Recently, "Lonely Foodie" came out with a special edition of "Tohoku Miyagi Business Trip in The Middle of Summer", and the beef tongue package debuted
In the film, sendai this restaurant cooks beef tongue in a grilled iron net. It feels like just seasoning with coarse salt and it's delicious.
Goro tried a variety of ways to eat such as beef tongue wrapping, bibimbap, yam mud, and black pepper, and came to the conclusion that "all of them have a face". Uncle ate a small face sweaty, red fluttering, even the fingers involuntarily draw circles.
It is said that beef tongue is to Sendai equivalent to roast duck to Beijing, so it makes sense that foodie Goro easily "disarms".
But it's not just The Japanese who eat beef tongue.
Wang Zengqi, a famous foodie in the Republic of China, once studied at the Southwest United University, and the Yunnan rice dishes washed down for several years were quite authentic.
In the article "Kunming Cuisine", he talked about eating the best cattle he ever encountered in his life, and as a special part of the beef tongue will not only be sold separately in the local area, but also has an elegant title, called "qingqing", he speculates that it is because the cow eats grass, it is used to pull the tongue into the mouth, inherent in this number.
Most of the beef and mutton here are souped, and "Qingqing" is no exception.
Because the cattle used in the Kunming beef restaurant are all small yellow cattle, old cattle and waste cattle are not used, and the tongue of the little yellow cow must be particularly tender.
Zhang Ailing, a talented woman born in the same year as Mr. Wang, also has a blue eye for bull's tongue, and in one of her early famous short stories, "Agarwood Crumbs - The First Burning Incense", Ge Weilong and her aunt silently shared the cold beef tongue, the tongue was originally an organ in the mouth, with the original intention of learning tongue, Zhang at this time let two women who were also enemies and friends eat this dish together, not without deep meaning. According to the plot set by the novel at that time, they should eat the cold cuts of Western food.
There is also an interesting way to eat beef tongue in Western food, which is the British "boiled egg" mentioned by the gourmet Mr. Cai Lan, also known as "Pennide Egg Benedict". It is a slice of English bread and baked crisp. Sauté spinach in butter, add salt and pepper, remove and place next to bread when cooked, fry a slice of beef tongue in the remaining butter and place on top of the bread. Then remove the eggs from the boiling water, remove the moisture and place on the beef tongue.
I wonder if this is a "beef tongue burger"?
The flesh of the tongue itself is delicate and plump, tender and tender, and the more it is chewed, the more fragrant it is, so whether it is fried or grilled, as long as you master the heat, it is a rare delicacy. However, in addition to this "simple and rough" cooking method, from ancient times to the present, more people have pursued "slow work and fine work", they have endured patience, endured saliva, and contributed a "timeless version" of the beef tongue feast.
"Food List with the Garden, Miscellaneous Animal List" contains, "Cow tongue is the best." Peel, tear the film, slice and simmer in the meat. There are also winter pickles and air-dried people, who eat them every other year, very similar to good ham. "Cooked with meat, the tongue absorbs the aroma of gravy, but without the fatness of the meat. And in that year, some of the food is full of fresh flavor, and the next year to eat meat is more powerful and tasteful, comparable to the beautiful ham meat, with time and energy slowly serving, to maximize the deliciousness of the ingredients.
In the movie "Sister Peach", the cow tongue also enjoyed such a high-level treatment, and the young master Roger, played by Andy Lau, left the United States to return to Hong Kong, and was briefly alone with the old servant Tao Sister played by Ye Dexian, proposing that she had not eaten beef tongue for a long time, and Sister Tao complained that "if you haven't eaten for a long time, don't eat it", but still went to the vegetable market to carefully select the beef tongue back to the dish. Oil, garlic slices, ginger slices, star anise, large ingredients, cinnamon, grass fruits, green onions... The ingredients are prepared, and then a whole strip of beef tongue is submerged, and the large fire is changed to a small fire, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Just after doing it, Sister Tao suffered a stroke and was hospitalized.
One day after that, some of Roger's old friends went to the house to play cards, and when the friends were hungry, they went to the refrigerator to find the brine beef tongue made by Tao Sister before the stroke, steamed it on the pot, brushed the sauce, sliced, less than half an inch, the plate reached the bottom, and several middle-aged people even had to grab the tip of the cow's tongue like a child.
After eating, everyone remembered coming to Roger's house as a guest when they were children, and Sister Tao always had to take a series of special dishes to the outside, protein steamed crab, eight treasure duck... Everyone got excited and called Sister Tao, who was playing mahjong in the nursing home, and Sister Tao called out the names of these young people in turn and laughed happily.
Thoughts are the bondage between human feelings. We are nurtured in this bondage, enjoy its gifts, and be controlled by it. But in the end, too many things cannot be said, and it is not clear.
You can only be willing to cook a good dish for you, and if you eat it, you will understand.