When they came, there were two of them, but when they went back, there were three of them.
Some of Wang Dong's things were temporarily stored in the Internet Cafe. Gu Zheng and Mumu accompanied Wang Dong back to get all his things, and then returned to the hotel.
After getting a room for Wang Dong, the three of them entered his room.
"Where did you buy the eggs and rice?"
Wang Dong had a lot of things. There was a bag of eggs, about 30 of them. In addition, there was a bag of rice and an electric rice cooker. The rice used for today's competition was cooked by him last night, and it was cold today.
What Gu Zheng was most curious about was not the eggs, but the rice.
Generally, the rice would stick together after being cooked, and when it was cold, it would become a whole piece. Wang Dong's rice, after being cooked and cold, was still scattered, but not as scattered as the raw rice.
"The eggs were collected from a farmer's house. There was a family whose eggs were very good, and they were raised in the mountains. I found that the egg fried rice made by their eggs tasted better than others. Later on, I kept buying from them, although it was a bit expensive!"
Wang Dong lowered his head. The price of eggs was indeed very expensive. Gu Zheng bought one egg for 3.50 yuan, but he bought one for 5 yuan. He was different from Gu Zheng. In any case, Gu Zheng had a job and could support himself. He was still an apprentice, and his monthly salary was less than 2000 yuan.
Not only was his salary low, but he also had to give his family 1000 yuan every month, and he only had a few hundred yuan left. Because of this, he didn't stay in a cheap hotel after registering, but went to the Internet Cafe to make do. In fact, the 200 yuan registration fee was not a small expense for him, but he still clenched his teeth and signed up.
"Good ingredients are more expensive, but sometimes you can't buy good ingredients even if you have money!"
Gu Zheng nodded slowly. Before, he didn't have a tool spirit, so he couldn't identify the ingredients. The quality of the ingredients depended on his experience, and the second was to judge by himself.
He was very clear about the feeling of a chef who wanted good ingredients. In the past, his father, in order to choose one ingredient, tasted more than 300 kinds of the same food, and finally chose it.
Although Wang Dong made it sound simple, the fact that he could choose such inferior eggs meant that he had bought countless of them. With his salary, it was definitely a burden for him to choose such eggs.
"The rice was sold to me by a friend in the northeast. It was 80 yuan per catty. He said it was the same variety as the tribute rice in the northeast. It's just that it's not grown in the same place. I bought it once and thought it was good, so I bought some more!"
"Gong Mi?"
Gu Zheng and Mumu both raised their heads with surprise on their faces.
Tribute rice was just a name. In fact, it was rice grown in a special place in the northeast. Because the production of this rice was very small, only a small number of people could eat it. Moreover, there were troops guarding it, so everyone called it tribute rice.
This legend actually existed in many places among the people. Gu Zheng and Mumu both knew a little about it. Such tribute rice did exist, and the low yield was also a fact. But it was not only in the northeast, there were also some in other places. They didn't know the specific taste. After all, neither of them had eaten such things.
"I understand what you mean. The rice you bought is the same variety as the tribute rice. It's just that it's grown in a different place!"
Gu Zheng said again, and Wang Dong nodded quickly. Gu Zheng understood the situation that Wang Dong said.
The same variety, in different places, the results of planting were also different. Some places could grow inferior ingredients, and some could grow ordinary ingredients. Gu Zheng had already learned about this in the Xiao Song Noodle House. Wang Wei's brother had bought so many places to grow wheat, but most of them were inferior ingredients. Only the land that had been raised had reached the ordinary level.
It was very likely that the rice that was planted in that special piece of land to be used as a tribute to the inner city was an ordinary ingredient. As for the seeds of the same quality, if they were planted in other places, they would be inferior ingredients. This was the kind that Wang Dong had chosen.
There were not many ordinary level ingredients in the country, but there were always some. Gu Zheng believed that there was no place in the country that could be compared to the inner city, which was the real core.
Even if they did not know the classification of ingredients, they could still collect a lot of ordinary level ingredients based on the taste. After all, the higher the level of the ingredients, the better the taste.
Just like the edible chickens that people usually bought, the most common and most ordinary ones were the reared chickens. Generally, reared chickens cost 7 to 8 yuan per catty, and the taste was only 10 to 20 yuan per catty.
Reared chickens were rubbish ingredients, and the quantity was the most. Most of the free-range chickens were inferior ingredients, and the quantity was slightly smaller, but they could be bought in the market.
In this way, if the same person and the same cooking skills used these two kinds of chickens to cook, the taste of the free-range chickens would definitely exceed that of the reared chickens. This was the contrast brought by the different level of ingredients.
Edible chickens that reached the level of inferior ingredients could not be reared in ordinary ways, and the quantity would be even smaller. There were some, but they could not be bought in the market. In the past, Gu Zheng had searched all over the market, and he was only lucky to find an inferior black chicken, which completed the first test.
Second-grade chicken had a better taste and a higher price. It could be said that when edible chicken reached the level of a second-grade ingredient, it could not be eaten in ordinary restaurants. In the entire country, there were probably only a few restaurants that had such an ingredient.
The quantity was small and the price was high, which made it difficult for ordinary people to eat it. If they couldn't eat it, they couldn't imagine what the taste of this kind of chicken was like.
Could the quality of edible chickens on the earth reach the ordinary level? The answer was yes, Gu Zheng believed that there must be, but the quantity would be less. Such grade of ingredients could not be bought in the market, but it did not mean that there was none. It was possible that such chickens were raised in some places that we did not know and were finally sent to some special places.
This was Gu Zheng's perception. He heard that the Wang brothers planted wheat and heard about Wang Dong's tribute rice.
"I didn't expect you to use tribute rice. If it's really tribute rice, 80 yuan per catty is too cost-effective!"
Mumu's eyes were shining. She had heard of tribute rice many times, but she had never eaten it once. She didn't expect that a little fresh meat she met by chance would have tribute rice. This time, she couldn't let it go.
"It's not the real tribute rice, just the same kind!"
Wang Dong hurriedly shook his head. The real tribute rice was planted in the black land. Other places did not count. He just had the same seed.
"It's the same, it's the same for me. I certainly can't eat the real one. It's not bad to eat the same kind!"
Mumu waved her hand indifferently. The real tribute rice was so small. How much could it be produced? Not to mention that place, even if it was ten times bigger, it would not fall into the hands of ordinary people. It was already very good to have the same kind of tribute rice.
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