Qin Li went to the supermarket and bought a catty of minced meat, a piece of beef, a dozen eggs, a packet of flour, a box of tiramisu, and a can of milk, and went to the checkout counter to settle the bill for a total of ten dollars and twenty-five cents. Qin Li turned his wallet over and only had ten dollars, leaving him with twenty-five cents, which he couldn't come up with.
The cashier stared at her with smoky eyes, as if to say, "Where's the money? Where's the money?
Alas, it was embarrassing.
Meat, eggs, flour, and milk were necessities, only tiramisu was a luxury, and she could do without it. She was about to give in and say, "No, I don't want this," when she saw a fifty-cent coin placed on the register in front of her.
She turned her head and it was Patrick.
He smiled, "Just the right amount of change."
It was 50 cents that saved the world!
Qin Li joyfully put the tiramisu back, she has a sweet tooth, loves to eat cakes, ice cream, and other pastries, and also likes to do. All other things are easy, only Tiramisu, for some reason, has never been able to do well.
Putting the food into his pocket, Patrick reached out and took it, offering to help her carry it.
Qin Li was stunned, then screamed in her mind, look, how gentlemanly he is, unlike someone from the farmhouse.
Helping to catch a thief, accompanying to the supermarket, pouring money, and now you have to take shopping bags, even if you are a gentleman, you are not obliged to do this.
Qin Li felt embarrassed and asked, "Have you eaten?"
"I ate for lunch, I didn't eat for dinner."
"Then go to my house and have a bite!"
The words came out of her mouth, but she regretted them after saying them, she still had to invite people for a ten-dollar dish, is this like it? Saying it out loud made her feel shabby herself.
So, she changed her words, "Forget it, or ..."
Before the two words next time even left her mouth, she heard Patrick say, "Good."
Then, she led the barrister back home.
Not long after putting the things down, Qu Dani also came back from work, and as soon as she entered the house, she shouted that she was hungry. After a day of physical labor, she came home wanting to treat herself to a good meal.
She looked up and saw Patrick, and couldn't help but be taken aback, asking, "What's the old king next door doing here?"
The two of them disliked the name Patrick as being awkward, and Old King Next Door became his code name.
Qin Li recounted what just happened near the subway station, Qu Dani listened to the fear, pinched Qin Li a little Dao, and scolded, "You are also too big, actually dare to chase, in case people have a knife? You are not looking for death?"
Qin Li said, "Now that I think about it, I do think about it, but at that time, I only thought of the file stored in the cell phone ..."
Qu Dani interrupted her, "What kind of bullshit file, isn't it Yan Sen's photos and videos? If you really can't let him go, just go back!"
Qin Li was poked in the heart by her sentence, her face reddened, and she snapped, "Not all of them. Some phone numbers are important."
Qu Dani glanced at her, finally giving face to not poke her again, and with a turn of words, she shifted her attention back to Old Wang, saying, "This Patrick person looks civilized and weak, but I didn't expect to have a couple of hands, so I'm impressed."
Qin Li also shared the same feeling, "He also said that he went to China to participate in a Wing Chun competition, doesn't that sound very impressive."
Seeing the two girls' gazes cast over, Patrick understood and pretended not to, not moving as he raised his cup in a toast.
Qu Dani grinned at him, and praised with a great sigh, "The family is out of ammunition, only a package of minced meat, a piece of beef, and a carton of eggs are left, with just this much you dare to invite him back for dinner, I'm also convinced of you."
Qin Li, "I just casually said, I didn't expect him to be polite at all, he came."
If in China, this kind of word between neighbors every day several times, is just mouth polite, saying it has eaten, who will take it seriously ah?
Qu Dani waved her hand and said, "You don't overestimate the emotional intelligence of the Germans. Whether it's a genuine invitation or a fake politeness, they can't tell the difference stupidly. So next time, if you don't want to invite, don't bring it up."
Qin Li let out an oh, still feeling quite innocent.
