A Bowl of Jjajang, The Son-in-Law of Jegalse - Chapter 501



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Episode 501

invitation

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Just as dog meat has been traditionally consumed in Korea for quite a long time, a unique meat-eating culture that remains common in Asian countries such as China and Vietnam is the eating of cats.

Vietnam is a country that is so devoted to cats that there are even restaurants specializing in cat cuisine.

‘It’s so delicious that they even open a specialty store…’

To be honest, cat meat is said to be very tough, and since it is a carnivore, it has a strong smell.

Carnivorous beasts have a unique scent, but since cats eat mice, they have a similarly strong scent.

Therefore, cat meat itself cannot be said to be good meat, but the cat meat culture continues in Asian countries such as Vietnam because of the unique symbolism of cats.

What this means is that the cat symbolizes a small tiger.

A cat is a miniature version of a tiger, the king of wild beasts.

The idea that one can ingest the energy of a tiger by eating a cat, which has been passed down since ancient times, has continued under cat food culture.

Is cat meat an ingredient that contains the expectation that the energy of a tiger will rise?

Tigers require risking one’s life to catch, and they are not easily found, so instead of pheasants, tigers eat chickens, which are small and easy to catch.

“A cat?”

Youngyoung tilted her head when I asked her to catch the cat, but I didn’t mean what I said.

Because what you actually need is not a cat.

‘Just thinking about cats makes me feel terrible.’

“No, that’s just a joke. Go out to the field tomorrow and check to see if any of the wild cats, that is, the wild cats, are out there.”

“Ah, Ryeongmyo. all right. gaga.”

“Wunlang, are you planning to turn it into a ceremonial tomb? “Ryeongmyo’s meat is soft and fragrant.”

“Yes, sister. “I guess cats smell and are tough.”

In its past life, Yongho-tang (龍虎湯) was known as a dish made with cats and snakes, but the actual use of cats in Yongho-tang (龍虎湯) is considered a low-class dish.

That’s because in Jungwon, even the same dish can be divided into high-quality and low-quality dishes depending on what ingredients are used, and the same goes for this Yongho-tang.

Therefore, I decided to make a high-quality dish with cat rather than a low-quality dish.

Even in the luxury hotel kitchen where I worked, when making the same Yongho-tang, they don’t use cat meat or anything like that.

‘No matter how you think about it, cats are a bit like that.’

Therefore, the method I will try tomorrow is an advanced version of Yongho-tang.

There are two versions of this Yongho-tang: one is made the way it was originally made, and the other is a more luxurious version.

How to make it according to its origins.

The origin of Yongho-tang is known to be from a long time later, during the Qing Dynasty. It was started by a person named Kang Gong-eum (江孝密), who was an official in the capital during the Qing Dynasty.

Although he was an official, he was said to have a lot of knowledge about food. It is said that on his 70th birthday, his relatives and friends asked him to cook a dish they had never seen or eaten before, which prompted him to create this dish.

Galgongeum, who was thinking about cooking for her 70th birthday, found a snake and a cat fighting in the yard, caught them and cooked them, which is the origin of Yonghotang.

‘No, you catch a snake, but why are you catching both of them and cooking them? But what can I do? This is ‘Jungwon’.’

Anyway, the way to make it using a real cat is the traditional way to make it, and the advanced version is made using high-quality ingredients instead of a cat, as I asked Youngyoung.

What that high-quality material is is a creature called a snack or spirit cat that I requested from Yeongyeong.

It is a civet cat.

In my past life, I used more civet cats than regular cats when making dragon tiger stew, but as civet cats became expensive and difficult to obtain, there were people caught catching and cooking cats in residential areas.

If you can get a civet cat, you don’t have to use a cat to make dragon tiger soup.

‘Honestly, it originated from a cat, but it can be said to be the original rather than a cat.’

A civet cat is a cousin of a cat, but it is much closer to a type like a mongoose than to a cat.

If you say that cats eat small creatures like mice and that they are very smelly and their meat is tough, this cat is the exact opposite.

