Chapter 360 A Broader Prospect
“Enough for a state banquet? This… is a bit exaggerated!!”

After listening to Master Niu’s comments, Yue Feng became somewhat uneasy.

He knew that this wild boar meat must be good stuff, but he didn’t dare to think about having it served at a state banquet. Ingredients that can be called state banquet-level must be carefully selected from the best of the best.

What level of quality is required to be served on the top state banquet table? In the old days, it was only used by the royal family!
Master Niu looked at Yue Feng with a look of disdain as if he were an outsider and asked, “Exaggerated? Not at all! If you don’t do this, you won’t understand many things!
If this thing falls into the hands of those truly top-notch chefs, they can make it into something extraordinary!
Not to mention anything else, the aroma of the ingredients themselves is unique enough!

This light herbal aroma is definitely the finishing touch! I can’t think of a good way to cook it yet!
The supply of dozens of pigs a year is not much, but it is enough for special supply or small-scale circulation!”

“Have you ever studied the meat quality of wild boars, boars of different sizes and at different growth stages?” Master Niu continued to ask after sighing.

Yue Feng replied: “The texture of the meat will change, but whether it’s the small yellow-haired roe or the big cannon egg, the meat has almost no earthy smell!

The bigger the pig, the firmer the meat will be, but even the biggest ones are not that tender!”

“Then this thing is really worth some time to study!
In our traditional meat dishes, pork actually plays a very ordinary role, that’s all.

If you want to make pork dishes, many seasonings and cooking methods are designed to remove the fishy smell of the ingredient as much as possible.

If we can get this top-quality wild boar meat on a stable basis, there will be room for improvement in the cooking methods of many dishes!
Not only is there room for improvement in the cooking method, but also the meat from different parts of a pig can be used as much as possible to truly bring out the characteristics of each part! ”

Yue Feng nodded: “We will study the more detailed things later, let’s try what we have now first!”

“Yeah! Even if you have some stock of this stuff, it’s not worth sending it to the second cafeteria.

I personally suggest that you keep it, and digest it internally among your relatives, friends, and various leadership relationships!

Selling it to the second canteen is a bit of a waste of talent! Even if I give the highest price within my ability, it is still not cost-effective!
Moreover, when the accounts are submitted, it is easy for problems to arise in the finance and audit departments!”

Yue Feng felt warmed when he heard Master Niu say that it was not worth it.

What do people make friends with? It is not just a simple exchange of interests. A simple exchange of interests is called acquaintance.

A true friend should be able to put himself in the other person’s shoes and consider each other.

Just these words from Master Niu proved that in his mind, his relationship with Yue Feng was not just a simple friendship made for the sake of face because of a cooperative relationship.

It is rare to find a friend who can disregard his own interests and tell the truth to you.

“Okay! I’ll remember what you said!” Yue Feng nodded.

The two chatted for a while, and the cooked white meat and steamed meat patties in the pot were taken out of the pot one after another.

As soon as the lid of the pot was opened, the aroma filled the kitchen.

The young apprentices in the kitchen who were making various preparations for the evening’s reception all cast puzzled glances.

“Master! What kind of meat are you cooking? Why does it smell so good!” The eldest apprentice Xiao Mao came over with a lick on his face and asked.

“I forgot what I taught you. Stop asking about things that have nothing to do with you! Get out of here!”

Master Niu glanced at his apprentice, who immediately shrank his neck and went to work obediently in the back.

“This aroma is so delicious!” Master Niu used tools to take the meat out of the pot, and then exclaimed sincerely.

“Hehe! How do you plan to eat it? Just eat it raw?” Yue Feng asked with a smile when he saw the familiar boiled white meat.

Master Niu shook his head: “Why do we have to define the flavor? We can find a way to provide more choices at the same time! Xiao Mao, come here!!”

As he was speaking, Master Niu shouted at his apprentice, and Xiao Mao, who had just been scolded, came over again.

“Master! What’s wrong?” Xiao Mao asked curiously while watching the meat cooked by the master.

“Sharpen my big knife! Use the finest whetstone! Make it as sharp as possible!”

“Oh, I’ll go grind it now!”

After sending his young apprentice away, Master Niu immediately went to the food area to get busy.

All kinds of ingredients and condiments in the warehouse are turned into several dipping sauces with different flavors by Master Niu.

“This is hot and sour! This is sweet and sour! This is spicy with garlic! I’ll show you my knives when the knives are sharpened!”

