Food is the best companion of loneliness の Japanese buffet

No one has not gone out to eat buffet single dog is not a qualified single dog, of course, I will not because of this boring reason and a trip to eat a meal, just feel too long have not eaten a meal seriously, in the usual, whether in the time or in the quality of things, do not allow me to savor, and recently often think of the previous time to sit at the dinner table to eat seriously, the joy of tasting the different layers of food flavor is really unforgettable, and therefore determined to find a time to find a better place to re-taste life. That kind of taste out of the different levels of food flavor pleasure is really unforgettable, so determined to find a time, find a better place, to re-taste the flavor of life.

To say that the level of flavor, I ate a sushi most impressive, it is called the name of the moon boat, practice is sushi paralyzed cut into small thumb-sized pieces of salmon, there is a small piece of yolk I do not know what eggs, dipped in a little wasabi soy sauce, the entrance must be wrapped in the yolk of the thin layer of clothing bite through the fishy flavor inside the outflow, and the fishy taste of the salmon! Coitus, into one, in order to maximize the freshness of the salmon, amino acids in the saliva of the action of the sweetness, is the best proof of feeling the wild life force in the ingredients. And will be in the taste buds in the unrestrained growth of vitality around and hunting is the mustard and soy sauce flavor, good mustard and soy sauce with, will be like a tide like they surrounded, until the original vitality in the tongue wiped away. This together with a fall, as if a small universe of the formation of housing, bad and empty are collected in the teeth.

Because of this unforgettable dish, I have always had a ritualistic love for Japanese food.

It's not easy for a homebody like me to get out of the house, and Beijing's air doesn't allow me to stay out too long, so I picked a mid-range buffet in order to be able to afford this rare trip.

The good news is that today's weather in Beijing didn't disappoint too much, so the ceremony wasn't too heavy-handed, and an hour or so later, it arrived at the Japanese restaurant located in the Second Guest House of the State Council.

The scent inside the State Council's second guest house is my favorite smell. The restaurant is in a corner of the lobby, separated from the lobby by a faux-Japanese curtain wall, and is sparsely populated, making it suitable for conversation compared to the vast majority of Beijing's restaurants.

1, white tuna sashimi

White tuna has its own special flavor, a kind of inexplicable sweetness, and in Cantonese, the word "gold" and the word "sweet" are homophonic, and I once thought that tuna was a mistranslation of sweet tuna, and the sweetness of the white tuna I prefer to understand as a kind of golden flavor, in this white tuna sashimi, basically retained and amplified the white tuna itself this golden flavor.

When I was a kid, when I ate my mom's fried white tuna, this golden flavor appeared prominent on the back of the fish, and rich in the fat of the belly of the fish, but it faded away when it cooled down, and all that was left was uninteresting saltiness, whereas in this sashimi the golden flavor is more subdued, and even though it's cold, the golden flavor is preserved well, and the oil is more evenly distributed, and paired with the texture of the meat itself, each bite feels like it's biting into a piece of fruit, and the sashimi's The golden flavor oozes through the saliva to the base of the tongue and lingers in the mouth.

2, Xiayi shellfish sashimi

Xiayi shellfish looks crystal clear, slightly white inside, like a lychee, soft and sticky texture, like jelly in general, weekdays to scallop soup mostly, the flavor is basically the same, just than the scallop is much lighter than the light, so light that people do not continue to taste the desire. Compared with its flavor, its own cold, more impressive to me.

3, sea urchin sashimi

The first time I saw this kind of thing, see the menu wrote no place only allowed to order a, thought it is more delicious and rare cuisine, will be curious to point out, its taste is indeed not people dare not praise, like with a strong fishy smell of the sea cucumber, or a line of paste, like a teddy dog pulling a diluted feces.

I remember when I was in school watching the Twenty-four Filial Piety, talking about the North and South Dynasties, there is a man called Yu Qianlou, his father is seriously ill, the doctor told him to know the condition of the disease, as long as the taste of the patient's feces, taste bitter on the good. When Yu Qianlou tasted it, it tasted sweet, and his father died soon. But I have these three bitter things in front of me, taste a mouthful can feel particularly healthy.