It is these civet cats that make Luwak coffee, which is cat poop coffee, and because these cats grow by eating nuts from trees that fall on the ground, their meat is said to be soft and fragrant.

That’s why I asked them to check whether the tombs were for sale.

Well, in reality, the meat is soft but not fragrant, but since it is a wild animal rather than a cat, it is better to cook, so I had no choice but to ask for it.

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next day.

I started cooking with the snake that I had prepared yesterday and the civet cat that Yeong-young bought from Yeongjeon in the morning.

Of course, it is made with Yongho-tang (龍虎湯).

Since the snake to be used in Yongho-tang must be a poisonous snake, we agreed to give Harangi’s gallbladder for help, and we cleaned and cut the viper, which was sent to Jangjin to make my medicine, into bite-sized pieces.

Secretly, before Youngyoung sees it.

Anyway, if I take this as medicine, nothing good will happen to me.

‘No, I like it too, but it’s a problem because I like it so much I feel like I’m dying.’

Additionally, we cut up and prepared a civet cat.

When the meat is ready, the first thing to do is to poach it.

Since wild animals can have unpleasant odors and parasites, the two types of meat were first boiled in boiling water.

-Bubbling.

Place the two meats in boiling water and simmer for just a moment until any impurities start to float.

I immediately took out the two meats, washed them in cold water, and set them aside.

Then, I put water in the pot and prepared the basic ingredients for the soup.

The existing ingredients for the soup are garlic, ginger, green onions, jujubes, chestnuts, and some mushrooms.

Although it is a simple ingredient, the cooking process is also very simple.

In order to hide the unique smell of the civet cat, the entire recipe is to first crush the ginger, garlic and green onions, put them in a pot, then add the cut civet cat and snake and simmer for about two hours.

Of course, don’t forget to add chicken bones and make chicken broth.

That way, all the noise will be caught.

This is chicken broth that should not be used in stew dishes containing snakes.

It was time to wait for the juices of the three types of meat to seep out of the broth with the chicken bones added.

Youngyoung comes into the kitchen and checks the bag where the snake was kept.

Immediately, a sharp voice came out of Yeongyeong’s mouth.

“uh!? My copy!”

Youngyoung notices that the viper has disappeared.

I looked at the distant mountains outside the window without making eye contact with Youngyoung.

I can’t say I used it for cooking because I feel like I’ll die from copying it.

“Where did it go…”

“Has anyone seen my copy? “I have everything, but the copy is gone!”

“I don’t know either. Please disclaim. “Has anyone seen it?”

“no. “We don’t know.”

Yeongyeong asks about the whereabouts of the assistant, but the kitchen family, who know the situation, just ignores the situation.

Yeongyeong sighed deeply and put the bag containing the snake around his shoulder.

“I can’t. I need to catch a few more. Well, just one was not enough to use as medicine. “If anything, I have to ask them to make a lot at once.”

Then, they formed a special snake-catching team and rushed outside.

Poor Ryeon, along with Maenghee.

‘Damn it.’

It feels like trying to hide one pit viper will end up eating several.

I slumped my shoulders.

Even though I get defeated once and my wife doesn’t abuse me, I can never skip the mandatory defensive battle.

‘But for others, it’s just one mandatory defensive battle, but for me, there’s no end to it, like the defense of the British mainland in World War II?’

If my wives and I were to call the war of defense the Second World War, then I would be like the last remaining pride of a man, rather than the last remaining pride of Europe, England.

Because it is my destiny to fight the mandatory defense battles that others sometimes fight, like the defense of the British mainland in World War II.

A solitary being who fends off German bombers that fly in like crazy.

That’s what I can do.

So, if you pretend to be sick and ignore it, you can say, ‘Nogong, it’s just a pain in the head, not the pain below the neck, right? Even the old medicine king said that there is no problem with having a baby, because he never lets you skip it.

With a devastated expression, I sat down on the chair my wives had brought for me to sit on and looked at the Yongho-tang.

What can we do?

This is the path I have walked and will continue to walk.

After a while.

Even though they are civet cats and snakes, they are proteins, so the savory aroma of soup rises.

-Bubble bubble.

