Devour

Chapter 163 Life's Perfect Meal

The receptionist hurriedly said, "The best private room in Yanbo Tower is Guancang Pavilion on the top floor. It has a wide view of the beautiful scenery of the North Sea and has been reserved. The only option is Danxin Pavilion on the south side of the top floor. The environment and grade are the best among the others."

Cheng Bai said: "Okay, that's it."

The greeter led the four guests upstairs. Yanbo Building has a unique shape and tall floors. It looks like it has only five floors from the outside, but it actually has nine floors inside, which implies that it is the supreme ruler. Being high above, one can look down, enjoy the view and feel happy.

Cheng Bai inquired in detail along the way and became more and more shocked.

The Five Continents is vast, with many countries, large and small, and countless sects, clans, and gangs. The continental plate occupied by Beilinbingzhou alone is a thousand times wider than that of Qiongqi Continent, and its prosperity is breathtaking.

The strength and influence of the sects of cultivation are so huge that the gap between them is like the difference between heaven and earth. Most of the small sects are not up to standard and may only have warriors to serve as a facade. Those who have achieved the physical realm are regarded as masters of the generation.

Only the Three Religions, Five Associations, Nine Schools and Ten Sects can be considered first-rate sects of cultivation. They are powerful and influential, with disciples all over the world and countless related industries. Even the kings and monarchs of some countries are secular disciples who have great power and influence over the government and the country.

Yanbo Tower is the flagship industry of the Jingtao Sect, a major Beilin sect, among the Nine Sects. The ruler of the Canghai Kingdom is an elite from the outer sect of the Jingtao Sect. No wonder a building dares to be built with the layout of the emperor.

Entering the Danxin Pavilion, the hall is spacious and richly decorated. On the front wall of the hall is a poem "Mantanghong·Climbing Yanbo Tower" engraved with topaz. Nine-meter-long gilded couplets are hung on the pillars on both sides, with the words:

The refreshing air comes from the south, parting the clouds and mists and making the world smile;

The sea flows northward, washing away the vicissitudes of life and leaving behind the past and present.

Cheng Bai saw that the writing was vigorous and powerful, and it seemed to be soaring into the sky, so he praised: "Good calligraphy."

The guest receptionist did not forget to praise it highly: "The famous lines chanted here all come from the Taowu Academy in Zhongyuan Ruizhou. The great Confucian scholar Li chanted the famous lines and wrote them personally, which makes this place glorious. Every guest who comes here is full of praise."

Cheng Bai laughed, sat down in the main seat by the window, and asked everyone else to sit down.

The greeter sees the guests off here, his mission is completed, and he retires. The receptionist who is familiar with hospitality quietly takes over.

This was a woman with glamorous makeup, wearing bold clothes, revealing a little of her shoulders, and her fair and tender skin was as smooth as a baby's. She had an alluring, crystal-clear luster, and her figure was swaying. Her eyes were as charming as silk. She looked around at the four guests and stopped at Cheng Bai. Her voice was clear and moving: "Dear guest, Jixiang is here to serve you. Please select the full menu."

Yanbo Tower is very selective about its guests. If you don’t have a certain status, you will not be brought here.

The doorman sends away disorderly guests, the receptionist filters out high-quality guests, and the receptionist arranges affairs for the guests.

Cheng Bai curiously took the menu that Jixiang handed over, and became more and more delighted the more he looked at it.

The dishes at Yanbolou are very different from those in the past, with various cooking methods. The order is appetizers, soup, fish, meat, and the fifth course is the main course, which is the essence of the menu. Then there are wine, barbecue, iced dishes, vegetables, special desserts, and drinks.

There are exactly eleven dishes in total, and the number has beautiful meanings and is extremely particular. It is called "The Meal of a Good Life" and is said to represent a beginning and hope. Each dish is delicious and exquisite, full of romance and sentiment, showing the unique charm of local culture. It is the most grand dinner.

Cheng Bai flipped through the menu again and again, and said in surprise, "I've eaten quite a few of them. Appetizers include honey scoop fruit, cold-mixed viper, dragon's blood resin sauce, and hey... Jingmian can also be used to make fried pancakes. Meat includes moonlight venison, crocodile meat, scorpion lion meat, Chilong meat, iron-back bear paw... They are all full of good memories."

Jixiang continued, "Sir, you are a rich man, so you can enjoy such delicious food."

Cheng Bai asked: "The people of Beilin are unruly and their food is delicious, why don't they use it to make pills?"

Jixiang laughed and said, "There are few spiritual pharmacists in Beilin, and most of the Shennong Society is entrenched in Nanli Mingzhou. Even if they are willing to come to the North, why would they spend money to make medicine? The same thing, when eaten in the mouth, passes through the stomach, isn't it all the same?"

Cheng Bai was quite pleased with the food and laughed, "What you said makes sense. Aren't the six internal organs of the human body a furnace for elixirs? When you eat, the body will naturally refine it. It's quite convenient."

Jixiang smiled and said, "The ingredients listed on the menu are rare and precious in the world, and the quantity is limited. If other guests order, they will be gone, and it may take three to five days to replenish them. Young master, you have to be quick."

