Volume 2 2010 Chapter 233: The Trivial Matter of Eating Fish
The three of them ate while talking, and the big bowl of shaved ice was soon finished.
On the rare days of rest at home, a few people usually make something delicious to comfort themselves.
As a Korean girl, Bae Joo-hyun's family education is relatively traditional. Although the girl's cooking skills are average due to her studies and being a trainee, she has always wanted to make delicious dishes like her mother.
Therefore, Pei Zhuxuan often took the initiative to ask to cook during this period. Although she was a novice, with the help of Yi Haoyan, the dishes she made tasted surprisingly good.
After facing her feelings frankly, Bae Joo-hyun became more concerned about Yi Haoyan's affairs.
After spending time together day and night, the attentive girl soon discovered a special detail in their lives.
As the chef at home, Yi Haoyan has never had fish on his menu in the past six months, not even once. And he never orders fish when he goes out to eat.
This is quite rare.
As a country surrounded by the sea on three sides, seafood is an important source of food for South Korea, and there are few people who do not eat fish.
Why is this?
Are there any dietary taboos?
Don’t like fish?
After thinking it over , Bae Joo-hyun finally couldn't help herself.
When she asked about this casually pretending not to care, Yi Haoyan answered very quickly, and his answer was unexpectedly funny.
"Because it will get stuck..."
The straightforward answer surprised the young lady.
The handsome and intelligent boy muttered with a rare tone of frustration and helplessness. His furrowed brows and pursed lips showed that this was a very difficult thing for him.
Eh? ?
What is the reason? ?
Could it be that this genius and sharp-tongued young master doesn't know how to eat fish?
"Ah! Can't you spit thorns?"
Bae Joo-hyun, amused by the boy's bitter face, asked in surprise, her tone filled with disbelief and a hint of gloating that could not be hidden.
"Yeah! No! I get stuck every time I eat!"
Being ridiculed, Yi Haoyan was helpless. "I have been like this since I was a child. I get stuck every time. I drink vinegar and swallow vegetables. I don't know how many times. I even went to the hospital once..."
Talking about his own troubles, the boy sighed and shook his head, rarely showing any helplessness.
It turns out that it’s not that I don’t want to eat, it’s that I don’t know how to eat!
Ha ha!
Is there something you are not good at?
Haoyan, the fool who can't eat fish~
Cute pabo～
The boy's expression of wanting to eat but not daring to eat and a bit of self-abandonment made Bae Joo-hyun couldn't help laughing.
Poor brother~
Well, don’t worry, sister loves you!
hey-hey!
After understanding the whole story, the girl came up with an idea.
So she specially prepared today's food - fried hairtail.
When Yi Haoyan saw the ingredients for tonight, he didn’t think much about it. He thought the young lady wanted to eat it herself. After all, he couldn’t eat fish or cook fish.
Bae Joo-hyun made this dish according to her mother's teachings. Yes, she learned this dish by asking her mother who lived in Daegu over the phone.
This unusual behavior also attracted questions from Pei's mother, and of course the guilty Pei Zhuxuan stammered and perfunctorily answered.
This pan-fried hairtail is a home-cooked dish of the Pei family. It is very simple to make. When you buy the hairtail, ask the boss to prepare it and cut it into sections. Rinse it with water when you get home. Add cooking wine and salt and marinate for half an hour. Make the batter with one egg. The ratio of flour to egg is 1:1. Add appropriate amount of water and stir evenly. Dip it in the batter and fry it slowly until both sides are golden brown. It can be eaten. It can also be served with hot sauce. It tastes very good.
After a while, the colorful fried hairtail was ready and served.
"Wow! I haven't eaten fish in a long time! This looks good!"
Sun Enxi happily began to eat.
Yi Haoyan glanced at the bright yellow fish pieces, licked his lips, and continued to eat other dishes.
After cleaning up the kitchen, Bae Joo-hyun took off her apron, took a new plate and went to her seat. She naturally picked up a piece of hairtail and put it on the plate, and began to pick the fish with chopsticks.
The girl skillfully used chopsticks to tear open the skin on the side of the hairtail piece, pulled apart the side strips of meat along the direction of the spine, and then began to pick out the fish meat along the direction of the large spine.
The action was fast and efficient, and in a short while, the bones and meat of a piece of fried fish were separated clearly. The skillful technique made Sun Enxi, who was eating the fish with chopsticks, stunned.
Is this possible?
Then she saw Bae Joo-hyun put the pile of pure fish meat into Yi Haoyan's bowl with a spoon.
His movements were smooth and his expression was natural, just like he was taking care of his own brother.
The boy found that there was suddenly a pile of fish in his bowl, and the delicious smell attracted people's attention.
He turned around and looked at the young lady who continued to cut meat for him. He felt a little strange and a little touched. His lips moved as if he wanted to say something.
Bae Joo-hyun seemed to know what he was going to ask. She didn't even turn her head and continued to pick her hair seriously.
"I often pick fish . She likes to eat fish, but she didn't know how to eat it when she was young and it often got stuck. So I learned to use chopsticks to remove bones. Over time, I became more and more skilled. Hairtail is relatively easy to remove. Now I can even use chopsticks to remove saury! It's fast, good, and very clean!"
The girl turned around and smiled, her beautiful smile carrying a hint of complacency, as if removing the fishbone for her sister was something she was very proud of.
"Try it, my cooking skills are pretty good! Although this is my first time frying fish, I'm very good at removing bones!"
On one side is the delicious food in the bowl, and on the other side is the girl's soul-stirring smile.
Yi Haoyan was stunned for a long time before he finally realized what was going on and started trying.
The fish meat is very tender. Although it is not as melt-in-your-mouth tender as freshwater fish, it also has the freshness and tenderness of high-protein food.
The key is that the meat has no bones, so you can eat it in big bites. The boy eats slowly and then quickly, with his chopsticks moving back and forth, and soon he finishes a piece of fish meat.
"How is it?" Bae Joo-hyun looked over with concern, her beautiful eyes fixed on the boy's face, as if she was looking forward to his evaluation.
"It's delicious!" Yi Haoyan replied with puffed cheeks.
For some reason, the boy always felt that his current behavior was a bit like a silly child being fed by his mother. He could not say anything except "OK".
"Haha! Are there any thorns?"
The curve of the young lady's mouth became more and more obvious.
"No, not at all."
"That's good. It seems my skills haven't deteriorated in the past six months~"
Bae Joo-hyun looks very happy.
It seemed as if she was very satisfied with taking good care of her silly brother.
Such an infectious smile naturally aroused Sun Eun-hee's jealousy.
The big moneybags demand that they receive equal treatment.
So little Pei was busy picking out the thorns for Miss Sun.
She didn't eat much of the fried fish herself, but kept picking the meat and bones for Yi Haoyan. The boy asked her to eat some several times, but the girl always ignored him.
As she put the fish meat into Yi Haoyan's bowl, she teased, "Ah! My genius brother doesn't know how to eat fish! How can this be? Fish meat is a very nutritious food, you have to eat more of it! You don't have to worry about fish bones in the future, I can take care of it, just eat it without worry! I will help you remove the bones in the future."
The young lady's confident look made the boy smile foolishly.
He hadn't felt such thoughtful care for a long time. Only his mother had done this for him before.
Bae Joo-hyun looked at the boy's smile and thought secretly in her heart.
Just like that, let me get closer to you.
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