At this time, Yang Fan and his wife were tasting authentic sashimi and sushi in Tianshou Pavilion.

In fact, in the Warring States Period and Japan after that, there was no enough food to eat. There were any dazzling Japanese delicacies in later generations. The table was filled with chefs brought by Yang Fan, made by the chefs who were salvaged locally according to the standards of Japanese meals in later generations and fresh fish salvaged locally.

There are only two dishes on the table, which are real delicacies from this era. One is yam soup and the other is shaved ice.

Yoh-stool is not mutton soup. There is no mutton in Japan, let alone mutton. Even wagyu beef was introduced in modern times. Yoh-stool is mainly made of bean powder and chestnut powder, and is eaten with tea when drinking tea. It is a liquid solidified refreshment. This is very different from drinking tea in China with desserts.

They like to drink tea and jelly.

However, the yam soup tastes delicious and has received unanimous praise from the ladies.

It can be said that the Japanese at that time believed that tea and yam soup were the standards for receiving guests. Only by bringing them up together meant that the other party was a distinguished guest.

Yang Fan introduced: "You should eat yam soup slowly in Edo. If you eat it in one bite, you will be discouraged. It is regarded as a rusty bun."

The little girl just took a big bite and rolled her eyes to him.

The sugar-slurry shaved ice was not recognized by everyone, and it was believed that it was much worse than the ice cream in the mansion. This thing is similar to modern sugar-slurry shaved ice, but Japan was invented a thousand years ago.

The main reason why everyone doesn’t like it is because the sweetness is not enough. There are three plus signs. Yang Fan’s back house is full of greedy cats who like sweets. Their mouths are all cursed by ice cream.

At that time, Japan did not have refrigerators. Therefore, the ice cubes eaten in summer were collected from the frozen rivers in winter, and then stored in the underground ice cellar. They would not be taken out for the nobles to eat in the summer of the next year.

It requires fast-moving transportation to ensure that the ice does not melt.

Usually, the people's heavy taxes are very heavy, but if you are willing to store and transport ice, you can directly offset the tax. Therefore, many ordinary people brave the hot summer days and drive trucks to transport ice to offset the corvee and taxes.

The sugar water in this era was even more rare. At that time, Japan did not have Guangdong sugar like the Ming Dynasty. They did not have sugar and rock sugar yet.

The sugar water at this time is actually the juice made from the pueraria root, and the syrup made after the juice is collected.

Pueraria root contains not much sugar. Often, more than ten pounds of Pueraria root can make half a bowl of sugar water. This sugar water is still dark in color. Good quality is also amber color. This sugar must not be compared with sugar.

Lin Yueru took a few tablespoons and put them down, frowned and refused to eat it.

"Master, this shaved ice is not as delicious as you made. This syrup has a Chinese herbal flavor, but also a bitter taste. It seems that there is something else that has a skewer of smoke that has been stewed. It is so unpalatable." Chen Xi and Mei Xiang also complained.

Well, Yang Fan also put down the spoon, it was really not delicious.

Xiao Niangpi asked quickly: "Website is also an ancient country that has been around for thousands of years. There must be a lot of delicious food. If you have anything delicious, please bring it up. Let us give them an appraisal."

Yang Fan snapped his fingers and said, "This one can be found, but you are sure to try it. The things I arranged must be something you can eat. If you really go to the so-called delicacies of the Japanese era, I'm afraid you won't be able to eat it."

Xiao Niangpi immediately protested: "No, I'm a gourmet, and most of the foods can be tried. People want to eat top Japanese banquet dishes."

Well, the two favorite things that Xiao Niangpi loves in life are, in addition to tasting delicious food, they are just having a beauty sleep. Yang Fan often pinched her little face and said that he would raise his wife as a pig. Then he was repaired by the angry little Niangpi.

Yang Fan clapped his hands, and a group of maids from the Japanese vassal lord's mansion came in one after another with food.

Yang Fan introduced: "High-end banquets are very ritualistic, divided into nine places."

The first thing a team of maids brought up was tableware. Because Japan's castles were all sitting on the ground, the floor was covered with solid wood floors, and for hundreds of years, it was easy to see people.

These tableware are placed on the floor, and everyone sits cross-legged and eats together.

The first step is to place three types of tableware on a table called "high-destruction" (chop holder), chopsticks (chopsticks), spoons, and four types of seasonings (four types) on a table table called "hush", "wine", "soup".

The second entry: Goldman Sachs rice. The rice full of rice in a bowl is called Goldman Sachs rice, which is a ritual for banquets to show hospitality. Since the Kotofu era, steamed rice with less water content is used, while in the later period of Heian, the "ひめ rice" cooked in a similar way to modern rice cooking. In the Edo era, the staple food was still this tradition.

The third place: main course. Nine main dishes.

The two bowls in the center are two kinds of hot and cold soups:

Hot juice on the right side and make hot soup made with abalone.

The cold juice on the left is made of cold soup made by plastering carp meat, mixing salt and soup, and adding yam and mustard.

The five dishes on the top half include five kinds of fish sashimi: carp sashimi in the middle, sea bream sashimi on the right, and soup (sauce) on the left. Sashimi (なます) is made by cutting fish and birds into thin strips and mixing them with vinegar. Sashimi is a hot soup that brings the cooked fish.

Three plates in the lower half:

Puxie is made by baking fish paste on bamboo sticks or branches.

Snake Flat: Grilled Snake.

Rice sauté: Cut the carp with skin into 6mm thick, then cut it into squares about 15mm and tie it up with skewers, dip it in the sauce and roast it quickly (spread with salt and pour it with wine).