Cheng Bai glanced through it and understood it clearly. He asked in detail: "Are the prices on the menu paid in gold?"

Jixiang said: "Gold is the most widely circulated currency in the Five Continents. White gold, black gold, green gold, blue gold, and purple gold can all be settled according to the exchange rate."

Cheng Bai hesitated and asked, "You don't want to take spirit stones?"

He gave most of the money to Ningxiang. As the recent refining was limited, he had very little left, and the accumulated spirit stones were even more.

Jixiang said: "Spirit stones must be exchanged for money at the Silver Shop, which requires a certain commission, so few people in the Five Continents use spirit stones for transactions."

Cheng Bai nodded and said, "Let's order glass caviar for the first dish."

Jixiang's eyes lit up. The first dish ordered by the guests best reflected their taste and quality. He smiled and said, "Young Master really understands food. Glass caviar is made from the eggs of the glass sturgeon, which is the best of all sturgeons and can only be found in the North Sea. It can nourish yin and yang, improve eyesight, and increase appetite. Prepare four servings for you."

Cheng Bai shook his head and said, "How can four portions be enough? Give me four hundred portions."

Jixiang thought he had misheard and asked hurriedly, "Four... four hundred servings? Can you all finish them?"

Hei Long laughed and said, "We have a strong appetite, and each of us can fight a hundred people, so we have to calculate it a hundred times. The Yanbo Tower is so big, it can't be that we can't take it out, right?"

The smoker said, "Just follow our master's orders. We have our own reasons."

Jixiang smiled and said, "Other stores definitely don't have so much inventory. Only Yanbolou has a deep foundation and can definitely prepare everything."

Lu Miaoting approached Cheng Bai and whispered, "I can't eat that much."

Cheng Bai smiled and said, "I'll help you eat." Then he ordered the second dish, "Let's have this Fushou Qijian."

Jixiang exclaimed, "My lord, you have a good eye. Fu Shou Qi Quan is the best soup in Beilin. It is made with seven kinds of mountain delicacies, seven kinds of seafood, and seven kinds of seasonings, simmered over a slow fire. It is a tonic that replenishes energy, nourishes the body, and prolongs life. Even the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty in Zhongyuan Ruizhou sent famous chefs from afar to learn from him, but it's a pity that they couldn't get the original taste. Only the Fu Shou Qi Quan of Yanbo Tower is the best soup in the world, and no one else can learn it."

Cheng Bai added: "Also four hundred copies."

Jixiang was a little stunned, and whispered softly: "The ingredients of Fushouquan are complicated, which is much more difficult than Liuli sturgeon. Are you sure you are not joking?"

Hei Long said unhappily: "Don't underestimate the Heaven Devouring Sect. Our Lord devoured the heaven and earth. Are you afraid that you can't afford only 400 portions of happiness and longevity?"

The smoker urged, "Just prepare yourself."

Jixiang smiled and nodded repeatedly in agreement: "Other families really can't do it, but Yanbo Tower always has the ability to do it."

Cheng Bai continued to order dishes: "The third of these signature dishes, the crescent of the mullet, the belly of the red carp, the fin of the megalodon, and the lips of the bloody face of death, is there nothing else? What is this? Mermaid cream?"

Jixiang explained: "Mermaid cream is the fat of mermaids. It can burn for a long time and has a unique flavor. After being cooked with 16 secret techniques passed down by the famous chef of Yanbo Tower, it is fresh, tender, smooth and melts in your mouth. This third famous dish ranks above the previous four signature dishes."

Cheng Bai was delighted when he heard this and said, "Great, I've never tasted mermaid cream before, give me four hundred servings."

Jixiang gradually got used to the astonishing quantities and silently memorized the menu.

The meat selection was more diverse, but Cheng Bai ordered the fourth dish as quickly as possible: "Garuda bird breast meat, this is a good thing, eating it will make you not afraid of cold or heat, I want 400 servings."

Jixiang said hurriedly, "There is only one piece of this ingredient. The hunters of the Ranger Association just brought it from the south this morning. It is huge and could have been divided into dozens of portions. Now we just take it all out."

Hei Long said: "That's right, let's make a big deal. We are generous and must enjoy ourselves."

The smoker was drooling and secretly wiped his mouth with the towel on the table.

Lu Miaoting whispered, "Leave some for Ah Huang and the others."

Cheng Bai nodded repeatedly. He thought about the main dish the longest and said hesitantly, "The five-color rice looks good at first glance. After all, it is grown in the field. It doesn't look like a rare thing."

Jixiang explained, "It's not that simple. The so-called five-color rice is high-quality rice that is a specialty of the five continents. The Donghua Continent produces vanilla rice, which is light green in color; the Nanli Continent produces flame rice, which is pink in color; the Ximang Continent produces wisdom rice, which is snow-white in color; the Beilin Continent produces chalcedony rice, which is blue-green in color; and the Zhongyuan Continent produces golden rice, which is apricot yellow in color. All five kinds of rice are tributes, and only the royal families in the secular world can enjoy them. In addition, how can we eat them all at the same time in different places?"

