"Squirrel-shaped Mandarin Fish? Can squirrels and fish cooked together really taste good?" Kushina voiced her doubts.
"It probably isn't made with squirrels and fish together. Maybe the finished dish just looks like a squirrel," Minato said after washing the vegetables.
After all, he had not washed any squirrels, so there probably were not any in the dish.
"Minato is right. There aren't any squirrels in this dish." Mu Yue rinsed the scaled and gutted fish, offering an explanation.
Squirrel-shaped Mandarin Fish was a highly classic dish in Su cuisine, one that could be said to excel in color, aroma, and flavor.
Mu Yue had watched quite a few videos of this dish in his previous life and had even tried making it once himself. However, because his knife skills had been lacking, the final product had looked nothing like the original.
But now that he had the Chef skill, the moment Mu Yue picked up the fish, he had already worked out how to prepare it in his mind. He simply had not started yet.
Mu Yue first used his knife to remove the fish bones along the back, leaving about one centimeter of spine near the tail. He then laid the fish skin-side down and made diagonal crosshatch cuts, each cut reaching four-fifths of the way through the flesh.
This step was extremely important. Once a mistake was made, there was no way to guarantee the finished dish would look good.
With the Chef God skill's boost, Mu Yue perfectly recreated the Squirrel-shaped Mandarin Fish from his memories. The golden, crispy fish flesh resembled a squirrel, and once the prepared sweet-and-sour sauce was poured over it, it was not only beautiful to look at but wonderfully fragrant as well.
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