Master Niu put a few small bowls of dipping sauce aside, then said to Yue Feng.

When he saw the meat and the small bowl of dipping sauce, and then heard the apprentice being called to sharpen the knife, the words “Li Zhuang White Meat” instantly came to Yue Feng’s mind.

It’s not that the Li Zhuang White Pork dish is so delicious, but Yue Feng knew about this dish because he remembered a popular meme about Uncle Lu on the Internet.

“Don’t you want to use a knife to slice the meat into paper-thin layers, and then eat it with some condiments?” Yue Feng asked with a smile.

“Hey! You’re quite knowledgeable! Have you seen a similar way of eating?”

Master Niu was quite surprised to hear Yue Feng ask this. He had originally wanted to show off, but before he had even sharpened his knife, Yue Feng had actually guessed his next plan.

“No, I’m just guessing!” Yue Feng shook his head repeatedly.

“Just be patient, Xiao Mao is an expert at sharpening knives, it will be done in a moment!”

After waiting for another ten minutes, a knife that was slightly larger than a normal kitchen knife was sharpened and brought to me.

Master Niu looked at the texture of the meat, and then simply trimmed the edges and corners of the meat, then held the knife flat and started cutting the meat.

The knife is sharpened to an extremely high point, and it is no exaggeration to say that it can cut hair with it.

Holding the knife flat, he moved it steadily over the meat, and slowly a translucent piece of meat was cut off.

Yue Feng was very considerate and helped find an empty plate to put the meat slices on. Soon, slices of meat were cut and arranged.

During the process of cutting the meat, the heat from inside the meat was also emitted, and the aroma of meat mixed with the fragrance. Even Yue Feng, who had just bitten a piece of meat before, felt saliva secreted in his mouth and his appetite increased greatly.

After cutting about ten slices in a row, Master Niu picked up a piece casually with chopsticks and tasted it with his bare mouth.

It has a rich aroma, the meat is smooth and melts in your mouth, and even without saltiness, it is still very delicious.

“Tsk tsk tsk, that’s right! Just pick up a piece with your bare mouth and try it!” Master Niu said to Yue Feng with satisfaction.

Yue Feng followed the other party’s demonstration and took a piece for himself.

It’s true, after being cut into thin slices, the taste is much better than just chewing a piece of meat in your hands.

“Delicious! Melts in your mouth and smells delicious!” Yue Feng commented. “Try dipping it in some condiments to see how the flavors change!”

Yue Feng dipped his food in three different flavors of dipping sauce and tasted them.

The meat base is good, and it has different flavors no matter what you dip it in.

This boiled white meat in clear water, using Chef Niu’s method and eating method, is absolutely amazing! !

“Delicious! Different condiments, all delicious! You should try them too!!” Yue Feng urged excitedly.

Master Niu waved his hand and said, “I won’t taste it yet. Different sauces have different flavors. For those who know how to eat, just one slice is enough!

I also want to eat this meat pie, the sauce is too strong and I can’t taste the meat pie!”

This is not Master Niu pretending to be cool. Good chefs are all picky eaters. Ordinary people cannot taste the sweetness of apples after eating fruit candies, let alone this dish.

Master Niu picked up a small piece of meat patty with chopsticks and tasted it, then squinted his eyes in satisfaction again.

“Add a little pepper water and the meat patty will taste very good! Xiaofeng, you should try it too!” Master Niu reminded again.

Yue Feng followed suit and also tried the meat pie.

The texture is somewhat different from thin slices of meat, and the aroma is quite strong. Yue Feng is not a professional gourmet, so he can’t say more about it, but it is definitely delicious.

“Can you please save some of this wild boar meat for me? I’ll prepare some for my family to try during important occasions such as the New Year!” Master Niu put down his chopsticks and looked at Yue Feng with anticipation.

“No problem. It’s what you said. Even though I can’t always do it, it’s not that rare! Next time I come back, I’ll bring you a whole wild boar hind leg!” Yue Feng promised without hesitation.

“Then I’m waiting for your meat! Let’s not waste the dishes we made tonight. Eat your fill before you go back!”

“Then I won’t be polite with you! You guys still have some important things to do later, so just give me a steamed bun. I won’t leave until I’m full!”

“That’s it!”

They are all friends who know each other well, and Yue Feng is not pretentious at all.

Master Niu quickly went to get the freshly steamed buns, and then Yue Feng started eating dinner in the kitchen.

Three meat dishes and a steamed bun. Yue Feng finished at least half of the portion by himself before he was completely full.

