"Wow! What's this!"
The three girls were enjoying themselves when Yun Xi suddenly exclaimed softly. Yue Lengxin and Fu Ya instinctively looked over and saw Yun Xi holding up a plate of meat emitting a misty cold air from the side shelf.
The meat was sliced slightly thicker than paper, with tender red flesh interspersed with fatty particles resembling snowflakes. It was piled neatly on the ice, forming a layer. The misty cold air added a touch of sophistication to the meat.
The three girls exchanged glances and then lowered their heads to read the menu. Soon, Yue Lengxin was the first to find the relevant introduction to this ingredient on the menu.
Snowflake beef: The beef comes from the intercostal muscles of the hundred-year-old spirit beast, the Inferno Barbaric Bull. Due to the uniform distribution of tiny fat particles, it resembles snowflakes when sliced.
Method of consumption: Place it in the pot for five seconds before retrieving it for consumption. (Recommended for use in sukiyaki or spicy hot pot. When using sukiyaki, it is recommended to serve with beaten rainbow chicken eggs as a dipping sauce.)
Snowflake beef?
Seeing the name of this ingredient, the three girls felt it was particularly apt. The thinly sliced meat with scattered fat was indeed as beautiful as snowflakes.
Moreover, quite coincidentally, there was both spicy hot pot and sukiyaki in front of them, so they could try both recommended methods.
Unlike the spicy hot pot, sukiyaki didn't have any spiciness, but its slightly sweet and delicious taste was unique and unforgettable.
"I'll go get the beaten rainbow chicken eggs for you." Yun Xi quickly stood up and walked towards the dipping sauce counter.
When she was preparing the dipping sauce earlier, she noticed the rainbow chicken eggs on the edge of the counter, but she didn't expect them to be used as a dipping sauce.
Using raw eggs as a dipping sauce?
It felt a bit strange.
Soon, Yun Xi brought back three rainbow chicken eggs and three clean dipping dishes.
For Spirit masters, it wasn't difficult to beat the rainbow chicken eggs evenly. They just needed to lightly tap the eggs on the table, then open both ends of the eggshell, pour the egg yolk and egg white into the dipping dish, and finally, with a surge of Spirit power, thoroughly mix the yolk and egg white together.
Yue Lengxin chose to try it with the spicy hot pot first. Although she didn't know that the meat from the hundred-year-old Inferno Barbaric Bull was edible, she had eaten ordinary beef before. In general, beef was commonly stewed in large chunks or skewered into beef skewers. She had never seen it sliced so thinly like this before.
But she figured that this must be to make the snowflake beef easier to cook through. Yue Lengxin quickly understood.
The slices of beef, tightly piled on the ice, were almost impossible to distinguish individually. But there was no adhesion between the slices; instead, they were distinct from each other. With just a gentle pinch, one could pick out a single slice of beef.
After picking up a slice of snowflake beef, Yue Lengxin admired the beautiful snowflake patterns on the meat before slowly placing it into the spicy hot pot.
Remembering the menu's recommendation of five seconds as the optimal time, Yue Lengxin released the chopsticks, silently counting to five in her mind. Then, she picked up the beef from the pot. In just these short five seconds, the originally bright red snowflake beef had completely changed its appearance.
If it weren't for the fact that there was nothing in the pot originally, Yue Lengxin would almost have thought that what she picked out and what she put in were not the same thing.
The picked snowflake beef was slightly curled, its surface no longer smooth but rather dotted with small and dense protrusions. If someone with trypophobia saw it, they might feel a bit uncomfortable.
Although Yue Lengxin wasn't one, she couldn't help but furrow her brows a little.
Did she make a mistake somewhere?
"Why does the boiled snowflake beef look weird?"
Well, let's taste it and hope it doesn't taste too bad.
With this thought in mind, Yue Lengxin placed the snowflake beef into the prepared dipping sauce, coating the surface of the beef with the sauce, then put it into her mouth. After a slight chew, her eyes widened suddenly.
It still had the taste of the original dipping sauce and the flavor of the spicy hot pot base, but there was a lively and refreshing taste added to it. That was the unique deliciousness of the snowflake beef. With the appearance of the snowflake beef flavor, it even overshadowed the previous two flavors, making the flavorful dipping sauce seem like mere garnish.
Such meat, even without the dipping sauce, would be extremely delicious, right?
Thinking this, Yue Lengxin tried another piece of snowflake beef. This time, she didn't doubt her cooking steps.
The snowflake beef was so delicious; what could possibly go wrong? Maybe it was supposed to look like this after cooking, and its appearance changed after being boiled.
Even though she had never seen this happen before when cooking beef.
This time, Yue Lengxin didn't use the dipping sauce; instead, she directly put the blanched beef into her mouth. With a slight chew, the delicious taste became even more apparent without the interference of the dipping sauce. The juices bursting from within the beef added to the experience, giving Yue Lengxin a completely different sensation from before.
"This beef tastes really good!" Yue Lengxin thought to herself. Suddenly, Fu Ya exclaimed, "The combination of the snowflake beef and the sukiyaki pot is too perfect!"
Sukiyaki pot?
Yue Lengxin then remembered that there was another recommended way to eat it on the menu.
Should she try it?
Now she was interested again. She picked up another piece of snowflake beef and put it into the sukiyaki pot, then took it out after five seconds and dipped it into the already beaten egg mixture.
The egg mixture had a bright yellow color. After rolling around in it for a while, the snowflake beef was taken out again. It seemed to have gained a layer of translucent egg mixture on its surface. Curiously, Yue Lengxin put the snowflake beef into her mouth, feeling a bit doubtful about this entirely new way of eating.
Setting aside whether raw egg mixture could be eaten directly, could these two, snowflake beef and egg mixture, really go together?
However, soon enough, the complex and layered taste in her mouth told her everything.
They could! Not only could they, but they complemented each other perfectly! The original and mellow taste of the egg, mixed with the freshness of the beef and the light and delicious flavor of the sukiyaki pot, created an extremely tempting taste.
Furthermore, the smoothness of the egg mixture gave the snowflake beef an additional silky texture, elevating its taste even higher than before. Even the deliciousness of the sukiyaki pot and the beef itself seemed to have improved. With a slight chew, Yue Lengxin's eyes lit up.
Both boiled for five seconds, the same ingredients, but because of the different pot bases and dipping sauces, they had completely different flavors. Truly, hot pot was a magical way of eating!
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