There are actually different opinions about the earliest origin of hot pot.

However, the earliest physical evidence is from the Han Dynasty, more than 1,900 years ago. Vessels with similar functions were unearthed from the tomb of Houhunhou of Hanhai.

This also proves that this cooking method of using a metal container as a container, heating it on a fire to boil the soup in the container, and then using the boiling water to cook the ingredients and eat them as you cook them has been around for at least 1900 years.

Then in the long history, it gradually evolved into the hot pot today.

Modern hot pot, because of its convenience, speed and wide range of ingredients, has become one of the most widely accepted catering models in today's society.

Especially in areas rich in products, the ingredients you can see in hot pot are almost all-inclusive.

Whether it's flying in the sky, running underground, buried under the earth, or swimming in the water.

There's nothing you can't think of, but nothing you can't eat.

Everything can be cooked in hotpot!

In Guangdong Province, hot pot is also called Dabian Lu, among which beef hot pot and seafood hot pot are the most well-known.

Especially in autumn and winter, it can basically be said that there is no need to have fun!

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Although Lin Qi chose to have hot pot for dinner because he didn’t want Wang Ruoqing to interfere with his skills.

But after all, the target of this dinner also included his biological father, mother and himself.

So you can’t be casual about the ingredients.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Lynch had already arrived at the meat and vegetable market.

In his previous life, he especially liked to go to the market to buy vegetables at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, especially seafood.

Because this is generally the time when stalls have finished their business in the morning, taken a break at noon, and just started to reopen in the afternoon.

At this time, many products have just been replenished at noon or afternoon.

In addition to the freshness being relatively guaranteed, it's not like the morning market where all the items are leftovers.

As we all know, as long as the morning market is after 8 o'clock, basically all the stalls have already been visited by the grandmothers and aunts who got up early.

It is absolutely impossible for a person like Lynch to arrive at the market before 9 o'clock in the morning.

After arriving at the market, Lin Qi walked with ease to the stall where he and Zhang Xiaoxiao bought snails and abalone during the New Year's Day holiday.

Ever since he bought something here on New Year's Day, Lin Qi felt that this seafood stall had a fairly complete range of goods, and the stall owner was also relatively honest and didn't have any evil intentions.

So I asked him to help me a few times later, and the shopping experience was pretty good every time.

Therefore, every time Lynch comes to this market to buy seafood, he will take a look here first. If he can buy something here, he will basically not buy it elsewhere.

Including the seafood hot pot that Zhang Xiaoxiao and I ate at the rental house in Longhui Community two nights ago, the ingredients were all purchased here.

At this time, the stall owner was still setting up the stall. After discovering Lin Qi, he greeted Lin Qi warmly.

"Coming?"

The boss was very impressed by the fair-looking rich second generation in front of him, wearing a loose sweater, jeans, and sneakers. He seemed to have no airs but was very generous.

Because young people of his age rarely come to the market to buy food by themselves, and even fewer are generous.

Although this young man doesn't come to his stall many times, he spends a lot of money every time he comes. A few days ago, he and his girlfriend came to buy a small 2,000 yuan worth of seafood.

"Boss, do you have anything good to introduce today?"

After Lin Qi approached the stall, he handed the boss a cigarette without any fuss while looking at the dazzling variety of fresh seafood in the seafood pool in front of him.

Every year at this time of spring, the supply of all kinds of mid- to high-end ingredients on the market is particularly abundant, and some of the rarer things can be easily seen in the market.

The boss smiled and took the cigarette from Lynch, glanced at it, felt soft, and quickly lit it.

At the same time, he silently compared the way this young man handed out cigarettes to those big bosses who often came to his stall to pick up high-end goods.

Almost exactly the same.

"What do you think after eating the Eastern Star Spot two days ago? If it's good, there's still some left. It's all alive and kicking. And today's Pipi Shrimp is also good. The shrimp paste of each one is very plump."

As he spoke, the boss immediately picked up a shrimp that was about two fingers wide and two-thirds as long as a palm, and held it under an incandescent lamp to show it to Lynch.

"Look at this shrimp paste, isn't it particularly plump?"

Lynch looked up and under the strong light, he could clearly see a dark brown strip running from the tail of the shrimp to its head.

This shrimp paste is indeed very filling.

"Okay, give me two kilograms like this, but don't mix some useless cream in it. If it doesn't work, I won't buy from you next time."

Those Pipi shrimps imported from Thailand in later generations, each one as thick as an arm, have probably not been introduced yet. Anyway, they have basically not been seen on the market, so the traditional Pipi shrimps like just now are already quite big.