Cheng Bai thought for a moment and said, "Having said that, the main dish shouldn't be so plain. Let's go with this Hen's Egg."

The 鵸鵌 is a strange bird with three heads and six tails, and possesses psychedelic powers.

Jixiang said tactfully, "My lord, you are amazing. It is not easy to get quail eggs. You should steam the whole egg, crack the shell when it is served, and scoop it out with a luxurious silver spoon. It tastes delicious and sweet. It can refresh your mind and ward off evil spirits. There are only a hundred eggs in the inventory of Yanbo Tower."

Cheng Baihao said: "I want all 100."

Next is the wine. The people of Beilin love fine wine, and there are many kinds of wine, including beer, fruit wine, medicinal wine, etc. The Sanxian Fruit Wine that has been seen before is also on the list, but there is no Earth Spirit Wine that only comes from the Divine Gourd.

"This Iron Blood Nectar is your signature wine. Is it strong?" Cheng Bai asked cautiously, not knowing much about other people's alcohol tolerance.

Jixiang responded, "The most expensive wine in Yanbo Tower is Iron Blood Nectar, which is the exclusive secret brew of the Tiexin Clan. It is mellow but not strong. The more you drink it, the more fragrant it becomes. It is beneficial to strengthen the will and can boost the morale of warriors. It is known as the wine of warriors. Only Lanhui City in Beilin can produce it. It is one of the trump cards that has made Yanbo Tower so prosperous for a long time."

Black Fly salivated and said with a smile, "Fine wine and I have the same taste, just come and drink from the barrel."

One barrel was enough for a banquet for ten people. After several months of drinking Earth Spirit Wine, Cheng Bai was confident that he could handle it. Since the smoker and Lu Miaoting were not good at drinking, he ordered, "Two barrels first. If it's not enough, add more."

Then there is barbecue, which has a wide variety of ingredients, including land, sea and air, and both meat and vegetables. The north is cold, and barbecue is suitable for replenishing calories, which brings out the delicious taste and greatly increases appetite.

Cheng Bai suppressed his petty choice of grilled oysters and carefully selected the blue lobster, which is the rarest among the four colors of lobsters: green, yellow, red and blue.

Chilled ingredients are even more particular. This dish does not go through any cooking process. It is simply made by cutting the land and sea delicacies into thin slices and placing them on ice. It must be fresh and easy to eat raw. It is Bei Lin’s most classic dish.

Cheng Bai chose the chilled sliced ​​haha ​​fish and said happily, "Four hundred heads, all sliced ​​and chilled."

Jixiang applauded and praised, "Young Master, the ingredients for grilling and ice-cooking are all top-notch. Blue lobsters are rare and precious, and have a unique flavor. Haha fish have six legs and six fins, and can jump out of the sea and fly. They are agile and swift, making them difficult to catch. Northern hunters roamed the North Sea for several days, and the number they sent to Yanbo Tower was barely enough."

The meal was done in one go. The vegetables chosen were Beilin’s famous seven-color wolf eggplant, and the dessert was Lanhui City’s famous specialty Cuixia melon, both for 400 portions.

We only ordered four servings of the final drink, Wojing tea, to help us clear our spirits and sober up, and to also get a feel for how to make tea with this ingredient.

After ordering the entire menu, various dishes were served one after another, and the two demons devoured them with relish.

Glass caviar, each drop shines with luxurious luster like a pearl, is plump and delicious. Just lick it with the tip of your tongue and crush it, the delicious taste brings you endless ocean flavor.

Fu Shou Quan is sealed in a wine jar and simmered. When you open the lid, the aroma is fragrant and refreshing. The mellowness of the meat, the deliciousness of the seafood, and the freshness of the mushrooms are intertwined together in a perfect harmony, with endless flavor.

The mermaid cream solidified in the plate is like golden crystal, soft and elastic, and will burst in the mouth with a light bite. It is tasteless at first, but gradually brings a comfortable sweetness and smoothness, and the pleasure is irresistible.

The breast meat of the Garuda bird is golden in color. A full, extra-large bowl of it occupies the center of the table, bringing a rich fragrance to the whole room, as if the air has become nourishing. It is delicate, silky and chewy when eaten, with an excellent taste, and gives you a warm and happy feeling when it goes down your stomach.

The eggs of the pheasant are even more amazing.

Jixiang personally cracked the eggshell for the guests, revealing the plump and white egg body. He scooped up a mouthful and tasted it carefully. It was elastic and smooth, with a faint fragrance and sweetness. The egg yolk inside was the most wonderful part. It was amber in color, as thick as honey, and melted in the mouth. The rich flavor was unforgettable.

The grilled blue lobster is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, as if taking you on a swim in the sea.

The Haha fish fillets are boneless and spread out in the ice flowers, showing off their natural flavor to the fullest.

The colorful wolf eggplant is sweet and sour, with a pleasant fragrance. The Cuixia melon has a crisp texture and is sweet but not greasy. The delicious and juicy vegetable and fruit desserts complement each other.

Every dish immerses your taste buds in infinite joy and is a supreme enjoyment.