I'm the Culinary God

Making Red Stewed Pork Hock requires the steps of hair removal, blanching, sugar coating, deep-frying, stewing, shaping, steaming, and juice reduction, which is quite tedious.

But this method makes incredibly delicious pork hock.

Once tasted, it’s unforgettable.

As soon as Shen Guofu heard about thirty pork hocks, he couldn’t help but rub his hands together. With so many hocks, they must be devoured heartily tomorrow.

Shen Jiayue said:

"Joyful Media is also filming pork hocks, reportedly, Chef Qi is making Tiger Skin Pork Knuckles. Thinking back to the Crystal Pork Hock, I’ve already had several kinds of hocks."

Besides the Crystal Pork Hock made by Lin Xu, there’s Crystal Pork Hock, Pot Roasted Elbow. Adding Red Stewed Pork Hock and Tiger Skin Pork Knuckles, it’s almost seven pork hock dishes.

She murmured happily:

"In the anime, collecting all seven Dragon Balls summons Shenron. I wonder what collecting seven pork hock dishes will summon."

Beside her, lying on the sofa looking at New Year’s Eve dinner series plans, Chen Yan murmured:

"Probably summon a little belly... Tsk, since the New Year’s Eve dinner series aired, viewership across the web has skyrocketed. Brother-in-law, you need to make two dishes for the New Year’s dinner to solidify your fan base."

Lin Xu said:

"No problem. Apart from Qi Siming’s apprenticeship banquet, I’ll bring Dundun to attend the annual meeting at Meisharui. I basically have no other commitments."

Now every unit and company has no heart for work, busy with annual meetings.

If Lin Xu attends every event, he’d attend Joyful Media’s annual meeting, Fishing Platform Dining Department’s annual meeting, Yanjing Hotel’s dining department and management’s annual meetings, along with those of Ziqiang Shengjian, Pang Dundun Catering, and other companies. He’d be winning raffles until his hands were sore.

However, he pushed all these annual meetings he could, as he’s too noticeable and makes others uneasy. It’s better to let everyone have fun.

He could skip his own annual meetings, but not Meisharui’s.

After all, he’s their promotional ambassador, driving their provided car freely, must attend, and possibly cooperate with Dundun to win a prize and see what big prize Meisharui’s annual meeting offers.

Five hours later, it’s already midnight, and the drying box’s timer finally goes off.

Opening the door, a tempting aroma of soy sauce wafts out.

Beside him, Shen Jiayue in Little Yellow Duck pajamas sniffs curiously and asks:

"Xu Bao, does all soy sauce smell this good? What if I can’t find good soy sauce?"

Lin Xu replied:

"When boiling soup, add softened dried black beans, the soy sauce flavor becomes rich."

The meat in the drying box is glossy red with the unique color of soy sauce, salty and fragrant, its surface somewhat dry, like long-preserved dry meat.

But when the tray underneath is taken out, you can see a lot of oil has been rendered.

Lin Xu said with a smile:

"Let’s make pan-fried buns tomorrow morning. Mix in this oil; the flavor will be fantastic."

There’s pig fat, soy sauce, and moisture from the meat—a complex mixture. But due to this, when used to make pan-fried buns, it yields unexpectedly great results.

Right now, Shen Guofu isn’t very interested in pan-fried buns; he looks at these dried soy sauce meats with a worried expression and says:

"Best to taste these meats first once done. If too salty or bland, there’s room for adjustment; sending them out as-is might cause embarrassment."

Han Shuzhen knows what he’s thinking:

"Still thinking about eating this late? Hurry upstairs to sleep; tomorrow’s early exercise session demands it."

Seeing his reluctance to go upstairs without a taste, Lin Xu couldn’t help saying:

"Indeed, a taste is necessary, and if tasted now, adjustments can be made to the meats drying upstairs. How about this, I’ll steam a small piece first for you to help assess."

Originally, Han Shuzhen wanted to vote against it, but seeing both daughter and niece expressing desire to taste, she knew she couldn’t stop it, so she nodded:

"Only this time!"

"Thanks, wife!"

"Thanks, mommy!"

"Thanks, aunt!"

Han Shuzhen chuckled, looking at these dark pig meats, also full of curiosity.

With this appearance, will it really taste good?

Lin Xu selected a decent quality piece of pork belly, cut about a pound, then placed it on a plate and sent it straight into the steamer to start steaming.

After about twenty minutes of steaming, upon opening the steamer door, an irresistible aroma of meat wafts out.

Han Shuzhen sniffs incredulously and asks:

"Is this soy sauce meat really this fragrant?"

Shen Jiayue remarked:

"Last year at Huangshan we had Sword Board Fragrance, also steamed like this, although that was salty meat, Xu Bao makes soy sauce meat, tastier than salty meat."

Anyway, anything made by Lin Xu couldn’t taste bad.

Lin Xu said with a smile:

"It’s too late to make salty meat now. When we go to Yinzhou, we’ll have more; my mom bought hundreds of pounds of meat—salted meat, sausages—it’s all there."

He placed a cutting board meant for cooked meat, and laid the steamed soy sauce meat upon it, slicing it into thinner pieces while still warm.

Despite the soy sauce meat’s appearance turning dark due to dark soy sauce, the inside showcases another type of beauty.

The marinated fat becomes semi-transparent, while the lean meat is glossy and firm. This color pairing prompts an instinctual swallow before tasting.

Taking advantage of everyone’s distraction, Shen Jiayue sneakily took a slice and popped it into her mouth, chewing twice then exclaiming:

"Wow, this meat is insanely delicious! So fragrant, fresh, and springy—so satisfying!"

Seeing this, Chen Yan also grabbed a slice for herself.

The meat’s flavor was truly delightful, savory and tasty. As you chewed, the meat’s firmness was distinctly felt, a texture not found in fresh meats.

Unfortunately, no rice, or small buns, or steamed hollow buns were available.

Otherwise, clamping it would surely make it more delicious.

Originally Shen Guofu and Han Shuzhen intended to be reserved, but seeing their daughter and niece eating, they couldn’t resist each taking a slice to try.

Han Shuzhen immediately shifted her view on soy sauce meat, agreeing with her daughter that it indeed offered more flavor and aftertaste than salted meat.

While Shen Guofu expressed:

"Such tasty meat, worth waiting till midnight for, even till five in the morning... I didn’t quite grasp the taste; let me try again..."

Eyeing his greed, Han Shuzhen couldn’t help but say:

"Tomorrow morning, jump rope upstairs; no breakfast without 200 jumps."

Shen Guofu, chewing the meat:

"How about 400? And a small drink. Delicious meat without drinks is such a pity..."

With an intimidating glare from Han Shuzhen, Shen immediately shivered:

"Forget about the drink, just kidding... Xiao Xu, remember to steam more tomorrow morning, pan-fried bun wrapped soy sauce meat will be incredibly fun!"

Lin Xu assured:

"Certainly, tomorrow during steam I’ll place some side dishes underneath, see how the flavor turns out."

He started gathering the sliced meat into a plate, pinching a slice to taste meanwhile—the flavor was indeed brilliant.

This delicious meat, if placed atop of some dried tofu sheets, vermicelli, dried tofu sticks, or tofu cubes might take the flavor further.

Some exciting anticipation...

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