By the time Yongho-tang was completed, Kwon Yong, the leader of the Dragon Tiger who had promised yesterday, arrived at the spot just in time.

“Oh my, Ryu Dae-in, how are you? “I’m not late, am I?”

“You’ve come at the right time. “Everyone, please take your seats.”

After asking Wolhee to guide the Murim warriors to their seats, he immediately served them a bowl of dragon tiger soup.

I want to feed it directly and get feedback on how it is.

Well, he should be liked by the martial leader more than the person below him.

“Now this is the dragon tiger soup I told you about yesterday. “Try it once.”

“Oh, this is dragon and tiger stew, a dish where a dragon and a tiger face off against each other! “Where then?”

-Whoop.

Pour the warm soup first and taste it.

Next, Kwon Yung bites the meat of a cat and a snake.

After enjoying the taste, Kwon Yong shook his head and said.

“great. Ryu Dae-in. The soup is warm and savory, and when you eat it, you feel as if the energy of the tiger and dragon is warming your body. “You guys should try it too.”

“All right. Danju!”

The warriors of the Murim League all tasted the words of Kwon Yung.

Soon, satisfactory answers flowed from everyone’s mouths.

To be honest, it’s not a bad dish as long as you don’t like or dislike the ingredients since it’s a soup dish.

“I think it’s a great dish.”

“Yes, the soup is savory and the meat is chewy and soft, so it is a very delicious dish. “It seems like a dish worthy of being served to guests on a Moorim non-stage.”

“It tastes good too.”

I’ll have to show it to the leader, but since I said I like the person who came to run the errand, unless I say anything special, this will be enough for the dish.

He nodded and said.

“Then, you can cook with this Yongho-tang, and I will also give you the recipe for Yongbong-tang, so you can use it yourself.”

“All right. Thank you Daein Ryu. “The Lord will be very happy!”

After a long time, I took out the paper, pencil, and ink pencil, wrote down the recipe, and wrote a thank you letter to Maengju thanking him for using it.

And the moment I was about to seal the envelope and hand it over.

Meng Haodanju Quan Yong asked in a cautious voice.

“Hmm. Daein Ryu, I think I’m missing something.”

“You mean the one that’s missing?”

Kwon Yung said that there was something missing.

I looked at the recipe again to see if I had missed something, but the recipe was clear and nothing else seemed to be missing.

When I tilted my head, Kwon Yong quietly approached me and whispered.

[Hmm. The Lord is very much waiting for an invitation to the wedding.]

[Are you talking about a wedding invitation?]

[Yes, Ryu Dae-in.]

Come to think of it, there isn’t much left for the wedding ceremony.

‘Oh, you’re asking for a wedding invitation?’

I hadn’t thought about it at all because we had Mimi, but since it was common in the central region to send wedding invitations at least six months in advance, it seemed like the leader wanted an invitation.

When I predicted who would attend, I found that at the pavilion, there were high-ranking officials including Yeonseonggong Heung, Hyungnim Po, and the members of the royal family.

In the Murim, my wife’s family and some people from the old clan who are close friends will attend, so at least the Murim leader needs to attend to make our wedding suitable.

He nodded and smiled.

It would be great to use it as a folding screen after the martial arts leader’s wedding ceremony.

‘I got a nice folding screen.’

“oh my. Then of course you should do it. “I was planning to send someone separately later, but since Kwon Daehyeop is here, you can take it, right?”

“Yes, Daein Ryu.”

I wrote simple information on a piece of red paper, imitating a wedding invitation I had seen several times in my past life.

In a very polite tone, he asked me to visit Bokju sometime.

‘If I had been in my previous life, I would have received a gift, but it’s a bit disappointing.’

Has it been about five days since sending Kwon Yong away like that?

Strange guests began to arrive one by one.

The rumor that Cheongi was the best expert must have spread, so people from small and medium-sized Bangpa branches of the Murim Alliance began lining up at the entrance to receive a wedding invitation that would allow them to attend our wedding ceremony.

“What kind of fuss is this?”

People were lined up holding gifts at the entrance to the store.