206 The genius who eats soil
There are no chefs coming to North Africa in the African exhibition area.
According to Huailiangren, Egypt, which represents the top of African food culture, has a great resistance to the Hong Kong Food Competition and has not sent anyone to participate.
In the eyes of the Egyptians, Egypt and China are both ancient civilizations and have a long-standing food culture. Egypt should have dozens of places to participate like China, instead of just three places in Africa like now!
Without the joining of Egyptian chefs, the thin African exhibition area seemed a bit shabby.
There were a few black charcoal heads in the exhibition area and a guy who didn't look like an African.
This young man does not have the yellow skin similar to Asians like Egyptians, nor does he look like black Africans, his skin color is closer to brown, much like a black American who has undergone generations of genetically modified Americans.
The forehead is flat, the bridge of the nose is towering, and the delicate skin is more like an Asian race with slightly dark skin.
What attracted Zhou Dong and the others to walk over was not the appearance of this African guy, but the stack of round cakes and a large pot of tilapia soup placed in front of him.
This kind of delicacy, also called "African crucian carp soup", is very close to the tastes of Chinese people.
White tofu slices, red carrot slices and yellow ginger slices float in the soup pot, and even finely used pepper. Drinking such a bowl of hot fish soup in the morning should feel very good.
However, what really aroused the interest of Zhou Dong and the other two was the stack of round cakes.
The shape of the round cake looks very similar to the backhand round cake of China, but there are no sesame seeds sprinkled on it. The roasted ones are slightly yellow, mixed with a gray-black tone, and it looks very textured.
Ordinary people may have to taste it before they know that with Zhou Dong and the other two's sensitive sense of smell, they know that they don't eat it. What is placed in front of them is the legendary African "earth cake", which is the so-called "eating soil"!
Africans in some areas have a long-term habit of eating soil. They need to take clean fresh soil a few meters underground in the sub-Saharan region, and obtain the finest soil after crushing, filtration and other steps. Then add some flour, salt and oil to the soil, stir continuously to form a paste, and then dig out a small piece to make it into a cake or strip, which can be eaten directly after exposure to the sun.
There are two reasons why Africans eat dirt.
The first is laziness. Even if the Chinese volunteers who aid African countries taught them to grow crops, they were too lazy to do it. However, lazy people had a lazy way, and in the end they set a precedent for eating soil.
The second is because their dietary structure is single and they need to supplement some trace elements from the soil.
However, the "earth cake" made by this African guy is obviously much more advanced. Judging from the color, the proportion of grain in the earth cake is obviously higher. In addition to wheat flour, there should be corn flour, and the proportion of soil should not exceed 30%. Moreover, the earth cake he made has obviously gone through the baking process.
From the taste analysis, this modified earth cake actually has an extra earthy taste than ordinary sesame cakes, just like the natural taste rising from the ground after the new rain in the sky.
Zhou Dong and Huai Liangren looked at each other and saw a hint of surprise in each other's eyes.
Foods such as earth cakes that appear because of laziness and poverty are naturally not related to food, but these improved earth cakes in front of them are quite ingenious.
This African guy who doesn't look like an African is interesting...
Looking at the three people approaching and some judges and melon-eating crowds who were attracted by the earthen cakes, the African young man smiled happily and greeted enthusiastically: "Freshly baked African earthen cakes and tilapia soup, do you want to taste it?
Please rest assured that the improved earth cakes are only 30% soil at most, and they are the top-quality soil in my hometown that I have carefully selected, so they will not be too unpalatable..."
Zhou Dong and others were stunned. This African guy actually spoke Chinese and was quite skilled. If he didn't have the flavor of African Russians, he would be a standard Chinese youth.
The judges from various countries and regions laughed and waved their hands.
Don’t joke, okay? No matter how delicious the cake mixed with soil is, it is not as good as the pastry cakes and toast. Do you think we are so poor that we eat soil?
The professional and public judges belonging to China looked at Zhou Dong and Huai Liangren curiously.
Yan Yi, who had met once the day before yesterday, was also among them. Under his introduction, his colleagues from China all knew that Zhou Dong, who was standing in front of the earthen cake, was the famous Chinese noodle king recently, not to mention Huai Liangren, a great figure who once stirred up the storm of China for a long time.
Could these two great gods be interested in African rustic cakes?
How is it possible? How can these two people have never eaten any good things? How can they eat dirt in public?
The African guy seemed to see that Zhou Dong and Huai Liangren had a special identity. He looked at Zhou Dong for a long time and suddenly shouted in surprise: "Are you... the King of Zhou in China?
Oh my God, I'm so lucky to meet you here?"
Huai Liangren poked Zhou Dong with his elbow: "Okay, I don't even recognize this kid, do you know you?
I didn’t expect that the name of your Chinese King has been passed on to Black Africa.”
Zhou Dong was also quite surprised: "Do you know me?"
"Of course! My Chinese name is Zhou Aiguo, but we have the same surname!"
The African guy said excitedly: "My mother is from Chinese, so I fell in love with China since I was very young!
After my mother passed away, I have been paying attention to information about China.
What I admire most is Chinese food, so I have subscribed to many Chinese food magazines; although it is expensive to subscribe to these magazines across the country, everything is worth it because I found my idol on "Looking for Taste in Great Powers", and that is you!
If it weren't for the photo you had in the magazine that only had one side face, I would have recognized you long ago!
Do you know that I came to Xiangjiang to participate in the food competition, hoping to see you!
Thank God, He must have sent you to me, otherwise I will miss this opportunity!"
After looking at the African guy who was so happy that he was incoherent, Lu Luxin laughed and said, "Congratulations to King Zhou, you have gained an African fan and are still a rich second-generation African who loves China."
In Africa, you can subscribe to Chinese publications and spend a lot of money to come to Xiangjiang to participate in food competitions in order to meet your idol. This is definitely a rich man in Africa. Lu Luxin even doubts whether this kid is a prince from a small African country or something...
Zhou Dong glanced at the African guy named Zhou Aiguo, picked up a dirt cake and gently bit off a small piece.
This kid is not simple, he felt it just now; now he needs to verify his guess, perhaps because he is his fan?
After chewing it gently for a few times, Zhou Dong actually swallowed the dirt cake, and then took the fish soup handed over by Zhou Aiguo with both hands and took a sip.
"I didn't vomit?"
My colleagues from China were surprised. With Zhou Dong's tasting ability, there is no reason to swallow such a bad rusty cake?
"God! Please give me some comments."
Zhou looked at Zhou Dong with a patriotic look, and his nervous heartbeat exceeded 150 times per minute.
"The rustic cakes you make are not delicious. If they are more delicious than other delicacies, they can even be said to be very bad, so I think it is not considered a delicacy..."
The Chinese colleagues watching nodded after hearing this, and knew that this was the result.
The King of Zhou’s noodle is willing to take a bite, which has given fans enough face. How could he recognize this kind of garbage thing?
Zhou Dong glanced at the Chinese colleagues who were discussing each other and continued: "However, just for this earth cake itself, you have already achieved the ultimate ability.
You let me see a rare cooking genius in this bad food that is not delicious at all... "
Chapter completed!