Perhaps Yuji Ogawa never thought that one day his imaginary dishes would be restored bit by bit in reality, and the people who tasted these dishes were not beautiful, but...
Text | Mu Yao Edit | Shen Xiaoshan
If during this time your circle of friends was dominated by the game of "macho picking branches", then some time ago there was no doubt that it was the food photos shown by emerging wild chefs from all over the world. Because of the epidemic, the potential chefs who have been squatting at home for a long time have begun to compete in cooking, and the circle of friends has become a ready-made competition venue, which reminds me of the famous classic cooking competition animation - "Chinese Little Boss".
"The Little Master of China" is a manga series serialized in the Japanese weekly magazine Shonen Magazine from 1995 to 1999, and is one of the originators of food-themed manga. Released in 1997, the anime version was very popular, and later became a childhood memory of the 1980s and 1990s.
What this comic has always been talked about is the countless brain-opening dishes, coupled with various cool special effects, giving people a feeling that they can taste it in the sky, and even eating fried rice can be cracked.
What impressed me at that time was this comet fried rice that was blown into the sky, I really couldn't see any difference between it and ordinary vegetable assorted fried rice, even the special effects blessing could not make me feel its deliciousness, but the people in the animation were very happy to eat. emmm...... Maybe they are tired of eating mountain treasures and seafood every day.
The most famous should be this real seabream continent map, is one of the protagonist's small masters of the master of the good dishes, because the finished product resembles a Map of China, so it is called "True Seabream Continent Map".
The dish on top of the seabream consists of four regional specialties:
Beijing flavor: wrapped the grilled fish meat with dough and green onions, accompanied by sweet noodle sauce, similar to the way To eat Peking duck;
Sichuan flavor: Wrap the fish in fish skin, fry it and then drizzle it with red oil sauce, a bit like fried crispy meat.
Shanghainese flavor: Shanghai crab yellow wrapped in sea bream sashimi;
Cantonese flavor: Mix the thick belly meat of sea bream with fresh vegetables with rich oyster sauce.
Just listening to it, the saliva will stay, presumably this is also a dish that many people dreamed of tasting at that time. But because it's so cumbersome, and although it looks delicious, I never really thought that someone could make it in reality.
Until I saw someone on the B station who restored this dish in reality, it has revealed an unusual atmosphere from the beginning of the box. Because...... This fish is so big!
Familiar? That's right! This is the seabream you often catch in the forest, red and with a large belly, which can sell for 3,000 bells a piece in the game store, which also reflects the value of snapper.
Sure enough, it took a long time just to process it, and by the time the up master had prepared the other accessories, it was already five o'clock in the morning! After making up for two hours of sleep, the up master regrouped to make this grand dish, and even the special effects were restored by the way.
So what exactly does this dish taste like? After the up master finished making it, he tasted it on the spot. The Sichuan-style fried crispy fish meat with sauce tastes good, and the Beijing-style grilled fish cake and cantonese-style vegetable fish brisket are also decent, until... Taste the Shanghainese-style crab yellow croaker raw. It's made like this
Doesn't that look tempting? This is also the part that the up lord himself is most looking forward to, but what he did not expect was that this mouth was so vomited that the up lord almost did not say a word, because it was too much! fishy! finish! Finally, the main summary: how beautiful the picture like a peacock opening the screen, how unpalatable this dish is! And "seeing in the middle is not eating" is the summary statement made by the lord to this true seabream continent map.
If the True Seabream Continent Is rich in ingredients and diverse in practice, then the Phoenix Crystal, which appears in the finale of the final episode of the anime, is the other extreme - the most delicious dish created with the simplest ingredients, the ultimate meaning of cooking.
Phoenix Crystal, the name can't be heard at first, looks like this in the comic.
This gorgeous name and special effects, looking at the posture can scare a group of people. But it's really just a plate of bean sprouts tied in the shape of a phoenix. When the special effects are removed and the real restoration is made...
Poof, looking at the cover picture, I can't help but laugh out loud. And this last picture, this up lord, are you sure you are restoring the Phoenix Crystal and not the Swan Crystal?
And to make it like this...
As for the taste of eating, the bean sprouts blanched in clear water are covered with vegetable leaves and raw carrots, and I believe everyone can taste it effortlessly!
There is also a dish that must be mentioned in "China's Little Boss" - the hot ice fresh sea bream mountain, which is sprinkled on the iceberg (yes, it is the red bean shaved ice you like to eat without red beans) sprinkled with sashimi cut by the ice knife.
This dish has always been a legend in the culinary world in the manga, it represents the ultimate that sashimi can achieve, known as the "handle" of the sashimi world.
What makes it strange is that a specially tailored knife must be used to cut fresh sea bream fillets. This knife is the "North Star Sirius Blade", which is described in the animation as follows: "An amazing kitchen knife made over several years with ice cubes taken from the bottom of the Northern Glacier River without melting." ”
So restoring this dish doesn't start with preparing the ingredients, but with restoring this amazing kitchen knife.
Come and feel how this knife was made.
This is the North Star Sirius Blade made.
Doesn't it look like that? The next step is to restore the animation, use this knife to cast the Luohan Crystal Chop to cut sashimi!
Sure enough, without the special effects, this knife is nothing. (Manual smile)
So let's add the special effects back. This is a mountain of fresh ice seabream made, and it looks like it is not bad!
In the anime, the judges felt that when they ate the hot ice seabream mountain, it was as if there was a strong cold far north wind blowing through the mouth, and because the temperature in the mouth made the delicious taste of the real seabream smooth and refreshing spread immediately, it felt as if the frozen seabream was resurrected and jumped in the mouth.
However in reality.........
Because the frozen fish fillets are too strong to pick up, directly boil the iceberg...
Looking at this circle, most of the comics in "China Little Boss" are cumbersome but with special effects blessings can make people eat a bite of heaven's food, but really eat it, the taste is not flattering, in one word to summarize is - pull.
Curiously, who are the comic book authors? I can actually create so many brain-opening dishes.
Born in 1969, the author of "The Little Master of China", Yoshiji Ogawa, was a teenager who coincided with the global popularity of Chinese kung fu movies. After watching the movie "Shaolin Temple" that year, I admired Chinese culture, especially Chinese kung fu, and I always wanted to create a comic work based on Chinese culture.
So one day, when the editor of the Japanese shōnen manga magazine Magazine Magazine mazumi approached Yuji Ogawa and asked him to write a manga about Chinese food, he took on the task without even thinking about it, but his heart was full of uneasiness: "Food manga?!" ”
In fact, Ogawa Himself is a chef who can hardly cook.
At the time of Ogawa's creation of "China Little Boss", Magazine magazine was serializing a food-themed manga "Shotai's Sushi", which focused on a down-to-earth and inspirational route - in addition to teaching the knowledge of cooking, it is more important to understand the truth of life from the process of cooking, and even many sushi shop owners paid attention to this manga at that time.
In order to distinguish himself from Shotai's Sushi, Ogawa chose the opposite style of creation, putting fun first and the actual realizability of the dish later. He even sometimes reverses the composition, imagining images that are impactful and interesting enough before thinking about how to achieve the dish. So in "China's Little Boss", we see a lot of very impactful and gorgeous scenes, as well as the food tasting process of landslides.
When I saw this, I thought, is this a whole deception from more than 20 years ago, and the initiator, he is really unintentional.
Source| Nandu Weekly
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