Qu Dani's gaze sweeps over the flour and eggs placed on the table and asks, "What are you going to treat him to? Pancakes? That's too shabby, they're meatless ah."
Qin Li shook his head and said, "Let's eat raw pancakes tonight."
Qu Dani was energized at the sound of it and fantasized, "It would be even better if we add a bowl of curry fan soup. "
Qin Li, "This can be had."
Qu Dani's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she hugged Qin Li, "Li Li, love tiger oil!"
Seeing how exuberant the two were talking, Old Wang next door put down his cup, got up, and walked over to join them in the middle, asking, "What are you guys talking about?"
Dani Qu, "Don't you speak Chinese?"
Patrick rubs his nose, "Can't understand the dialect."
Dani Qu smiled smugly, The Chinese dialect is one of the best in the world.
She said, "We were talking about food. Chinese people, food is the most important thing."
Old Wang nodded in agreement, "When I went to China, it gave me a feeling that if the world ends in the future, these people will not starve to death anyway."
This was a bit too honest.
The two were made to sweat, but this is also the truth, a day's work, and then go home to steam and boil to spend a few hours cooking, I'm afraid that only the Chinese people.
While talking, Qin Li washed the beef and put it into the pressure cooker to stew, and then began to do the pan-fried buns.
Shengjian steamed buns should be thin-skinned and stuffed, but also with a mouthful of soup, so that the flavor is authentic. Qin Li took out the homemade meat jelly from the refrigerator and set it aside.
Kneading looks simple, but, it is very important to pay attention to the technique, more force, less force, will affect the thickness and toughness of the buns after the skin.
German flour is great, high school and low gluten are three kinds of flour to choose from, of which the gluten flour is the most suitable for making buns, easier than the domestic rise, fermentation out of the softer and more glutinous. After fermentation, roll it into strips, cut it into small pieces, and then knead it.
The most important part of the meat filling is the seasoning, oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar, to make the freshness and saltiness right. Other than that, it is the meat jelly. This meat jelly is the lard broth Qin Li boiled by herself last week, specially made to be used in shengjian or Xiao Long Bao.
Patrick looked at her back as she kneaded the dough, although she did not have that Asian's characteristic slim figure, her front and back were very fleshy. Moreover, the way she was seriously cooking with her head down made him feel sexy and he couldn't help but want to approach her.
Qin Li's gaze slanted and saw him looking at her, so she smiled at him.
Patrick asked, "Need help?"
Qin Li shook her head, she hated it when someone interfered when she was cooking because people who didn't know how to do it would only help more and more. So, Patrick's wish was dashed, unable to help, but instead, she kicked him out.
Seeing his frustration, Qu Dani picked up an apple and nibbled on it while saying, "Don't mind it, that's just how she is. You don't have to move anything, just wait for the food, if you really can't get over it in your heart, you'll brush the dishes later."
Patrick smiled and didn't leave, just stood in the kitchen doorway, quietly observing. What interested Patrick was not the food, but the person she was. She was quite tough when she caught the thief in the afternoon, but now she was small and feminine.
Qin Li didn't care about his gaze in the slightest, her hands and feet quickly put the meat filling into the skin, and in a short while, a small white steamed bun was produced.
There was a large iron pot in the house, which Qin Li had ordered from Alibaba at a large price when he was in the farmhouse. Although there were name-brand pans in Germany, it was the Chinese ones that were used smoothly, so when she came back to Munich, she brought them along.
Dani Qu even teased her about it, saying she was the kind of person who breaks up and takes the pot with her.
Put a little bit of oil in the pan, then put the steamed buns in the pan, raw frying, as the name suggests, is the raw ones put in and fried.
After a while, Qin Li lifted his hand, lifted the pot, and poured half a bowl of water into the pot. Just heard a zi la sound, and water vapor rises to the sky, mixed with the fragrant meat flavor. When the water met the oil, tiny beads of oil alive water droplets splashed up, and after a short period of ventilation, the lid of the pot was covered back up. Steamed buns frying in oil and water, but this is a delicious frying.