When you come to this main course, you can see that fish is the key dish, especially snapper, which is the most advanced ingredient, followed by carp and bass.

The best fish dishes for banquets before the Meiji era were selected as white fish, while yellow salmon, bonito and red tuna were called "color objects".

These colored fish are not the main dishes that nobles like at high-end banquets. This is very different from the situation where Japanese tuna and salmon became high-end ingredients after the Meiji Restoration to this day.

Xiao Niang couldn't wait to start trying it out. Putting aside whether the Japanese food is delicious or not, it is indeed better made in terms of color, fragrance and taste.

She stuttered a little bit and tasted it, and would vomit if it wasn't delicious.

"Well, the taste is OK, I can accept it." The lady tasted it for everyone first, and everyone picked up the chopsticks and tasted it. There were not many things, and they could not pick up a few chopsticks and then they disappeared.

At this time, another maid came in with her staple food.

Fourth entry: Dried food and Goldman Sachs rice

Book: That is, takoyaki, put the octopus on a stone and roast it. Then dry the dried items made.

Octopus is an important ingredient passed down from the Heian period and has always been loved by the Japanese. In "Takeji", there is a record of three thousand octopus presented by Hideyoshi Hashiba to Nobunaga Oda.

Chucai: Cut the fish (especially salmon) into thin strips and dried them, usually cut them into thin slices to eat. In "My Wife Mirror", there is a record that Youyuan Lai Chao was very happy after receiving the Chucai offered by his retainer.

Steam abalone: ​​Steam the raw abalone and dry it, cut it into slices and eat.

It is the dry goods of the dried bird pheasant. After the Heian era, most of them refer to pheasants.

After peace, the ministers and ministers gradually reduced their consumption of birds. However, the children of the Wu family still could eat them. The birds obtained by hunting in eagles are regarded as an important tradition to maintain the martial arts skills of the Wu family.

Dividing (わけつき) is a container for placing rice separately.

Chen Xi was holding a Japanese bowl in his little hand, and there was only a little rice as big as her fist. With the above dishes, tasted it in a small mouthful.

"Master, I think the taste is pretty good. Although it is not as delicious as the mustard octopus you made, these light tastes are also unique." Chen Xi said with satisfaction.

After eating the staple food, I had to come with some pickles. Yang Fan didn't know the logic of the Japanese banquet arrangement. He always thought that the people on these islands had a very clear brain circuit.

5th entry: Salt-spicy pickled products called "wa" and "bad things"

Haiyue (くらげ), a salt-grained fish sashimi produced in the pre-Nara era, was later introduced by the court as a dish for court banquets. (You can't eat too much pickled fish, this thing causes cancer. Yang Fan strictly prohibited them from eating more than three chopsticks.)

A cold soup made with abalone and miso.

Old sea rat (ほ㄄) Salt-spicy sea cucumber, a tribute from the Sanhe area of ​​the Heian era. (This thing is super disgusting, it is the salt-pickled raw sea cucumber intestines. Yang Fan didn't eat it in one bite. It looked like vomit.)

The fish internal organs made with salt and spicy bream. The Japanese dietary book "Benchao Food Supervisor" records that it is made with the fish intestines as the main ingredient. (Yang Fan feels even more disgusting, not as good as the sea cucumber intestines.)

However, he soon discovered that his wives were extremely energetic and actually ate with relish. He also complained that the master always scared them with alarmist words. It was not that scary.

Well, the staple food and pickles have been eaten, and now it’s the wine to come on stage. Yang Fan is convinced. This is a strange program of God and Ma.

From the 6th to the 9th: It's all wine. Yang Fan guessed that they had bad alcohol tolerance. Before, they all used to cushion their belly. Now is the real beginning of the banquet.

Six-in-one wine cup (さかずき), wine glass for drinking

The bottle of wine in Qijin: 沪号

Bajin is called Shuigu (みずまり) and contains soaked rice.

Jiujin is filled with water (ひさげ).

Well, at this point, the program was finally over, and the rest was to eat soaked rice and drink sake. Yang Fan was also drunk.

Yang Fan has seen all kinds of great masters who make fun of hardships on construction sites. He even dipped steel nails into soy sauce, drinking while whispering. It is said that the iron nails are dipped in soy sauce and putting them in wine. It has a special taste that makes people unable to stop.

But I was full of food and soaked rice with wine. This is so weird no matter how you look at it.

Naturally, the lady just tasted the sake and put it down, soaked rice without even looking at it.

"Master, this is a divine thing. It makes you feel disgusted. Moreover, this sake is too light and not delicious." The little girl complained.

Yang Fan took out a bottle of plum wine and said, "Let's do it here, I know you can't get used to it." He also took out the mustard octopus he made last night and a large sashimi platter.

The amber plum wine was poured into the glass, which looked very beautiful. I smelled the sweet smell before I could drink it. The ladies were all happy, and they liked sweet wine.

Sometimes when Yang Fan is out of the air, he likes to smoke while holding a glass of plum wine, and drink a few glasses in the garden while setting sun.

The color of fireworks is brightly destroyed between the fingers, and the darkness of the glass and amber are thick. It has a unique flavor.

Several people were chatting and laughing, drinking and chatting. At this time, Aunt Mei came in with a strange expression on her face.

"Master, donkey eggs don't know what to do. They knelt downstairs and couldn't get up. They asked him to speak up, but he refused."

The little girl closed her eyes and survived the spicy feeling of the mustard octopus rushing to her forehead. She wiped her tears with a tissue. She threw away the tissue and said to Aunt Mei: "Is this stuffed guy causing trouble again?"
Chapter completed!