Chapter 734

The first thing the old man talked about was his recent experiences . The old man lived on carrying passengers with his rickshaw . Strictly speaking, such a vehicle like the rickshaw was forbidden to be used for carrying people in Chengdu .

Although his vehicle wouldn’t be confiscated, he would still be fined 200RMB if he was caught by the traffic police . That almost equal to his two days of revenue . Consequently, the old man usually hung around side streets on his rickshaw .

About half a month ago, the old man entered the side streets and came across a strange matter .

“A question for you . Do you think that liver could be eaten if it’s not cooked?” The old man asked a question as he spoke halfway .

No matter where it came from, liver always had an offensive smell . Rumors on the Internet said that foreigners didn’t eat livers . It was actually not totally accurate to say so . It was actually the Americans who didn’t eat that .

The legendary British cuisine “Haggis” was cooked with the lamb’s liver and stomach . The Germans liked eating blood sausage very much . There was also a traditional cuisine called Andouilles de Guemene in France, which was cooked with large intestines, small intestines, and some breadcrumbs .

Apart from the reason of excessive production of meat, another important reason why the Americans didn’t eat livers was that they knew little about cooking . In their opinion, cuisines with internal organs were nothing but boiling them in clear water . People simply found it difficult to swallow that . It was believed that no Americans would like to eat such types of food if there were better ones .

It tasted bad even after boiling, not to mention if one ate it raw . Therefore, everybody on site shook their head one after another . How could one possibly eat it raw?

As it was related to good food, Yuan Zhou listened to them carefully without letting his feelings show . As far as his knowledge on cuisines went, the internal organs all needed to be cooked thoroughly through means of deep frying, steaming or boiling, especially the lungs . Apart from boiling, the rest required more complicated processing, just like a very famous cuisine called Horse Belly Plate in ancient times . The main ingredients were the large intestines and the belly of the horse . Furthermore, people had to stuff the horse oil into the intestines to wash them .

Most importantly, Yuan Zhou asked the system and even the system said there wasn’t that kind of dish . In Yuan Zhou’s opinion, there were two fields that could best display the wisdom of the ancient people . One was their buildings while the other was the good food . With regards to these two fields, ancient people had truly racked their brains and created many techniques that couldn’t be uncovered by the current people .

Yuan Zhou was listening to him with great attention in hope of knowing what exactly the old man wanted to say . As for Wu Hai, he was also listening to him carefully . He showed interest in everything related to food .

“I came across an old brother in the side street, even older than me . He was dressed in the Chinese tunic suit and was sitting at the entrance of the vegetable market . The lamb dealers in the market would give all the lamb livers to this old brother for free . Even if other people wanted to buy them, they would say there weren’t any and would then give the livers to this old brother . ” The old man was good at telling stories and thus, he attracted people’s attention very easily .

Chengdu was situated in the southwest of China and it wasn’t the northwest part where people liked eating mutton . So, there wasn’t anyone who sold mutton in the normal small vegetable markets .

It wasn’t an easy thing to buy lamb liver in Chengdu . The reason wasn’t that it cost a lot, but there weren’t many livers around the area . Simply speaking, the lamb livers were worth some money, yet the lamb dealers would rather send them to the old man than sell it to others . That was really interesting .

Then, the old man explained the reason to him . He continued, “I asked the lamb dealers curiously why they did so . One of them told me that the old man could cook very delicious lamb livers . Since it wasn’t worth a lot of money, he would rather let it become a good dish . ”

What an interesting lamb dealer . Of course, what attracted Yuan Zhou’s attention more was the delicious lamb livers .

There were many cooking methods of lamb livers . The most common one was Haggis Soup . And other traditional cooking methods included quick frying and cold-dish along with Chinese chives, cumin, and radish . The only unusual one that Yuan Zhou could think of was the Lamb Liver Infant Rice Paste .

How delicious could the lamb liver dishes be for the lamb dealers to send the lamb livers to him for free gladly?

