Chapter 387 Experience
As soon as you put the preserved egg in your mouth, you can instantly feel its smoothness and tenderness.

Unlike preserved eggs made from duck eggs, preserved eggs made from chicken eggs are not as firm and have a relatively softer taste. At the same time, they are not as unique in flavor as preserved eggs made from duck eggs, and have a lighter taste, lacking in flavor and aroma.

Coupled with the instability of the production process, most of the preserved eggs sold on the market are made from duck eggs, and there are very few preserved eggs made from chicken eggs.

Most of the time, people in rural areas pickle eggs into preserved eggs when they have leftover eggs to extend their shelf life.

The preserved egg in your mouth is smooth and tender, with a subtle coolness and elasticity, just like holding a mouthful of pearls. At the same time, its unique soft texture melts in your mouth, and the cool feeling of jelly gradually melts in your mouth, and the unique flavor of the preserved egg is slowly released at this time.

It is a mixture of the aroma of alkali, egg and the unique flavor produced during the pickling process. It has the familiar taste of eggs and a novel touch, which is unforgettable.

At the same time, the preserved egg in the mouth presents excellent harmony in flavor. The unique flavor and egg aroma are perfectly integrated into one, and the transition is extremely smooth and silky without any hindrance.

The flavor does not cover up the egg aroma with its strong taste, but instead blends into the egg aroma, adding a rich background to the egg aroma. With every chew and taste, you can feel the wonderful changes of the rich taste in your mouth.

If that were all, this dish would only be considered mediocre.

In this dish of cold-mixed preserved egg, in addition to the preserved egg as the main ingredient, the seasoning also plays an important role.

The sour taste cleverly neutralizes the alkaline taste in the preserved egg, making the transition of taste smoother and weakening the strong stimulation brought by the alkaline taste, while retaining the flavor and making it more gentle and attractive.

The fresh and salty aroma of soy sauce highlights the sweetness of the egg. The salty taste makes the sweetness of the egg more distinct and crisp. The delicious taste of soy sauce adds a bit of complex charm to the egg, making the preserved egg taste like meat with a long aftertaste.

To be honest, the taste is not particularly distinctive or unique, and it is hard to say that it has any outstanding features.

But the strange thing is that the five senses, which have always been chattering, remained silent at this time, as if even they could not find any shortcomings in this dish, and could not find any areas for improvement in this dish.

Is this dish perfect?
No, it’s not so much perfection as it is that all the flavors maintain a delicate balance. One more would be too much, one less would be too little, and even the slightest change would make the dish’s perfect taste unrecognizable.

This dish gives people the feeling of walking on a tightrope, and it happens to be walking on the only tightrope that exists, called "delicious". If it deviates a little bit, it will fall to the ground and there will be no recovery.

The taste it presents is extremely balanced and ingenious, and it occupies the most comfortable and pleasant position.

No matter who you are, even the most picky person, after tasting this dish, you can’t say anything bad about it, only the word “good”.

At the same time, Xu Qing felt that this was a skill he could not learn.

This cannot be said to be a skill, but more like an intuition formed by experience, like someone who has walked on a road countless times and is so familiar with it that even if he is blindfolded or walking on a thin steel rope, he can still walk steadily to the other side.

Speaking of cooking skills alone, Xu Qing himself has very strong skills. If he were asked to cook this dish, he would be able to show off his skills.

However, this intuition formed by experience, this delicate balance of walking on a tightrope with your eyes blindfolded, is not something that can be easily achieved by talent.

Master Yuxian deliberately restrained all his skills and only used the most ordinary techniques, plus his experience and intuition accumulated over time, to finally make this dish.

Even with the five senses of transcendence, there was nothing wrong with this dish. Xu Qing looked at Master Yuxian with amazement in his eyes.

If it is a superb skill, with his extraordinary talent, he can learn it to be 80% or 90% similar just by taking a look.

But he could not learn Master Yuxian's ability.

This was also Xu Qing's biggest weakness. He had only been in contact with cooking for a short time and had too little experience. Even though his talent was enough to make up for most of his disadvantages, when facing someone who was as talented as him and more experienced than him, his weakness was completely exposed.

But how can experience be acquired quickly, except through gradual accumulation over a long period of time?

Still there.

If there is an experienced expert who is willing to pass on his life experience and everything he has learned and known to him, Xu Qing will be able to gain the experience and knowledge accumulated by others over decades in a very short period of time.

This is what Master Yuxian is doing now.

He skillfully incorporated his lifelong experience and hard work into this table of dishes.

These five dishes are also the five most representative cooking methods.

The taste of each dish is like the wind blowing away the sand and revealing the only existing steel wire rope. They use the taste to tell Xu Qing about its existence, how to walk on it accurately, how to grasp the taste in a balanced way, and how to reach the other side of deliciousness.

How much he can learn depends on Xu Qing's own understanding.

Xu Qing gathered all his thoughts and faced the five dishes in front of him no longer as if he were tasting delicious food, but as if he were facing a teacher.

With a devout learning attitude, he savored every flavor and the infinite mysteries revealed in the flavor.

Her keen five senses sensed his intentions and were fully mobilized at this moment.

Only this time, they didn't come to find fault. Instead, they used their power to understand and analyze the mysteries of the dishes, breaking down and digesting all the knowledge hidden in them.

After the cold dishes, there are stir-fried eggs with chopped green onions.

The eggs are fluffy and tender, with a hint of sweetness and mellow egg aroma. The fresh fragrance of chopped green onions is quietly blended into it, which not only removes the slight fishy smell that the eggs may bring, but also adds a bit of vitality to the dish.

At the same time, the light spicy taste of chopped green onions and the soft taste of eggs blend perfectly into one, forming an indescribable harmony, teasing the taste buds just right.

The fried eggs are slightly charred on the outside, with a slightly crispy texture, while the inside is tender and soft, melting in the mouth. After a short high temperature heating, the strong aroma of the chopped green onion is perfectly released. At the same time, its taste is crispy while adding a bit of toughness, forming a wonderful contrast with the soft and crispy eggs, and adding to the pleasant feeling when chewing.

(End of this chapter)