indispensable dishes. At the same time, they also displayed the characteristics of Han cuisine. They were grilled, fried, stir-fried, fried, and roasted. It was indeed the treasure and the highest realm of Chinese cuisine.
The Manchu-Han Imperial Feast usually served at least 108 dishes (54 southern dishes and 54 northern dishes), which were eaten in three days. It was a treasure of Chinese cuisine culture.
Zhang Yang's great-grandfather, grandfather, grandmother, mother, and Zhang Yang himself had a total of five people in his family. They knew that it was impossible for them to serve all 108 dishes. However, Zhang Yang did a rough count and found that there were at least 15 dishes, if not 20 dishes. It was already a very sumptuous meal.
Looking at the dishes carefully, there were five appetizers: Dragon and Phoenix, Shredded Chicken and Cucumber, Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Melon, Spicy Tripe with Ten Thousand Words, Mushroom and Hair Vegetables with Year Words, and Five Royal Vegetables: Arhat prawns, fried fresh scallops, fried beef tenderloin with scallion, fried chicken with oyster sauce, fresh mushrooms and vegetable heart, and four pickles: Sweet sauce radish grapes, five-spice cooked mustard, sweet and sour milk melon, sweet brocade, a grade of soup: Longjing Bamboo Shoot…
Zhang Yang felt like his eyes were about to go blurry, and he could not stop swallowing his saliva.
Zhang Yang's great-grandfather could not help but laugh when he saw his great-grandson's embarrassed look.
"Yangyang, how is it? How are the dishes today? You haven't eaten for a long time, right?”
"Yes, great-grandfather. Ever since I went to the United States, I didn't have the time to eat these things. There's no place to sell them, and no one in the United States knows how to make them. I really miss the days when I was young.”
"Of course. I asked my subordinates to prepare the ingredients for these dishes before you came. They arrived a few days ago, but some dishes can't be cooked in a day or two. For example, this Buddha jumps over the wall dish took our chef more than two days to finish, so we can't eat it until today.”
There were dozens of ingredients for Buddha Jumps Over The Wall Soup: Sea cucumber, abalone, shark's fin, dried scallops, fish lips, turtle skirt, deer tendon, pigeon egg, duck treasure, fish maw, flower glue, scallop, pigeon, pork ribs, clam, Jinhua ham, pork belly, lamb elbow, hoof tip, tendon, domestic old hen chicken breast, domestic yellow-mouthed duck breast, chicken gizzard, duck gizzard, winter mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, and so on.
Its difficulty was not only the large number of ingredients, but also the cumbersome cooking method.
First, dozens of raw materials were fried, stir-fried, boiled, and deep-fried into various flavors with the characteristics of frying, stir-frying, boiling, and deep-frying. Then, they were placed layer by layer in a large Shaoxing wine jar, and an appropriate amount of soup and Shaoxing wine was poured into it to make the soup, wine, and vegetables fully blend. Then, the jar was sealed with lotus leaves and placed on the fire to heat up. He was also very particular about the fire. He needed to choose white charcoal that was solid and did not smoke. He first boiled it over a strong fire, then slowly simmered it over a gentle fire for at least five to six hours before it was done.
The Zhang family's Buddha Jumps Over The Wall Technique was very authentic, and its difficulty was unimaginable.
The chef of the Zhang family was a descendant of a royal chef from the Qing Dynasty. His cooking skills were passed down from his ancestors.
There were probably no more than three chefs in the world who could make Buddha Jumps Over The Wall Soup to this extent, other than the Zhang family's chef.
"Alright, everyone sit down. Don't stand anymore. It's tiring. Old Qian, you sit too."
Old Qian was the previous butler of the Zhang family. He had already served the Zhang family for decades. Everyone in the Zhang family treated him as a family member. Naturally, there was no problem for him to sit at the banquet.
"Then I'll take advantage of Young Master's good fortune and taste the Manchu Han Imperial Feast, haha.。。。。。”
The old man laughed heartily. He did not put on any airs and forced himself to sit down. This was not the first time he had attended the Zhang family's banquet. Ever since he passed the seat to his son, the old man had been invited by Zhang Yang's great-grandfather. From then on, he would be seated at almost all of the Zhang family's banquets. Zhang Yang usually had meals with his great-grandfather, so he did not feel embarrassed about coming back.
"Grandpa Qian must be joking. Please sit down.”
"Good, good, good. Yangyang has really grown up, hahaha.。。。。。。。。”Another hearty laugh was heard, revealing that his body was still very strong.
"Of course. Don't you know whose great-grandson he is? He's the son of Li Aiguo, so he's naturally not an ordinary person.”
"Old Master is right. Yang Yang will also be very powerful in the future. He will be a young man who can bring glory to his ancestors.”
"Alright, alright, don't say anymore. The food will get cold if you say anything else.”Zhang Yang's mother interrupted, perhaps afraid that the elders would not stop talking.
"Alright, then let's start the banquet."
As soon as the old master finished speaking, everyone began to eat.
"Yangyang, eat this Buddha Jumps Over The Wall Soup. It's delicious and good for your body. You have to eat more.”Zhang Yang's grandmother said to Zhang Yang as she placed a piece of meat into Zhang Yang's bowl.
"Okay, Grandma, you eat too. Don't just give it to me. Grandpa will be jealous later.”
"What's there to be jealous about? I dote on my grandson.”Zhang Yang's grandmother said domineeringly.
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