“I’m quite interested in food, so I went over there to look for that old brother in the Chinese tunic suit . ”

It had to be admitted that the old man was a really optimistic person . He struck up a conversation with people wherever he went, previously the old street performer and now the older brother in the Chinese tunic suit . Thanks to his age and his kindness with smiles, he hadn’t been treated as a liar and beaten to death .

“The old brother in the Chinese tunic suit is quite hospitable, so he invited me to his home for dinner,” said the old man . “Then, I parked my rickshaw at the roadside . The reason why I asked that question just now was that the lamb liver dishes cooked by that old brother were cooked with none of the current cooking methods of frying, boiling or stewing . ”

Finally, the old man released a piece of shocking news .

Normally, the internal organs had offensive smells and besides that, the mutton itself had the goat odor . Under such circumstances, could that be eaten raw when it wasn’t thoroughly cooked?

Then, Yuan Zhou could no longer maintain his usual aloof manner . Was there really such kind of dishes? He began to cock his ears and listened to the old man very carefully without missing a single word .

“I heard from this old brother that the name of this dish is very simple . It’s called Raw Lamb Liver, just like the name of Raw Fish or Raw Beef,” said the old man . Then, he continued, “It tasted really good . “

The old man gave a thumbs up and continued praising, “Anyway, I’ve never eaten a more delicious lamb liver dish before . ”

“What’s it like? Is it really uncooked?” said Wu Hai immediately . He asked the question that Yuan Zhou had wanted to .

“Since the name is Raw Lamb Liver, it’s definitely uncooked . As for the appearance, the lamb liver was shredded . ” While the old man was recalling the dish, he said, “It seemed that he also added shredded ginger and radishes . The taste is really not bad . I can’t describe that feeling precisely . By the way, there was also vinegar inside . ”

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“Does it have anything to do with the shredding?”

The customers asked one after another . Of them, Wu Hai was the most active one .

Yuan Zhou knitted his brows . That was totally impossible . According to the descriptions of the old man, this dish was supposed to taste very bad . How could it taste good?

“System, didn’t you say there isn’t any dish that uses raw lamb liver?” Yuan Zhou asked .

In the beginning, the system didn’t say anything . Only after a few seconds did it release a recipe: [an intact lamb liver, immersed in water and then shredded; 200g of ginger, shredded; two radishes, shredded; 100g of coriander and knotweed, each, and shredded . Mix and blend them together with salt, vinegar, and mustard . (Note, this dish isn’t a successful dish . There is too much offensive taste and thus, the flavor is severely affected . )]

Yuan Zhou obtained the related information from the system . Raw Lamb Liver was an ancient dish originating from the Yuan Dynasty hundreds of years ago . It was recorded in the book, Proper Habits of Food and Drink . However, the system believed that the offensive smell was too heavy and would affect the flavor . Therefore, the dish wasn’t successful .

Actually, it was quite normal . Not every ancient dish tasted good . There were always one or two of them that failed, just like this one . The flavoring of radishes, coriander, ginger, and mustard were all used to remove the offensive smell . That’s right, even soaking the livers in boiling water could help remove the bad smell . Nonetheless, that wasn’t as effective as imagined to remove the offensive smell and goat odor of the lamb livers .

However, the old man was saying clearly now that the taste was quite refreshing and he even emphasized that for quite a few times . If he said so, that meant the offensive taste and the goat odor wasn’t as strong as to be noticed . The problem was no cooking method could work to achieve that effect .

“Is it because of the knotweed?”

The only ingredient unknown to him in the recipe was the knotweed . Its full name was Inula salsoloides and it was a kind of traditional Chinese medicine . It was rarely used to be a food ingredient . The main reason was that it only grew around Inner Mongolia . And Yuan Zhou had never heard that it was an ingredient that helped remove the bad smell .

So what was the Raw Lamb Liver mentioned by the old man like?

Yuan Zhou had decided to try cooking it personally . Then, he let go of the anxiety in his mind and continued to cook .

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