4, Japanese raw beef

This dish is really poorly sold, the portion is far less than imagined, four or five slices of beef, basically a mouthful of food, clamped a piece of poorly like a withered leaf-like beef entrance, mixed with some smoky flavor, coupled with the icy texture, reminds me of the Ching Ming Festival in the cemetery to burn paper but did not burn all the taste of the rain, let a person sad.

Good thing there is a bowl of lemon vinegar next to it, which has different levels of acid juice to make this withered leaf new life, originally only black, white and gray flavor has become bright and lively, that kind of multi-layered acid drive up the flavor of the meat inside, make it become dynamic.

5, matsutake seafood soup

The matsutake mushroom is an ingredient that was once fired by the tongue of China, and the matsutake mushrooms that you can usually buy are farmed, and the flavor is not as fresh as the show makes it out to be.

This matsutake seafood soup is packaged in a teapot, honestly this presentation of the form of cooking really do not agree, open a look, it turns out that the teapot is just for the cover of cutting corners in the cloth, and did not look at the so-called matsutake mushrooms, seafood, and only a shrimp soaked in it.

Pour out a cup to drink, soup mushroom flavor is more like chicken fir, seafood flavor can be said to be basically no, if you do not get a name so loud can barely be qualified , overall is a very common mushroom soup.

6, sea bass sashimi

sea bass are generally eaten steamed, the first time to eat sea bass sashimi, if not dipped in wasabi soy sauce, then it really is as tasteless as white paper, with the wasabi soy sauce can highlight the flavor of the wasabi soy sauce, the texture is tougher than the Platinum Gun, a bit like the eggplant is not cooked through.

7, octopus sashimi

The taste of octopus itself and white tuna has a similar frequency of the taste of gold, but in the olfactory dispersion of some of the octopus sashimi will be this dispersion from the sense of smell to the sense of taste, the octopus sashimi with its own unique toughness, more chewy, and in the process of chewing, it is that the unique flavor in the mouth spread out until a long time will not be dispersed. The flavor of octopus sashimi is more chewy.

When eating octopus sashimi, it is recommended not to dip mustard, because the two flavors in the same scene do not come together, two kinds of the same strong taste in the mouth fight, like too many colors of light polymerization together will appear very harsh, do not ask me how to know, I just want to spit out the mouth of this eye-piercing light, do not know the people thought I was feeling difficult to eat and want to vomit.

Octopus sashimi should not eat too much, feel that the flavor of the predatory is too strong, long time to dominate your taste nerves.

8, gagi fish sashimi

Gagi fish has a sweetness similar to the summer shellfish just eaten, from the skin to the inner gradually fade, the taste is more real than the summer shellfish, there is a kind of illusion in eating scallop.

9, salmon sashimi

I've always felt that salmon is a very strange thing, when it is not dipped in wasabi soy sauce, it feels like chewy taste, can not eat a so, but when you dip a little wasabi soy sauce, its own flavor will be stimulated (or contrast) out, especially in the meat of the kind of mellow, that kind of thick to greasy fishy flavor and raw egg yolks the most match.

I asked the waiter for a raw egg yolk, poked it, stirred it into the egg mixture, dipped the salmon in wasabi soy sauce, and then wrapped it in a layer of egg mixture, the whole flavor is familiar, through the yolk with a strong fishy taste of the salmon activated by wasabi soy sauce, which is exactly the same as when I ate the Moon Ship, but the order can not be disturbed, if you wrap it in wasabi soy sauce, then dipped in it, the whole flavor is not right, as always. It's just not right, as always, and it tastes like chewy wax.

10, roasted oysters

The whole roasted oysters as shown in the picture of the dried up, not only look at the people have no appetite, a mouthful of, all the oil, green onions, garlic, honestly not as good as outside the barbecue stalls of the roasted eggplant it, in addition to the shells, the only name left to let me know that this is an oyster.

11, akabe sushi

In my mind, sushi is to fill the stomach was invented, so sushi and self-help can be said to be out of place, but the menu of the akabe sushi successfully attracted my attention, after all, have not tasted this little guy called akabe.