After being processed by professional chefs, the wild boar meat dishes are really delicious!

After eating and drinking, Yue Feng did not stay in the kitchen any longer. He said hello to Master Niu and left the second canteen to go home.

Along the way, Yue Feng was humming little tunes, and he was in a very happy mood.

When Yue Feng rode his bicycle back home, it was already completely dark. He said when he left home that he would not have dinner at home. When he got home, everyone in the family was full, but his mother Meng Yulan still left a portion of rice in the pot for Yue Feng.

“Have you eaten, Xiaofeng? There’s some food left for you in the pot!”

“I’ve eaten it! I asked Chef Niu from the Second Canteen to research the wild boar meat and made three dishes. I ate them in the kitchen at the canteen!”

“This is a good thing, why don’t you give some meat to Xiao Tao’s family and Xiao Wen’s family to taste?
The three brothers worked until dark to finish the collection. They wrapped the cut meat in leather and buried it in the snow pile according to your request!”

Yue Feng nodded and said: “Let’s divide some of them tomorrow. There are more than a dozen pigs, and we can’t eat them all by ourselves!
If I had known earlier, I would have used an eagle to catch it alive! At least I could have kept it alive for a few more days! If the meat is buried in the snow, the quality will deteriorate over time!”

“What are you guessing about? You sound like you have a lot on your mind!” No one knows a son better than his father, Yue Lei asked through the small door of the east room.

When encountering something a little more formal, Yue Feng still likes to discuss it with his father.

Although Yue Feng has a high reputation in both his past lives, his father is always his support, and this will never change.

“There’s something I haven’t thought about yet, Dad, can you help me think about it?” Yue Feng went straight into the east room and said softly.

“Tell me, what’s going on? What are you considering or worried about?” Yue Lei nodded and looked at his son with deep eyes.

“This particular wild boar changed after eating a large amount of Polygonatum sibiricum in the mountains.

Today we went to the place where Zhangwei was located. There were several long and slow slopes with loess layers on the sunny side, which were covered with Polygonatum sibiricum. Wild boars spend the winter digging up Polygonatum sibiricum there to eat, and their meat becomes changed if they eat too much!
I took the meat to the Second Canteen to have Chef Niu evaluate it. His exact words were, “The quality of this stuff is worthy of being served at a state banquet!”
I’m thinking, how can I maximize the benefits of this thing! “

“If a wild boar eats too much Polygonatum sibiricum, the meat will no longer smell fishy?” Yue Lei was still a little surprised to hear this answer.

“Yes! The meat my mother cooked was cut by me from these dozen pigs.

These are wild boars from two herds. The meat quality is similar. Even the testicles don’t smell fishy at all!”

“Since the quality is so high, we can’t mess with it. For ordinary people like us, it’s good enough to have some ordinary meat to eat.

The true value of this thing can only be realized when it is given to dignitaries!

Didn’t that young master named Ye Jianjun give you a box of state banquet Moutai last time?

Why don’t you use this as an excuse to give him a state-banquet-quality wild boar in return?!”

“Uh…it seems possible!!”

Yue Feng was stunned and accepted his father’s suggestion.

“Also, this wild boar can significantly improve its meat quality by eating Polygonatum sibiricum. Is it because they have been eating it since childhood that it becomes like this, or can ordinary wild boars become like this after eating it for a while during the winter?

This requires effort to explore!
Think about it a little more, if wild boars have this effect when eating Polygonatum sibiricum, then what about the big fat pigs we raise at home?
If we eat Polygonatum sibiricum like we do with wild boars, will the quality of the meat also be improved?

The current purchase price of Huangjing in pharmacies is not high. If this approach is feasible, we can completely find ways to grow it ourselves, or use centralized purchasing methods to ensure a continuous and stable output of state-banquet-grade pork!

Aren’t you thinking of raising sables and deer?

If it works, it wouldn’t be a big deal to raise more wild boars or fat pigs!”

After the old man’s analysis, Yue Feng instantly felt his thinking broadened.

It is true that Yue Lei’s cognition is limited by the times, but he also has the ability to draw inferences and think from other people’s perspectives. After his reminder, Yue Feng immediately took it to heart.

When mentioning raising minks before, Ye Jianjun had promised that if they needed money, they would get it, and there was no intention to limit the amount.

If he is interested in this ‘special wild boar’ business, then he can pay a little more money, use his connections to get some space, or even lease a mountain. With the background of a young master from Beijing, it is not a difficult task!

(End of this chapter)