The squeaking sound kept coming from the ears, while the scent gradually spread throughout the house, Dani Qu inhaled a mouthful of air hard and happily shouted, "That's right, this is the smell in the alley when I was a kid."
At these words, Patrick couldn't help but follow the smell, as if he could also recognize Dani's homesickness.
At the end of the day, Qin Li sprinkled the scallions on top, and the fragrant Shen Jian was ready to come out of the oven.
Qu Dani wowed several times in a row, rubbing her hands together, just wanting to reach out and fish for it.
Qin Li slapped her paw away and said, "Wait another five minutes."
Beef soup is stewed, fish out the cooked beef and slice it, then put a handful of vermicelli in the soup, sprinkle pepper and curry powder on it, and season it with chopped cilantro, and the beef and vermicelli soup is finished.
She served a bowl to one person, then brought the raw fried buns to the table and said, "Let's start!"
Qu Dani was waiting for these words from her, and immediately clamped a raw fried bun on her plate, while at the same time using her left hand to spoon a mouthful of beef soup into her mouth.
The flavor of the beef was all incorporated into the soup, it was fresh and salty, making it irresistible, and then she clamped on a pinch of vermicelli and sucked it into her mouth with a zippy sound, and ate that mouthful of curry, which was screaming for a good time.
Beef Vermicelli Soup, together with the raw fried buns, has been eaten since I was a child, and also loved since I was a child. In a foreign land, there is nothing happier than being able to eat a mouthful of hometown food.
Looking at Qu Dani devouring, Patrick could not help but laugh, which girl ate like this, the mouth out of the mouth not to say, the face is still left with soup, really far from the image of a lady.
Qu Dani saw Patrick was looking at himself, then slurred, "You eat, eat quickly, never be polite."
Patrick was also a little hungry, picked up his chopsticks, grabbed a Shen Jian, and wanted to stuff it into his mouth.
Qin Li said, "Be careful of the heat."
He took a bite and just wanted to say, it was not hot when his tongue was scalded by the piping-hot lard.
Qu Dani gave him a demonstration, "Bite a hole first, suck out the soup, then eat the meat and skin together."
Patrick took a bite with the skin under her guidance, and for a moment the aroma of meat, oil, and scallions burst out at the same time, making it a bit tempting to eat.
Qu Dani looked at him literally and said, "You have to eat it like this, one bite of raw pork and one bite of beef soup."
Patrick picked up the spoon and took a sip of the soup.
Qu Dani shook her head, "No no no, you're too civilized, you have to eat like this."
With that, she zips and sucks the vermicelli into her mouth.
Patrick, "..."
Qin Li couldn't help but laugh as she watched, "Come on, don't make fun of the barrister either. He's a showy master, you want him to take the rough route, isn't this deliberately making things difficult for him?"
Qu Dani, "I'm teaching him to enjoy people's food. That said, Li Li, I adore you, ten euros to make such a delicious meal, if I were a man, I would snatch you home as my wife."
Qin Li, "Then you'll have to have a sex change operation first."
Dani Qu, "I don't mind being a lesbian."
Qin Li, "Don't talk so much."
Patrick swallowed a mouth full of food and took the time to interject, "Me."
Dani Qu, "What's wrong with you?"
Patrick, "I don't have to have gender reassignment surgery."
Trudany, "SO WHAT?"
Patrick, "So I can chase her."
Quidani puffed and squirted, the fan barely escaping her nostrils.
Qin Li choked at his words, too. Ten dollars can also recover a man's heart, this is to go against the rhythm of heaven.
The two men each coughed half-heartedly.
Patrick wondered, "Are you two that surprised?"
Dani Quatre patted her chest and smoothed out her breath, "I always thought you were gay!"
Patrick corrected, "I'm bisexual."
Dani Qu, "..."
Qin Li, "..."