But I regretted eating the first one, probably because as a restaurant in the north, it's particularly opposed to soft rice, and the rice in the sushi was really hard enough, while the akabeko on top was like a piece of dried radish with no flavor, with old and bland meat, but it would have been more popular if the radish had been this color.

12, cod fish egg roll

In many Japanese comics and Japanese dramas in the bento will have egg rolls this kind of home cooking, in my fantasy, egg rolls should be sweet things, may be from childhood living in Guangdong's sake, a mention of the egg rolls is the Macao specialties egg rolls, eating salty egg rolls really have a kind of strange beyond the cognitive.

Egg rolls have a distinctive egg flavor, like a bakery cake, which further stimulates my fantasies of fluffy and sweet egg rolls. Unfortunately, my fantasies were shattered when I tasted it, and all I could think of was the word "salty". The salty egg was sandwiched between the even saltier cod, and the taste of the egg and the fish were drowned in the salty flavor.

13, New Zealand lamb chops

lamb chops come up to have a kind of punchy stink, is a very expanding a kind of stink, eaten after the feeling will not be more dense, but is the monotonous salty flavor instead. The meat is rather faggy and oil-heavy, filling, and after finishing a serving I immediately realized I had a bit of a feeling in my stomach, rested for a while, and continued the fight.

14, baked scallops with cheese

Still in Guangdong, baked seafood with cheese series is my favorite, what baked oysters with cheese, baked lobster with cheese are letting the seafood itself through the cheese to show another side. Therefore, I was looking forward to the Baked Scallops with Cheese here, but unfortunately, the scallops here were not as good as I expected. The scallops did not have the freshness of scallops, and the cheese did not have the milky flavor that it should have, and the whole thing was covered with a salty flavor, which was really very disappointing.

15, fried cheese fillet

I think I ate a fake fried cheese fillet, the appearance looks quite normal, but a mouthful of it, and scallops with the same familiar salty flavor, a look inside, neither see the cheese, nor see the fish fillet, the inside of the sandwich is a white liquid like rice paste, to say that this is the sperm I may also believe it.

16, baked snails with cheese

snails I have never eaten, according to this dish to eat down, feel the snails and the texture of the flower nail is similar, quite chewy, but the cheese and garlic with is really too bad, the two flavors hitched together in the mouth to fight, no matter how it can not be melted into a piece, and the snails themselves what flavor, but also a little bit of the taste, I can not taste it, and the snails themselves. I don't like this kind of cooking where the side dishes are overpowering.

17, pork cutlet

In so many dishes, I feel the most solid, the most generous portion of the pork cutlet, although the flavor of the middle of the road, there is not too colorful performance, but the firm pork cutlet, with sweet and sour sauce, there is a kind of real and sweet and sour happiness.

18, teriyaki conch

The meat of the conch is similar to the snails, both are chewy, but this teriyaki sauce added too much, the whole dish is so salty that it masks the flavor of the conch meat.

The whole meal took about two and a half hours, and what impressed me the most during that time was not any of the dishes, but the hawthorn juice, which was sweet and sour and refreshing and really appetizing, not unlike those sultry soft-drink sodas.

Serious eating is indeed able to enhance the sensitivity of the taste of flavor, more able to perceive the most subtle changes in food, but if the object of perception is not strong, it is a very painful thing, the deliciousness will be magnified ten times, disgust can also be magnified ten times, and this is also a thing that consumes energy, especially long time to eat seriously, a meal down, physically and mentally exhausted.

Before leaving, the smiling waitress asked me what comments and suggestions, I glanced at my small book filled with several pages, I do not know where to spit, had to say to her:

"Nothing to say, it's all good."

I believe that we see this also see, the whole meal down actually not very happy, and indeed very disappointed, but many times life is this way, spend a lot of thought a lot of costs, but the results can not make people satisfied, spit words can be written all over the small book, but you really face the life of the time, even if the heart of a thousand, but also can only say a

"It's fine"

and then continue to look forward to the next meal~

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