End of the winter: The Claypot Rice

When the weather is cold, people want to eat some delicious food with hot.” the clay pot rice” from the Lingnan area in China, whether its the hot pot smell caused by its own cooking or the hot popularity created by its taste and reputation, it can give us enough comfort in the cold winter season.

Because this kind of casserole is put directly from the stove to the food in front of the diners, it can let the person sitting in the chair does not leave, directly feel the warmth of the fire from the face, and it will be easy to feel the residual temperature of dissipation.

Walking in the cold wind and try to avoid the cold, in addition to the hot pot, since it is to find a Cantonese restaurant, go in and order a pot of clay pot rice, as long as you finish it, your body and mind will be warm.

The staple food is rice. In my hometown, everyone usually feeds the clay pot rice with silk seedlings. Some people even mix oil and sticky rice together. In any case, it is good for long-grain glutinous rice. Because it has good water absorption, it can release the flavor. And absorb the materials and sauces intact. In addition, in order to make a pot of clay pot rice rich, it will also be matched with different ingredients, bacon (bacon, sausage, etc.), salted fish, meatloaf, cardamom ribs, chicken, squid, frog, pond, etc. This creates it with a lot of looks. After cooking on a fire, every pot of clay pot rice is like a newborn. The scent that comes out after each cover is always fascinating.

Because roast meat is a good thing for Cantonese people, the waxy taste is only in the winter. Steaming rice with rice is a unique flavor in local cuisine. The savory glutinous rice with the aroma of rice, bacon and the fragrant aroma of the fire, the fusion of the release of an exhilarating aroma, facing it, the impulsive desire is simply disrespectful to it.

 

There are some important features about the clay pot rice:

Rice: The soul of the clay pot rice, mainly depends on the taste of rice and the quality of rice coke. As a product of the Lingnan area, rice generally uses silk seedling rice or oil sticky rice or mixed rice, which can fully absorb the flavor of the fat and sauce of the ingredients in the clay pot rice. The excellent clay pot rice, the choice of rice is the key, the rice fragrance exists. Moderate soft and hard is good. At the same time, the different degrees of rice pot also represent the level of fire and cooking skills, and related to the taste of the taste, good clay pot rice must have a coke and is crispy and delicious.

Lawei: It is a kind of bacon that is served with clay rice. Different flavors have different flavors. We mainly look at the aroma, flesh, and taste of the bacon. The combination of bacon is often made between the duck, the sausage, the bacon, and the intestine (the black intestine). The delicious bacon is often pleasant, not too heavy, nor too big. The smell is full of the fragrance is the correct solution.

Taste: The overall match is reasonable and delicious and is recommended. In this dimension, we will judge whether the rice coke is decent, whether the rice and the bacon are delicious, whether the sauce is the finishing touch, and the overall taste is used for scoring. The sense of separation is undoubtedly a failure.

Some critical points to look through a claypot rice:

1. The focus of the claypot rice is also seen. Different stores will use different utensils to make the dishes. It will also directly affect the taste of the claypot rice. The use of the pots in this evaluation is also different, but most of them are still煲mainly. The evaluation will be described in words.

2. Claypot rice is a delicious taste of time and time. The grasp of the fire directly affects the taste of the finished product, and it also affects the expression of the rice coke. In addition, if you want to eat this delicious food, waiting for it is a price to pay, different stores wait for different time, we will also provide information for your reference.

3. Finally, we want to tell you that the finishing touch of the claypot is also the sauce that is finally topped. Many people think it is soy sauce, but in fact, the locals call it “bead oil” (red oyster sauce, also known as sweet soy sauce). The well-made restaurants will be decorated by themselves and have a unique flavor.

4. In the waxy claypot rice, the use of bacon is generally composed of sausage, bacon, moist sausage (black sausage, duck liver, and pork) and wax duck. Commonly used is sausage and bacon or sausage. There are also four kinds. All have it.

5. The glutinous rice is a large category, and the silk glutinous rice and the fragrant rice are all attributed to it. Therefore, the glutinous rice can be understood as the silk seedling rice or the fragrant rice.

High Tech in Haidilao Hot Pot

From my previous blogs, as it seen, I am a huge fan of the hot pot. And this time I will write about the most technological hot pot now present in China where I am so excited to taste it again when I back to China in the next month.

On October 28, the world’s first smart restaurant, which called Haidiao, spent 1 billion to build opened! Not only does the equipotential area look scientific and technological. The entire restaurant exudes a high-tech taste. 

It’s a theme that I think is super romantic. The whole room is filled with powdered cherry blossoms. There are scattered cherry petals, Japanese architecture fulfilling the whole screen.

Blue sky, green meadow, snowy peaks… Feeling quiet and beautiful especially when you eat the hot pot in this kind of severe storm in winter.

And at a sudden, you flew in the universe for a moment. The planet turns around which is enigmatic which make you think it is so cool. There is a sense of sight in the Science and Technology Museum when I was a child, even the real feeling like life      \ in the universe.  Looking up, there are not only meteors but also stars twinkling in the sky, even the background is the scene of space. 

Moving on to the next theme, it is the starry sky of Van Gogh’s masterpiece. Just like all the web-pop star instagramer or snapchater, this is also a fabulous place to take the picture with opulence scene and resonate the deluge of feelings letting people to go there at once. Whether it is overhead or around, there is a strong artistic atmosphere! This hot pot meal is more enjoyable than taking a pat on the red wall. 

And now comes to the most worth to mention and the shining point of this restaurant — The robot here, A little robot cow! It severs the ruction of delivery and also the decorating the whole Haidilao Hot pot. It will recognize the road by itself and walk to the corresponding table.

If you block it, it will gently say “Excuse me please,” and no wonder someone is chasing it with the camera and phone.

 

Talk about the dishes, better or as same as other hot pot I posted in the blog, it is quite unique ingredient especially the sauce just like I showed here. I just can’t wait to get back and sitting with my families and friends to have a hot pot meal in this high-tech restaurant. 

“Inflammable and explosive” laboratory afternoon tea

Test tubes, beakers, and measuring cups are all science. Bring good goggles on the table. There are 6 kinds of test tubes are set up with your heart, what do you want to drink? There are also many desserts and summer mojito…

How do you have an afternoon tea, a test tube, a beaker, and a measuring cup? Also equipped with goggles? In fact, this store’s new laboratory afternoon tea is very safe. You can make your own drinks, especially fun. I want to go straight to relive the joy of experimenting when I go to school.

The most eye-catching is the six test tubes, which contain concentrated syrup, which is used to adjust homemade drinks. Then I went to the hand-filled drink that was full of ceremonies! First, choose the flavors you like, 2, 3, 4… As long as you like, it’s not a bad thing. It looks a bit like the laboratory distilled water. In fact, it is a soda with dry ice. It is also a slap in the air. There is a spiral twist on the shelf, and it can be taken down with force.

Once everything is ready, we can make a drink. Pour in the concentrated syrup first, then add soda. I and my friends have prepared their own favorite drinks. How many kinds of drinks can I mix with 6 color tubes? Is there a good math friend who can help me calculate?

In addition to the self-made drinks, the laboratory afternoon tea set also comes with a lot of desserts, sweet and salty, which is very suitable for 2 people to share.