Chapter 1287 1287. Vodka (1/5)
Chapter 1287 1287. Vodka (15)
Li Du once heard a story, it should not be a story, it is a fact.
Chinese who are a little older know that there was a three-year disaster period in modern China. At that time, there was a famine all over the country, and there was no food and hunger.
The same is true in Li Du's hometown. Many people starved to death, and those who survived experienced the torture of hunger. He didn't know how terrible hunger felt, but the protagonist of the story was a young man in his village.
After the natural disaster period ended, the young man worked hard to grow potatoes, sweet potatoes, and harvested sweet potatoes and potatoes. He tore down the courtyard wall of his house and built a wall with mashed potatoes and mashed sweet potatoes, saying that he would encounter famine again in the future There is something to eat.
This incident made Li Du realize the horror of hunger, so he can understand Abai's pursuit of food. He is not a foodie, he is afraid of hunger.
So even though it was served with horseradish mustard, it still didn't give up eating, pointing to the delicious clear soup on the table and screaming.
In Russian cuisine, soup is the first dish besides cold dishes, which can moisten the throat and stimulate appetite.
There are many kinds of Russian soups, including vegetable soup, beetroot soup, rice noodle soup, fish soup, mushroom soup, milk soup, cold soup, fruit soup, and clear soup ordered by Li Du and the others.
This kind of clear soup is not clear water soup, it is an old soup, which is boiled with fish, meat, mushrooms and other seasonings, and then the solid things in it are removed, and the rest is called clear soup.
This is similar to Cantonese-style soup. The essence of fish, meat and vegetables is in this soup, which is thick and fragrant.
Li Du took out Abai's small bowl and scooped some clear soup for him. Abai cuckooed with his hands in his arms and drank happily. After drinking, he stared at the wine on the table again.
When drinking in Russia, it is natural to drink vodka.
Vodka is the national drink of Russia. It has a long history and has been around for seven or eight hundred years. Vorkuta's vodka is famous all over Russia.
There are two brewing methods for this kind of wine, one is the same as other grain wines, brewed from raw materials such as wheat, rye and barley, and the other is to use potatoes and corn as raw materials to distill the original wine, after more than eight hours Filtered slowly.
The latter type of vodka is popular in Vorkuta, because it is a place of bitter cold, with poor environment and poor soil fertility. It was used to exile prisoners in the past.
The local winter is very cold, there is no wine to provide heat, and people can produce very little wheat, so it is difficult to feed people. How can there be surplus grain to make wine?
And thus, the potato and corn winemaking method was born.
As we all know, vodka is a world-renowned spirit. In fact, its alcohol content is not very high.
Authentic vodka is clear and transparent, very pure, almost no other aroma except the aroma of the wine, and the taste is very strong.
Vorkuta's vodka was originally brewed with corn and potatoes. It was cloudy and tasted worse than ale, so people added a little fruit juice to adjust the taste at first.
This is not a pure way of drinking vodka. Russian men call themselves tough guys and pure men. They admire the strong liquor with the taste of burning knives. Add fruit juice and it becomes a woman's wine.
But this is a small tradition in Vorkuta, and it has been preserved to this day. Abai just smelled the aroma of the juice in the vodka, thought it was delicious, and kept pointing at the vodka and screaming.
Li Du knew that this thing was terrible. Although he ordered low-alcohol vodka, it was more than forty degrees, and such a small thing as A Bai could not be touched.
He shook his head at A Bai and said, "You can't drink, you can't drink this."
A Bai was about to jump up anxiously on his shoulder, and continued to point at the vodka and squeak.
Godzilla poured some wine from the vodka-filled shaker, the fruity aroma became more intense, and the corners of A Baiqian's mouth flickered with saliva.
Seeing this, Godzilla raised his glass to it, and said with a smile: "Boss, let the young man have a sip, how can there be no vodka in such a cold day?"
Abai tried his best to reach out his hand on Li Du's shoulder. Of course, it couldn't reach Godzilla's wine glass.
Li Du rolled his eyes at him angrily and said, "Eat what you eat and drink what you eat honestly, don't mess around."
Seeing Li Du's firm attitude, Abai gave up this idea and climbed down dejectedly.
Li Du poured a glass of vodka himself. He used a square cup with very finely crushed ice cubes in it. The vodka in the shaker cup had been kept at low temperature, and when it was poured out, it was still white and cold.
Li Du doesn't know why there is such a wonderful tradition of drinking ice wine in extremely cold places, but this is a characteristic.
The wine glass was cold, and his palms hurt from the ice. He drank the wine in one gulp, as if swallowing a slip of ice.
From his mouth to his stomach, he felt a chill inside his body, which made him shiver subconsciously, but soon, starting from his throat, a fiery feeling burned.
His body warmed as the volts joined his belly.
There was still a small half glass of wine in the remaining glass, so Li Du dug the caviar into his mouth, closed his eyes and tasted the world-renowned delicacy.
Then he heard the sound of the glass being poured on the table, and Sophie exclaimed, "My God!"
He quickly opened his eyes, and found that his wine glass had fallen down, and the wine was gurgling down, while Ah Bai was pulling the table with one hand and hanging on it like a swing, with his head up and his mouth open, to receive the spirits flowing down from the table.
This vodka is iced, it is not strong at first, the entrance is very soft, but it has a strong aftertaste.
Abai drank the vodka and felt nothing. He drank the wine that flowed down, and when Li Du noticed his little movement, he jumped down and ran behind Sophie to avoid it.
Li Du hurriedly asked the others: "What will happen if the monkey drinks alcohol?"
No one has had time to answer, the answer has appeared.
The stamina of vodka appears very quickly, first of all, the stamina of the taste appears, which is very exciting and hot.
Ah Bai jumped out from behind Sophie, pinching her neck with both hands and beating vigorously, the white hair on her body exploded again.
The driver looked at it pitifully and said, "Oh, this brat, it's going to be miserable."
Ah Bai was really miserable, the alcohol was too irritating, his little eyes turned red, he jumped up and down but silently, because he was so choked by the alcohol that he couldn't make a sound!
Li Du hurriedly took a glass of apple juice to rinse it's mouth, but Ah Bai pushed it away and continued to jump frantically.
He asked Sophie: "Is there something wrong? How should I help it?"
Sophie said: "I'm helping it, it should be fine."
"How do you help it?"
"I'm drawing a cross and praying for it, don't you see?"
Li Du felt relieved, of course it wasn't because he believed in the power of God, but since Sophie was in the mood to joke, then Abai should be fine.
Indeed, there was nothing serious about Ah Bai, he was just drunk.