Chapter 709 Bear’s Paw
“Brother Yi, here comes the bear’s paw.”
Wu Lei brought the soup bucket to Li Yi.
Hearing his words, many viewers in the live broadcast room started joking and started barrage.
“What? Bear’s paw?”
“Is it a real bear’s paw?”
"Hello? Are you a police officer? I want to report that someone is eating bear paws here."
“The bear is so cute, why do you want to eat bear paws?”
Zhao Wenzhuo, who was slicing the pig, heard this and joked to Xiong Xinxin: "Brother Xin, be careful when cutting. Be careful of your bear paws."
“Believe it or not, I’ll give you a slap in the face?”
Xiong Xinxin laughed and cursed.
They also helped with the preparation of ingredients in the previous two days. They all knew that the bear paws Li Yi mentioned were actually pig trotters.
Bear paw is one of the eight treasures in ancient times, and it is also the most famous among the eight treasures.
The sentence in "Mencius" "Fish is what I want; bear's paws are also what I want. You can't have both. One would give up the fish and take the bear's paws." successfully engraved the preciousness of bear's paws in deep in the memory of future generations.
When King Cheng of Chu was about to die, he still wanted to eat bear paws again, "even if he died, he would not regret it."
But like elephant paw, bear paw is also a prohibited ingredient and can no longer be cooked.
But just like elephant paws, bear paws can also be replaced with pig trotters to make imitation dishes, and you can also eat bear paws.
Li Yi opened the plastic wrap wrapped around the outside of the soup bucket, opened the lid of the soup bucket, and a rich aroma of Huadiao wine came out.
Wu Lei was close and took a whiff, and his face immediately turned red.
This high-concentration alcohol vapor is very easy to get on your head. People with poor alcohol tolerance may become drunk just by smelling it.
Smelling the aroma of wine, Dai Long also came closer and glanced into the soup bucket.
There is a layer of oil floating on top of the stew in the soup bucket. In the dark stew below, dark red pig's trotters are soaked in it, looming.
After sniffing the aroma of the wine, Dai Long nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Bear paws require the use of flower carvings, and they must be used willingly."
"right."
Li Yi responded: "If you don't release it, you won't be able to suppress the fishy smell."
Dai Long was stunned when he heard this and asked curiously: "Have you ever done bear paws?"
"No."
Li Yi immediately denied it: "I read that in the book."
Long before he was born, black bears had been listed as protected animals and trading was prohibited.
If he said he had done bear paws, something would really go wrong.
Hearing his explanation, Dai Long didn't ask any more questions.
At Li Yi's age, it would be impossible for him to do bear paws.
“I have made bear paws.”
Dai Long said with a smile: "When I was young, I worked as a chef in a hotel in Southeast Asia, and it was no problem to make bear paws there.
Bear paws are very troublesome to process. You have to steam them first, then pluck them, peel them off and remove the bones, and then stew them over low heat until the gelatin comes out. So you have to order them at least a week in advance before you can eat them. "
Listening to his story, Wu Lei on the side swallowed his saliva and couldn't help but ask: "Is that bear paw... delicious? What does it taste like?"
His question also aroused the curiosity of the audience in the live broadcast room.
“Although I have no interest in eating it, I am a little curious. I heard that bear paws can glue teeth off. Is it true?”
“Actually, it just tastes like pig’s trotters, maybe not as delicious as pig’s trotters!”
"That has to be the right front paw of a wild blind bear. In the winter, the blind bear survives by licking its right paw. The saliva of the blind bear will seep into the right palm, making it fatter, so the right palm is the most expensive." What if the bear is left-handed?”
“This bear’s paw tastes like fat, but not that greasy, and it tastes like the rotten tendon of a thick-lipped fish.
But there is one thing. You must wipe your face with a hot hand towel after eating, otherwise your mouth will be glued and you will not be able to open it. "
“Little pigtail Liu: It took two days to hair it, a whole day to pluck it, and two days and one night to simmer it on low fire. I didn’t dare to close my eyes for fear that it would burn dry.”
“I heard that eating bear paws is legal in Neon Country. Are there many bears in Neon Country?”
“The Neon Country is not about having many bears, it’s about protecting the local aboriginal hunters.
There is a traditional winter hunter in Neon Country, called Yougui.
They are the indigenous Ainu people of Neon Country. They mainly live in the Shirakami Mountain Forest between Aomori Prefecture and Akita Prefecture.
They make a living by farming and hunting, living in small villages in beech forests.
They will engage in agricultural cultivation in spring and summer, and hunt bears in the forest in groups during winter and early spring.
In modern times, they still have a hunting tradition, but they have given up hunting serows, but they still continue to hunt bears.
They have a bear hunting quota and can kill thousands of bears every year. The bear paws eaten in Nehong come from the bears they kill. "
“Damn it! The boss is so awesome!”
"Is there such a thing? When I have money, I will go to the Neon Country to eat bear paws."
“A portion of bear’s paw seems to cost five or six thousand.”
“Sorry to bother you.”
Dai Long looked at the barrage on the screen, smiled, and then pointed at the pig's trotters in the soup bucket: "The taste of bear's paws is very similar to pig's trotters, but it's not as satisfying as pig's trotters, so it's not cost-effective. .”
Li Yi used a colander to scoop up the pig's trotters without opening the mouth.
Dai Long is a good person and knows what to say on every occasion.
This is in China. He will definitely not tell what the taste of bear paw is, but only how it tastes.
But children all know that the reason why those rare ingredients are classified as treasures is naturally unique.
The taste of ancient people is no different from that of modern people, and they can naturally tell what is delicious and what is not.
It’s just that those ingredients were rare and expensive in ancient times, and they are even rarer today.
The country enacts laws to protect species diversity, which is absolutely reasonable.
But when it comes to taste, bear paws and pig trotters are indeed different.
The taste of mutton and pork is completely different, let alone bear meat?
Bear paws do have the special flavor of bears themselves, but when cooking, in order to suppress the fishy smell, a large amount of rice wine and spices need to be used to remove the fishy smell and increase the aroma.
So when you eat it, the taste itself is already very light, more like the aroma of wine.
In this kind of dish cooked with a lot of spices, the difference is indeed not that big.
If cooked in the same way, the taste of bear's paws can reach 95 points, and the taste of pig's trotters can definitely reach 85 points.
But this ten-tenth gap represents one thousandth or one ten thousandth of the acquisition volume, a price gap of hundreds or thousands of times, and an irreparable high price.
So comparing the two aspects, eating bear's paw is definitely not worth the gain nowadays.
Even if it is legal, you can buy hundreds of pig's trotters for the price of one bear's paw, which is not cost-effective at all.
Unless the bear breeding industry becomes developed one day in the future and the price is lowered, maybe bear paws will be on the dining table of every household like other meats.
However, even if one day comes, Li Yi would rather eat pig's trotters than bear's paws.
Because as Dai Long said, making bear paws is a troublesome thing and you have to have experience, otherwise it won’t be handled cleanly.
Besides, he can do it alone, and eat it with a group of people, damn!
If you have that time, you can stew a few pots of pig's feet and feed dozens of people, so why waste that time?
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