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"Don't worry, I guarantee that every item is of this level." Having been in business for decades, the seafood boss knows very well.

People like me who understand goods but are not used to asking about prices have very high quality requirements for things.

Several big customers like him are like this. You have the final say on the price, but if you find that your food is not good after eating, then you will be embarrassed and will not come next time.

"Dong Xingban, please have one too and slice it for me. I'm going to take it back for the hot pot. Pack the head and tail and fish bones separately. I'll use it to make soup."

"There are also four blue crabs. I want meat crabs, not cream crabs. Try to pick out seven or eight ounces each, and you can cut them into pieces for me. I also have one lobster. I want it from Hong Kong, not rock crabs or geoducks."

Come on 12..."

After a while, Lin Qi handed over a dozen ingredients one after another, and the boss next to him was beaming with joy as he cooked them to order.

The biggest advantage of eating seafood hot pot is that the portion of each ingredient is actually not large, so you can eat a few more things every time you eat and you don’t have to worry about wasting ingredients.

Because Lao Lin trades stocks at home every day, if there are ingredients for the hot pot that night, he will put them directly in the refrigerator and let him cook seafood noodles or seafood noodles at noon the next day to finish the consumption.

It's just that the uric acid is a little higher. Anyway, Lao Lin's uric acid is not high to begin with, at least it is much stronger than Lynch's.

In his previous life, Lynch suffered from gout due to hyperuricemia at the age of 35.

But until Lin Qi was reborn, Lin Guodong's uric acid index was still very normal.

Genes are really very subtle things.

"Okay, that's all! You help me take care of it. I'll go over there to buy some side dishes first."

"Just tell me what side dishes you want, and I'll get them for you. Just treat it as a gift from me. I'm more familiar with this market and the things I get are better."

Because the seafood that Lynch had just ordered totaled no less than 4,000 yuan, so the enthusiasm of the seafood boss was already palpable. Who would care about giving Lynch a little side dish?

In his mind, strengthening services and firmly grasping big customers are the serious things.

Who dares to say that small businesses and hawkers these days don’t have a sense of service?

"Okay, please help me get two radishes, a piece of ginger and two pounds of chrysanthemum. Thank you!"

After saying that, he handed the boss another cigarette.

"Is this enough?"

The boss took the cigarette, and after receiving confirmation from Lynch, he turned around and ordered a child who looked to be his son, who looked about twelve or thirteen years old, to get food from an unknown stall, while he went to help at full speed.

Lynch handled the items he had just purchased.

Lin Qi, who had nothing to do, could only stand next to the stall, sending flirtatious messages to his wife, while watching the boss kill the fish mercilessly.

But looking at the ease and ease with which he struck the knife, Lin Qi suddenly remembered that bad joke from later generations!

With the boss’s posture, I’m afraid he must have had RT-Mart’s skills for ten years.

About half an hour later, everything was processed and packed.

The boss even thoughtfully prepared a small foam box for Lynch, with a small layer of ice cubes in it.

This saves Lynch the trouble of having his hands pinched easily while carrying large and small bags, and can also preserve the freshness of the ingredients to a certain extent.

Sure enough, the service for the 4,000 yuan business was particularly good.

After paying the money, Lin Qi went home directly.

It was probably around 5:20 pm when the Jetta drove into the underground garage of my community.

Lin Qi found that Lao Lin's car had not come back from picking up his mother.

So he first moved the foam box full of ingredients back home, then went down to the garage again, and took out the remaining 1500ml bottle of Paratin and 8-strip Soft from the trunk of the car.

There is no way, since my father-in-law has already given it to me, I can't treat my biological father favorably.

Treat everyone equally, treat everyone equally!

As for my own mother.

According to Lynch's understanding of Liu Zhuping, no matter what gift he gave her, she would be scolded as a waste of money.

So on the way back just now, Lin Qi went straight to withdraw 5,000 yuan. No gift would please her mother more than giving her a red envelope.

When he got home, Lynch immediately took out the fish heads and fish bones that had been packed separately to make soup. Later, he would use this fish soup as the soup base for hot pot, so that it would taste richer.

The other thing is to peel the radish and cut it into hob pieces. After the fish soup is almost cooked and all the fish bones are taken out, you can throw the radish into the soup and continue to cook.

The last step is to select the chrysanthemum and soak it in water for about twenty minutes to remove the sand.

As for other seafood ingredients, the boss has already taken care of them, and they can be cooked directly in a while.
Chapter completed!